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Titanium Silicon Carbide & Related Compounds and Materials

... Ti₃SiC₂ was first synthesized by Jeitschko and Nowotny as far back as 1967. Recent interest in the phase is due to the availability of improved material from a hot-pressing route, leading to high purity polycrystalline single-phase samples of near-theoretical density. The structure has been reported as hexagonal in space group P6₃/mmc (194) with a < 0.307 nm and c < 1.769 nm. The Ti occupies 2a and 4f sites, Si a 2b site and C a 4f site. As shown in Figure, the phase consists of a layered structure with a double Ti–C block, each made up of two edge-sharing CTi₆ octahedra. A square-planar Si sheet separates the double Ti–C blocks... ["Structure and Crystal Chemistry of Ti₃SiC₂" by E. H. Kisi, J. A. A. Crossley, S. Myhra and M. W. Barsoum.].

Aluminum Silicon Carbides & Related Compounds and Materials

...Crystal structures of alpha-Al₄SiC₄ and Al₄Si₂C₅ may be formed by substituting SiC layers for AlN layers in the structures of Al₅C₃N and Al₆C₃N₂, respectively. Aluminium carbonitride is composed of three structural components of Al₂C₂, AlN and Al₂C layers [G. A. Jeffrey, V. Y. Wu, 1963.]. These three hexagonal layers stack alternately along the [0001] direction forming hexagonal close packing. Al₅C₃N structure consists of successive layers of Al₂C, AlN and Al₂C₂, and Al₆C₃N₂ structure of AlN, Al₂C, AlN and Al₂C₂, respectively. If the SiC layers can be substituted for the AlN layers in aluminium carbonitride, the structure of aluminium silicon carbide will be formed... ["X-ray Crystallographic Data on Aluminum Silicon Carbide, a-Al₄SiC₄ and Al₄Si₂C₅" by Z. Inoue, Y. Inomata, H. Tanaka, H. Kawabata.].