Although ceramics have been known to mankind literally for millennia, research has never ceased. Apart from the classic uses as a bulk material in pottery, construction, and decoration, the latter half of the twentieth century saw an explosive growth of application fields, such as electrical and thermal insulators, wear-resistant bearings, surface coatings, lightweight armour, or aerospace materials. In addition to plain, hard solids, modern ceramics come in many new guises such as fabrics, ultrathin films, microstructures and hybrid composites.
Built on the solid foundations laid down by the 20-volume series Materials Science and Technology, Ceramics Science and Technology picks out this exciting material class and illuminates it from all sides.
Materials scientists, engineers, chemists, biochemists, physicists and medical researchers alike will find this work a treasure trove for a wide range of ceramics knowledge from theory and fundamentals to practical approaches and problem solutions.Content:
Chapter 1 Modern Trends in Advanced Ceramics (pages 1โ38): Prof. Dr. Ralf Riedel, Emanuel Ionescu and Prof. Dr. I.?Wei Chen
Chapter 2 Modeling Amorphous Ceramic Structures (pages 39โ69): Peter Kroll
Chapter 3 Structural Chemistry of Ceramics (pages 71โ103): Rainer Pottgen, Hubert Huppertz and Rolf?Dieter Hoffmann
Chapter 4 Diffusion in Ceramics (pages 105โ182): Gunter Borchardt, Karsten Gomann, Martin Kilo and Harald Schmidt
Chapter 5 Structures of Ceramic Materials: Thermodynamics and Constitution (pages 183โ229): Matsvei Zinkevich and Fritz Aldinger
Chapter 6 Microstructural Design of Ceramics: Theory and Experiment (pages 231โ295): Gayle S. Painter and Paul F. Becher
Chapter 7 Mesoscopic Ceramic Structures in One, Two, and Three Dimensions (pages 297โ346): Jorg J. Schneider and Jorg Engstler
Chapter 8 Bulk Ceramic Nanostructures (pages 347โ373): Pavol sajgalik, Jan Dusza, Zoltan Lences, Miroslav Hnatko, Dusan Galusek and Katarina Ghillanyova
Chapter 9 Glass Ceramics: Silica? and Alumina?Based (pages 375โ406): Christian Russel
Chapter 10 Cellular Structures (pages 407โ441): Paolo Colombo and Enrico Bernardo
Chapter 11 Ceramic Thin Films (pages 443โ509): Theodor Schneller, Subhasish B. Majumder and Rainer Waser
Chapter 12 Multiphase Fiber Composites (pages 511โ582): Dietmar Koch, Ralf Knoche and Georg Grathwohl