TY - CHAP AU - Guanghua Liu AU - Jiangtao Li AU - Kexin Chen ED - Costas Sikalidis Y1 - 2011-08-09 PY - 2011 T1 - Combustion Synthesis of Ceramic Powders with Controlled Grain Morphologies N2 - The current book contains twenty-two chapters and is divided into three sections. Section I consists of nine chapters which discuss synthesis through innovative as well as modified conventional techniques of certain advanced ceramics (e.g. target materials, high strength porous ceramics, optical and thermo-luminescent ceramics, ceramic powders and fibers) and their characterization using a combination of well known and advanced techniques. Section II is also composed of nine chapters, which are dealing with the aqueous processing of nitride ceramics, the shape and size optimization of ceramic components through design methodologies and manufacturing technologies, the sinterability and properties of ZnNb oxide ceramics, the grinding optimization, the redox behaviour of ceria based and related materials, the alloy reinforcement by ceramic particles addition, the sintering study through dihedral surface angle using AFM and the surface modification and properties induced by a laser beam in pressings of ceramic powders. Section III includes four chapters which are dealing with the deposition of ceramic powders for oxide fuel cells preparation, the perovskite type ceramics for solid fuel cells, the ceramics for laser applications and fabrication and the characterization and modeling of protonic ceramics. BT - Advances in Ceramics SP - Ch. 3 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/19022 DO - 10.5772/19022 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-18 ER -