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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p>The term <b>preceramic polymer</b> refers to one of various <a href="Polymer" title="Polymer"> polymeric compounds</a>, which through <a href="Pyrolysis" title="Pyrolysis">pyrolysis</a> under appropriate conditions (generally in the absence of oxygen) are converted to ceramic compounds, having high thermal and chemical stability. Ceramics resulting from the <a href="Pyrolysis" title="Pyrolysis">pyrolysis</a> of preceramic polymers are known as <a href="Polymer_derived_ceramics" title="Polymer derived ceramics">polymer derived ceramics</a>, or PDCs. Polymer derived ceramics are most often <a href="Silicon" title="Silicon">silicon</a> based and include <a href="Silicon_carbide" title="Silicon carbide">silicon carbide</a>, silicon oxycarbide, <a href="Silicon_nitride" title="Silicon nitride">silicon nitride</a> and silicon oxynitride. Such PDCs are most commonly amorphous, lacking long-range crystalline order. <sup id="cite_ref-pdcs_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pdcs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The field of preceramic polymers and polymer derived ceramics in general emerged from the requirements in aerospace industries for heat shield materials such as fiber reinforced ceramic / ceramic composite materials.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The use of preceramic polymers allows for diverse processing techniques relative to conventional ceramic processing. For example, the spinning of fibres, casting of <a href="Thin_films" class="mw-redirect" title="Thin films">thin films</a> and the molding of complex shapes. Commonly used preceramic polymers include polycarbosilanes and <a href="Silicone" title="Silicone">polysiloxanes</a>, which transform through <a href="Pyrolysis" title="Pyrolysis">pyrolysis</a> to <a href="Silicon_carbide" title="Silicon carbide"> SiC</a> and <a href="Silicon_oxycarbide" class="mw-redirect" title="Silicon oxycarbide">SiOC</a> type ceramics respectively. <sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>A low-cost method of creating complex 3D shapes of ceramics components is to use <a href="3D_printing" title="3D printing">additive manufacturing</a> (AM) in a use a two-step process of first printing the artifact in polymer and then converting it to ceramic using pyrolysis to form polymer derived ceramics (PDCs).<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This process works with <a href="Fused_filament_fabrication" title="Fused filament fabrication">fused filament fabrication</a> (FFF)-based 3-D printing to make fully dense cellular structures,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which can be used for scaffolds for bone regeneration that need to be mechanically stable and have a 3D architecture with interconnected pores.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Various other 3D printing techniques (e.g., <a href="Stereolithography" title="Stereolithography">stereolithography</a>, <a href="Digital_Light_Processing" class="mw-redirect" title="Digital Light Processing">digital light processing</a>, and <a href="Multiphoton_lithography" title="Multiphoton lithography">two-photon polymerization</a>) that are compatible with this strategy have so far been widely investigated.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, through photopolymerization methods, preceramic polymers can be used in stereolithography approaches, enabling the <a href="Additive_manufacturing" class="mw-redirect" title="Additive manufacturing">additive manufacturing</a> of complex shaped ceramic objects. In such methods, by means of irradiation-driven cross-linking, liquid preceramic polymers transform into rigid thermoset polymers that preserve their shape through the following polymer-to-ceramic transformation that takes place in pyrolysis. In this transformation, polymers transform into glassy ceramic products. <sup id="cite_ref-pdcs_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pdcs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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