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Preface to the First Edition.- Preface to the Second Edition.- Foreword.- PART I: History and Introduction.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Some History.- PART II: Materials.- Chapter 3: Background You Need to Know.- Chapter 4: Bonds and Energy Bands.- Chapter 5: Models, Crystals and Chemistry.- Chapter 6: Binary Compounds.- Chapter 7: Complex Crystal and Glass Structures.- Chapter 8: Equilibrium Phase Diagrams.- PART III: Tools.- Chapter 9: Furnaces.- Chapter 10: Characterizing Structure, Defects and Chemistry.- PART IV: Defects.- Chapter 11: Point Defects, Charge and Diffusion.- Chapter 12: Are Dislocations Unimportant?.- Chapter 13: Surfaces, Nanoparticles and Foams.- Chapter 14: Interfaces in Polycrystals.- Chapter 15: Phase Boundaries, Particles and Pores.- PART V: Mechanical Strength and Weakness.- Chapter 16: Mechanical Testing.- Chapter 17: Plasticity.- Chapter 18: Fracturing: Brittleness.- PART VI: Processing.- Chapter 19: Raw Materials.- Chapter 20: Powders, Fibers,P

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Table of Contents

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Foreword


PART I: History and Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Definitions
1.2 General Properties
1.3 Types of Ceramic and their Applications
1.4 Market
1.5 Critical Issues for the Future
1.6 Relating Microstructure, Processing and Applications
1.7 Safety
1.8 Ceramics on the Internet
1.9 On Units

Chapter 2: Some History
2.1 Earliest Ceramics: the Stone Age
2.2 Ceramics in Ancient Civilizations
2.3 Clay
2.4 Types of Pottery
2.5 Glazes
2.6 Development of a Ceramics Industry
2.7 Plaster and Cement
2.8 Brief History of Glass
2.9 Brief History of Refractories
2.10 Major Landmarks of the 20th Century
2.11 Museums
2.12 Societies
2.13 Ceramic Education

PART II: Materials

Chapter 3: Background You Need to Know
3.1 The Atom
3.2 Energy Levels
3.3 Electron Waves
3.4 Quantum Numbers
3.5 Assigning Quantum Numbers
3.6 Ions
3.7 Electronegativity
3.8 Thermodynamics: the Driving Force for Change
3.9 Kinetics: the Speed of Change

Chapter 4: Bonds and Energy Bands
4.1 Types of Interatomic Bond
4.2 Young’s Modulus
4.3 Ionic Bonding
4.4 Covalent Bonding
4.5 Metallic Bonding in Ceramics
4.6 Mixed Bonding
4.7 Secondary Bonding
4.8 Electron Energy Bands

Chapter 5: Models, Crystals and Chemistry
5.1 Terms and Definitions
5.2 Symmetry and Crystallography
5.3 Lattice Points, Directions and Planes
5.4 The Importance of Crystallography
5.5 Pauling’s Rules
5.6 Close-Packed Arrangements: Interstitial Sites
5.7 Notation for Crystal Structures
5.8 Structure, Composition and Temperature
5.9 Crystals, Glass, Solids and Liquid
5.10 Defects
5.11 Computer Modeling
Chapter 6: Binary Compounds
6.1 Background
6.2 CsCl
6.3 NaCl (MgO, TiC, PbS)
6.4 GaAs (β-SiC)
6.5 AlN (BeO, ZnO)
6.6 CaF2
6.7 FeS2
6.8 Cu2O
6.9 CuO
6.10 TiO2
6.11 Al2O3
6.12 MoS2 and CdI2
6.13 Polymorphs, Polytypes and Polytypoids

Chapter 7: Complex Crystal and Glass Structures
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Spinel
7.3 Perovskite
7.4 The Silicates and Structures Based on SiO4
7.5 Silica
7.6 Olivine
7.7 Garnets
7.8 Ring Silicates
7.9 Micas and Other Layer Materials
7.10 Clay Minerals
7.11 Pyroxene
7.12 β-Aluminas and Related Materials
7.13 Calcium Aluminate and Related Materials
7.14 Mullite
7.15 Monazite
7.16 YBa2Cu3O7 and Related HTSCs
7.17 Si3N4, SiAlONs and Related Materials
7.18 Fullerenes and Nanotubes
7.19 Zeolites and Microporous Compounds
7.20 Zachariasen’s Rules for the Structure of Glass
7.21 Revisiting Glass Structures

Chapter 8: Equilibrium Phase Diagrams
8.1 What’s Special About Ceramics?
8.2 Determining Phase Diagrams
8.3 Phase Diagrams for Ceramists: The Books
8.4 Gibbs Phase Rule
8.5 One Component (C = 1)
8.6 Two Components (C = 2)
8.7 Three and More Components
8.8 Composition with Variable Oxygen Partial Pressure
8.9 Ternary Diagrams and Temperature
8.10 Congruent and Incongruent Melting
8.11 Miscibility Gaps in Glass

PART III: Tools

Chapter 9: Furnaces
9.1 The Need for High Temperatures
9.2 Types of Furnace
9.3 Combustion Furnaces
9.4 Electrically Heated Furnaces
9.5 Batch or Continuous Operation
9.6 Indirect Heating
9.7 Heating Elements
9.8 Refractories
9.9 Furniture, Tubes and Crucibles
9.10 Firing Process
9.11 Heat Transfer
9.12 Measuring Temperature
9.13 Safety

Chapter 10: Characterizing Structure, Defects and Chemistry
10.1 Characterizing Ceramics
10.2 Imaging using Visible-Light, IR and UV
10.3 Imaging using X-rays and CT scans
10.4 Imaging in the SEM
10.5 Imaging in the TEM
10.6 Scanning-Probe Microscopy
10.7 Scattering and Diffraction Techniques
10.8. Photon Scattering
10.9 Raman and IR Spectroscopy
10.10 NMR Spectroscopy and Spectrometry
10.11 Mössbauer Spectroscopy and Spectrometry
10.12 Diffraction in the EM
10.13 Ion Scattering (RBS)
10.14 X-ray Diffraction and Databases
10.15 Neutron Scattering
10.16 Mass Spectrometry
10.17 Spectrometry in the EM
10.18 Electron Spectroscopy
10.19 Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA)
10.20 Thermal Analysis

