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Ceramics and in particular combinations of ceramics and metals appear to offer many technical and economic advantages to design engineers, permitting products to be made with better wear resistance, higher service temperatures and so on, but if these aspirations are to be met it is usually necessary for the ceramic and the metal to form high integrity interfaces. The lattice binding characteristics of ceramics and metals are usually markedly different, and hence it can be difficult to fabricate technologically adequate interfaces. Nevertheless, nature contains many examples of high integrity ceramic-metal interfaces, such as those between Al or stainless steels and their tenacious protective surface oxides or between metal matrices and strengthening arrays of carbide precipitates. Notable characteristics of these natural interfaces are that they are not only strong, but are in localised chemical equilibrium and there are strong arguments that localised equilibrium is needed if high integrity synthetic interfaces are to be formed.1
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Peteves, S.D., Paulasto, M., Ceccone, G., Nicholas, M.G. (1998). Ceramic/Metal Reactions and Microstructures in Ceramic Joints. In: Tomsia, A.P., Glaeser, A.M. (eds) Ceramic Microstructures. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5393-9_33
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