A new techno-economic analysis shows that the energy intensive ceramic industry would gain both financial and environmental benefits if it moved to free the cold sintering process from languishing in ...

A study has developed an innovative method that overcomes the limitations of traditional additive manufacturing (3D printing), significantly simplifying and accelerating the production of ...

The intriguing biomineralization process in nature endows the mineralized biological materials with intricate microarchitected structures in a facile and orderly way, which provides an inspiration for ...

Field-assisted sintering technology has revolutionized materials processing by integrating temperature, mechanical, and electrical fields to achieve unprecedented densification efficiency and ...

As his dissertation project, Pelanconi optimized the above mentioned process to produce complex ceramic architectures through additive manufacturing. The approach involves 3D printing of polymeric ...

Tough and impact-resistant ceramic systems offer a wide range of remarkable opportunities beyond those offered by the conventional brittle ceramics. However, despite their promise, the availability of ...

Scientists in the University of Maryland (UMD)'s Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) have reinvented a 26,000-year-old manufacturing process into an innovative approach to ...

A new techno-economic analysis, by a team led by a researcher from WMG at the University of Warwick, shows that the energy intensive ceramic industry would gain both financial and environmental ...

Technical ceramics are used in many manufacturing processes due to their unique thermal, electrical and physical properties. Image Credit: Alexander Davidyuk/Shutterstock.com Technical ceramics, also ...

Engineers at the National Composites Centre (NCC) have completed a European first by manufacturing Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMCs) using Automated Fibre Placement (AFP) technology, paving the way for ...