PART IV: Defects

Chapter 11: Point Defects, Charge and Diffusion
11.1 Are Defects in Ceramics Different?
11.2 Types of Point Defects
11.3 What is Special for Ceramics?
11.4 What Type of Defects Form? 11.5 Equilibrium Defect Concentrations
11.6 Writing Equations for Point Defects
11.7 Solid Solutions
11.8 Association of Point Defects
11.9 Color Centers
11.10 Creation of Point Defects in Ceramics
11.11 Experimental Studies of Point Defects
11.12 Diffusion
11.13 Diffusion in Impure, or Doped, Ceramics
11.14 Movement of defects
11.15 Diffusion and Ionic Conductivity
11.16 Computing

Chapter 12: Are Dislocations Unimportant?
12.1 A Quick Review of Dislocations
12.2 Summary of Dislocation Properties
12.3 Observation of Dislocations
12.4 Dislocations in Ceramics
12.5 Structure of the Core
12.6 Detailed Geometry
12.7 Defects on Dislocations
12.8 Dislocations and Diffusion
12.9 Movement of Dislocations
12.10 Multiplication of Dislocations
12.11 Dislocation Interactions
12.12 At the Surface
12.13 Indentation, Scratching and Cracks
12.14 Dislocations with Different Cores

Chapter 13: Surfaces, Nanoparticles and Foams
13.1 Background to surfaces
13.2 Ceramic Surfaces
13.3 Surface Energy
13.4 Surface structure
13.5 Curved Surfaces and Pressure
13.6 Capillarity
13.7 Wetting and Dewetting
13.8 Foams
13.9 Epitaxy and Film Growth
13.10 Film Growth in 2D: Nucleation
13.11 Film Growth in 2D: Mechanisms
13.12 Characterizing Surfaces
13.13 Steps
13.14 In situ
13.15 Surfaces and Nano
13.16 Computer modeling
13.17 Introduction to properties

Chapter 14: Interfaces in Polycrystals
14.1 What are Grain Boundaries?
14.2 For Ceramics
14.3 GB Energy
14.4 Low-angle GBs
14.5 High-angle GBs
14.6 Twin Boundaries
14.7 General Boundaries
14.8 GB Films
14.9 Triple Junctions and GB Grooves
14.10 Characterizing GBs
14.11 GBs in Thin Films
14.12 Space Charge and Charged Boundaries
14.13 Modeling
14.14 Some Properties

Chapter 15: Phase Boundaries, Particles and Pores
15.1 The importance
15.2 Different types
15.3 Compare to other materials
15.4 Energy
15.5 The structure of PBs
15.6 Particles
15.7 Use of particles
15.8 Nucleation and growth of particles
15.9 Pores
15.10 Measuring porosity
15.11 Porous ceramics
15.12 Glass/crystal phase boundaries
15.13 Eutectics
15.14 Metal/ceramic PBs
15.15 Forming PBs by joining

PART V: Mechanical Strength and Weakness

Chapter 16: Mechanical Testing
16.1 Philosophy
16.2 Types of testing
16.3 Elastic Constants and Other ‘Constants’
16.4. Effect of Microstructure on Elastic Moduli
16.5. Test Temperature
16.6. Test Environment
16.7 Testing in Compression and Tension
16.8 Three- and Four-point Bending
16.9 KIc from Bend Test
16.10 Indentation
16.11 Fracture Toughness From Indentation
16.12 Nanoindentation
16.13 Ultrasonic Testing
16.14 Design and Statistics
16.15 SPT Diagrams

Chapter 17: Plasticity
17.1 Plastic Deformation
17.2 Dislocation Glide
17.3 Slip in Alumina
17.4 Plastic Deformation in single crystals
17.5 Plastic Deformation in Polycrystals
17.6 Dislocation Velocity and Pinning
17.7 Creep
17.8 Dislocation Creep
17.9 Diffusion-Controlled Creep17.10 Grain-Boundary Sliding
17.11 Tertiary Creep and Cavitation
17.12 Creep Deformation Maps
17.13 Viscous Flow
17.14 Superplasticity

Chapter 18: Fracturing: Brittleness
18.1 The importance of brittleness
18.2 Theoretical Strength—The Orowan Equation
18.3 The Effect of Flaws—the Griffith Equation
18.4 The Crack Tip—The Inglis Equation
18.5 Stress Intensity Factor
18.6 R Curves
18.7 Fatigue and Stress Corrosion Cracking
18.8 Failure and Fractography
18.9 Toughening and Ceramic Matrix Composites
18.10 Machinable Glass-Ceramics
18.11 Wear
18.12 Grinding and polishing

PART VI: Processing

Chapter 19: Raw Materials
19.1 Geology, Minerals, and Ores
19.2 Mineral Formation
19.3 Beneficiation
19.4 Weights and Measures19.5 Silica
19.6 Silicates
19.7 Oxides
19.8 Non Oxides

Chapter 20: Powders, Fibers, Platelets and Composites
20.1 Making Powders
20.2. Types of powders
20.3 Mechanical Milling
20.4 Spray Drying
20.5 Powders by Sol-gel Processing
20.6 Powders by Precipitation
20.7 Chemical Routes to Non-oxide powders
20.8 Platelets
20.9 Nanopowders by Vapor-Phase reactions
20.10 Characterizing Powders
20.11 Characterizing Powders by Microscopy
20.12 Sieving20.13 Sedimentation
20.14 The Coulter counter
20.15 Characterizing Powders by Light Scattering
20.16 Characterizing Powders by X-Ray Diffraction
20.17 Measuring Surface Area (The BET method)
20.18 Determining Particle composition and purity
20.19 Making Fibers and whiskers
20.20 Oxide fibers
20.21 Whiskers
20.22 Glass fibers
20.23 Coating Fibers
20.24 Making CMCs
20.25 CMCs From Powders and slurries
20.26 CMCs By Infiltration
20.27 In-situ processes

