Titanium Monocarbide

Abstract

The series of books represents a thorough treatment of ultra-high temperature materials with melting (sublimation or decomposition) points around or over 2500 °C. In the third volume are included physical (structural, thermal, electromagnetic, optical, mechanical, nuclear) and chemical (more than 1100 binary, ternary and multi-component systems, including those used for materials design, data on solid-state diffusion, wettability, interaction with chemicals, gases and aqueous solutions) properties of titanium monocarbide TiC1–x, vanadium monocarbide VC1–x and related 2D-molecular (graphene-like) carbide MXenes, discovered and developed only in the last decade. TiC1–x and VC1–x are also widely applied in the general technological and engineering practice in a wide range of temperatures as parts of highly hard materials (alloys) and special steels. This book will be of interest to researchers, engineers, postgraduate, graduate and undergraduate students alike. For the named materials, readers/users are provided with the full qualitative and quantitative assessment, which is based on the latest updates in the field of fundamental physics, chemistry, nanotechnology, materials science, design and engineering.