Dr. Intihaa Ahmed Mohammed, a lecturer from the department of physics at the college of education for pure and applied sciences (Ibn Al-Haytham) has obtained a patent from the Central Organization for Standardization and Quality Control on the use of a ceramic compound V2O5–Y2O3-SiC to generate the hexagonal phase Y5Si3C yttrium silicon carbide. The research team consisted of Prof. Tariq Talib Issa from the college of science at the University of Baghdad. The aim of the research is to generate an overlay ceramic material that is used in a number of industrial applications for being a formable and sliding molding material for complex designs.
The most important applications or uses in which this material can be used in the thermal industry through the manufacture of ceramic pawns that withstand up to a temperature of 1600°C., including the manufacture of ceramic pipes with different diameters that can operate at the highest temperature of 1600°C., as well as the manufacture of ceramic atomizer, while in the plastic industry, the fifth oxide of vanadium is an auxiliary substance for catalyst reactions. In the electrical fields, it can be used as a ceramic insulating material for having 80% of Y2O3 known for its high electrical insulation and it is very suitable to be an effective medium in activating the laser beam brightness.
