Aluminum Oxynitride Spinel

ALON is a solid solution region on the binary line of AIN-A1203, which is in reality a pseudo binary in the Al-O-N system. The first phase diagram to include ALON was reported by Lejus [40], whereas the first 

A1N-A1203 phase diagram. After McCauley and Corbin [46 Reprinted by permission of Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. 

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Figure 6 CBED patterns of aluminum oxynitride spinel along the [001] direction. Symmetries in the patterns contributed to the determination of the point group and space group (a) whole pattern showing 1st Laue zone ring and (b) 0th order Laue zone. Both patterns show a fourfold rotation axis and two mirror planes parallel to the axis. (Courtesy of V. P. Dravid)...

McCauley JW, Corbin ND (1979) Phase relations and reaction sintering of transparent cubic aluminum oxynitride spinel (AlON). J Am Ceram Soc 62 476-479... 

Bodhak S, Balia VK, Bose S, Bandyopadhyay A, Kashahkar U, Jha SK et al (2011) In vitro biological and tribological properties of transparent magnesium aluminate (Spinel) and aluminum oxynitride (AlON (R)). J Mater Sci Mater Med 22 1511-1519 Bodhak S, Bose S, Bandyopadhyay A (2009) Role of surface charge and wettability on early stage minerahzation and bone cell-materials interactions of polarized hydroxyapatite. Acta Biomater 5 2178-2188... 

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