Table of Contents

Contributing Authors.- Preface.- Acknowledgment.- Boron Carbide/Boron Carbide - Carbon Nanofibers Laminates with Weak Interfaces.- All Ceramic Cantilever Sensors With Boron Carbide Layer: Advantages And Dimensional Limitations; M. Lugovy.- Raman Effect In Boron And Boron-Rich Compounds.- Experimentally Founded Charge Transport Model For Icosahedral Boron-Rich Solids.- Magnetic And Thermoelectric Properties Of Boron-Rich Solids.- Scratch Studies in Boron-Rich Lightweight and Ultrahigh Temperature Ceramic.- The Electronic Properties Of Metal Borides And Borocarbides. Differences And Similarities.-Investigation of Hard Boron-rich Solids: Osmium Diboride and -rhombohedral Boronć.- Elastic and Vibration Properties of Boron – Carbon Ultra Hard Materials.- Processing and Properties of Ultra-refractory Composites Based on Zr- and Hf-borides: State of the Art and Perspectives.- Behavior of Boron Doped Graphites and Boron Carbide under Ion Beam and Plasma Irradiation.-Vibrational Spectroscopy of Adsorbates on the (111) and (100) Surfaces of Lanthanum Hexaboride.- Zirconium Dodecaboride, a Novel Superconducting Material with Enhanced Surface Characteristics.- Boron under Pressure: Phase Diagram and Novel High-pressure Phase.- Behavior Of The Crystalline Boron Carbide Coating Under Tokamak Conditions.- Electron Structure, Transport, and Superconducting Properties of ZrB12, ZrB2, YB6 and MgB2.- Densification, Microstructure Evolution and Mechanical Properties of Ultrafine SiC Particle - Dispersed ZrB2 Matrix Composites.- Mechanochemically Driven Syntheses of Boride Nanomaterials.-Vibrational Properties Of Zr(Hf)B2-Sic Uhtc Composites By Micro-Raman Spectroscopy.- Synthesis and Sintering Strategies of Boron-Rich Solids.- Field-Assisted Densification Of Superhard B6o Materials With Y2o3/Al2o3 Addition.