Volume 1:

• · 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

Volume 2:

• · Directed Metal Oxidation
• · Synthesis of Boron Based Hard Materials
• · Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis of Hard Materials
• · Hydrothermal Synthesis 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 and Diamond-like Carbon Films
• · Data Collection of Properties of Hard Materials

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