Review of properties of lithium metatitanate

摘要

This report summarizes the available data regarding lithium metatitanate, Li(sub 2)TiO(sub 3), as a candidate ceramic breeder material. Although lithium metatitanate was considered in early reviews (1), most of the world effort focussed onto four primary candidates: Li(sub 2)O, Li(sub 2)ZrO(sub 3), Li(sub 4)SiO(sub 4) and LiAlO(sub 2). These well-studied materials remain plausible choices, but they each have enough disadvantages that there has not been general agreement on a preferred material. Lithium metatitanate, with reasonable performance in all criteria (2), is a possible compromise engineering material. The lithium metatitanate data are provided in Table 2 in standard format. Most property data are as-published and are not described further here in any detail. Those properties for which some analysis was required are described briefly in the following sections. (author). 14 refs., 2 tabs., 1 fig. (Atomindex citation 27:033748)