Graphene and Carbon Nanotube Modified Ceramics

Dear Colleagues,

Ceramics is proud to announce its inaugural Special Issue, which is dedicated to “Graphene- and Carbon Nanotube-Based Ceramic Nanocomposites”. These materials exhibit improved strength, fracture toughness, hardness, creep resistance, electromagnetic interference shielding, electrical, and thermal transport properties compared to ceramic matrix composites. However, dispersion homogeneity, processing of fully-dense final materials, challenges in the development of high-temperature composites with nano-reinforcements, quality of the ceramic-nanofiller interface, surface modification, custom shape forming, as well as nature and magnitude of nano-scale specific toughening mechanisms, are still open issues, limiting their applicability. This Special Issue aims to cover such aspects and reflect on current advances in processing and sintering techniques, as well as in the mechanical, fracture, tribological and functional performance characterization of ceramic and glass-ceramic nanocomposites. Investigations of biocompatibility properties, failure mechanisms in ceramic nanocomposites and potential future applications at conventional and high temperatures are also of great interest.

Prof. Konstantinos Dassios
Guest Editor

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• Ceramic nanocomposites
• Graphene
• Carbon nanotubes
• Properties
• Processing
• Applications