Ceramic specialistceramtec作为国际空间站（ISS）的太空实验设施的新一代陶瓷样品容器（ISS）的新一代陶瓷容器，作为与该项目财团的一部分空中客车防御和空间和European Space Agency。
这些容器将于6月开始在SpaceX-22上前往ISS的旅程，以促进金属，合金和半导体的某些热物理特性的精确测量，这些特性在地球上是不可能的。
The goal of the research is to expand our understanding of the early phases of how material structures are formed in order to improve production and casting processes here on Earth.
Ceramtec的技术功能
Ceramtec已开发，制造和提供的技术陶瓷已有一个多世纪之久，是该领域的全球领导者。产品提供的产品数量超过10,000。该公司的产品用于从医学工程和汽车到电子，能源和环境工程的各种行业中，仅举几例。
While much of CeramTec’s portfolio isn’t directly related to 3D printing, the firm recently强调了产品多元化的重要性in the release of its FY 2020 financials, partly due to several upcoming international projects concerning its 3D printing activities.
该公司今年已经进入了3D印刷领域，已经推出了ROCAR 3D printing powder据说具有与碳化硅相似的特性，并释放了CeramCreator toolto help customers simplify their process chains and shorten their quotation processes.
Last month, CeramTec successfully tested the cooling capabilities of its newe-mobility power semiconductor module与Fraunhofer IISB。The firm’s latest ceramic product is designed to thermally regulate the drive inverters of electric vehicles.
开发空间样品容器
Ceramtec一直在与空中客车公司和项目财团的其他合作伙伴合作，以制作样品容器作为复杂组件，并在其在德国的Plochingen站点上制造它们。
First installed in the ISS back in 2017, the pot sample holders and cage sample holders are made of silicon nitride and are used in the station’s Electric Magnetic Levitator (EML), a multi-purpose research facility for natural science experiments.
Within the EML, the sample containers are placed into a coil within which metal alloy samples are fixed around in a contact-free manner by electromagnetic fields while suspended in zero gravity.
Now, the consortium has produced a new generation of sample containers manufactured from silicon nitride. The ceramic material is particularly suited to this purpose thanks to its non-existent electrical conductivity which prevents external influences on the measurements. The material also features the required high heat resistance to withstand the temperatures of the measurement cycles, which take place between 500 and 2,100 degrees celsius.
将样品融化，以其液态冷却，然后再次凝固，以实现金属，合金和半导体的某些热物理特性的精确测量。这使ISS团队能够分析材料结构的早期形成，以扩大我们对过渡过程，原子结构和材料特性的了解。
Ultimately, it is hoped that the material properties measured in space will enable us to improve production and casting processes on Earth. The knowledge gained during the experiments will be used to increase the quality of these processes while reducing the cost of high-tech castings, therefore allowing manufacturing methods to be refined and materials and products to be improved and redeveloped.
该公司表示，Ceramtec的最新样品容器从6月开始了SpaceX-22的ISS旅程，并将“大大支持太空中的进一步研究活动”。
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Featured image showsthe sample chamber with sample holders. Photo via Airbus.
