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The paper reports the decomposition of saccharides derivatives in comparison to commercial substances during the process of binder removal from ceramic samples. The saccharides derivatives are polymers synthesized from glucose and fructose with acryloyl group in the sugar molecule. The synthesized compounds played the role of binder in the shaping of ceramic powders by gelcasting method. The method belongs to colloidal processes and allows to produce ceramic elements of complicated geometry. As ceramic powder Al 2 O 3 was used. The thermal analysis have been done on apparatus coupled with mass spectrometer. MS analysis showed what types of gasses are released to the atmosphere during the thermal decomposition of polymers. The obtained results showed important differences in decomposition of polymers obtained from commercial acrylamide, 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate and N,N 0 -methylenebisacrylamide in comparison to synthesized glucose and fructose derivatives. The measurements allowed to establish the sintering program of the green ceramic samples and evaluate whether harmful NO x gases are released to the atmosphere.

Saccharides, particularly monosaccharides, as well as their derivatives, were found to be a group of effectively working processing agents in case of alumina which has been used as a solid phase of highly loaded suspensions. The synthesis of new low-toxic monomers obtained from saccharides is reported and their application in gelcasting process is presented. The synthesized monomer named 3-O-acrylic-D-glucose is an interesting alternative for the commercially available acrylic monomers. The present paper describes the properties of ceramic slurries obtained from two alumina powders of different grain size (47nm and 0.70mm) with the use of the new monomer 3-O-acrylic-D-glucose. The rheological measurements showed that new monomer can be applied not only as monomer able to polymerize in situ but also as dispersing agent for nanoalumina powders.

In this paper the two new low toxic water-soluble monomers: glycerol monoacrylate and 3-O-acrylic-D-glucose are introduced and their application in gelcasting of alumina powder is reported, in comparison with 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate, the commercial monomer. Both synthesized substances do not need an addition of cross-linking agent to the ceramic slurry, because hydrogen bonds can be formed in the polymer network, owing to the presence of two or more hydroxyl groups in their molecules, unlike in the case of 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate. Rheological behavior of alumina gelcasting suspensions containing these monomers has been studied, as well as the characteristics of raw and sintered elements formed from these slurries by initializing an in situ polymerization.