Process for preparing metal-carbide-containing microspheres from metal-loaded resin beads

Patent · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1976

OSTI ID:862480

Beatty, Ronald L ^[1]

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1. Oak Ridge, TN

An improved method for treating metal-loaded resin microspheres is described which comprises heating a metal-loaded resin charge in an inert atmosphere at a pre-carbide-forming temperature under such conditions as to produce a microsphere composition having sufficient carbon as to create a substantially continuous carbon matrix and a metal-carbide or an oxide-carbide mixture as a dispersed phase(s) during carbide-forming conditions, and then heating the thus treated charge to a carbide-forming temperature.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by United States Energy (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): US 3944638
• OSTI ID: 862480
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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