Advanced Functional Ceramics for Energy, Dielectric and Electromagnetic Applications
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Polycrystalline Ceramics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2026 | Viewed by 131
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thermoelectrics; electrical conductivity; ferroelectrics; capacitors
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Dear Colleagues,
Advanced functional ceramics have long served as cornerstone materials in modern technology, owing to their exceptional tunability of electrical, magnetic, and thermal properties through compositional design and microstructural engineering. In recent years, the rapid development of energy storage, energy harvesting, wireless communication, and electromagnetic (EM) compatibility technologies has placed unprecedented demands on ceramic materials with multifunctional performance. Functional ceramics—spanning ferroelectrics, multiferroics, piezoelectrics, dielectrics, and solid-state electrolytes—are now at the forefront of addressing these challenges; their rich phase-structure diversity and defect-chemistry flexibility enable precise control over polarization behavior, dielectric relaxation, charge-transport mechanisms, and EM wave attenuation. Breakthroughs in creating energy storage ceramics with ultrahigh power density, piezoelectric ceramics for mechanical energy harvesting, solid-state electrolytes for next-generation batteries, and ceramic-based EM shielding and absorption materials have demonstrated the tremendous application potential of these materials. Meanwhile, advances in microstructural engineering and machine learning-assisted material design are accelerating the discovery and optimization cycle from laboratory innovation to practical deployment.
This Special Issue aims to collate original research and critical reviews covering, but not limited to, energy storage and energy harvesting ceramics, ferroelectric and multiferroic ceramics, piezoelectric ceramics, dielectric ceramics for wireless communication applications, solid-state electrolytes, electromagnetic shielding and absorption materials, microstructural engineering strategies, as well as machine learning-assisted design approaches. We warmly invite contributions from researchers across materials science, physics, electrical engineering, and related disciplines to collectively advance the understanding and application of functional ceramics in the energy, dielectric, and electromagnetic domains.
Dr. Zhilun Lu
Dr. Ge Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy storage ceramics
- energy harvesting ceramics
- dielectric ceramics
- ferroelectric/multiferroic ceramics
- piezoelectric ceramics
- solid-state electrolytes
- electromagnetic shielding and absorption
- wireless communication applications
- microstructural engineering
- machine learning-assisted materials design
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