Elsevier Ceramic Science and Engineering: Basics to Recent Advancements (Elsevier Series on Advanced Ceramic Materials)

Ceramic Science and Engineering: Basics to Recent Advancements covers the fundamentals, classification and applications surrounding ceramic engineering. In addition, the book contains an extensive review of the current published literature on established ceramic materials. Other sections present an extensive review of up-to-date research on new innovative ceramic materials and reviews recently published articles, case studies and the latest research outputs. The book will be an essential reference resource for materials scientists, physicists, chemists and engineers, postgraduate students, early career researchers, and industrial researchers working in R&D in the development of ceramic materials. Ceramic engineering deals with the science and technology of creating objects from inorganic and non-metallic materials. It combines the principles of chemistry, physics and engineering. Fiber-optic devices, microprocessors and solar panels are just a few examples of ceramic engineering being applied in everyday life. Advanced ceramics such as alumina, aluminum nitride, zirconia, ZnO, silicon carbide, silicon nitride and titania-based materials, each of which have their own specific characteristics and offer an economic and high-performance alternative to more conventional materials such as glass, metals and plastics are also discussed. Review Provides comprehensive coverage on the fundamentals, classifications and applications of a wide spectrum of ceramics From the Back Cover <p>Ceramic engineering deals with the science and technology of creating objects from inorganic and non-metallic materials. It combines the principles of chemistry, physics and engineering. Fiber-optic devices, microprocessors and solar panels are just a few of the examples of ceramic engineering being applied in everyday life. Advanced ceramics such as alumina, aluminum nitride, zirconia, ZnO, silicon carbide, silicon nitride and titania-based materials, each have their own specific characteristics, and offer an economic and high-performance alternative to more conventional materials such as glass, metals and plastics. In the current world of industry and academia it is imperative that we have more detailed knowledge on the established properties and categorization of these materials.</p> <p><i>Ceramic Science and Engineering: Basics to Recent Advancements</i><b> </b>is divided over two parts, the first part focuses on on the basics of ceramic materials which will include chapters on the fundamentals, classification and applications. There is also an extensive review of the current published literature on established ceramic materials too.</p> <p>As ceramics constitute a multi-billion dollar a year industry, ceramic engineering is currently an alluring field of research. Engineering of ceramic materials is needed for production of ceramic teeth, bones, and fiber optic cables used for surgery as well as ceramic superconductors and lasers. The second part of this book presents an extensive review of up-to-date research on new innovative ceramic materials. It reviews recent published articles and presents case studies and latest research outputs. The book will be an essential reference resource for materials scientists, physicists, chemists and engineers, Postgraduate students and early career researchers as well as industrial researchers working in R&D in the development of ceramic materials.</p> About the Author Kamakhya Prakash Misra received his Ph.D. in Physics in the field of materials science and thin films from the University of Lucknow, India. Presently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Manipal University Jaipur, India. His current research interests include sol gel derived nanomaterials and thin film structures mainly to understand their opto-electronic behaviour, particularly band gap engineering of wide band gap semiconductors like ZnO and TiO2 (ceramic materials