Advanced Ceramics

This book presents the fundamentals of advanced ceramics, their stages of development, types and classifications, advanced processing techniques, properties, sintering, and new forms of applications. It highlights specific examples such as alumina, zirconia, Mg-Al-spinels, silicon carbide, silicon nitride, ceramic composites, and thin films with their specific applications. The book reviews progress in perovskite ceramics, in which the synthesis, processing, characterization, and advanced applications of perovskite ceramics are all thoroughly discussed. In addition, developments of perovskite solar cells, the main factors affecting their stability, current problems, development prospects in the research, and application of perovskite solar cells are all highlighted. This book also includes a review of a particular class of rare-earth-based mixed-metal oxides, namely Ln2B2O7 nanostructures (B = Zr, Sn, and Ce), where advantages and disadvantages of each production technique are addressed along with the properties of as-produced nanostructures. The solar photocatalytic uses of Ln2B2O7 nanostructures such as photodegradation of contaminants are also discussed. Yttria-based transparent ceramics for photonic applications are reviewed, along with a discussion of powder synthesis, green body preparation, sintering, and optical properties. In addition, the fundamentals of electrophoretic deposition of hydroxyapatite incorporated composite coatings on metallic substrates are presented and discussed. The different types of ceramics-based self-healing coatings and their fabrication processes have also been reported and discussed in this book. These include titania, zirconia, titanium-alumina, and zirconia-alumina incorporated with Benzotriazole (BTA) as an inhibitor. Advanced ceramic materials that have been used for the purpose of wastewater treatment including ceramic sorbents, resins, aerosols, and ceramic membranes that have been widely used for wastewater treatment purposes are also discussed in depth.

Moreover, the book presents the preparation of geopolymers by microwave treatments and explains how their properties can be tuned using microwaves. Furthermore, the future and perspective of these advanced ceramic materials and their modifications to ensure better efficacy toward environmental remediation purposes are highlighted in this book.

Shadia J. Ikhmayies had received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the physics department in the

University of Jordan in 1983 and 1987, respectively, and the Ph.D. in producing

CdS/CdTe thin film photovoltaic solar cells from the same department and the

same university in 2002. She worked as a member of the academic staff in

several universities in Jordan. Her research is focused on producing and

characterizing semiconductor thin films and thin film CdS/CdTe solar cells.

Besides, she works in characterizing different materials by computation. She

published 59 research papers in international scientific journals, 86 research

papers in conference proceedings, and 3 chapters in books. She is the editor in

chief/editor of several books, the guest editor, and a member of the editorial

board of several journals including JOM and the Journal of Electronic

Materials. Shadia is a reviewer in 24 international journals and several

international conference proceedings. She got several international awards from

which are the TMS Frank Crossley Diversity Award 2018 and World Renewable

Energy Congress 2018 Pioneering Award.

Shadia is a member of the minerals, metals, and materials society (TMS) where she was the

chair of the characterization committee of TMS 2016, 2017, and the leading

organizer of three symposiums, Solar Cell Silicon 2017-2020, Mechanical

Characteristics and Application Properties of Metals and Non-metals for

Technology: An EPD Symposium in Honor of Donato Firrao, and Green Materials

Engineering: An EPD Symposium in Honor of Sergio Monteiro. Shadia is also a

member of the World Renewable Energy Network/Congress (WREN/WREC) 2010-present.

She is a member of the international organizing committee and the international

scientific committee in the European Conference on Renewable Energy Systems

(ECRES2015-ECRES2023). Besides, Shadia was a plenary, keynote, or invited

speaker in several international conferences.