Ceramics science and technology /

• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Other Authors: Riedel, Ralf, Chen, I-Wei
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, [2008-©2013]
• Subjects: Ceramic materials.; Ceramics.; Chemical engineering.; Civil engineering.; Fine Arts.; Engineering.; Electronic books.

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 the...

Table of Contents:

• Front Matter
• Introduction. Modern Trends in Advanced Ceramics / Ralf Riedel, Emanuel Ionescu, I-Wei Chen
• Structure of Ceramic Materials: Atomic Level. Modeling Amorphous Ceramic Structures / Peter Kroll
• Structural Chemistry of Ceramics / Rainer Pottgen, Hubert Huppertz, Rolf-Dieter Hoffmann
• Diffusion in Ceramics / Gunter Borchardt, Karsten Gomann, Martin Kilo, Harald Schmidt
• Structures of Ceramic Materials: Thermodynamics and Constitution / Matsvei Zinkevich, Fritz Aldinger
• Structures of Ceramic Materials: Microstructural Level. Microstructural Design of Ceramics: Theory and Experiment / Gayle S Painter, Paul F Becher
• Mesoscopic Ceramic Structures in One, Two, and Three Dimensions / Jorg J Schneider, Jorg Engstler
• Bulk Ceramic Nanostructures / Pavol Sajgal̕k, Jan Dusza, Zoltan Lences, Miroslav Hnatko, Dusan Galusek, Katarina Ghillanyova
• Glass Ceramics: Silica- and Alumina-Based / Christian Russel
• Cellular Structures / Paolo Colombo, Enrico Bernardo
• Ceramic Thin Films / Theodor Schneller, Subhasish B Majumder, Rainer Waser
• Multiphase Fiber Composites / Dietmar Koch, Ralf Knoche, Georg Grathwohl
• Index.
• V. 1. Structures
• v. 2. Materials and properties
• v. 3. Synthesis and processing
• v. 4. Applications.