Functional Glass Ceramic Materials and Their Applications Based on Electrical Properties
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Composites".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 July 2022) | Viewed by 2342
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Interests: ceramics and glass ceramics processes; piezoelectics properties
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Dear Colleagues,
The interest in glass ceramics began in the 1960s with materials exhibiting low thermal expansion coefficients that, associated with a good mechanical strength, provide a high resistance to thermal shock. Even if the applications based on the thermomechanical properties have dominated the industrial development of these materials over numerous years, the investigation of functional glass ceramics has rapidly attracted the attention of the research world, inter alia, for biomedical or electrical purposes.
Usually produced by the crystallization of a parent glass precursor, several alternative fabrication routes have been proposed to master the crystallization and the residual glassy matrix and lead thereby to specific microstructures and the combination of properties hardly achievable trough the conventional ceramic process.
The aim of this Special Issue is to promote the most recent research works in the field of glass ceramics materials and their applications, which exploit electrical properties, such as dielectric, pyroelectric, piezoelectric properties; insulation/conduction; ionic conduction.
Within the scope of this Special Issue, it is our pleasure to invite you to submit original research papers, short communications, or state-of-the-art reviews. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Alternative fabrication routes such as additive manufacturing;
- Correlation processing/microstructure/properties;
- Modeling of processes or properties;
- Design of functional devices;
- Innovative characterization methods.
Prof. Dr. Maurice Gonon
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- glass ceramic
- synthesis
- fabrication routes
- shapping
- piezoelectric properties
- dielectric properties
- pyroelectric properties
- ionic conduction
- conduction
- modelling
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