Handbook of ceramic hard materials.

Introduction: Novel Ultrahard Materials (A. Zerr & R. Riedel) STRUCTURES AND PROPERTIES Structural Chemistry of Hard Materials (W. Jeitschko, et al.) Phase Transitions and Material Synthesis using the CO 2 -Laser Heating Technique in a Diamond Cell (A. Zerr, et al.) Mechanical Properties and their Relation to Microstructure (D. Sherman & D. Brandon) Nanostructured Superhard Materials (S. Veprek) Corrosion of Hard Materials (K. Nickel & Y. Gogotsi) Interrelations Between the Influences of Indentation Size, Surface State, Grain Size, Grain-Boundary Deformation, and Temperature on the Hardness of Ceramics (A. Krell) Transition Metal Carbides, Nitrides, and Carbonitrides (W. Lengauer) New Superhard Materials: Carbon and Silicon Nitrides (J. Lowther) Effective Doping in Novel sp 2 Bonded Carbon Allotropes (G. Jungnickel, et al.) SYNTHESIS AND PROCESSING Directed Metal Oxidation (V. Jayaram & D. Brandon) Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis of Hard Materials (Z. Munir & U. Anselmi-Tamburini) Hydrothermal Synthesis of Diamond (K. Nickel, et al.) Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond Films (C.-P. Klages) Vapor Phase Deposition of Cubic Boron Nitride Films (K. Bewilogua & F. Richter) Polymer to Ceramic Transformation: Processing of Ceramic Bodies and Thin Films (G. Soraru & P. Colombo) MATERIALS AND APPLICATIONS Diamond Materials and their Applications (R. Caveney) Applications of Diamond Synthesized by Chemical Vapor Deposition (R. Sussmann) Diamond-like Carbon Films (C.-P. Klages & K. Bewilogua) Ceramics Based on Alumina: Increasing the Hardness for Tool Applications (A. Krell) Silicon Carbide Based Hard Materials (K. Schwetz) Silicon Nitride Based Hard Materials (M. Herrmann, et al.) Boride-Based Hard Materials (R. Telle, et al.) The Hardness of Tungsten Carbide-Cobalt Hardmetal (S. Luyckx) Data Collection of Properties of Hard Materials (G. Berg, et al.) Index