Diamond Based Composites
Subtitle: and Related Materials
By: edited by Mark A. Prelas, Andrew Benedictus, Li-Te Steven Lin, Galina Popovici, Peter Gielisse
Contributors: Benedictus, Andrew; Lin, Li-Te Steven; Popovici, Galina; Gielisse, Peter
Series: NATO ASI Series, 3. High Technology -- 38; NATO ASI Series, 3. High Technology -- 38
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9789401063586; 9789401155922
Subjects: Mechanics; Polymers; Surfaces (Physics)
Other titles: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 21-22, 1997
Description: Diamond-based composites, with their advantages of hardness, high Young's modulus and the like, have demonstrated new and unusual features, such as stability to high temperatures and pressure shocks and a large internal surface that can be controlled to offer customised electrical, magnetic and optical properties, leading to efficient filters, absorbents, sensors and other tools for environmental control and monitoring. The current book covers the synthesis of materials, their characterization and properties, trends in high pressure and high temperature technologies, low pressure technologies, basic principles of DBC material science, and future developments in electronics, optics, industrial tools and components, biotechnology, and medicine. Wide band-gap materials are considered, ranging from molecular clusters, nanophase materials, growth, processing and synthesis. The processing of composite based materials can be classified into six basic methods: in situ growth, high pressure/high temperature catalytic conversion; mix and sinter (c-BN plus metal-ceramic polymer mix); direct sintering; direct polymorphic conversion; shock detonation; and SHS sintering.
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