The development of advanced engineering and technology in the aerospace field imposes increasingly stringent requirements on promising materials in terms of mechanical characteristics and functional properties. This leads to significant progress, in particular, in methods for creating ceramic and ceramic matrix materials. This collection aims to accumulate and summarize information on the progress in, above all, oxygen-free ceramics for both structural and functional purposes. The main objects of research are refractory carbides, borides, and metal nitrides, including MAX-phases and MXenes, high-entropy ceramics: new methods for their synthesis are discussed, revealing how composition, dispersity, and mutual distribution in the bulk of ceramic materials influence their target properties.
Materials are selected on the basis of articles submitted to Russian Journal of Inorganic Chemistry.
Submission of new articles on the website https://publish.sciencejournals.ru/journal-detail/RJIC?lang=en
Editorial contact information: rusjinorgchem@yandex.ru