Chapter 21: Glass and Glass-Ceramics
21.1 Definitions
21.2 History
21.3 Viscosity, η
21.4 Glass—A Summary of its Properties, or not
21.5 Defects in Glass
21.6 Heterogeneous Glass
21.7 YA glass
21.8 Coloring Glass
21.9 Glass laser
21.10 Precipitates in Glass
21.11 Crystallizing Glass
21.12 Glass as Glaze and Enamel
21.13 Corrosion of Glass and Glaze
21.14 Types of Ceramic Glasses
21.15 Natural glass
21.16 The Physics of Glass

Chapter 22: Sols, Gels and Organic Chemistry
22.1 Sol-gel processing
22.2 Structure and synthesis of alkoxides
22.3 Properties of alkoxides22.4 The sol-gel process using metal alkoxides
22.5 Characterization of the sol-gel Process
22.6 Powders, coatings, fibers, crystalline or glass?

Chapter 23: Shaping and Forming
23.1 The Words
23.2 Binders and Plasticizers
23.3 Slip and Slurry
23.4 Dry Pressing
23.5 Hot Pressing
23.6 Cold Isostatic Pressing
23.7 Hot Isostatic Pressing
23.8 Slip Casting
23.9 Extrusion
23.10 Injection molding
23.11 Rapid prototyping
23.12 Green machining
23.13 Binder burnout
23.14 Final machining
23.15 Making Porous Ceramics23.16 Shaping Pottery
23.17 Shaping Glass

Chapter 24: Sintering and Grain Growth
24.1 The sintering process
24.2 The terminology of sintering24.3 Capillary forces and Surface Forces
24.4 Sintering spheres and wires
24.5 Grain growth
24.6 Sintering and Diffusion
24.7 LPS
24.8 Hot pressing
24.9 Pinning Grain Boundaries
24.10 Grain Growth
24.11 Grain boundaries, surfaces and sintering
24.12 Exaggerated grain growth
24.13 Fabricating complex shapes
24.14 Pottery
24.15 Pores and Porous Ceramics
24.16 Sintering with 2- and 3-phases
24.17 Examples of sintering in action
24.18 Computer Modeling

Chapter 25: Solid-State Phase Transformations & Reactions
25.1 Transformations & reactions: The link
25.2 The Terminology
25.3 Technology
25.4 Phase transformations without changing chemistry
25.5 Phase transformations changing chemistry
25.6 Methods for studying kinetics
25.7 Diffusion through a layer: slip casting
25.8 Diffusion through a layer: solid-state reactions
25.9 The spinel-forming reaction
25.10 Inert markers and reaction barriers
25.11 Simplified Darken equation
25.12 The incubation period
25.13 Particle growth and the effect of misfit
25.14 Thin-film reactions
25.15 Reactions in an electric field
25.16 Phase transformations involving glass
25.17 Pottery
25.18 Cement
25.19 Reactions involving a gas phase
25.20 Curved interfaces

Chapter 26: Processing Glass and Glass-Ceramics
26.1 The Market for Glass and Glass Products
26.2 Processing Bulk Glasses
26.3 Bubbles
26.4 Flat Glass
26.5 Float-Glass
26.6 Glass Blowing
26.7 Coating Glass
26.8 Safety Glass
26.9 Foam Glass
26.10 Sealing glass
26.11 Enamel
26.12 Photochromic Glass
26.13 Ceramming: Changing Glass to Glass-Ceramics
26.14 Glass for Art and Sculpture
26.15 Glass for Science and Engineering

Chapter 27: Coatings and Thick Films27.3 Dip Coating
27.4 Spin Coating
27.5 Spraying
27.6 Electrophoretic Deposition
27.7 Thick Film Circuits

Chapter 28: Thin Films and Vapor Deposition
28. 1 The Difference Between Thin Films and Thick Films
28.2 Acronyms, Adjectives and Hyphens
28.3 Requirements for Thin Ceramic Films
28.4 CVD
28.5. Thermodynamics of CVD
28.6 CVD of Ceramic Films for Semiconductor Devices
28.7 Types of CVD
28.8 CVD Safety
28.9 Evaporation
28.10 Sputtering
28.11 Molecular-beam Epitaxy
28.12 Pulsed-laser Deposition
28.13 Ion-beam-assisted Deposition
28.14 Substrates

Chapter 29: Growing Single Crystals
29.1 Why Single Crystals?
29.2 A Brief History of Growing Ceramic Single Crystals
29.3 Methods for Growing Single Crystals of Ceramics
29.4 Melt Technique: Verneuil (Flame-Fusion)
29.5 Melt Technique: Arc-image Growth
29.6 Melt Technique: Czochralski
29.7 Melt Technique: Skull Melting
29.8 Melt Technique: Bridgman-Stockbarger
29.9 Melt Technique: HEM
29.10 Applying Phase Diagrams to Single-crystal Growth
29.11 Solution Technique: Hydrothermal
29.12 Solution Technique: Hydrothermal Growth at Low T
29.13 Solution Technique: Flux Growth
29.14 Solution Technique: Growing Diamonds
29.15 Vapor Technique: VLS
29.16 Vapor Technique: Sublimation
29.17 Preparing Substrates for Thin-film Applications
29.18 Growing Nanowires and Nanotubes by VLS and not

PART VII: Properties and Applications

Chapter 30: Conducting Charge or not
30.1 Ceramics as electrical conductors
30.2 Conduction mechanisms in ceramics
30.3 Number of conduction electrons
30.4 Electron mobility
30.5 Effect of temperature
30.6 Ceramics with metal-like conductivity
30.7 Applications for high-s ceramics
30.8 Semiconducting ceramics
30.9 Examples of extrinsic semiconductors
30.10 Varistors
30.11 Thermistors
30.12 Wide-band-gap semiconductors
30.13 Ion conduction
30.14 Fast ion conductors
30.15 Batteries
30.16 Fuel cells
30.17 Ceramic insulators
30.18 Substrates and packages for integrated circuits
30.19 Insulating layers in integrated circuits
30.20 Superconductivity
30.21 Ceramic superconductors

