Materials science of carbides, nitrides, and borides : [proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Materials Science of Carbides, Nitrides, and Borides, St. Petersburg, Russia, August 12-22, 1998

A survey of current research on a wide range of carbide, nitride and boride materials, covering the general issues relevant to the development and characterisation of a variety of advanced materials. Topics include structure and electronic properties, modeling, processing, high-temperature chemistry, oxidation and corrosion, mechanical behaviour, manufacturing and applications. The volume complements more specialised books on specific materials as well as more general texts on ceramics or hard materials, presenting a survey of materials research as a key to technological development. After decades of research, the materials are being used in electronics, wear resistant, refractory and other applications, but numerous new applications are possible. Roughly equal numbers of papers cover theoretical and experimental research in the general field of materials science of refractory materials. __Audience:__ Researchers and graduate students in materials science and engineering. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii The State-of-the-Art of High-Melting Point Compounds....Pages 1-18 Basic Materials Research in the U.S. Department of Energy....Pages 19-28 Ternary Metal Boron Carbides....Pages 29-46 Atomic Ordering and Phase Equilibria in Strongly Nonstoichiometric Carbides and Nitrides....Pages 47-64 On the Electronic Properties of Icosahedral Boron-Rich Solids....Pages 65-86 FTIR Surface Spectrometry of High-Melting Point Compounds....Pages 87-102 Surface Structure and Chemistry of the Boron-Rich Solids....Pages 103-118 Numerical Modeling of Surface Reactions....Pages 119-132 Interfaces in Ceramics....Pages 133-154 Computational Modeling of Surface Layers of Refractory Compounds....Pages 155-186 Fundamentals of Nitride-Based Superlattice Thin Films....Pages 187-204 Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis of Carbides, Nitrides, and Borides....Pages 205-222 Precursors for Carbide, Nitride and Boride Synthesis....Pages 223-245 Interaction of Silicon Carbide and Nitride with Halogen Containing Compounds....Pages 247-266 Boride/Nitride Composites : Synthesis and Properties....Pages 267-284 Design and Process of Non-Oxide Ceramics....Pages 285-304 Strength and Thermal Strength Resistance of Refractory Compounds....Pages 305-322 Physics of Hardness of High-Melting Compounds....Pages 323-336 High Temperature Carbide Structures in Nuclear Power....Pages 337-342 Sol-Gel Synthesis of Silicon Carbide and Silicon Nitride Powders and Their Surface Properties....Pages 343-358 Back Matter....Pages 359-360