Ceramics Science and Technology, 4 Pts.

VOLUME 1PART I: INTRODUCTIONModern Trends in Advanced CeramicsPART II: STRUCTURE OF CERAMIC MATERIALS: ATOMIC LEVELModeling Amorphous Ceramic StructuresStructural Chemistry of CeramicsDiffusion in CeramicsStructures of Ceramic Materials: Thermodynamics and ConstitutionPART III: STRUCTURES OF CERAMIC MATERIALS: MICROSTRUCTURAL LEVELMicrostructural Design of Ceramics: Theory and ExperimentMesoscopic Ceramic Structures in One, Two, and Three DimensionsBulk Ceramic NanostructuresGlass Ceramics: Silica- and Alumina-BasedCelluar StructuresCeramic Thin FilmsMultiphase Fiber CompositesVOLUME 2PART I: CERAMIC MATERIAL CLASSESCeramic OxidesNitridesGallium Nitride and OxonitridesSilicon Carbide- and Boron Carbide-Based Hard MaterialsComplex OxynitridesPerovskitesThe Mn+1AXn Phases and Their PropertiesPART II: STRUCTURES AND PROPERTIESStructure-Property RelationsDislocations in CeramicsDefect Structure, Nonstoichiometry, and Nonstoichiometry Relaxation of Complex OxidesInterfaces and Microstructures in MaterialsPART III: MECHANICAL PROPERTIESFracture of CeramicsCreep Mechanisms in Commercial Grades of Silicon NitrideFracture Resistance of CeramicsSuperplasticity in Ceramics: Accomodation-Controlling Mechanisms RevisitedPART IV: THERMAL, ELECTRICAL, AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIESThermal ConductivityElectrical Conduction in Nanostructured CeramicsFerroelectric PropertiesMagnetic Properties of Transition-Metal Oxides: From Bulk to NanoVOLUME 3PART I: POWDERSPowder Compaction by Dry PressingTape CastingHydrothermal Routes to Advanced Ceramic Powders and MaterialsLiquid Feed-Flame Spray Pyrolysis (LF-FSP) in the Synthesis of Single- and Mixed-Metal Oxide NanopowdersSol-Gel Processing of CeramicsPART II: DENSIFICATION AND BEYONDSinteringHot Isostatic Pressing and Gas-Pressure SinteringHot Pressing and Spark Plasma SinteringFundamentals and Methods of Ceramic JoiningMachining and Finishing of CeramicsPART III: FILMS AND COATINGSVapor-Phase Deposition of OxidesMetal-Organic Chemical Vapor

Ralf Riedel has been a professor at the Institute of Materials Science of Darmstadt University of Technology since 1993. He received his degree in chemistry in 1984, followed by two years of dissertation work with Professor Ekkehard Fluck at the University of Stuttgart. After postdoctoral research at the Max-Planck Institute for Metals Research and the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart, he gained his lecturing qualification in the field of inorganic chemistry in 1992. He is a member of the World Academy of Ceramics and Guest Professor at the Jiangsu University in Zhenjiang, China, a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and a recipient of the Dionyz Stur Gold Medal for merits in natural sciences. In 2006 he received an honorary doctorate from the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia. Professor Riedel has published more than 300 papers and patents and is widely known for his research in the field of polymer derived ceramics and on ultra high pressure synthesis of new materials.

I-Wei Chen is currently Skirkanich Professor of Materials Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, where he also gained his master's degree in 1975. He received his bachelor's degree in physics from Tsinghua University, China, in 1972, and earned his doctorate in metallurgy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. His main research interests are in the fields of materials science of electronic and structural ceramics, including their thin films, heterostructures, and composites, as well as materials design, synthesis, testing and modeling.