A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature. Common examples are earthenware, porcelain, and brick.The earliest ceramics made by humans were pottery objects (pots or vessels) or figurines made from clay, either by itself or mixed with other materials like silica, hardened and sintered in fire. Later, ceramics were glazed and fired to create smooth, colored surfaces, decreasing porosity through the use of glassy, amorphous ceramic coatings on top of the crystalline ceramic substrates.Ceramics now include domestic, industrial and building products, as well as a wide range of materials developed for use in advanced ceramic engineering, such as in semiconductors.
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Preface (48 KB)
Components of the Book:
- Chapter1
Achievements and Future Perspectives of the Trivalent Thulium-Ion-Doped Mixed-Sesquioxide Ceramics for Laser Applications
- Chapter2
Thermo-Optical Studies of Laser Ceramics
- Chapter3
Fabrication of (SiC-AlN)/ZrB2 Composite with Nano-Micron Hybrid Microstructure via PCS-Derived Ceramics Route
- Chapter4
Dependences of microstructure on electromagnetic interference shielding properties of nano-layered Ti3AlC2 ceramics
- Chapter5
Sintering of Lead-Free Piezoelectric Sodium Potassium Niobate Ceramics
- Chapter6
Structure and Luminescence Properties of Transparent Germanate Glass-Ceramics Co-Doped with Ni2+/Er3+ for Near-Infrared Optical Fiber Application
- Chapter7
Fabrication and Sintering Behavior of Er:SrF2 Transparent Ceramics using Chemically Derived Powder
- Chapter7
Fabrication and Sintering Behavior of Er:SrF2 Transparent Ceramics using Chemically Derived Powder
- Chapter9
Relationship between Crystal Structures and the Relaxor Property of SrBi2(Ta2–xVx)O9 Ceramics
- Chapter10
Synthesis and Photoluminescence Properties of Pr3+-Doped Ba0.5Ca0.5TixZr(1-x)O3 Perovskite Diphasic Ceramics Obtained by the Modified Pechini Method
- Chapter11
Structure and Electrical Properties of Microwave Sintered BTS-BCT-xBF Lead-Free Piezoelectric Ceramics
- Chapter12
Inverted electro-mechanical behaviour induced by the irreversible domain configuration transformation in (K,Na)NbO3-based ceramics
- Chapter13
Hierarchical Surface Texturing of Hydroxyapatite Ceramics: Influence on the Adhesive Bonding Strength of Polymeric Polycaprolactone
- Chapter14
Porous Alumina Ceramics with Multimodal Pore Size Distributions
- Chapter15
Self-Growth of Centimeter-Scale Single Crystals by Normal Sintering Process in Modified Potassium Sodium Niobate Ceramics
Readership:
Students, academics, teachers and other people attending or interested in Ceramics
Angela Pirri
Istituto di Fisica Applicata “N. Carrara”, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
Roman N. Maksimov
Institute of Electrophysics UrB RAS, 620016 Ekaterinburg, Russia;
Matteo Vannini
Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, INO-CNR, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
Guido Toci
Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, INO-CNR, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, FI,
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