Complex Ceramic Materials

The aim and purpose of the synthesis of tin(II) heterobimetallic derivatives is to prepare such a material that could deliver both elements of a final material simultaneously, leading to formation of complex ceramic materials in a single step, and was envisaged in the deposition of SrTa206 directly from [SrTa2(OEt)6(/u.-OEt)4(/u.-bis-dmap)2] , where dmap = l,3-bis(dimethylamino)-2-propanoate. 

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We are now investigating the formation of other types of hybrid copolymers derived from th(s reactions of vinylborazine with, for example, acrylonitrile, butadiene, vinylsilanes and vinylphosphazenes. These copolymers may have many unusual propertie s, as well as serve as precursors to more complex ceramic materials with a range of solid state properties. 

Di-t-butyl phosphate complexes of zinc were synthesized as precursors for ceramic material formation. A tetrameric zinc complex was characterized from the treatment of zinc acetate with the phosphate resulting in a compound with a bridging oxo at the center, [Zn4(/i4-0)(di-t-butyl phosphate)6]. In the presence of auxiliary donor ligands such as imidazole or ethylenediamine, monomeric complexes are formed, [Zn(di-t-butyl phosphate)2(imidazole)4]. It is also possible to convert the tetramer into the monomer by treating with a large excess of imidazole.41... 

As surmized in a recent review article there are literally hundreds of polymeric systems featuring organometallic complexes within a conjugated organic backbone. Given recent reviews of these systems, here we shall restrict discussion to the various polymeric species and ceramic materials derived from diyne complexes and from coordination of metal fragments to polymers featuring C=CC=C repeat units. 

Let us concentrate a little longer on ceramics. Here micro-analysis only slowly won ground and the application of solid state physics lagged behind. Very slowly the relationship between the properties of a material and its microstructure was being discovered. Metallurgy had already been characterized by a theoretical approach for some time and consequently metals were about 15 times as important as ceramic materials in 1960 (see Ashby s graph). This was of course influenced by the fact that metals have relatively simple structures which, in their turn, simplify theoretical comtemplations. Ceramic structures are very often complex and are characterized by multiphase systems. However, at present ceramic materials are approached much differently than for instance in 1900. 

Despite their overawing complexity, clay minerals are to receive particular emphasis in this book as model systems. They are of high abundance and of key importance in sedimentary and soil systems (63-64), as ceramic materials (65) and as industrial fillers (66) they exhibit essentially all of the generic spectroscopic and surface chemical properties of reactive minerals in general and there are good reasons to believe that many of the spectroscopic and chemical attributes of minerals as a whole may be exaggerated in clays. 

Detailed investigations of metal complexes of monovalent CHdo-alcohols were initiated to find alternatives to the /S-diketonate complexes as precursors to ceramic materials. In particular, mononuclear and very volatile complexes of the elements Cu, Zn, Bi, Pb were pointing the way [94], Section 4 will put the main emphasis on the adaptation of this strategy to lanthanide elements. 

There are many factors which contribute to dielectric loss and in the case of the complex ceramic compounds discussed above, to achieve a satisfying understanding of the relative magnitudes of the various loss mechanisms is challenging. There will be contributions to loss intrinsic to the idealized structural chemistry of the material and it is now clear that this is complicated by a domain structure. There will also be contributions of an extrinsic nature, particularly those associated with departures from the ideal structure, point defects and... 

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