Preparation and Characterization of the Lithium Metatitanate Ceramics by Solution-Combustion Method for Indian LLCB TBM

Fabrication of fine‐grained Li2TiO3 ceramic with enhanced performance using high‐energy ball milling

“…Some methods have made significant progress in the preparation of fine‐grained Li 2 TiO 3 ceramics, such as the hydrothermal method, 12 sol–gel method, 13 and combustion method 14 . However, tons of ceramic pebbles will be filled in the tritium breeding blankets; hence, the solid‐state method is the preferred option in terms of either batch production or economic cost.…”

“…Some methods have made significant progress in the preparation of fine-grained Li 2 TiO 3 ceramics, such as the hydrothermal method, 12 sol-gel method, 13 and combustion method. 14 However, tons of ceramic pebbles will be filled in the tritium breeding blankets; hence, the solid-state method is the preferred option in terms of either batch production or economic cost. In the previous studies on solid-state method, 15,16 the raw materials (such as Li 2 CO 3 and LiOH) used to produce Li 2 TiO 3 usually had large and nonuniform particle sizes despite ball milling being performed, making it difficult to yield fine-grained Li 2 TiO 3 ceramics.…”