NE professor Shripad Revankar receives U.S. patent

Purdue School of Nuclear Engineering professor Shripad Revankar is part of a team of inventors that was recently granted a U.S. patent for their invention. Granted on October 11, 2016, this invention provides a process of producing ceramic-ceramic composites, including but not limited to nuclear fuels, and composites capable of exhibiting increased thermal conductivities.

The process includes milling a first ceramic material to produce a powder of spheroidized particles of the first ceramic material, and then co-milling particles of a second ceramic material with the spheroidized particles of the first ceramic material to cause the particles of the second ceramic material to form a coating on the spheroidized particles of the first material. The spheroidized particles coated with the particles of the second ceramic material are then compacted and sintered to form the ceramic-ceramic composite, in which the second ceramic material forms a continuous phase completely surrounding the spheroidized particles of the first ceramic material.

The team of inventors includes: Alvin A. Solomon, Huthavahana S. Kuchibhotla, Shripad T. Revankar (pictured right), Sean Marshall McDeavitt, and Jean Concetto Ragusa.

To learn more about Dr. Revankar’s research, visit: https://engineering.purdue.edu/NE/people/ptProfile?resource_id=3691

To learn more about Purdue’s School of Nuclear Engineering, visit: https://engineering.purdue.edu/NE