Symposium CB
Novel Routes for Ceramics Synthesis and Processing
Advisory Board
Invited Lectures


This symposium will cover recent progress and emerging novel approaches capable of conferring ceramic materials and systems unique properties that cannot be achieved from conventional routes and/or provide simplified or cheaper processing routes. Covered will be dense or porous materials, fibres, coatings, and composite, graded and hybrid structures. Processing challenges and new directions for the control at atomic scale and rational design of complex micro- and nano-structures with optimised properties will be outlined as well as advances on the state-of.-the-art computational tools applied to processing, novel characterisation and imaging tools, and computer aided design and manufacturing.

Session Topics

CB-1 Soft Solution Processing

Sol-gel, hydrotermal, hydrolysis, ion exchange, etc.

CB-2 Near-Net-Shape Techniques

Reaction bonding, injection molding, 3-D printing, direct write technology, infiltration, gel casting, plasma spray forming, directed metal oxidation…

CB-3 Polymer-based Processing

Precursor science, shape forming, conversion mechanisms, shrinkage crack control, sintering, materials evaluation

CB-4 Spark Plasma Synthesis and Processing

Fundamentals of SPS, process modeling and simulation, consolidation of nanostructured materials, structure and property evaluation

CB-5 Microwave processing

Microwave/material interactions, dielectric and property measurement; microwave drying, binder burnout, calcining, sintering, melting, joining, surface sealing; analysis of structure and properties of materials; scale-up of microwave processing and equipment design

CB-6 Bio-inspired and Bio-enabled Processing

Biomimetic processing, bioclastic processing, self-healing, self-assembly, biomineralisation, templating, patterning, materials characterisation

CB-7 Hybrid Materials

Property-driven design of micro(nano)hybrid structures including dense or porous inorganic/organic networks, precursors and processing science, in-situ and ex-situ characterisation

CB-8 Porous Ceramics

Replica, direct blowing and fugitive phase techniques, novel techniques.
Meso-, micro- and nano-porous structure characterisation.

CB-9 Ultra-high Pressure Ceramics Synthesis and Processing

Ultra-high pressure and shock synthesis, dynamic compaction, ultra-high pressure processing, superplastic forming

CB-10 Other Nontraditional Processing Routes

Melt processing,
Rapid solidification
Controlled recrystallisation of molten glasses (glass-ceramics route)
Microgravitational processing
Other and novel techniques

Focused Session CB-11 Self-propagating High-temperature Synthesis of Ceramics

Focused Session CB-12 Layered and Functionally Graded Materials



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