Wet chemical synthesis methods constitute excellent routes to a wide range of ceramic powders, inorganic materials and nanostructures. Wet chemical synthesis routes are therefore an important part of our ceramic powder and material synthesis program. To be able provide high quality ceramic powders for our activities we have installed a pilot scale spray pyrolysis equipment where a precursor solution is atomized into a furnace for the formation of oxide powder. Fine ceramic powder is obtained after milling and mild calcination of the powder. By this equipment we can produce several kilogram of high quality powder per day of almost any composition. The precursors used are aqueous solutions of salts (nitrates, acetates, etc) or complexed cations with citric or other acid, EDTA , etc.

Examples of powders that have been made include a large number of pure and doped compounds within the coboltite, ferrate, manganite, titanate, nickelate, cerate, niobate, tantalate and zirconate-systems. The powders have been produced for a number of purposes ranging from the processing of high density polycrystalline bulk materials, via thin films to powders used for catalytic purposes.

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