Special issue: Advanced ceramics: innovative strategies for their preparation, characterisation and modelling

International Journal of Materials and Product Technology 35(3/4) 2009

• The Electrophoretic Deposition of Bioglass®/Carbon Nanotube composite layers for bioactive coatings
• DFT modelling of ceramic materials and interfaces
• Crystallographic texture optimisation in polycrystalline ferroelectric films for Random Access Memory applications
• Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy in the analysis of microstructural changes of Y-TZP ceramics
• Engineering of high performance injection moulded ceramic components by Polarised Light Optical Texture Analysis (PLOTA)
• Manufacturing of nanocomposite structural ceramic materials and coatings
• Modelling of micromechanical fracture for ceramic composites through the Voronoi Cell Finite Element approach
• Modelling Microstructures with OOF2
• YAG wet-chemical synthesis from chlorides and nitrates precursors: effect on phase evolution and powder sinterability
• Alumina-YAG composites: preparation, experimental characterisation and numerical modelling
• On the use of Fluidised Bed Coating (FBC) to deposit thin Al2O3 films onto metal substrates
• Thermal sprayed ceramic coatings: fundamental issues and application considerations