A process for making advanced ceramic material

The invention broadly consists of making alkali glycolato silicates by reaction of silica containing raw materials with alkali/alkaline earth oxides/hydroxides and alcohols/glycols in the temperature range 198 ?C to 250 ?C for a period of 2 to 48 hours to obtain alkali or alkaline earth alkoxy silicates, the said silicates being dissolved in water and reacted with ammonium salt under continuous stirring followed by repeated washing with water and drying to obtain the silicon precursors, reacting the said precursors with complementary reactants selected from carbon black, sucrose, petroleum pitch, phenolic resin, aluminium containing compounds, nitrogen or ammonia at a temperature ranging between 1300 ?C to 1600 ?C for a period ranging between 1 to 6 hours to obtain the desired advanced ceramic materials.