Porous Ceramics, Glasses and Composites

Dear Colleagues,

The importance of porous ceramic materials has recently grown because of their versatile and multiple industrial and high-tech applications, covering different fields from energy to biomedical. Nowadays, porous ceramics are used to fabricate a huge variety of devices such as hot gas or dust collectors, absorbers, thermal insulators, dielectric resonators, engine components for automobile and also biomaterials, drug delivery devices, and bioreactors. The wide use of these materials is explained by their appealing properties such as chemical, biological, and thermal resistance; low thermal conductivity; and relatively low density. Furthermore, the most attractive property of porous ceramics is their permeability, which confers to these materials the ability to filter, deliver, and release different fluids, substances, and particles. In the fabrication of porous ceramic materials, a key factor is represented by the control of pore characteristics (e.g., amount, geometry, interconnectivity, etc.) that can be tailored by properly setting the parameters in several processing methods. An important role is also played by raw material features, type of binder used, and sintering parameters, which can all impact the final porosity in terms of pore size and distribution.

This Special Issue will provide readers with up-to-date information on the recent progress in the fields of porous ceramics, with an emphasis on their many applications and the different manufacturing processes employed to realize them.

Contributing papers, both research articles and comprehensive reviews, are solicited in all the relevant areas for porous ceramics, including:

• Thermal and acoustic insulation
• Construction
• Filtration
• Catalysis
• Biomedical applications
• Porous materials for the circular economy
• Diffusion processes in porous media
• Ceramic and glass foams
• Analysis of porous materials

And the Guest Editor Assistant for this special issue is:

Ms. Carla Migneco
Interests: bioactive glasses; bioceramics; composites; tissue engineering; multifunctional biomaterials; biomedical scaffolds; 3D printing; additive manufacturing
Affiliation: Institute of Materials Physics and Engineering, Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Turin, Italy

Dr. Francesco Baino
Guest Editor

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