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<b>Novel Synthesis and Processing.</b> <p>Colloidal Processing of Silicon Nitride (Eric Laarz, Anders Meurk, and Lennart Bergström).</p> <p>Viscoelastic Properties of Concentrated Silicon Nitride Slurries (Xue-Jian Liu, Mei-Fang Luo, Xi-Peng Pu, Li-Ping Huang, and Hong-Chen Gu).</p> <p>Si3N4 Powders Applied for Water-based DCT (Ola Lyckfeldt and Kent Rundgren).</p> <p>Synthesis of Si2N2O Ceramics from Desert Sand (M. Radwan, Y. Miyamoto, H. Kiyono, and S. Shimada).</p> <p>Fabrication and Evaluation of Porous Ca-a SiAlON Ceramics b(unichi Tatami, Takayuki Ohta, Cheng Zhang, Mikinori Hotta, Katsutoshi Komeya, Takeshi Meguro, Mamoru Omori and Toshio Hirai).<br /> <br /> <br /> <b>Microstructures: Development and Characterization.<br /> </b><br /> High Resolution Imaging and Microanalysis of Silicon-Based Ceramics (Lena K. L. Falk).</p> <p>Grain-Boundary Relaxation Process in Silicon-Based Ceramics Studied (Mechanical Spectroscopy by Giuseppe Pezzotti and Ken'ichi Ota).</p> <p>High Temperature Stiffness and Damping to Qualitatively Assess the Amount of Glassy Pocket Phase in Silicon Carbide and Nitrides (Gert Roebben and Omer Van Der Biest).</p> <p>High-Temperature Deformation of Silicon Nitride and its Composites (G. A. Swift, E. Üstündag, B. Clausen M. A. M. Bourke H. T. Lin, and C. W. Li).<br /> <br /> <br /> <b>Improved Properties.<br /> </b><br /> SiAlON Ceramics: Processing, Microstructure and Properties (Stefan Holzer, Bernd Huchler, Alwin Nagel, and Michael J. Hoffmann).</p> <p>Fracture Behavior of Porous Si3N4 Ceramics with Random and Aligned Microstructure (Jian-Feng Yang, Naoki Kondo and Tatsuki Ohji ).</p> <p>Liquid Phase Sintering of SiC with AlN and Rare-Earth Oxide Additives (M. Balog, P.ajgalík and Z. Lenèé, J. Keèké, and J.-L. Huang).</p> <p>Effect of Additives on Microstructural Development and Mechanical Properties of Liquid-Phase-Sintered Silicon Carbide During Annealing (You Zhou, Kiyoshi Hirao, Yukihiko Yamauchi, and Shuzo Kanzaki).</p> <p>Corrosion of Silicon Nitride Materials in Acidic and Basic Solutions and under Hydrothermal conditions (M. Herrmann, J. Schilm, and G. Michael).<br /> <br /> <br /> <b>Applications.<br /> </b><br /> Development of High-Temperature Heat Exchangers Using SiC Microchannels (Merrill A Wilson, Raymond Cutler, Marc Flinders, Matt Quist, Darin Ray, Darryl Butt, KY. Kim, and E. L. Pabit).</p> <p>Characterization of Ceramic Components Exposed in Industrial Gas Turbines (M. K. Ferber and H. T. Lin).</p> <p>Gelcasting SiAlON Radomes (Mark A. Janney, Donald M. Kupp, Kevin W. Kirby , and Claudia A. Walls).</p> <p>Effect of Long-Term Oil Immersion Test on Mechanical Reliability of Candidate Silicon Nitride Ceramics for Diesel Engine Applications (H.T. Lin, T.P. Kirkland, A.A. Wereszzczak, and M.J. Andr).</p>

<strong>Manuel E. Brito</strong> is the editor of Silicon-Based Structural Ceramics for the New Millennium, published by Wiley. <p><strong>Hua-Tay Lin</strong> is the editor of Silicon-Based Structural Ceramics for the New Millennium, published by Wiley.

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