Product: Customized Zirconia Ball Mill Jars (50ml - 300ml)
This offering is for high-quality, custom-manufactured zirconia grinding jars designed for planetary ball mills, perfectly suited for a wide range of laboratory experiments.
1. Core Material: "95 Zirconium" Explained
The term "95 Zirconium" typically refers to a material that is 95% ZrO₂ (Zirconia) by mass, with the remaining ~5% being a stabilizer (almost always Yttria - Y₂O₃).
What it is: This is a specific grade of Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia (YSZ). The yttria is not an impurity; it is a critical additive that stabilizes the zirconia's crystal structure, giving it the renowned toughness and strength.
Why it's Excellent for Jars:
- High Fracture Toughness: Resists chipping and cracking from the high-impact forces in a planetary ball mill.
- Superior Wear Resistance: Much harder and more wear-resistant than alumina, ensuring a long jar life and minimal contamination.
- Chemical Inertness: Will not react with most chemical samples, ensuring a contamination-free grinding environment.
2. Size Range: 50ml to 300ml
This covers the most popular sizes for bench-scale laboratory research.
- 50ml & 100ml Jars: Ideal for small-batch experiments, precious or expensive materials, and initial feasibility studies where sample quantity is limited.
- 250ml & 300ml Jars: Perfect for standard lab work, providing a good balance between sample volume and grinding efficiency. This is often the go-to size for many R&D processes.
3. The "Customized" Aspect
This is the key value proposition. Customization can include:
- Lid Design:
- Standard Sealed Lid: With a robust rubber O-ring for general use.
- Gas-Purging Lid: Features a valve to allow the jar to be evacuated and filled with an inert gas (like Argon or Nitrogen). This is critical for grinding materials that are sensitive to air or moisture (e.g., battery materials).
- Internal/External Finishing:
- Standard Finish: Suitable for most applications.
- Mirror Polished Interior: Essential for nano-scale grinding and applications where cross-contamination or ease of cleaning is a top priority.
- Physical Configuration: Jars can be customized to ensure a perfect fit and optimal performance on specific planetary ball mill models (from brands like Retsch, Fritsch, Guangzhou Zoli, or other QM-series mills).
Application: Planetary Ball Mill Experiments
These jars are the core component where the actual processing happens in a planetary ball mill. The experiments they are used for include:
- Mechanical Alloying: Solid-state powder processing to create alloyed materials from elemental powders.
- Size Reduction/Nano-Grinding: Breaking down agglomerates and primary particles to achieve fine and nano-sized powders for enhanced reactivity or specific properties.
- Mixing and Homogenization: Creating perfectly uniform mixtures of different powder materials (e.g., ceramic composites).
- Cell Disruption: In biological labs, for breaking down plant or microbial cells to extract contents.
- Process Emulation: Testing how materials will behave under mechanical stress on a small scale.
Summary of Value Proposition
By offering customized 95% ZrO₂ jars in the 50ml-300ml range, the supplier provides researchers with:
- Precision & Control: Tailored to their exact experimental needs (atmosphere, size, finish).
- Purity & Integrity: Zirconia ensures their samples remain uncontaminated by the grinding media.
- Durability & Cost-Effectiveness: The jars withstand long experiment runtimes and repeated use, offering a better long-term value than less durable materials.
- Optimized Performance: A perfect fit for their mill and purpose leads to more reliable and reproducible experimental results.
