Handbook of Ceramic Hard Materials

Professor Ralf Riedel has been Professor at the Institute of Materials Science at the Darmstadt University of Technology in Darmstadt since 1993. He received a Diploma degree in chemistry in 1984 and he finished his dissertation in Inorganic Chemistry in 1986 at the University of Stuttgart. After postdoctoral research at the Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research and the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart he completed his habilitation in the field of Inorganic Chemistry in 1992. Professor Riedel is Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and was awarded with the Dionyz Stur Gold Medal for merits in natural sciences. He is a member of the World Academy of Ceramics and Guest Professor at the Jiangsu University in Zhenjiang, China. In 2006 he received an honorary doctorate from the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2009 he was awarded with an honorary professorship at the Tianjin University in China. He published more than 300 papers and patents and he is widely known for his research in the field of polymer derived ceramics and on ultra high pressure synthesis of new materials.

Solid State Structures Phase Transitions and Materials Synthesis Mechanical Properties and Their Relation to Microstructure Corrosion of Hard Materials Effective Doping in Novel Carbon Allotropes Influences on the Hardness of Ceramics The Hardness of Wolfram Carbide-Cobalt Hardmetals Directed Metal Oxidation Synthesis of Boron Based Hard Materials Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis of Hard Materials Hydrothermal Synthesis of Diamond CVD of Diamond Vapor Phase Deposition of Cubic Boron Nitride Films Polymer to Ceramic Transformation Process Nanostructured Superhard Materials Boron Based Hard Materials Silicon Carbide Based Hard Materials Silicon Nitride Based Hard Materials Ceramics on the Basis of Aluminium Oxide: Increasing the Hardness for Tool Applications Diamond and Diamond-Like Carbon Materials Diamond-Like Carbon Films Data Collection of Properties of Hard Materials