Ceramics often have microstructure and grain sizes that affect material performance. It is possible to optimize microstructure and grain boundaries with ceramic processing parameters for specific ...

Providing multiple functional roles simultaneously, the composition of seashells and bones gradually vary throughout their structure making them part of a group of materials called Functionally Graded ...

This graphic shows the structure of a ceramic created from a Kansas State University-patented waterlike polymer. The ceramic has a random structure that provides stability at high temperatures. The ...

The dual-phase interpenetrating architecture was came out from the microstructure of natural materials. Based on the such unique structure, bioinspired P/CCSs was designed and fabricated via 3D ...

Ceramics exhibit among the highest stiffness and strength of all known material classes 1. Because of the strong and directional bonding between constitutive atoms, they present a high fusion ...

Ceramics are a class of inorganic, non-metallic materials held together through ionic and covalent bonding. Their atomic structure is defined by a rigid lattice network formed during high-temperature ...

(Nanowerk News) Ceramics are not known for their flexibility: they tend to crack under stress. But researchers from MIT and Singapore have just found a way around that problem -- for very tiny objects ...

Researchers have used 3-D printing to create ceramic structures from silicon polymers. Scientists at HRL Laboratories LLC in Malibu, Calif., announced their process overcomes the limitations of ...

Innovations in High-Performance Materials It feels like every day there’s some new material promising to do things ...

As the demand for smaller and more complex devices continues to grow, nanolithography, the process of patterning nanoscale structures on a surface, offers a promising solution for producing precise ...