Advanced Ceramics

This  book presents the fundamentals of advanced ceramics, their stages of  development, types and classifications, advanced processing techniques,  properties, sintering, and new forms of applications. It highlights  specific examples such as alumina, zirconia, Mg-Al-spinels, silicon  carbide, silicon nitride, ceramic composites, and thin films with their  specific applications. The book reviews progress in perovskite ceramics,  in which the synthesis, processing, characterization, and advanced  applications of perovskite ceramics are all thoroughly discussed. In  addition, developments of perovskite solar cells, the main factors  affecting their stability, current problems, development prospects in  the research, and application of perovskite solar cells are all  highlighted. This book also includes a review of a particular class of  rare-earth-based mixed-metal oxides, namely Ln2B2O7 nanostructures (B =  Zr, Sn, and Ce), where advantages and disadvantages of each production  technique are addressed along with the properties of as-produced  nanostructures. The solar photocatalytic uses of Ln2B2O7 nanostructures  such as photodegradation of contaminants are also discussed.  Yttria-based transparent ceramics for photonic applications are  reviewed, along with a discussion of powder synthesis, green body  preparation, sintering, and optical properties. In addition, the  fundamentals of electrophoretic deposition of hydroxyapatite  incorporated composite coatings on metallic substrates are presented and  discussed. The different types of ceramics-based self-healing coatings  and their fabrication processes have also been reported and discussed in  this book. These include titania, zirconia, titanium-alumina, and  zirconia-alumina incorporated with Benzotriazole (BTA) as an inhibitor.  Advanced ceramic materials that have been used for the purpose of  wastewater treatment including ceramic sorbents, resins, aerosols, and  ceramic membranes that have been widely used for wastewater treatment  purposes are also discussed in depth.

Moreover, the  book presents the preparation of geopolymers by microwave treatments and  explains how their properties can be tuned using microwaves.  Furthermore, the future and perspective of these advanced ceramic  materials and their modifications to ensure better efficacy toward  environmental remediation purposes are highlighted in this book.