Chapter 31: Locally Redistributing Charge
31.1 Background on Dielectrics
31.2 Ferroelectricity
31.3 BaTiO3 – The Prototypical Ferroelectric
31.4 Solid Solutions with BaTiO3
31.5 Other Ferroelectric Ceramics
31.6 Relaxor Dielectrics
31.7 Ceramic Capacitors
31.8 Ceramic Ferroelectrics for Memory Applications
31.9 Piezoelectricity
31.10 Lead Zirconate-Lead Titanate (PZT) Solid Solutions
31.11 Applications for Piezoelectric Ceramics
31.12 Piezoelectric Materials for MEMS
31.13 Pyroelectricity
31.14 Applications for Pyroelectric Ceramics

Chapter 32: Interacting with & Generating Light
32.1 Some background for optical ceramics
32.2 Transparency
32.3 The Refractive Index
32.4 Reflection from Ceramic Surfaces
32.5 Color in Ceramics
32.6 Coloring Glass and Glazes
32.7 Ceramic Pigments and Stains
32.8 Translucent Ceramics
32.9 Lamp Envelopes
32.10 Fluorescence
32.11 The Basics of Optical Fibers
32.12 Phosphors and Emitters
32.13 Solid-State Lasers
32.14 Electro-Optic Ceramics for Optical Devices
32.15 Reacting to Other Parts of the Spectrum
32.16 Optical Ceramics in Nature
32.17. Quantum Dots and Size Effects
Chapter 33: Using Magnetic Fields & Storing Data
33.1 A Brief History of Magnetic Ceramics
33.2 Magnetic Dipoles
33.3 The Basic Equations, the Words and the Units
33.4 The Five Classes of Magnetic Material
33.5 Diamagnetic Ceramics33.6. Superconducting Magnets
33.7. Paramagnetic Ceramics
33.8 Measuring χ
33.9 Ferromagnetism
33.10 Antiferromagnetism and CMR
33.11 Ferrimagnetism
33.12 Estimating the Magnetization of Ferrimagnets
33.13 Magnetic Domains and Bloch Walls
33.14 Imaging Magnetic Domains
33.15 Motion of Domain Walls and Hysteresis Loops
33.16 Hard and Soft Ferrites
33.17 Microwave Ferrites
33.18 Data Storage and Recording
33.19. Magnetic Nanoparticles

Chapter 34: Responding to Temperature Changes
34.1 Summary of Terms and Units
34.2 Absorption and Heat Capacity
34.3. Melting
34.4 Vaporization
34.5. Thermal Conductivity
34.6 Measuring Thermal Conductivity
34.7 Microstructure and Thermal Conductivity
34.8 Using High Thermal Conductivity
34.9 Thermal Expansion
34.10 Effect of Crystal Structure on α
34.11 Thermal Expansion Measurement
34.12 Importance of Matching αs
34.13 Applications for Low-α
34.14 Thermal Shock

Chapter 35: Ceramics in Biology & Medicine
35.1 What are Bioceramics?
35.2 Advantages and Disadvantages of Ceramics
35.3 Ceramic Implants & The Structure of Bone
35.4 Alumina and Zirconia
35.5 Bioactive Glasses
35.6 Bioactive Glass-ceramics
35.7 Hydroxyapatite
35.8 Bioceramics in Composites
35.9 Bioceramic Coatings
35.10 Radiotherapy Glasses
35.11 Pyrolytic Carbon Heart Valves
35.12 Nanobioceramics
35.13 Dental Ceramics
35.14 Biomimetics

Chapter 36: Minerals & Gems
36.1 Minerals
36.2 What is a gem?
36.3 In the rough
36.4 Cutting and polishing
36.5 Light and Optics in Gemology
36.6 Color in gems and minerals
36.7 Optical Effects
36.8 Identifying Minerals & Gems
36.9 Chemical Stability (durability)
36.10 Diamonds, Sapphires, Rubies and Emeralds
36.11 Opal
36.12 Other Gems
36.13 Minerals with Inclusions
36.14 Treatment of Gems
36.15 The Mineral & Gem Trade

Chapter 37: Energy Production and Storage
37.1 Some reminders
37.2 Nuclear Fuel and Waste Disposal
37.3 Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
37.4 Photovoltaic Solar Cells
37.5 Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
37.6 Ceramics in Batteries
37.7 Lithium-Ion Batteries
37.8 Ultracapacitors
37.9 Producing and Storing Hydrogen
37.10 Energy Harvesting
37.11 Catalysts and Catalyst Supports

Chapter 38: Industry and the Environment
38.1 The beginning of the modern ceramics industry
38.2 Growth and globalization
38.3 Types of market
38.4 Case studies
38.5 Emerging Areas
38.6 Mining
38.7 Recycling
38.8 As Green Materials

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      Preface to the First Edition.- Preface to the Second Edition.- Foreword.- PART I: History and Introduction.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Some History.- PART II: Materials.- Chapter 3: Background You Need to Know.- Chapter 4: Bonds and Energy Bands.- Chapter 5: Models, Crystals and Chemistry.- Chapter 6: Binary Compounds.- Chapter 7: Complex Crystal and Glass Structures.- Chapter 8: Equilibrium Phase Diagrams.- PART III: Tools.- Chapter 9: Furnaces.- Chapter 10: Characterizing Structure, Defects and Chemistry.- PART IV: Defects.- Chapter 11: Point Defects, Charge and Diffusion.- Chapter 12: Are Dislocations Unimportant?.- Chapter 13: Surfaces, Nanoparticles and Foams.- Chapter 14: Interfaces in Polycrystals.- Chapter 15: Phase Boundaries, Particles and Pores.- PART V: Mechanical Strength and Weakness.- Chapter 16: Mechanical Testing.- Chapter 17: Plasticity.- Chapter 18: Fracturing: Brittleness.- PART VI: Processing.- Chapter 19: Raw Materials.- Chapter 20: Powders, Fibers,P

