Novel Techniques in Synthesis and Processing of Advanced Materials

This collection of papers from the International Symposium on Novel Techniques in Synthesis and Processing of Advanced Materials was presented at Materials Week '94 in Rosemont, Illinois, October 2-6, 1994. Emphasis is placed on the various methods for synthesis of materials, including mechanical milling, combustion process, sol-gel process, microwave, laser chemical vapour deposition (CVD) process, metalorganic CVD and combustion synthesis. In addition, coverage includes structural characterization at small-dimensions thermodynamics, kinetics and properties of future need for advancement in the electronic industries, and a special emphasis is given to the synthesis of nanocrystalline electronic materials.;This allows the reader to have a better understanding of the chemical and physical phenomena that occurred during synthesis and processing of these advanced materials. Coverage includes: far from equilibrium proceessing of light materials; the synthesis of materials by combustion processes; combustion chemical vapor deposition of ceramic coatings; jet vapor deposited aluminium-aluminium oxide nanolaminates; and metallic and ceramic nanocomposite powders via chemical routes.