The book BOR (Compounds, Synthesis Methods, Properties, Applications) written by Dr. Kenan Yünlü, Chief Researcher at TÜBİTAK MAM Materials Institute, was published by the National Boron Research Institute (BOREN).
TÜBİTAK MAM Malzeme Enstitüsü Başuzman Araştırmacısı Dr. Kenan Yünlü kitabın önsözünde, ‘’Bu kitabı, Ülkemizin %73’ü aşan rezervi ile dünyada ilk sırada yer alan ve en önemli yer altı zenginliklerimiz arasında sayılabilecek, tüm dünya endüstrisinin en önemli ham maddelerinden biri olan ‘’Bor’’ konusunda tarihte ilk bulunuşundan rezervlere, kimyasal yapıdan ürün ve bileşiklere, kullanım alanlarına, ekonomik önleme kadar geniş kapsamlı bilgiye erişebilecek yerli bir kaynağı temin etmek ve bu konuda yapılacak çalışmalara ışık tutmak umudu ile kaleme almış bulunmaktayım.’’ ifadelerine yer verdi.
Boron, a semiconductor element that does not exist in free form in nature, has about 230 minerals in nature, but a few of them are important for industry. It is known that boron products are used in nearly 250 fields such as glass and glass fiber industry, detergents and bleaches, ceramics, agriculture, flame retardants, wood protection, construction materials, chemistry, metallurgy, energy, defense materials, nuclear applications, medicine and advanced technology.
The book BOR (Compounds, Synthesis Methods, Properties, Applications), edited by Prof. Dr. Kenan Yünlü and published with the contributions of the National Boron Research Institute (BOREN), is the first and only Turkish book written in this context in the field of boron and consists of 820 pages.
Who is Dr. Kenan Yünlü?
In 1983, he graduated from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hamburg with a Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) degree from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hamburg in 1983. Between 1984-1986, he worked as a post-doc in the USA (University of California-Berkeley and Northwestern University). Between 1987-2004, he worked as a researcher/project manager in the US chemical industry. Since 2005, he has been working at TÜBİTAK Marmara Research Center.
