Ceramic materials: science and engineering

Introduction.- Some History.- What You Already Know.- Bonds and Energy Bonds.- Models, Crystals and Chemistry.- Binary Compounds.- Complex Crystal and Glass Structures.- Equilibrium Phase Diagrams.- Furnaces.- Characterizing Structure, Defects and Chemistry.- Point Defects, Charge and Diffusion.- Are Dislocations Unimportant?- Surfaces, Nanoparticles and Foams.- Interfaces in Polycrystals.- Phase Boundaries, Particles and Pores.- Mechanical Testing.- Deforming: Plastic.- Fracturing: Brittleness.- Raw Materials.- Powders, Fibers, Platelets and Composites.- Glass and Glass-Ceramics.- Gels, Sols and Organic Chemistry.- Sintering and Grain Growth.- Solid-State Phase Transformations and Reactions.- Processing Glass and Glass-Ceramics.- Coatings and Thick Films.- Thin Films and Vapor Deposition.- Growing Single Crystals.- Shaping and Forming.- Conducting Charge or Not.- Locally Redistributing Charge.- Interacting With and Generating Light.- Storing Data Using Magnetic Fields.- Responding to Temperature Changes.- Bioceramics and Biomimetics.- Minerals and Gems.- Industry and the Environment.