Abstract
Chemical synthesis of ceramic-based materials via organic/inorganic hybrid materials is an attractive method which can offer opportunities to synthesize various kinds of materials such as functional organic/inorganic hybrids, Si-based non-oxide ceramics, thermally stable amorphous ceramic materials, and micro-/meso-porous materials. The microstructure and the chemical composition of the resulting materials can be well controlled at nanometer-scale level and molecular-scale level, respectively, by controlling chemical structure of starting precursor molecules and several high-temperature reactions during the precursor/ceramics conversion process. At the presentation, some recent research works on the chemical synthesis of polymer-derived Si-based non-oxide polycrystalline ceramics, thermally stable amorphous ceramics, and micro-/meso-porous ceramic thin film for gas separation will be briefly reviewed and discussed from a view point to develop novel ceramic-based materials.
