People first started making ceramics thousands of years ago pottery glass and brick are among the oldest human invented materials and we re still designing brand new ceramic materials today things like catalytic converters for today s cars and high temperature superconductors for tomorrow s computers.
Ceramics the wonder materisal.
Wonder material grows on trees.
It was invented by british hairdresser and amateur chemist maurice ward 1933 2011 during the 1970s and 1980s and received significant publicity after coverage of the material aired in 1990 on the bbc science and technology show tomorrow s world.
The ceramic they experimented with was silicon nitride a material much admired in the aerospace industry.
The strength of these bonds however is both a blessing and a curse.
To manipulate manufacture and recycle these materials these bonds must be broken and reformed which requires high.
The name starlite was coined by ward s.
Carbon carbon covalent bonds in carbon fibers and ionic bonds in ceramics.
There s quite a big difference between age old general purpose.
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