Surface Modification and Functionalization of Ceramic Composites (Elsevier Series on Advanced Ceramic Materials)

Surface Modification and Functionalization of Ceramic Composites is intended for both experts and beginners, allowing them to have an extended overview of recent progress in the evolution of surface modification methods and functionalization for ceramic composites. The book provides a detailed summary of the various techniques that are currently available, along with an evaluation of the costs involved. Information on the relationship between surface properties and function is also discussed. There is also an additional section on commercial and industrial applications, including biomedical, sensing and energy. The book will be a valuable reference resource for researchers and an instructive and stimulating text for postgraduate students who want to enhance their knowledge on novel materials and surface modification and functionalization of ceramic composites. From the Back Cover <p>Surface modification is the act of modifying the surface by bringing physical, chemical or biological characteristics different from the ones originally found on the surface of a material. In order to enhance mechanical retention among two surfaces, one or both surfaces are usually modified to increase the effectiveness of these surface areas by physical or chemical methods. Surface modification methods are being used in automobile, aircraft, missile, power generation, electronics, health, textile industries, petroleum, petrochemical, chemical, steel, power, cement, machine tools, and construction industries.</p> <p><i>Surface Modification and Functionalization of Ceramic Composites</i> is intended for the expert as well as the beginner, allowing them to have an extended overview of recent progress in the evolution of surface modification methods and functionalization for ceramic composites. The book provides a detailed summary of the various techniques that are currently available, and an evaluation of the costs involved. Information on the relationship between surface properties and function is also discussed. There is also an additional section on commercial and industrial applications including biomedical, sensing and energy. The book will be a valuable reference resource for researchers, and an instructive and stimulating text for postgraduate students too who want to enhance their knowledge about novel materials and surface modification and functionalization of ceramic composites.</p> About the Author Professor Rajan Jose supervises the Nanostructured Renewable Energy Materials Laboratory at the Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP). He investigated nanostructured perovskite ceramics for microwave and superconducting electronics during his doctoral research at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Trivandrum, India and received his PhD in 2002. He has contributed to the science and engineering of a diverse range of materials including metals and alloys, luminescent quantum dots for biological and energy applications, glass and glass ceramics for quantum electronics, and electrochemical materials for energy conversion and storage. He was previously employed as a scientist at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (India), AIST (Japan), Toyota Technological Institute (Japan), and the National University of Singapore (Singapore) before joining UMP. He has published over 200 papers in Web of Science (Thomson Reuters) indexed journals which have been cited nearly 10,000 times. He holds 25 patents nationally and internationally. His current research interests include the circular economy, data science, and renewable materials and devices. Most of his research is on the structure – property relationship in materials for desired device functionality. Fabian Ezema is a Professor at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He obtained his PhD in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 2000. His research interests are in several areas of materials science including