Abstract
A new approach has been developed to produce sinterable lithium metasilicate in order to fabricate high density ( > 90% TD) pellets by cold compaction and sintering. Lithium carbonate and silica are intimately milled, spray-dried, pre-calcined and calcined. Precalcination under wet air at about 430°C has led to the discovery of a hexagonal X-phase, the formation of which is the key to the process. The X-phase can in fact easily be transformed by a calcination below 600°C into a high reactive metasilicate containing no disilicate nor orthosilicate, which is not possible by direct calcination. The effects of temperature, time and atmosphere on the formation of the X-phase are discussed.
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