Ceramics from organometallic polymers

TLDR

Materials science benefits from interdisciplinary collaboration, and organometallic polymers exemplify this synergy in synthesis and application development. Their structures are optimized through varied monomers, polymer blending, and post‑treatments, and pyrolysis converts these polymers into non‑oxide advanced ceramics such as SiC, Si₃N₄, AIN, BN, or TiN. Because these inorganic polymers are soluble and fusible, they offer processing advantages over traditional ceramic powders, enabling novel applications like ceramic coatings, binders, impregnations, and spun fibers.

Abstract

Abstract Materials science, an interdisciplinary field of R & D, certainly benefits from the cooperation of engineers, chemists and physicists. An example is in the synthesis and applications development of organometallic polymers. Their structures are being optimized through employing different monomers, polymer blending, and post‐treatments to render them suitable as precursors for non‐oxide advanced ceramics like SiC, Si 3 N 4 , AIN, BN or TiN. Pyrolysis transforms these polymers into the ceramic state. Since these inorganic polymers have unique processing advantages (solubility and fusibility) over classical ceramic powder or metallurgical processing, a vast array of novel applications, e.g., ceramic coatings, binders, impregnations or spun fibers are possible.