Areas of Expertise

 

Ceramics

  • Ceramic stereolithography and rapid prototyping
  • Ceramic dispersion techniques: dry blending, spray drying, and rapid acoustical mixing
  • Ceramic powder processing
  • Debinding and sintering of ceramic oxides and nitrides
  • UV cure materials selection and testing
  • Ceramic to metal joining
  • Nitride Ceramic Sintering
  • Colloidal processing of ceramic powders
  • Ceramic inkjet printing
  • Ceramic injection molding
  • Aqueous gel casting
  • Glaze formulation and eutectics
  • Glaze firing scheduling and troubleshooting
  • Slip-casting process and slip formulation/mixing
  • Clay body formulation and processing
  • Vacuum hot pressing of components from 2" up to 15" x 20"
  • Pressureless Sintering Dilatometer Experiments

 

Thermal

  • Materials selection for microelectronics packaging
  • Electronics cooling
  • Loop heat pipe technology
    • Design, assembly, and testing
  • Microchannel heat exchanger technology
  • Thermal Management of Power Electronics Components
  • Metal oxide nanoparticles

 

Advanced Coatings

  • Magnetron Sputtered Ceramics, Metals, Polymers, and Composite Coatings
  • Chemical Vapor Deposited (CVD) Carbides and Refractory Metallic Coatings
  • Chemical Vapor Infiltration (CVI)
  • Electrophoretic deposition

 

Advanced Materials and Processes

  • Shape memory alloy material and device development
  • Formulation and dispersion of resins for transparent, conductive coatings
  • Gas separation technology
  • Embedded conductors in ceramics
  • Nuclear waste disposal related materials
  • EMI shielding and metamaterials

 

Nanomaterials

  • Nanocrystalline magnetic material design and fabrication
  • Incorporation of nanomaterials into composite structure and devices
  • Sensors and composites for gas sensing and surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)
  • Nanoparticle surface functionalization
  • Synthesis of clay minerals and nanoparticles

 

Material Testing

  • Ceramic powder characterization
    • Laser particle size
    • Surface charge
    • BET surface area
    • Bulk and tap densities
    • Water and gas adsorption
  • Sample polishing
  • Grain size measurement
  • Viscosity measurement
  • UV spectroscopy
  • Simultaneous Friction and Wear Measurement
  • Thermo Gravimetric Analysis (TGA)
  • Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
  • Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)
  • Raman Spectroscopy
  • X-Ray Powder Diffraction (XRD)

 

Design and Research

  • Kiln process control, data acquisition, and troubleshooting
  • Design of Experiments
  • Mechanical, Industrial, and Product Design
  • Ethnographic and Contextual Research
  • CAD (SolidWorks and Rhino 3D)
  • 3-Dimensional structural design for Hand-built Ceramics
  • Photography of 3-Dimensional objects
  • Polymer chemistry
  • Microfabrication and soft lithography

Ta&T news

TA&T's Ceramic Stereolithography process highlighted by Ceramic Tech Today

Annapolis, MD - November 30, 2012 - The American Ceramic Society's (ACeRS) Ceramic Tech Today blog interviewed Walter Zimbeck, manager of the TA&T's Ceramic Micro Devices group, about the work performed to supply parts for NASA's Curiosity Rover. Read the full interview here.

 

TA&T Highlighted for NASA Curiosity Rover Work in the Annapolis Capital

Annapolis, MD - August 9, 2012 - The Annapolis Capital has highlighted Technology Assessment and Transfer for it's work on the Sample Analysis on Mars (SAM) suite of the NASA Curiosity rover.

 

Read the full article.

 

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