²⁹Si and ¹³C Solid-State NMR Spectroscopic Study of Nanometer-Scale Structure and Mass Fractal Characteristics of Amorphous Polymer Derived Silicon Oxycarbide Ceramics

Polymer derived silicon oxycarbide ceramics (SiOC-PDCs) with widely different carbon contents have been synthesized, and their structures have been studied at different length scales using high-resolution 13C and 29Si magic-angle-spinning (MAS) NMR spectroscopic techniques. The data suggest that the structure of these PDCs consists of a continuous mass fractal backbone of corner-shared SiCxO4-x tetrahedral units with “voids” occupied by...