Sintering and Catalysis

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Transmission Electron Microscopy — Some Techniques Useful in Sintering Studies....Pages 1-16
Structure and Thermodynamic Properties of Microclusters....Pages 17-27
Preparation and Thermostability of Supported Metal Catalysts....Pages 29-61
Sintering and Catalysis....Pages 63-81
Crystallite Sintering and Growth in Supported Catalysts....Pages 83-106
Sintering of Supported Metal Catalysts: Application of a Mechanistic Model to Experimental Data....Pages 107-116
Effects of Gas- and Liquid-Phase Environments on the Sintering Behavior of Platinum Catalysts....Pages 117-132
Sintering Retardation in Catalysts....Pages 133-139
Sintering of Supported Metals....Pages 141-163
Quasi-Equilibria and Sintering in the Cobalt Oxide — Zirconia Catalyst — Support System....Pages 165-172
A Study of Capillarity and Mass Transport on the A1 2 O 3 Surface....Pages 173-186
Sintering of Pelleted Catalysts for Automotive Emission Control....Pages 187-197
Effect of Ambient Atmosphere on Sintering of αA1 2 O 3 Supported Pt Catalysts....Pages 199-209
Zeolite Chemistry and Reactions....Pages 211-227
Thermodynamic Aspects of Solid State Sintering....Pages 229-238
Contributions of Grain Boundary and Volume Diffusion to Shrinkage Rates during Sintering....Pages 239-248
A Kinetic Model for the Reduction in Surface Area during Initial Stage Sintering....Pages 249-257
The Identification of the Initial-Stage Sintering Mechanism: A New Approach....Pages 259-268
Effect of BeO Inclusions on the Rate of Sintering of Cu Wires....Pages 269-278
Shrinkage and Rearrangement during Sintering of Glass Spheres....Pages 279-293
Evidence for Enhanced Grain Boundary Heterodiffusion....Pages 295-303
Densification Kinetics of Electrolytic Silver Powder Compact....Pages 305-314
Kinetics and Mechanism of the Initial Stage of Sodium Fluoride Sintering under Non-Isothermal Conditions....Pages 315-324
Statistical Approach to the Theory of Sintering....Pages 325-337
The Contribution of Diffusional Flow Mechanisms to Microsegregation in Silver-Gold Alloys....Pages 339-347
Some Analysis of Microsegregation by Surface Transport during Sintering....Pages 349-358
Sintering in the Presence of Liquid Phase....Pages 359-378
Sintering of MgAl 2 O 4 in the Presence of Liquid Phase....Pages 379-388
The Growth of Solid Particles in Some Two-Phase Alloys during Sintering in the Presence of a Liquid Phase....Pages 389-398
Investigation of Microstructure Development in RuO 2 -Lead Borosilicate Glass Thick Films....Pages 399-408
Particle Coarsening in Fused Salt Media....Pages 409-418
The Oxygen Probe as a Ceramic System....Pages 419-434
The Sintering of Strontium Containing Perovskites....Pages 435-441
Influence of MgO on the Evolution of the Microstructure of Alumina....Pages 443-453
Reaction Sintering of CoO-NiO System....Pages 455-463
Observations on the Reaction Sintering of Oxide Systems....Pages 465-472
The Development of Pressure Sintering Maps....Pages 473-492
Interpretation of Hot Pressing Kinetics by Densification Mapping Techniques....Pages 493-507
Back Matter....Pages 509-512