1. A method for making a
ceramic honeycomb wall-flow filter substrate supporting an on-wall
coating, wherein a section of the on-wall coated filter substrate analyzed by mercury
porosimetry has a pore volume of 0.05 to 0.5 μm
diameter as a percentage of the
mercury intrusion volume of at least 15.0% of the section, and (i) an
equivalent spherical diameter D(v,0.5) of 0.5 to 1 μm, which is equal to 10 to 35 wt. % of water,
carboxylic acid,
inorganic oxide particles, or a particulate insoluble
cellulose pore former of heterogeneous morphology, with D(v,0.9) of 8 to 20 μm, relative to 100 wt. % of
inorganic oxide particles. 4 μm and having a
modal aspect ratio (width / length) of 0.3 to 0.9; (ii)
coating the
slurry onto at least first channels of a substrate, the substrate having an average pore size (D50) of 6 to 15 μm and a
porosity of less than 60% before any
coating; and (iii)
drying and calcining the
slurry-coated substrate, wherein the product of step (iii) has a
porosity of 0.07 to 0.4 g / in based on the substrate weight before step (ii). 3 A method wherein sufficient
slurry is coated onto a substrate to have a coating loading of (4.3-24.4 g / L) and an average on-wall coating thickness of the coated substrate is 5-70 μm.