Materials Under Extreme Conditions: Recent Trends and Future Prospects

Materials Under Extreme Conditions: Recent Trends and Future Prospects analyzes the chemical transformation and decomposition of materials exposed to extreme conditions, such as high temperature, high pressure, hostile chemical environments, high radiation fields, high vacuum, high magnetic and electric fields, wear and abrasion related to chemical bonding, special crystallographic features, and microstructures.

The materials covered in this work encompass oxides, non-oxides, alloys and intermetallics, glasses, and carbon-based materials. The book is written for researchers in academia and industry, and technologists in chemical engineering, materials chemistry, chemistry, and condensed matter physics.

Describes and analyzes the chemical transformation and decomposition of a wide range of materials exposed to extreme conditionsBrings together information currently scattered across the Internet or incoherently dispersed amongst journals and proceedingsPresents chapters on phenomena, materials synthesis, and processing, characterization and properties, and applicationsWritten by established researchers in the field

1. Material Studies at High Pressure 2. Materials Under Shock Waves 3. Materials for Hostile Corrosive Environments 4. Materials for Hostile Chemical Environments 5. High Performance Polymer Nanocomposites for Structural Applications 6. Glasses and Glass-Ceramics for Vacuum and High-Temperature Applications 7. Natural Glasses Under Extreme Conditions 8. Protective Hard Coatings for Tribological Applications 9. Intermetallics and Alloys for High Temperature Applications 10. Synthesis and Characterization of Borides, Carbides, and Nitrides and Their Applications 11. High-Temperature Ceramics 12. Cold Plasma Processing of Materials for Extreme Conditions 13. Tailored Thermal Expansion Material for High-Temperature Applications 14. Materials Under Intense Laser Irradiation 15. Laser-Induced Vaporization–Mass Spectrometry Studies on Refractory Materials at Ultrahigh Temperatures 16. Nanoclusters Under Extreme Ionization Conditions 17. Materials Response Under Irradiation 18. Radiation–Matter Interaction and Radiation-Tolerant Oxides 19. Diamond-Based Radiation Detectors for Applications in Highly Corrosive Solutions and High-Radiation Fields 20. Severe Plastic Deformation of Materials 21. Materials in a High Magnetic Field 22. Properties of Materials Under High Electric Field