Advanced Functional Oxide Ceramics
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Polycrystalline Ceramics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 38124
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Dear Colleagues,
Functional ceramics are materials that possess a variety of electric, magnetic, or optical properties that allow for a range of applications. Among them, advanced functional oxide ceramics have received significant attention because of their functional properties such as magnetism, ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity, magnetoresistance, multiferroicity, thermoelectricity, ionic and electronic conductivity, or catalytic activity. Such kinds of materials are of especial interest to a vast number of emerging devices including magnetic storage media, spintronics, gas sensors, and energy storage and conversion devices.
The structure-property understanding in these oxide ceramics is essential to improve their optical, electronic, and magnetic properties and is of vital interest for both technology and fundamental science. Controlling the structure and morphology of oxide ceramics to enhance their properties allows for new functionalities and improved behaviour of materials and devices.
We invite researchers to contribute to the Special Issue on “Advanced Functional Oxide Ceramics.” The focus of this Special Issue will be on the synthesis, processing, and characterization of functional oxide ceramics, in particular, for applications in the field of energy harvesting, conversion, storage, and gas sensors and catalysts. These materials can be in bulk, thin films, as well as other more sophisticated forms. The potential topics include but are not limited to the following themes: Novel synthesis and processing techniques, characterization of structural and functional properties, and compositional engineering of functional oxide ceramics. Contributions that provide an overview of the status of sub-groups of functional oxide ceramics are also welcome.
Dr. Maged F. Bekheet
Dr. Ulla Simon
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Oxide ceramics
- Structural characterization
- Functional properties
- Ferroelectricity
- Piezoelectricity
- Thermoelectricity
- Mixed ionic-electronic conductivity
- Ceramic catalysts
- Solid oxide fuel cell
- Battery electrodes
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