Nanoceramics from the ball mill
The researchers can obtain a powder of the corundum nanoparticles by simply grinding lumps of boehmite, aluminium oxyhydroxide contained in the frequently occurring ore bauxite, in a ball mill for 3 h and then heating them briefly. Until now, chemists were only able to produce corundum from other aluminium oxides or hydroxides if they fired the starting materials at temperatures greater than