摘要 |
An object of the present invention is to provide a high-porosity, high-strength porous silicon nitride having great tolerance with respect to strain and stress, and a method for producing the same, and the present invention relates to a high-porosity, high-strength porous silicon nitride having great tolerance with respect to strain and stress, characterized in that rodlike grains of silicon nitride with a minor diameter of 0.5 to 10 mu m and an aspect ratio of 10 to 100 are oriented in a single direction, and the rest of the structure other than the rodlike grains consists solely of pores with a porosity of 5 to 30%, and further the above-mentioned porous silicon nitride is produced by mixing rodlike particles of silicon nitride with a minor diameter of 0.5 to 10 mu m and an aspect ratio of 10 to 100 as the silicon nitride with an auxiliary that serves to bind the rodlike particles, forming a tape in which the silicon nitride rodlike particles are oriented in a single direction by sheet forming, extrusion forming, or another such forming process, and sintering this product in a nitrogen atmosphere after lamination and degreasing of it. |