Design and Additive Manufacturing of Innovative Components with Hybrid Ceramics

Dear Colleagues,

Hybrid ceramic materials are combinations of materials or a particular distribution of them in space. In modern engineering, they are designed and brought together to exploit their properties according to the function of the final component. Ceramic matrix composites, foams, lattice structures, sandwich structures, and more are examples of this material’s concepts. This Special Issue will broadcast the potential of hybrid ceramics, emphasizing the choice of the components, their topology, and the relative volume fraction. In particular, for complex ceramic architectures such as lattice structures or triply periodical minimal surfaces (TPMS) we are targeting design efforts that are currently trying to realize multi-functional components. The huge growth of applications with hybrid ceramic materials started when ceramic additive manufacturing techniques became available. There are several ceramic AM techniques; each one is better suited for specific applications. This Special Issue is intended for researchers who want to publish their work on designing high-performance components in combination with the appropriate AM technique. Some examples of these components are CMC parts, porous burners, catalysts support, ceramic sandwich structures, heat exchangers, complex chemical reactors, electronic devices, medical implants, and high-performance filters for water, air, and molten metals casting.

Prof. Dr. Alberto Ortona
Guest Editor

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