The Future of Research in Ceramics in the XXI Century

Abstract:

This lecture will outline the past, present and future of research in ceramics. The concept of “ceramic material” has evolved along the time and it hás broadened remarkably for the last decades from traditional clay-based materials to new systems: the term includes now high-performant capacitors, superconductors, highly-efficient oxides, carbides and nitrides of transition metals. The search of new materials has made that their processing and characterization become more technically sophisticated and it has encouraged the development of new techniques and more accurate scientific instruments, altogether providing a wider updated database. The landscape for ceramics research has changed dramatically for the past 15 years, and research in this field is now in a crossroad: in this lecture the emerging areas in ceramic science will be discussed, based upon a workshop held in March 2012 in USA on this regard.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 663)
• Pages: 127-132
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.663.127
• Online since: September 2015
• Authors: Arturo Domínguez-Rodríguez*, Diego Gómez-García
• Keywords: Ceramic, Challenges, Future Prospective

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