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Journal of the European Ceramic Society 22 2002 391–395 /locate/jeurceramsoc Ceramic suspension optimization using factorial design of experiments Dubravka Rocak, Marija Kosec*, Andrej Degen ‘‘Jozef Stefan’’ Institute, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Received 2 3November 2000; received in revised form 12 April 2001; accepted 28 April 2001 Abstract The in?uence of organic phases binder and two plasticizers on ZnO slip viscosity and the properties of green tape were studied using design of experiments DOE . Analysis of the results show no signi?cant in?uence of the three components on slip viscosity and green tape density, but joint in?uence of two factors—binder polyvinyl butyral PVB and plasticizer polyethylene glycol PEG —is signi?cant on green tape adhesion to the substrate tape of casting machine. # 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Adhesion; Design of experiments; Suspensions; Tape casting; ZnO 1. Introduction The variables that we observe how in?uence on some characteristics of the product are referred as factors and Ceramic tape casting and green sheet lamination the characteristics that we measure are referred to as technologies have been used in the production of multi- response. The factors may be either quantitative, having layer chip varistors. The varistor composition is based numerical value or qualitative, having position value. on ?ne-grained high purity ZnO with addition of other A design of experiments is the most economical and oxide Bi O , MnO , Co O , Sb O , whereas a ceramic most accurate method for performing process optimi- 2 2 4 2 slurry for tape casting consists of these oxides, solvent zation. A designed experiment will accelerate the learn- water or organic liquid , dispersant, binder and plasti- ing of the interrelationships of the process variables, cizer.1 determine what variables are critical to the process and The role of