| Abstract: | The current state of development of advanced ceramic materials abroad is reviewed. The volume of production of powders and parts from advanced ceramics in the world, North America, Japan, and Western Europe for 1989–1995, and the structure of their application are shown. Prospects for advanced ceramics development up to the year 2000 are discussed. Institute for Problems of Materials Science, Ukraine National Academy of Sciences, Kiev. Translated from Poroshkovaya Metallurgiya, Nos. 1–2(405), pp. 101–113, January–February, 1999. |
