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THE concurrent discovery at the Universities of Utah and Newcastle-upon-Tyne of a continuous series of solid solutions, with the 2H wurtzite-type structure, between silicon carbide (SiC) and aluminium nitride (AlN) is reported here. This, together with observations of the additional solubility of aluminium oxycarbide (Al2OC), suggests a large extension to the already wide field of sialons. It offers the prospect of many more materials in the Si–C–Al–O–N and related systems that are of scientific and technological interest not only as engineering ceramics but also for their physical, chemical, and electrical properties.
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CUTLER, I., MILLER, P., RAFANIELLO, W. et al. New materials in the Si–C–Al–O–N and related systems. Nature 275, 434–435 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/275434a0
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