Advanced ceramics and composite materials are increasingly being utilized as components in batteries, fuel cells, sensors, high-temperature electronics, membranes, and high-end biomedical devices, in addition to their traditional use in seals, valves, implants, and high-temperature and wear components. In recent years, there has been substantial progress in the use of ceramic matrix composites (CMCs), with new applications developing continually. Advances in Ceramic Matrix Composites, Third Edition delivers an innovative approach focusing on the very latest advances, materials developments, and new applications. These include new technologies that have emerged such as additive manufacturing of ceramic-matrix composites (CMCs), the design of CMCs based on MAX-phase and ultra-high temperature ceramic (UHTC), and the reinforcement of CMCs with graphene nanoplatelets. Similarly, new applications for CMCs have emerged for enhanced electromagnetic absorption and ionizing radiation shielding. The specialized information contained in this book will be highly valuable for researchers and postgraduate students working in ceramic science, engineering and ceramic composites technology, and engineers and scientists in the aerospace, energy, building and construction, biomedical and automotive industries.

1.Advances in ceramic matrix composites: Introduction 2. Processing, properties and applications of ceramic matrix composites, SiCf/SiC: An overview 3. Nanoceramic matrix composites: Types, processing, and applications 4. Al2O3-SiC nanocomposites: Preparation, microstructure, and properties 5. Advances in manufacture of ceramic matrix composites by infiltration techniques 6. Manufacture of graded ceramic matrix composites by infiltration technique 7. Heat treatment for strengthening silicon carbide ceramic matrix composites 8. Developments in hot pressing (HP) and hot isostatic pressing (HIP) of ceramic matrix composites 9. Hot pressing of tungsten carbide ceramic matrix composites 10. Strengthening alumina ceramic matrix nanocomposites using spark plasma sintering 11. Cold ceramics: Low-temperature processing of ceramics for applications in composites 12. High-performance natural fiber-reinforced cement composites 13. Recent progress in development of high-performance tungsten carbide-based composites: Synthesis, characterization, and potential applications 14. Double-A layered ceramics 15. Role of interfaces in mechanical properties of ceramic matrix composites 16. Using finite element analysis to understand the mechanical properties of ceramic matrix composites 17. Understanding the wear and tribological properties of ceramic matrix composites 18. Understanding and improving the thermal stability of layered ternary carbides and nitrides 19. Advances in geopolymer composites with natural reinforcement 20. Advances in self-healing ceramic matrix composites 21. Self-crack-healing behavior in ceramic matrix composites 22. Geopolymer (aluminosilicate) composites: Synthesis, properties and applications 23. Fibre-reinforced geopolymer composites (FRGCs) for structural applications 24. Ceramic matrix composites in fission and fusion energy applications 25. The use of ceramic matrix composites for metal cutting applications 26. Cubic boron nitride-containing ceramic matrix composites for cutting tools 27. Multilayer glass-ceramic composites for microelectronics: Processing and properties 28. Microfabrication of components based on functionally graded materials 29. Ceramics in restorative dentistry 30. Resin-based ceramic matrix composite materials in dentistry 31. Ceramics in solid oxide fuel cells for energy generation 32. Review on 3D printing of ceramic-matrix composites 33. Additive manufacturing of ceramic matrix composite structures using laser technology 34. MAX phase/ultra-high temperature ceramic composites 35. Functional ceramic-matrix composites 36. 2D Graphene and Graphene-Like Composites and Their Applications 37. Ceramic composites for dramatically enhanced electromagnetic absorbing properties 38. MXene reinforced ceramic composites with sensing properties