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      “I will definitely select this book as a textbook for a class on this subject. … The book includes general backgrounds materials, the basics of ceramic materials science and advanced applications of ceramic science and technology. Therefore, non-specialists (even non-science majors) including undergraduate, and graduate students as well as experts in the field can learn from various parts of in this book.” (Katsuhiko Ariga, Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials, Vol. 24, 2014)



      Table of Contents

      Preface to the First Edition
      Preface to the Second Edition
      Foreword


      PART I: History and Introduction
      Chapter 1: Introduction
      1.1 Definitions
      1.2 General Properties
      1.3 Types of Ceramic and their Applications
      1.4 Market
      1.5 Critical Issues for the Future
      1.6 Relating Microstructure, Processing and Applications
      1.7 Safety
      1.8 Ceramics on the Internet
      1.9 On Units

      Chapter 2: Some History
      2.1 Earliest Ceramics: the Stone Age
      2.2 Ceramics in Ancient Civilizations
      2.3 Clay
      2.4 Types of Pottery
      2.5 Glazes
      2.6 Development of a Ceramics Industry
      2.7 Plaster and Cement
      2.8 Brief History of Glass
      2.9 Brief History of Refractories
      2.10 Major Landmarks of the 20th Century
      2.11 Museums
      2.12 Societies
      2.13 Ceramic Education

      PART II: Materials

      Chapter 3: Background You Need to Know
      3.1 The Atom
      3.2 Energy Levels
      3.3 Electron Waves
      3.4 Quantum Numbers
      3.5 Assigning Quantum Numbers
      3.6 Ions
      3.7 Electronegativity
      3.8 Thermodynamics: the Driving Force for Change
      3.9 Kinetics: the Speed of Change

      Chapter 4: Bonds and Energy Bands
      4.1 Types of Interatomic Bond
      4.2 Young’s Modulus
      4.3 Ionic Bonding
      4.4 Covalent Bonding
      4.5 Metallic Bonding in Ceramics
      4.6 Mixed Bonding
      4.7 Secondary Bonding
      4.8 Electron Energy Bands

      Chapter 5: Models, Crystals and Chemistry
      5.1 Terms and Definitions
      5.2 Symmetry and Crystallography
      5.3 Lattice Points, Directions and Planes
      5.4 The Importance of Crystallography
      5.5 Pauling’s Rules
      5.6 Close-Packed Arrangements: Interstitial Sites
      5.7 Notation for Crystal Structures
      5.8 Structure, Composition and Temperature
      5.9 Crystals, Glass, Solids and Liquid
      5.10 Defects
      5.11 Computer Modeling
      Chapter 6: Binary Compounds
      6.1 Background
      6.2 CsCl
      6.3 NaCl (MgO, TiC, PbS)
      6.4 GaAs (β-SiC)
      6.5 AlN (BeO, ZnO)
      6.6 CaF2
      6.7 FeS2
      6.8 Cu2O
      6.9 CuO
      6.10 TiO2
      6.11 Al2O3
      6.12 MoS2 and CdI2
      6.13 Polymorphs, Polytypes and Polytypoids

      Chapter 7: Complex Crystal and Glass Structures
      7.1 Introduction
      7.2 Spinel
      7.3 Perovskite
      7.4 The Silicates and Structures Based on SiO4
      7.5 Silica
      7.6 Olivine
      7.7 Garnets
      7.8 Ring Silicates
      7.9 Micas and Other Layer Materials
      7.10 Clay Minerals
      7.11 Pyroxene
      7.12 β-Aluminas and Related Materials
      7.13 Calcium Aluminate and Related Materials
      7.14 Mullite
      7.15 Monazite
      7.16 YBa2Cu3O7 and Related HTSCs
      7.17 Si3N4, SiAlONs and Related Materials
      7.18 Fullerenes and Nanotubes
      7.19 Zeolites and Microporous Compounds
      7.20 Zachariasen’s Rules for the Structure of Glass
      7.21 Revisiting Glass Structures

      Chapter 8: Equilibrium Phase Diagrams
      8.1 What’s Special About Ceramics?
      8.2 Determining Phase Diagrams
      8.3 Phase Diagrams for Ceramists: The Books
      8.4 Gibbs Phase Rule
      8.5 One Component (C = 1)
      8.6 Two Components (C = 2)
      8.7 Three and More Components
      8.8 Composition with Variable Oxygen Partial Pressure
      8.9 Ternary Diagrams and Temperature
      8.10 Congruent and Incongruent Melting
      8.11 Miscibility Gaps in Glass

      PART III: Tools

      Chapter 9: Furnaces
      9.1 The Need for High Temperatures
      9.2 Types of Furnace
      9.3 Combustion Furnaces
      9.4 Electrically Heated Furnaces
      9.5 Batch or Continuous Operation
      9.6 Indirect Heating
      9.7 Heating Elements
      9.8 Refractories
      9.9 Furniture, Tubes and Crucibles
      9.10 Firing Process
      9.11 Heat Transfer
      9.12 Measuring Temperature
      9.13 Safety

      Chapter 10: Characterizing Structure, Defects and Chemistry
      10.1 Characterizing Ceramics
      10.2 Imaging using Visible-Light, IR and UV
      10.3 Imaging using X-rays and CT scans
      10.4 Imaging in the SEM
      10.5 Imaging in the TEM
      10.6 Scanning-Probe Microscopy
      10.7 Scattering and Diffraction Techniques
      10.8. Photon Scattering
      10.9 Raman and IR Spectroscopy
      10.10 NMR Spectroscopy and Spectrometry
      10.11 Mössbauer Spectroscopy and Spectrometry
      10.12 Diffraction in the EM
      10.13 Ion Scattering (RBS)
      10.14 X-ray Diffraction and Databases
      10.15 Neutron Scattering
      10.16 Mass Spectrometry
      10.17 Spectrometry in the EM
      10.18 Electron Spectroscopy
      10.19 Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA)
      10.20 Thermal Analysis

