This exhaustive work in three volumes and over 1300 pages provides a thorough treatment of
ultra-high temperature materials with melting points over 2500 °C. The first volume focuses on
Carbon and Refractory Metals whilst the second and third are dedicated solely to Refractory
compounds and the third to Refractory Alloys and Composites respectively. Topics included are
physical (crystallographic thermodynamic thermo physical electrical optical
physico-mechanical nuclear) and chemical (solid-state diffusion interaction with chemical
elements and compounds interaction with gases vapours and aqueous solutions) properties of
the individual physico-chemical phases of carbon (graphite graphene) refractory metals (W Re
Os Ta Mo Nb Ir) and compounds (oxides nitrides carbides borides silicides) with melting
points in this range. It will be of interest to researchers engineers postgraduate graduate
and undergraduate students alike. The reader is provided with the full qualitative and
quantitative assessment for the materials which could be applied in various engineering
devices and environmental conditions at ultra-high temperatures on the basis of the latest
updates in the field of physics chemistry materials science and engineering.
