Ceramic Materials for Advanced Heat Engines

Advanced Sintering of Nano-Ceramic Materials

Advanced Functional Materials for Intermediate-Temperature Ceramic Fuel Cells

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MEDICAL USE OF CERAMIC MATERIALS

Ceramic Capillary Suspensions: Novel Processing Route for Macroporous Ceramic Materials

We introduce a novel method to produce macroporous ceramics by capillary suspensions. Adding a small amount (~1 vol%) of an immiscible secondary phase to a low concentration (~20 vol%) suspension can increase the yield stress by several orders of magnitude. This drastic change in flow behavior is induced by the creation of a sample-spanning particle network in the suspension controlled by capil...

Ceramic Laser Materials

Ceramic laser materials have come a long way since the first demonstration of lasing in 1964. Improvements in powder synthesis and ceramic sintering as well as novel ideas have led to notable achievements. These include the first Nd:yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) ceramic laser in 1995, breaking the 1 KW mark in 2002 and then the remarkable demonstration of more than 100 KW output power from a YA...