Ceramic engineering

layer or coating of vitreous substance fused to a ceramic object

process of sintering metal powders

branch of engineering concerned with the development, production, and application of ceramic and ceramic products

condensation of monomers or oligomers dispersed in a colloidal solution (sol) into a biphasic aqueous polymeric network (gel)

knife made out of very hard and tough ceramic, often zirconium dioxide

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thumb|upright=2.0|Freeze-cast alumina that has been partially sintered. The freezing direction in the image is up.

Robocasting (also known as robotic material extrusion) is an additive manufacturing technique analogous to Direct Ink Writing and other extrusion-based 3D-printing techniques in which a filament of a paste-like material is extruded from a small nozzle while the nozzle is moved across a platform. The object is thus built by printing the required shape layer by layer. The technique was first developed in the United States in 1996 as a method to allow geometrically complex ceramic green bodies to be produced by additive manufacturing. In robocasting, a 3D CAD model is divided up into layers in a