Importance of chemistry in high-tech ceramics design
P. Šajgalík
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Slovak Academy of
Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, SK-842 36 Bratislava, Slovakia
Abstract: This paper deals with the role of chemistry in the
design of high-tech ceramic materials. Grain boundary composition of
polycrystalline ceramics dictates the hardness fracture toughness and
creep resistance of liquid-phase sintered silicon nitride and silicon
carbide materials.
* Lecture presented at the 5th Conference on Solid
State Chemistry (SSC 2002), Bratislava, Slovakia, 7-12 July 2002. Other
presentations are published in this issue, pp.
2083-2168.
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