Alumina (Al₂O₃) ceramics represent a crucial category of advanced structural engineering materials due to their excellent physicochemical properties and relatively low cost. However, their broader ...

The schematic illustrates the key mechanism for improving the mechanical properties of the carbide ceramic. Initially a single-phase solid solution, the material is doped with nitrogen (N), which is ...

Ceramics are famous for being hard but easy to break. Now, researchers have demonstrated that adding carbon nanotubes to a ceramic material can nearly triple its resistance to fracturing. Since carbon ...

Precision Ceramics, a division of McGeoch Technology, is a company dedicated to the engineering of technical ceramics. From procurement and supply through to technical design and specialist machining, ...

A team of Brown University researchers has found a way to double the toughness of a ceramic material used to make solid-state lithium ion batteries. The strategy, described in the journal Matter, ...

What determines the stabillity of thin ceramic coatings, which are often used to increase the stability of turbines or extremely stressed tools? New experiments show: Surprisingly, these coatings do ...

Technical ceramics are utilized in a variety of products and also for coatings of components that have to be highly wear- or temperature-resistant. They are also used in non-conductive or ...

Citrine Informatics today announced its participation in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) INTACT (Intrinsically Tough and Affordable Ceramics Today) program. The program aims to ...

The use of ceramics dates back some 25,000 years, to the oldest human settlements’ use of clay vessels and sculptures. These ceramics, as well as infrastructure components such as bricks, tiles, and ...

The performance advantages of silicon nitride and silicon carbide ceramics do not naturally coexist, and their realization process is full of contradictions and challenges in materials science. The ...