Novel Ceramic Materials: Processes, Properties and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, ceramic materials have become the subject of numerous studies and play an important role in materials science and engineering. Their properties, including hardness, chemical resistance, ferroelectricity, high thermal resistance, and high electric resistance lead to ceramics being present in almost every branch of industry. The automotive industry, civil engineering, aerospace engineering, electronics and medicine are but a few examples. Every day, scientists around the world are trying to develop new ceramics with unique properties. Therefore, we encourage specialists from various disciplines, such as physics, chemistry, or materials science and engineering, to submit original research articles which fall into the general category of “ceramic materials”. We believe this Special Issue will become an international forum for the presentation of recent advances in the synthesis, properties, and applications of novel ceramic materials.

Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

1. Ceramic materials and ceramic based composites:

• Oxide and non-oxide (carbide, silicide, nitride) ceramics;
• Single-phase and composite ceramics;
• Ceramic nanoparticles and heterostructures;
• Functional ceramics (ceramic conductors, dielectrics and insulators, piezoelectric ceramics, pyroelectrics ceramics, electrooptics ceramic, magnetic ceramics, smart materials, electroceramics, bioceramics);
• Structural ceramics;
• Glass-ceramics and glasses.

2. Technology of ceramics and ceramic matrix composites:

• Powder preparation, calcination, shaping, high-temperature processing, finishing;
• Other non-standard techniques used for processing of ceramics.

3. Properties

• Crystal structure; microstructure; chemical and phase composition; electric properties; dielectric properties; ferroelectric properties; piezoelectric properties; pyroelectric properties; magnetic properties; optical properties; thermal properties.

4. Prospective applications

Dr. Tomasz Pikula
Prof. Dr. Agata Lisińska-Czekaj
Guest Editors

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