      PART IV: Defects

      Chapter 11: Point Defects, Charge and Diffusion
      11.1 Are Defects in Ceramics Different?
      11.2 Types of Point Defects
      11.3 What is Special for Ceramics?
      11.4 What Type of Defects Form? 11.5 Equilibrium Defect Concentrations
      11.6 Writing Equations for Point Defects
      11.7 Solid Solutions
      11.8 Association of Point Defects
      11.9 Color Centers
      11.10 Creation of Point Defects in Ceramics
      11.11 Experimental Studies of Point Defects
      11.12 Diffusion
      11.13 Diffusion in Impure, or Doped, Ceramics
      11.14 Movement of defects
      11.15 Diffusion and Ionic Conductivity
      11.16 Computing

      Chapter 12: Are Dislocations Unimportant?
      12.1 A Quick Review of Dislocations
      12.2 Summary of Dislocation Properties
      12.3 Observation of Dislocations
      12.4 Dislocations in Ceramics
      12.5 Structure of the Core
      12.6 Detailed Geometry
      12.7 Defects on Dislocations
      12.8 Dislocations and Diffusion
      12.9 Movement of Dislocations
      12.10 Multiplication of Dislocations
      12.11 Dislocation Interactions
      12.12 At the Surface
      12.13 Indentation, Scratching and Cracks
      12.14 Dislocations with Different Cores

      Chapter 13: Surfaces, Nanoparticles and Foams
      13.1 Background to surfaces
      13.2 Ceramic Surfaces
      13.3 Surface Energy
      13.4 Surface structure
      13.5 Curved Surfaces and Pressure
      13.6 Capillarity
      13.7 Wetting and Dewetting
      13.8 Foams
      13.9 Epitaxy and Film Growth
      13.10 Film Growth in 2D: Nucleation
      13.11 Film Growth in 2D: Mechanisms
      13.12 Characterizing Surfaces
      13.13 Steps
      13.14 In situ
      13.15 Surfaces and Nano
      13.16 Computer modeling
      13.17 Introduction to properties

      Chapter 14: Interfaces in Polycrystals
      14.1 What are Grain Boundaries?
      14.2 For Ceramics
      14.3 GB Energy
      14.4 Low-angle GBs
      14.5 High-angle GBs
      14.6 Twin Boundaries
      14.7 General Boundaries
      14.8 GB Films
      14.9 Triple Junctions and GB Grooves
      14.10 Characterizing GBs
      14.11 GBs in Thin Films
      14.12 Space Charge and Charged Boundaries
      14.13 Modeling
      14.14 Some Properties

      Chapter 15: Phase Boundaries, Particles and Pores
      15.1 The importance
      15.2 Different types
      15.3 Compare to other materials
      15.4 Energy
      15.5 The structure of PBs
      15.6 Particles
      15.7 Use of particles
      15.8 Nucleation and growth of particles
      15.9 Pores
      15.10 Measuring porosity
      15.11 Porous ceramics
      15.12 Glass/crystal phase boundaries
      15.13 Eutectics
      15.14 Metal/ceramic PBs
      15.15 Forming PBs by joining

      PART V: Mechanical Strength and Weakness

      Chapter 16: Mechanical Testing
      16.1 Philosophy
      16.2 Types of testing
      16.3 Elastic Constants and Other ‘Constants’
      16.4. Effect of Microstructure on Elastic Moduli
      16.5. Test Temperature
      16.6. Test Environment
      16.7 Testing in Compression and Tension
      16.8 Three- and Four-point Bending
      16.9 KIc from Bend Test
      16.10 Indentation
      16.11 Fracture Toughness From Indentation
      16.12 Nanoindentation
      16.13 Ultrasonic Testing
      16.14 Design and Statistics
      16.15 SPT Diagrams

      Chapter 17: Plasticity
      17.1 Plastic Deformation
      17.2 Dislocation Glide
      17.3 Slip in Alumina
      17.4 Plastic Deformation in single crystals
      17.5 Plastic Deformation in Polycrystals
      17.6 Dislocation Velocity and Pinning
      17.7 Creep
      17.8 Dislocation Creep
      17.9 Diffusion-Controlled Creep17.10 Grain-Boundary Sliding
      17.11 Tertiary Creep and Cavitation
      17.12 Creep Deformation Maps
      17.13 Viscous Flow
      17.14 Superplasticity

      Chapter 18: Fracturing: Brittleness
      18.1 The importance of brittleness
      18.2 Theoretical Strength—The Orowan Equation
      18.3 The Effect of Flaws—the Griffith Equation
      18.4 The Crack Tip—The Inglis Equation
      18.5 Stress Intensity Factor
      18.6 R Curves
      18.7 Fatigue and Stress Corrosion Cracking
      18.8 Failure and Fractography
      18.9 Toughening and Ceramic Matrix Composites
      18.10 Machinable Glass-Ceramics
      18.11 Wear
      18.12 Grinding and polishing

      PART VI: Processing

      Chapter 19: Raw Materials
      19.1 Geology, Minerals, and Ores
      19.2 Mineral Formation
      19.3 Beneficiation
      19.4 Weights and Measures19.5 Silica
      19.6 Silicates
      19.7 Oxides
      19.8 Non Oxides

      Chapter 20: Powders, Fibers, Platelets and Composites
      20.1 Making Powders
      20.2. Types of powders
      20.3 Mechanical Milling
      20.4 Spray Drying
      20.5 Powders by Sol-gel Processing
      20.6 Powders by Precipitation
      20.7 Chemical Routes to Non-oxide powders
      20.8 Platelets
      20.9 Nanopowders by Vapor-Phase reactions
      20.10 Characterizing Powders
      20.11 Characterizing Powders by Microscopy
      20.12 Sieving20.13 Sedimentation
      20.14 The Coulter counter
      20.15 Characterizing Powders by Light Scattering
      20.16 Characterizing Powders by X-Ray Diffraction
      20.17 Measuring Surface Area (The BET method)
      20.18 Determining Particle composition and purity
      20.19 Making Fibers and whiskers
      20.20 Oxide fibers
      20.21 Whiskers
      20.22 Glass fibers
      20.23 Coating Fibers
      20.24 Making CMCs
      20.25 CMCs From Powders and slurries
      20.26 CMCs By Infiltration
      20.27 In-situ processes

