The ceramic emulsions used in the plasticity studies were prepared
based on a methodology presented in a previous work (Vitorino et al.,
2013). One confirmed the versatility of this method for traditional
ceramic suspensions (common red and kaolin clay) as well as alumina
(Alcoa CT3000). Table 1 presents the rawmaterial surface area obtained
using the Brunauer–Emmett–Teller method, BET, in a Quanta chrome
equipment, with degasification at 200 °C for 2 h and natural cooling
until room temperature, themedium value of the particle size distribution
obtained in a Micromeritics Sedigraph 5100, and also the mineralogical
phases. This identification was performed comparing the XRD
(X-ray diffraction, Bruker D8 Advance DaVinci) results with the ICDD
(International Center of Diffraction Data, PDF 4) diffraction patterns
using the commercial software EVA (Bruker). In addition, the mineralogical
phase quantificationwas obtained by Rietveld, using the software
TOPAS (Bruker).