Ceramics
Ceramic Technology
The Advanced Ceramics and Glass Laboratory will be emphasizing specialty materials used in a variety of ways and evolves around a core product and competency, involving Porous Wall Hollow Glass Microspheres (PWHGMs). These tiny unique materials are glass micro-balloons, 2 to 100 microns in diamter (1/2 to 1/3 the diameter of a human hair), and have very thin outer shells only 1 to 2 microns thick.
What makes them special is that the inventors found a way to induce and control poristy in the thin outer shell on a scale of 100 to 2,000 Angstroms. This allows the micro-balloons to be filled with a variety of materials that can be released on demand. This technology is an R&D 100 Award winner and has major applications across a broad range of industries, particularly in the medical field. The applications include:
- Drug Delivery
- MRI Contrast Agents
- Agent Transport Systems
- Platforms in Regenerative Medicine
The ceramics laboratory will also support crucible development for the microwave technology.
Equipment Reservations
Hitachi’s next generation Cold Field Emission SEM offers unmatched low‑voltage imaging and comprehensive analytical microanalysis with the uncompromised performance of CFE. Approved users are able to reserve ARC's SEM.
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