      Chapter 21: Glass and Glass-Ceramics
      21.1 Definitions
      21.2 History
      21.3 Viscosity, η
      21.4 Glass—A Summary of its Properties, or not
      21.5 Defects in Glass
      21.6 Heterogeneous Glass
      21.7 YA glass
      21.8 Coloring Glass
      21.9 Glass laser
      21.10 Precipitates in Glass
      21.11 Crystallizing Glass
      21.12 Glass as Glaze and Enamel
      21.13 Corrosion of Glass and Glaze
      21.14 Types of Ceramic Glasses
      21.15 Natural glass
      21.16 The Physics of Glass

      Chapter 22: Sols, Gels and Organic Chemistry
      22.1 Sol-gel processing
      22.2 Structure and synthesis of alkoxides
      22.3 Properties of alkoxides22.4 The sol-gel process using metal alkoxides
      22.5 Characterization of the sol-gel Process
      22.6 Powders, coatings, fibers, crystalline or glass?

      Chapter 23: Shaping and Forming
      23.1 The Words
      23.2 Binders and Plasticizers
      23.3 Slip and Slurry
      23.4 Dry Pressing
      23.5 Hot Pressing
      23.6 Cold Isostatic Pressing
      23.7 Hot Isostatic Pressing
      23.8 Slip Casting
      23.9 Extrusion
      23.10 Injection molding
      23.11 Rapid prototyping
      23.12 Green machining
      23.13 Binder burnout
      23.14 Final machining
      23.15 Making Porous Ceramics23.16 Shaping Pottery
      23.17 Shaping Glass

      Chapter 24: Sintering and Grain Growth
      24.1 The sintering process
      24.2 The terminology of sintering24.3 Capillary forces and Surface Forces
      24.4 Sintering spheres and wires
      24.5 Grain growth
      24.6 Sintering and Diffusion
      24.7 LPS
      24.8 Hot pressing
      24.9 Pinning Grain Boundaries
      24.10 Grain Growth
      24.11 Grain boundaries, surfaces and sintering
      24.12 Exaggerated grain growth
      24.13 Fabricating complex shapes
      24.14 Pottery
      24.15 Pores and Porous Ceramics
      24.16 Sintering with 2- and 3-phases
      24.17 Examples of sintering in action
      24.18 Computer Modeling

      Chapter 25: Solid-State Phase Transformations & Reactions
      25.1 Transformations & reactions: The link
      25.2 The Terminology
      25.3 Technology
      25.4 Phase transformations without changing chemistry
      25.5 Phase transformations changing chemistry
      25.6 Methods for studying kinetics
      25.7 Diffusion through a layer: slip casting
      25.8 Diffusion through a layer: solid-state reactions
      25.9 The spinel-forming reaction
      25.10 Inert markers and reaction barriers
      25.11 Simplified Darken equation
      25.12 The incubation period
      25.13 Particle growth and the effect of misfit
      25.14 Thin-film reactions
      25.15 Reactions in an electric field
      25.16 Phase transformations involving glass
      25.17 Pottery
      25.18 Cement
      25.19 Reactions involving a gas phase
      25.20 Curved interfaces

      Chapter 26: Processing Glass and Glass-Ceramics
      26.1 The Market for Glass and Glass Products
      26.2 Processing Bulk Glasses
      26.3 Bubbles
      26.4 Flat Glass
      26.5 Float-Glass
      26.6 Glass Blowing
      26.7 Coating Glass
      26.8 Safety Glass
      26.9 Foam Glass
      26.10 Sealing glass
      26.11 Enamel
      26.12 Photochromic Glass
      26.13 Ceramming: Changing Glass to Glass-Ceramics
      26.14 Glass for Art and Sculpture
      26.15 Glass for Science and Engineering

      Chapter 27: Coatings and Thick Films27.3 Dip Coating
      27.4 Spin Coating
      27.5 Spraying
      27.6 Electrophoretic Deposition
      27.7 Thick Film Circuits

      Chapter 28: Thin Films and Vapor Deposition
      28. 1 The Difference Between Thin Films and Thick Films
      28.2 Acronyms, Adjectives and Hyphens
      28.3 Requirements for Thin Ceramic Films
      28.4 CVD
      28.5. Thermodynamics of CVD
      28.6 CVD of Ceramic Films for Semiconductor Devices
      28.7 Types of CVD
      28.8 CVD Safety
      28.9 Evaporation
      28.10 Sputtering
      28.11 Molecular-beam Epitaxy
      28.12 Pulsed-laser Deposition
      28.13 Ion-beam-assisted Deposition
      28.14 Substrates

      Chapter 29: Growing Single Crystals
      29.1 Why Single Crystals?
      29.2 A Brief History of Growing Ceramic Single Crystals
      29.3 Methods for Growing Single Crystals of Ceramics
      29.4 Melt Technique: Verneuil (Flame-Fusion)
      29.5 Melt Technique: Arc-image Growth
      29.6 Melt Technique: Czochralski
      29.7 Melt Technique: Skull Melting
      29.8 Melt Technique: Bridgman-Stockbarger
      29.9 Melt Technique: HEM
      29.10 Applying Phase Diagrams to Single-crystal Growth
      29.11 Solution Technique: Hydrothermal
      29.12 Solution Technique: Hydrothermal Growth at Low T
      29.13 Solution Technique: Flux Growth
      29.14 Solution Technique: Growing Diamonds
      29.15 Vapor Technique: VLS
      29.16 Vapor Technique: Sublimation
      29.17 Preparing Substrates for Thin-film Applications
      29.18 Growing Nanowires and Nanotubes by VLS and not

