DEFINITION:

Organic and ceramic materials in different forms (film, monolith, fibre). Surface protection (oxidation, corrosion, thermal barrier), ceramics for structural and electrical engineering (blades and hot parts of engines, electromagnetic windows, ball bearing, electric insulators, fibres and nanotubes), processing routes (PVD, CVD, sintering, reaction-bonding, directional solidification, cold and hot isostatic pressing, melting and spinning, laser ablation and electric discharge).

(Source: ACARE Domain 202)

 

SUBDOMAINS:

  1. Carbide and nitride of silicon
  2. Organometallic precursors of ceramics (alkoxides and organosilicon polymers)
  3. Organic precursors of carbon (PAN, pitch)
  4. Glass and glass-ceramics
  5. Silica
  6. Cordierite
  7. Metallic sulphides and fluorides
  8. Polyethylene
  9. Aramid, glass
  10. Carbon and boron nitride nanotubes
  11. Thermal barrier coatings
  12. Piezoelectric