Ceramics Science and Technology

Preface PART I: Ceramic Material Classes CERAMIC OXIDES Introduction Aluminum Oxide Magnesium Oxide Zinc Oxide Titanium Dioxide Zirconium Oxide Cerium Oxide Yttrium Oxide NITRIDES Silicon Nitride Boron Nitride Aluminum Nitride Titanium Nitride Tantalum Nitride Chromium Nitride Ternary Nitrides Light-Emitting Nitride and Oxynitride Phosphors GALLIUM NITRIDE AND OXONITRIDES Introduction Gallium Nitrides Gallium Oxides Gallium Oxonitrides Outlook SILICON CARBIDE- AND BORON CARBIDE-BASED HARD MATERIALS Introduction Structure and Chemistry Production of Particles and Fibers Dense Ceramic Shapes Properties of Silicon Carbide- and Boron Carbide-Based Materials Applications of Carbides COMPLEX OXYNITRIDES Introduction Principles of Silicon-Based Oxynitride Structures Complex Si-Al-O-N Phases M-Si-Al-O-N Oxynitrides Oxynitride Glasses Oxynitride Glass Ceramics Conclusions PEROVSKITES Introduction Crystal Structure Physical Properties Chemical and Catalytic Properties THE Mn+1AXn PHASES AND THEIR PROPERTIES Introduction Bonding and Structure Elastic Properties Electronic Transport Thermal Properties Mechanical Properties Tribological Properties and Machinability Concluding Remarks PART II: Structures and Properties STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONS Introduction Self-Reinforced Silicon Nitrides Fibrous Grain-Aligned Silicon Nitrides (Large Grains) Fibrous Grain-Aligned Silicon Nitrides (Small Grains) Grain Boundary Phase Control Fibrous Grain-Aligned Porous Silicon Nitrides DISLOCATIONS IN CERAMICS Introduction The Critical Resolved Shear Stress Crystallography of Slip Dislocations in Particular Oxides Work Hardening Solution Hardening Closing Remarks DEFECT STRUCTURE, NONSTOICHIOMETRY, AND NONSTOICHIOMETRY RELAXATION OF COMPLEX OXIDES Introduction Defect Structure Oxygen Naonstoichiometry Nonstoichiometry Re-Equilibration INTERFACES AND MICROSTRUCTURES IN MATERIALS Introduction Interfaces in Materials Practical Implications Summary and Outlook PART III: Mechanical Properties

Ralf Riedel has been a professor at the Institute of Materials Science of Darmstadt University of Technology since 1993. He received his degree in chemistry in 1984, followed by two years of dissertation work with Professor Ekkehard Fluck at the University of Stuttgart. After postdoctoral research at the Max-Planck Institute for Metals Research and the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart, he gained his lecturing qualification in the field of inorganic chemistry in 1992. He is a member of the World Academy of Ceramics and Guest Professor at the Jiangsu University in Zhenjiang, China, a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and a recipient of the Dionyz Stur Gold Medal for merits in natural sciences. In 2006 he received an honorary doctorate from the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia. Professor Riedel has published more than 300 papers and patents and is widely known for his research in the field of polymer derived ceramics and on ultra high pressure synthesis of new materials. I-Wei Chen is currently Skirkanich Professor of Materials Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania since 1997, where he also gained his master's degree in 1975. He received his bachelor's degree in physics from Tsinghua University, Taiwan, in 1972, and earned his doctorate in metallurgy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. He taught at the University of Michigan (Materials) during 1986-1997 and MIT (Nuclear Engineering; Materials) during 1980-1986. He began ceramic research studying martensitic transformations in zirconia nano crystals, which led to work on transformation plasticity, superplasticity, fatigue, grain growth and sintering in various oxides and nitrides. He is currently interested in nanotechnology of ferroelectrics, thin film memory devices, and nano particles for biomedical applications. A Fellow of American Ceramic Society (1991) and recipient of its Ross Coffin Purdy Award (1994), Edward C. Henry Award (1999)

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