      PART VII: Properties and Applications

      Chapter 30: Conducting Charge or not
      30.1 Ceramics as electrical conductors
      30.2 Conduction mechanisms in ceramics
      30.3 Number of conduction electrons
      30.4 Electron mobility
      30.5 Effect of temperature
      30.6 Ceramics with metal-like conductivity
      30.7 Applications for high-s ceramics
      30.8 Semiconducting ceramics
      30.9 Examples of extrinsic semiconductors
      30.10 Varistors
      30.11 Thermistors
      30.12 Wide-band-gap semiconductors
      30.13 Ion conduction
      30.14 Fast ion conductors
      30.15 Batteries
      30.16 Fuel cells
      30.17 Ceramic insulators
      30.18 Substrates and packages for integrated circuits
      30.19 Insulating layers in integrated circuits
      30.20 Superconductivity
      30.21 Ceramic superconductors

      Chapter 31: Locally Redistributing Charge
      31.1 Background on Dielectrics
      31.2 Ferroelectricity
      31.3 BaTiO3 – The Prototypical Ferroelectric
      31.4 Solid Solutions with BaTiO3
      31.5 Other Ferroelectric Ceramics
      31.6 Relaxor Dielectrics
      31.7 Ceramic Capacitors
      31.8 Ceramic Ferroelectrics for Memory Applications
      31.9 Piezoelectricity
      31.10 Lead Zirconate-Lead Titanate (PZT) Solid Solutions
      31.11 Applications for Piezoelectric Ceramics
      31.12 Piezoelectric Materials for MEMS
      31.13 Pyroelectricity
      31.14 Applications for Pyroelectric Ceramics

      Chapter 32: Interacting with & Generating Light
      32.1 Some background for optical ceramics
      32.2 Transparency
      32.3 The Refractive Index
      32.4 Reflection from Ceramic Surfaces
      32.5 Color in Ceramics
      32.6 Coloring Glass and Glazes
      32.7 Ceramic Pigments and Stains
      32.8 Translucent Ceramics
      32.9 Lamp Envelopes
      32.10 Fluorescence
      32.11 The Basics of Optical Fibers
      32.12 Phosphors and Emitters
      32.13 Solid-State Lasers
      32.14 Electro-Optic Ceramics for Optical Devices
      32.15 Reacting to Other Parts of the Spectrum
      32.16 Optical Ceramics in Nature
      32.17. Quantum Dots and Size Effects
      Chapter 33: Using Magnetic Fields & Storing Data
      33.1 A Brief History of Magnetic Ceramics
      33.2 Magnetic Dipoles
      33.3 The Basic Equations, the Words and the Units
      33.4 The Five Classes of Magnetic Material
      33.5 Diamagnetic Ceramics33.6. Superconducting Magnets
      33.7. Paramagnetic Ceramics
      33.8 Measuring χ
      33.9 Ferromagnetism
      33.10 Antiferromagnetism and CMR
      33.11 Ferrimagnetism
      33.12 Estimating the Magnetization of Ferrimagnets
      33.13 Magnetic Domains and Bloch Walls
      33.14 Imaging Magnetic Domains
      33.15 Motion of Domain Walls and Hysteresis Loops
      33.16 Hard and Soft Ferrites
      33.17 Microwave Ferrites
      33.18 Data Storage and Recording
      33.19. Magnetic Nanoparticles

      Chapter 34: Responding to Temperature Changes
      34.1 Summary of Terms and Units
      34.2 Absorption and Heat Capacity
      34.3. Melting
      34.4 Vaporization
      34.5. Thermal Conductivity
      34.6 Measuring Thermal Conductivity
      34.7 Microstructure and Thermal Conductivity
      34.8 Using High Thermal Conductivity
      34.9 Thermal Expansion
      34.10 Effect of Crystal Structure on α
      34.11 Thermal Expansion Measurement
      34.12 Importance of Matching αs
      34.13 Applications for Low-α
      34.14 Thermal Shock

      Chapter 35: Ceramics in Biology & Medicine
      35.1 What are Bioceramics?
      35.2 Advantages and Disadvantages of Ceramics
      35.3 Ceramic Implants & The Structure of Bone
      35.4 Alumina and Zirconia
      35.5 Bioactive Glasses
      35.6 Bioactive Glass-ceramics
      35.7 Hydroxyapatite
      35.8 Bioceramics in Composites
      35.9 Bioceramic Coatings
      35.10 Radiotherapy Glasses
      35.11 Pyrolytic Carbon Heart Valves
      35.12 Nanobioceramics
      35.13 Dental Ceramics
      35.14 Biomimetics

      Chapter 36: Minerals & Gems
      36.1 Minerals
      36.2 What is a gem?
      36.3 In the rough
      36.4 Cutting and polishing
      36.5 Light and Optics in Gemology
      36.6 Color in gems and minerals
      36.7 Optical Effects
      36.8 Identifying Minerals & Gems
      36.9 Chemical Stability (durability)
      36.10 Diamonds, Sapphires, Rubies and Emeralds
      36.11 Opal
      36.12 Other Gems
      36.13 Minerals with Inclusions
      36.14 Treatment of Gems
      36.15 The Mineral & Gem Trade

      Chapter 37: Energy Production and Storage
      37.1 Some reminders
      37.2 Nuclear Fuel and Waste Disposal
      37.3 Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
      37.4 Photovoltaic Solar Cells
      37.5 Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
      37.6 Ceramics in Batteries
      37.7 Lithium-Ion Batteries
      37.8 Ultracapacitors
      37.9 Producing and Storing Hydrogen
      37.10 Energy Harvesting
      37.11 Catalysts and Catalyst Supports

      Chapter 38: Industry and the Environment
      38.1 The beginning of the modern ceramics industry
      38.2 Growth and globalization
      38.3 Types of market
      38.4 Case studies
      38.5 Emerging Areas
      38.6 Mining
      38.7 Recycling
      38.8 As Green Materials

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