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Chemical routes for the preparation of selected non-oxide ceramic powders, namely silicon carbide, silicon nitride, aluminium nitride, titanium diboride, boron carbide and boron nitride have been reviewed. Although these techniques include conventional ones such as powder mixing, this article is primarily concerned with non-conventional ceramic syntheses, that is, polymer pyrolysis, non-aqueous liquid phase reactions, gas phase reactions and sol-gel processing. Powder properties such as particle size, corresponding to different synthetic techniques are described. This review concludes that chemical synthesis can make a significant contribution to the development of ceramic precursors for non-oxide powders.
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Segal, D.L. (1990). Chemical Routes for the Preparation of Powders. In: Freer, R. (eds) The Physics and Chemistry of Carbides, Nitrides and Borides. NATO ASI Series, vol 185. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2101-6_1
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