New Studies in Ceramics: Synthesis, Sintering, Characterization and Potential Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced and Functional Ceramics and Glasses".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2023) | Viewed by 2839
Special Issue Editors
Interests: non-oxide ceramics; high/ultra-high-pressure sintering; toughening mechanism; ceramic membranes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advanced ceramics can withstand special and extreme service environments that other materials cannot resist due to their excellent physical and chemical properties, such as light weight, high strength, superhigh hardness, wear resistance, corrosion resistance, high temperature resistance, and oxidation resistance. Furthermore, they can also show amazing functional properties, including electric, magnetic, light, sound, superconductivity, chemical, and biological characteristics. Therefore, they have become important key materials and shown irreplaceable applications in high-tech and modern industries.
The rapid development of modern industries drives the appearance of more special and extreme service environments and thereby brings increasing demands for advanced ceramics. The tireless pursuit of new functions and high performance for advanced ceramics has promoted plentiful new studies in ceramics. Encouragingly, innovative powder synthesis technologies, novel sintering processes, and fresh characterization methods constantly emerge. Meanwhile, some new ceramic materials are being developed and some novel properties are being discovered, which need to be sought for suitable application areas. These ongoing studies have led to the further development of ceramic materials.
Thus, this Special Issue, with the title of “New Studies in Ceramics: Synthesis, Sintering, Characterization, and Potential Applications”, will focus on frontier research associated with materials covering oxide and non-oxide ceramics, functional glasses, glass ceramics, and their corresponding composites.
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome. We appreciate your attention and look forward to your contribution.
Dr. Zhixiao Zhang
Dr. Aiyang Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ceramics
- synthesis
- sintering
- characterization
- structure
- properties
- applications
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