During his professional career Igor L. Shabalin has gained over 40 years experience in ultra-high temperature materials design, science and engineering. He was born in the Republic of Russia, graduated in Technology of Rare Earth Metals and received his MSc and PhD from the Ural Polytechnic University (UPI), Yekaterinburg (former Sverdlovsk), Russia. He has held academic positions at the UPI and was the founder of the Special Research Laboratory for Aerospace Industry (ONIL-123). As a head of the laboratory and member of several scientific councils, he established collaboration between universities and industry by running a variety of R&D projects and was involved in the management of some world leading programs in rocketry and spacecraft development in the USSR Ministry of Aerospace Industry (MOM). In 2003 Professor Shabalin immigrated to the UK, and joined the University of Salford, Manchester, as a researcher in Materials in 2005. He has published some 250 scientific and technical papers and holds more than 40 patents. His research focuses mainly on high and ultra-high temperature hetero-modulus ceramic composites with graphene-like (carbon and boron nitride) constituents.

Contains over 1300 pages and over 100 illustrations

Exhaustive treatment of the subject matter will aid researchers in many fields and disciplines

Applications in numerous engineering devices and environmental conditions at ultra-high temperatures

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Preface.- Introduction.- 1. Carbon (Graphene/Graphite) .- Structures.- Thermal Properties.- Electro-Magnetic & Optical Properties.- Physico-Mechanical Properties.- Nuclear Physical Properties.- Chemical Properties.- References.- 2. Tungsten.- Structures.- Thermal Properties.- Electro-Magnetic & Optical Properties.- Physico-Mechanical Properties.- Nuclear Physical Properties.- Chemical Properties.- References.- 3 Rhenium.- Structures.- Thermal Properties.- Electro-Magnetic & Optical Properties.- Physico-Mechanical Properties.- Nuclear Physical Properties.- Chemical Properties.- References.- 4 Osmium.- Structures.- Thermal Properties.- Electro-Magnetic & Optical Properties.- Physico-Mechanical Properties.- Nuclear Physical Properties.- Chemical Properties.- References.- 5 Tantalum.- Structures.- Thermal Properties.- Electro-Magnetic & Optical Properties.- Physico-Mechanical Properties.- Nuclear Physical Properties.- Chemical Properties.- References.- 6 Molybdenum.- 7 Niobium.- Structures.- Thermal Properties.- Electro-Magnetic & Optical Properties.- Physico-Mechanical Properties.- Nuclear Physical Properties.- Chemical Properties.- References.- 8 Iridium.- Structures.- Thermal Properties.- Electro-Magnetic & Optical Properties.- Physico-Mechanical Properties.- Nuclear Physical Properties.- Chemical Properties.- References.- Index (Physical Properties).- Index (Chemical Systems).- Addendum.- Structures.- Thermal Properties.- Electro-Magnetic & Optical Properties.- Physico-Mechanical Properties.- Nuclear Physical Properties.- Chemical Properties.- References.