Effect of boron incorporation on the phase composition and high-temperature behavior of polymer-derived silicon carbide

Within the present work, boron-containing silicon carbide (SiBC) powders and monoliths were prepared from a polyborocarbosilane. The main aspect addressed here relates to the fate of boron in the prepared SiBC ceramics, which has not been clarified unambiguously so far. X-ray diffraction data, corroborated with XPS, FTIR and Raman spectroscopic results indicate that boron preferably gets incorporated within the segregated carbon phase present in...