1) Firstly, in the 1920s, researchers began to try to synthesize and classify silazane cyclic bodies and oligomers, in which A.Stock made pioneering work, but the development of polysilazanes was slow during this period.
2) The outbreak of World War II prompted the successful commercialization of polysiloxanes in the 50s and 60s, which greatly aroused the researchers' enthusiasm for the study of polysiloxane-like polymers - polysilazanes. During this period, the researchers mainly adopted the similar method of preparing polysiloxanes, such as ring-opening polymerization to prepare polysilazanes, and studied their main properties in the hope of being able to be applied as polymers, but the progress made was extremely limited. The progress made was extremely limited.
(3) In 1976, S. Yajima et al. succeeded in obtaining SiC fibers by cracking polysilanes under the trade name of SiC fibers of Nicalon and were able to apply them. The researchers turned their attention to polysilazanes, expecting to prepare Si3N4 and Si-C-N fibers by designing polysilazanes with suitable molecular structures. Therefore, during this time, researchers focused on the spinnability of polysilazanes and how to cure the cleavage. Since then, polysilazanes as ceramic precursor polymers have become a hot research topic for researchers, and the polymer precursor method has also become a new ceramic preparation method. In short, it is a method of preparing ceramic products by cracking polymers with specific molecular compositions at high temperatures (generally above 1,000 β) under a certain atmosphere.
4) In the 1990s, R. Reidel's research group introduced B elements into polysilazanes to produce Si-B-C-N ceramics with a temperature resistance of 2,200 β, which led researchers to focus on the modification of polysilazanes in order to prepare functional or Si-C-N ceramics with higher temperature resistance. Subsequently, Si-Fe-C-N ceramics with magnetic properties, Si-Ag-C-N ceramics with antimicrobial properties, and Si-Zr-C-N ceramics with good anti-crystallization properties have been prepared by modifying polysilazanes.
Polysilazanes have been mainly used as precursors for Si3N4 or Si-C-N ceramics, so most of the work focuses on the use of its high-temperature pyrolytic conversion to form ceramic materials to expand their applications, which have been expanded to coatings, adhesives, ceramic matrix composites, ceramic films, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and porous ceramics and other fields.
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