ZrO2 Zirconia Crucibles
- High-Temperature Resistance: Zirconia crucibles can withstand temperatures up to 3000°C, making them suitable for applications involving molten metals, ceramics, and other high-temperature processes.
- Exceptional Thermal Stability: With a low thermal expansion coefficient, zirconia maintains structural integrity under rapid temperature fluctuations, making it ideal for high-temperature melting and casting.
- Chemical Inertness: Zirconia crucibles are highly resistant to chemical attack, including resistance to strong acids and molten metals, ensuring minimal contamination of materials and extended service life.
- Mechanical Strength: Zirconia exhibits excellent mechanical properties, including high hardness and resistance to cracking, ensuring the crucible’s durability in demanding applications.
- High Density: Zirconia has a high density, which helps improve its thermal conductivity and resistance to deformation under high pressures and temperatures.
- Electrical Insulation: Zirconia crucibles possess excellent electrical insulation properties, which can be crucial in applications where electrical conductivity must be minimized.
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Description
Zirconia (ZrO₂) crucibles are highly regarded in industries requiring materials that can withstand extreme conditions such as high temperatures and corrosive environments. These crucibles are known for their excellent thermal stability, superior strength, and resistance to chemical attack, making them indispensable for many high-temperature applications. Made from zirconium oxide, zirconia crucibles are widely used in the fields of metal processing, ceramics, and advanced materials research.
Key Properties
- High-Temperature Resistance: Zirconia crucibles can withstand temperatures up to 3000°C, making them suitable for applications involving molten metals, ceramics, and other high-temperature processes.
- Exceptional Thermal Stability: With a low thermal expansion coefficient, zirconia maintains structural integrity under rapid temperature fluctuations, making it ideal for high-temperature melting and casting.
- Chemical Inertness: Zirconia crucibles are highly resistant to chemical attack, including resistance to strong acids and molten metals, ensuring minimal contamination of materials and extended service life.
- Mechanical Strength: Zirconia exhibits excellent mechanical properties, including high hardness and resistance to cracking, ensuring the crucible’s durability in demanding applications.
- High Density: Zirconia has a high density, which helps improve its thermal conductivity and resistance to deformation under high pressures and temperatures.
- Electrical Insulation: Zirconia crucibles possess excellent electrical insulation properties, which can be crucial in applications where electrical conductivity must be minimized.
Advantages
- Superior Durability: Due to their mechanical strength and high-temperature resistance, zirconia crucibles last longer than many other crucibles under harsh conditions.
- Minimal Contamination: With their chemical inertness, zirconia crucibles prevent contamination of the materials being processed, ensuring the purity of the final product.
- Cost-Effective: The extended lifespan and minimal maintenance needs of zirconia crucibles make them a cost-effective option for industries that require high-performance materials.
- Versatility: Suitable for a wide range of industries due to their performance in both high-temperature and chemically aggressive environments.
Applications
- Metal Melting and Casting: Zirconia crucibles are widely used in the melting and casting of metals such as platinum, gold, and other high-melting-point metals, thanks to their high thermal stability and resistance to molten metal corrosion.
- Ceramic Sintering: Used in the sintering of advanced ceramics, zirconia crucibles can withstand the high temperatures and chemical environments typical of ceramic manufacturing processes.
- Semiconductor and Crystal Growth: Crucial in the production of semiconductors and the growth of single crystals such as sapphire, zirconia crucibles provide a stable and contamination-free environment.
- Research and Development: Due to their excellent thermal and chemical properties, zirconia crucibles are used in high-temperature research, including in studies of material properties, alloys, and chemical reactions.
- Synthesis of High-Temperature Materials: Ideal for applications in the synthesis of materials that require extreme temperatures, such as refractory metals, ceramics, and certain compounds in chemical engineering.
- Aerospace and Nuclear Industries: Zirconia crucibles are used in the aerospace and nuclear industries due to their ability to withstand extreme environments, including radiation and high temperatures.
Customization Options
- Custom Sizes and Shapes: Zirconia crucibles can be manufactured to specific dimensions and geometries, tailored to the unique requirements of your application.
- High-Purity Grades: Available in high-purity grades to ensure minimal contamination, ideal for sensitive applications like semiconductor processing and material synthesis.
- Surface Finish: Can be supplied with various surface finishes depending on the specific needs of the application.
- Additional Coatings: For certain applications, coatings can be applied to improve properties like wear resistance or to enhance specific chemical resistance.
Tinsan Materials offers high-quality zirconia crucibles designed to meet the rigorous demands of high-temperature processes. Whether you are involved in metal casting, ceramic manufacturing, or advanced research, our zirconia crucibles provide exceptional performance and reliability in even the most challenging environments. Custom solutions are available to suit your exact specifications.
If you have specific requirements, such as dimensions, purity, or application details, please contact us to match your needs.
