Jansen M. (ed.) High Performance Non-Oxide Ceramics II (Structure and Bonding, Volume 102)

Springer. 2002. 180 p.The nitrides and carbides of boron and silicon are proving to be an excellent
choice when selecting materials for the design of devices that are to be
employed under particularly demanding environmental and thermal conditions.
The high degree of cross-linking, due to the preferred coordination
numbers of the predominantly covalently bonded constituents equalling or
exceeding three, lends these non-oxidic ceramics a high kinetic stability, and is
regarded as the microscopic origin of their impressive thermal and mechanical
durability. Thus it does not come as a surprise that the chemistry, the physical
properties and the engineering of the corresponding binary, ternary, and even
quaternary compounds have been the subject of intensive and sustained efforts
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Silicon Nitride Ceramics (G. Petzow, M. Herrmann)