Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute

About: Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute is a facility organization based out in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Microstructure & Sintering. The organization has 1123 authors who have published 2904 publications receiving 51519 citations.

Nanotribological response of a plasma nitrided bio-steel.

Abstract: AISI 316L is a well known biocompatible, austenitic stainless steel (SS). It is thus a bio-steel. Considering its importance as a bio-prosthesis material here we report the plasma nitriding of AISI 316L (SS) followed by its microstructural and nanotribological characterization. Plasma nitriding of the SS samples was carried out in a plasma reactor with a hot wall vacuum chamber. For ease of comparison these plasma nitrided samples were termed as SSPN. The experimental results confirmed the formations of an embedded nitrided metal layer zone (ENMLZ) and an interface zone (IZ) between the ENMLZ and the unnitrided bulk metallic layer zone (BMLZ) in the SSPN sample. These ENMLZ and IZ in the SSPN sample were richer in iron nitride (FeN) chromium nitride (CrN) along with the austenite phase. The results from nanoindentation, microscratch, nanoscratch and sliding wear studies confirmed that the static contact deformation resistance, the microwear, nanowear and sliding wear resistance of the SSPN samples were much better than those of the SS samples. These results were explained in terms of structure–property correlations.

Effect of boron addition on the dielectric properties of giant dielectric CaCu3Ti4O12

Abstract: The recently discovered giant dielectric CaCu 3 Ti 4 O 12 (CCTO) has been reported to show dielectric constant value as high as 80,000 for single crystals and around 10,000 for ceramics. However the dielectric constant is also associated with high dissipation factor. In the present study, it has been observed that the loss factor of CCTO can be reduced by B 2 O 3 addition. The low frequency dispersion of CCTO ceramics, which indicates Maxwell-Wagner type relaxation, is reduced by boron addition. Also the temperature dependence of dielectric constant is minimized by boron addition. From the present work it can be surmised that B 2 O 3 addition can favourably modify the dielectric properties of CCTO ceramic for its practical applications as a capacitor material.