Comprehensive Hard Materials covers the production, uses, and properties of carbides, nitrides, and borides of these metals and titanium, as well as ceramic tools, superhard boron nitride and diamond, and related compounds. Articles include powder production (including their precursor materials), milling, granulation, hot and cold pressing, sintering, hot isostatic pressing, hot pressing, and injection molding technologies, as well as coating technologies for refractory metals, hard metals, and hard alloys. hard materials. Characterization, testing, quality assurance and applications are also covered. Comprehensive Hard Materials provides meaningful insights into materials that are at the forefront of technology. It contributes to the ongoing research and development of these materials and is therefore an important information resource for academics and industry professionals facing future technological challenges.

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Hard materials are at the forefront of technology, and continued research and development of such materials is essential to meet future technological challenges. Users of this work can improve their understanding of the underlying principles and gain a better understanding of process/structure/property relationships.

As nanotechnology, coating technology, and functional gradient materials converge with the cognitive science of cemented carbides, cermets, advanced ceramics, superhard materials, and composites, it is clear that the full potential of such materials is far from exhausted. This work brings together these important areas of research and will provide users with useful insights through its extensive cross-referencing and presentations.

In an effort to link scholarship to the industrial uses of hard materials and vice versa, this work addresses the production, uses and properties of carbides, nitrides and borides of these metals and titanium, as well as ceramic tools, superhard boron nitride and diamond and related compounds.