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The Ceramist as Chemist - Opportunities for New Materials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

D. R. Uhlmann ,
B.J.J. Zelinski  and
G.E. Wnek
D. R. Uhlmann
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 02139
B.J.J. Zelinski
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 02139
G.E. Wnek
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 02139
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Abstract

The use of sol-gel techniques to prepare glasses and crystalline ceramics offers outstanding opportunity for breakthroughs in technology. The areas of particular promise include novel glasses; crystallineceramics with exceptional microstructures; coatings for modification of electrical, optical, mechanical and chemical properties; porous media with high surface area and tailored chemistry; ceramic powders with high chemical homogeneity and narrow distributions of particle size; matrix materials in ceramicceramic composites; and a wide spectrum of specialty ceramic materials, ranging from abrasives and fibers to glass ceramics and films. Opportunities in each of these areas will be discussed and related to the advances in understanding and process technology required for their achievement. The theses will be advanced that creative chemistry provides the key to many of these advances, that ceramists simply MUST learn more chemistry, but that we dare not rest from our labors when the chemistry is done.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 32: Symposium B – Better Ceramics Through Chemistry I , 1984 , 59
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1984

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