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A copolymer of polycarbosilane and perhydropolysilazane was obtained by reacting polycarbosilane with titanium n-butoxide and perhydropolysilazane. Titanium n-butoxide and perhydropolysilazane were essential for the polymer to show a thermosetting property. The thermosetting copolymers were converted into silicon carbide-based ceramics by pyrolysis in a stream of nitrogen to 1000 °C with about 80 wt% ceramic yield. The main phase of the pyrolysis product at 1500 °C in nitrogen was small crystallite β-SiC. Elemental carbon, based on rule-of-mixtures composition, in the final ceramics could be reduced by varying the ratio of polycarbosilane/perhydropolysilazane. The copolymer was dry spun and pyrolysed to produce ceramic fibre. Pyrolysis in nitrogen to 1500 °C yielded a silicon carbide-based fibre with low oxygen and low elemental carbon content. A tensile strength of 1.8 GPa and an elastic modulus of 220 GPa were obtained for the fibre which ranged from 10–12 μm in diameter. Crystallization to α-Si3N4, β-SiC, and β-Si3N4 proceeded on annealing in nitrogen at 1700 °C for 1 h.
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Funayama, O., Aoki, T., Kato, T. et al. Synthesis of thermosetting copolymer of polycarbosilane and perhydropolysilazane. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE 31, 6369–6375 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00354462
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