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 ?Effect of alcohol additives on the pore structure and morphology of the freeze-cast ceramics# ZENG Jing, ZHANG Yan, ZHOU Kechao, ZHANG Dou** 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 (State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy, Central South University, ChangSha 410083) Abstract: The porous alumina ceramics with lamellar structure were fabricated successfully by freeze casting. The viscosities of alumina slurries, pore structures, porosities and mechanical properties of the sintered ceramics were investigated by introducing both types of alcohols as water solidification modifier into the initial slurries, such as ethanol and 1-propanol. With the addition of ethanol or 1-propanol, the viscosities of slurries and porosities of sintered ceramics increased. The compressive strengths of the sintered porous alumina ceramics were improved due to a good connectivity between lamellae with the addition of both types of alcohols. The lowest porosities of 68.52 % and 73.72 % and highest compressive strengths of 18.2 MPa and 15.0 MPa were obtained by the addition of 30 wt. % ethanol and 1-propanol, respectively. Keywords: Inorganic nonmetallic materials; Alumina ceramic; porous material; ethanol; 1-propanol 0 Introduction Porous materials have attracted much attention due to their superior functions and a wide range of applications varying from bone substitutes to part for the automotive industry including ceramic filters, catalyst support, porous electrode, gas distributors and biomaterials insulator[1-3]. Nowadays, various fabrication techniques of porous ceramics have been developed such as gel casting[4], direct foaming[5], polymer foam replication[6] and freeze casting[7]. Freeze casting as a simple, versatile, low-cost, environmentally friendly and complex-shape-foaming method is widely used to prepare porous materials with aligned pores [4, 8]. During the freeze cast process, the ceramic slurry is poured into a mould, and frozen under a certain freezing temperature forming a lamellar st