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稀土材料（Rare earth material） Application and market prospect of rare earth in new materials of functional ceramics Source: site original date: 2009-01-16 join the collection Rare earth and functional ceramics Rare earth is a general term for 17 metallic elements including 15 lanthanides and scandium and yttrium. Since the discovery of rare earth elements in late eighteenth Century, they have been widely used in metallurgy, ceramics, glass, petrochemical, printing and dyeing, agriculture and forestry industries. With the progress of science and technology, the scope of application of rare earth is expanding. Especially in the past 20 years, the application of rare earth in the field of high and new technology has developed rapidly. The application of rare earth in functional ceramics is one of the important aspects. Functional ceramics, especially new ceramic materials in twentieth Century after the Second World War, with the development of electronic information, automatic control, sensor technology, biological engineering, environmental science and other fields of development, it can be one or more properties provided by the use of electricity and magnetism, sound, light and heat, force and effect the coupling effect to achieve certain functions for use. Because of the variety of functional ceramic types, features rich and wide application, widely used now in electrical equipment, signal processing, sensor measurement, semiconductor element, superconducting materials, attention by researchers and producers of relevant materials. Rare earth is closely related to functional ceramics. Most of superconducting ceramics contained rare earth as everyone knows, such as yttrium barium copper oxide (YBCO) is a kind of excellent high-temperature superconductivity of oxide ceramic, it can be required by the ambient temperature of low temperature superconducting material of the liquid helium area (Tc=4.2K) to liquid nitrogen (Tc=77K), which greatly enhance the superconducting mate