Paper Award—Warm Congratulations to Professor Xu Yibiao of Wuhan University of Science and Technology for Publishing a Paper in an International Journal Using Our Company’s High-Temperature Contact Angle Tester

Professor Xu Yibiao’s paper, “Enhanced performance of free CaO impurity containing magnesia with Al2O3–TiO2 composite powder,” has been published in Ceramics International, a journal classified in the second quartile with an impact factor of 5.532. The paper was awarded third prize under our company’s Paper Award Program.

2024-08-14

Teacher Profile:

Professor Xu Yibiao, School of Materials and Metallurgy, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, specializes in high-temperature ceramics and refractory materials. He has served as the principal investigator for one National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Science Fund project (No. 51602233) and two industry–university collaborative research projects, and has participated in nine other projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program, the Ministry of Science and Technology’s 973 Pre-research Program, the Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation Key Project, the Wuhan Municipal Science and Technology Plan Project, and various industry–university collaborative initiatives. Over the past five years, he has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers in domestic and international academic journals, with over 20 indexed by SCI, and has been granted nine national invention patents.

Paper Introduction:

Professor Xu Yibiao’s paper, “Enhanced performance of free CaO impurity containing magnesia with Al” 2 O 3 –TiO 2 “Composite Powder” was published in Ceramics International, a journal classified in the second quartile with an impact factor of 5.532. This paper was awarded third prize under our company’s Paper Award Program.

Central Instruments:

The high-temperature contact angle tester used in this paper was supplied by Tianjin Zhonghuan, and the paper specifically acknowledges Tianjin Zhonghuan Electric Furnace Co., Ltd. We would like to express our gratitude to our supervisor for recognizing Tianjin Zhonghuan’s instruments. Tianjin Zhonghuan will continue to support researchers in their scientific studies and technological innovation.

Equipment Introduction:

The high-temperature contact angle tester is a specialized research instrument designed to investigate the variation patterns of contact angles between various molten materials and their corresponding substrates under high-temperature conditions. It enables the characterization of material surface and interface properties under high-temperature and high-vacuum environments. This instrument can provide visual and quantitative characterization of the shrinkage, deformation, melting, wetting, spreading, and solidification behaviors of low-melting-point materials during heating and cooling cycles.