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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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    Book Synopsis

    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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