This volume focuses on the design, properties, manufacturing, and emerging technological applications of advanced flexible ceramics.
Ceramics and their composites are used in many different application fields. However, their flexibility, processability, and multifunctional ability are practically limited to their specific application field. For example in electronic equipment and high-temperature applications, failure of miniaturized materials is a huge problem mainly due to their low fusing temperature, so In order to enhance the working temperature of these materials the researcher needs to use ceramic materials, but you still have the problem of brittle fracture and catastrophic failure.
This brand-new volume provides detailed information on the properties and applications of advanced flexible ceramics. Key elements that are discussed are materials dependent flexible behavior; and important parameters such as microstructure and phases and how they will provide new direction for various applications, as well as the operational life of the ceramic.
How flexible materials can influence smart behaviour (shape memory and self-healing) is also discussed in detail as well as thermal, physical, mechanical, electrical, and optical properties too. Various processing routes such as powder metallurgy, both physical and chemical vapor deposition, sol-gel, 3D print, and roll-to-roll processing are also explained in detail. The later section of the book provides detailed coverage of emerging technological applications. Additional chapters are also included on cost-effectiveness and the global market, recycling and future challenges and perspectives.
Comprehensive in its coverage, Advanced Flexible Ceramics: Design, Properties, Manufacturing and Emerging Applications will be an essential reference resource for academic and industrial researchers working in the fields of refractory linings, high-temperature equipment, shielding, MEMS/NEMS and semiconductors, energy generation and storage, catalysis and environmental remediation, wearable textiles, transport, and biomedicine.
- Covers a new class of flexible ceramic materials for advanced technological applications
- Covers a broad range of topics including characterization, synthesis, microstructure, and properties
- Covers advanced technological aspects such as applications, manufacturing processes, and industrial assessment and economics
1. Flexible ceramics: An introduction
2. Shape Memory Ceramics
3. Characterizations of flexible ceramics
4. Microstructural characteristics of flexible ceramics
5. Mechanical Properties of Flexible Ceramics
6. ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF FLEXIBLE CERAMIC FILMS
7. OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF FLEXIBLE CERAMIC FILMS
8. CVD processing and its relevance to build flexible ceramics materials
9. Ceramic 3D printing 10.Methods for fabrication of ceramic coating 11.Methods for ceramic machining
12. Advanced flexible electronic devices for biomedical application
13. Transition Metal Oxide Ceramic Nanocomposites for flexible supercapacitors
14. MOF- and MXene- based flexible supercapacitors
15. Flexible Solar Cells
16. Ceramics as electrode materials for supercapacitors
17. Flexible ceramics for microfluidic-mediated biomedical devices
18. Advanced Tape cast Multilayer Thin Ceramics and Composites with Inelastic Failure Behaviours for Damage Resistant Applications
19. Flexible ceramics for environmental remediation
20. Ceramic-based coatings for solar energy collection
21. Advanced ceramics in the defense and security
22. Advanced ceramics for anti-corrosion and anti-wear ceramic coatings
23. Flexible photovoltaic application
24. Ceramic materials for coatings 25.Advanced Flexible Ceramics Material from Graphene-Incorporated Alumina Nanocomposites
26. Carbon fiber reinforced ceramics: A flexible material for sophisticated applications
Dr. Ram Gupta is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Pittsburg State University. He is the Director of Research at the National Institute for Materials Advancement (NIMA). Dr. Gupta has been recently named by Stanford University as being among the top 2% of research scientists worldwide. Before joining Pittsburg State University, he worked as an Assistant Research Professor at Missouri State University, Springfield, MO then as a Senior Research Scientist at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC. Dr. Guptas research spans a range of subjects critical to current and future societal needs including: semiconducting materials & devices, biopolymers, flame-retardant polymers, green energy production & storage using nanostructured materials & conducting polymers, electrocatalysts, optoelectronics & photovoltaics devices, organic-inorganic heterojunctions for sensors, nanomagnetism, biocompatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold & antibacterial applications, and bio-degradable metallic implants. Dr. Ajit Behera is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. He completed his PhD from IIT, Kharagpur, in 2016. He received the National IEI Young Engineer Award” in 2022, Yuva Rattan Award” in 2020, C.V. Raman Award” in 2019, and young faculty award” in 2017. He has published more than 202 publications including books, book chapters, and journals. Five PhD students were awarded under his supervision, and more than 10 PhD students from his institute/outside the institute are working on different research projects with him. He has successfully completed 25 industrial/research projects and organized 12 industrial-academia collaborative conferences. Siamak Farhad is Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, at The University of Akron, Ohio, USA. His primary and secondary research fields are energy and measurement, with a focus on energy, both energy conversion and storage, with particular emphasis on batteries, fuel cells, and piezoelectrics, from nano/microstructure design to the cell, device and system design. His focus in the field of measurement is on new sensors, is interdisciplinary and linked to nanotechnology, electrochemistry, thermal science, and material science. His research is based on both modeling and experiment; the selected research topics are, recycling and regeneration of lithium-ion battery materials, optimization of electrodes nano/microstructure for lithium battery, ceramic solid-state lithium battery, and piezoelectric materials for sensor and energy harvester. Tuan Anh Nguyen is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. He received a BS in physics from Hanoi University in 1992, a BS in economics from Hanoi National Economics University in 1997, and a PhD in chemistry from the Paris Diderot University, France, in 2003. He was a Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2004, and the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2005. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Scientist at Montana State University, United States in 2006-09. In 2012 he was appointed as the Head of the Microanalysis Department at the Institute for Tropical Technology. His research areas of interest include smart sensors, smart networks, smart hospitals, smart cities, complexiverse, and digital twins. He has edited more than 74 books for Elsevier, 12 books for CRC Press, 1 book for Springer, 1 book for RSC, and 2 books for IGI Global. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Kenkyu Journal of Nanotechnology & Nanoscience.