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From ancient inorganic chemistry and alchemy of ceramics to modern nanotechnology

  • Proceedings of the Third Russian-Israeli Bi-National Workshop 2004 “The Optimization of the Composition, Structure, and Properties of Metals, Oxides, Composites, Nanomaterials, and Amorphous Materials”
  • (St. Petersburg, Russia, June 13–23, 2004)
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The historical aspects of ceramics production, as well as the modern approaches to the technical side of ceramics production, especially sol-gel technology as the path to modern nanotechnologies, are discussed. It is pointed out that the most essential significance of the nanostate for the applied sciences lies in the possibility of merging the inorganic, organic, and biological worlds, thus creating a prodigious number of new materials.

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Shevchenko, V.Y. From ancient inorganic chemistry and alchemy of ceramics to modern nanotechnology. Glass Phys Chem 31, 11–26 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10720-005-0020-1

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