Advanced Ceramic Materials
Advanced ceramic materials are the next generation of ceramics. With precisely controlled composition, these inorganic, non-metallic, mostly crystalline materials are highly refined to give specific desirable features. Encompassing oxides, non-oxides and composite materials, advanced ceramics are suitable for a range of applications depending on their specific properties. A strength of advanced ceramics is their ability to be tailored and engineered to access highly desirable properties for various applications.
Within literature advanced ceramics are often referred to as technical ceramics, high-tech ceramics, high-performance ceramics, engineering ceramics or fine ceramics. They are currently being explored across a range of applications including, structural engineering in automotive and aerospace industries due to their high wear resistance. Their highly functional surfaces are exploited for their microstructural effects including, semiconductivity, varistor behavior, piezoelectricity, pyroelectricity, ferroelectricity, and superconductivity. They are also widely used in coatings including for biological environments such as dentistry and orthopedics.
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What are Advanced Ceramics?
Advanced ceramics are the next generation of ceramic materials. According to the 1993 Versailles project on Advanced Materials and Standards (VAMAS) an advanced ceramic material is defined as "an inorganic, non-metallic, basically crystalline material of rigorously controlled composition and manufactured with detailed regulation from highly refined and/or characterized raw materials giving precisely specified attributes".
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What are Transparent Conductive Oxides?
Transparent conductive oxides (TCOs) are metal oxides, such as zinc oxide and tin oxide, that are capable of conducting electricity whilst being optically transparent. This means they absorb a low number of electromagnetic waves within the visible region of the spectrum, appearing see-through.
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An Overview of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles
Metal oxide (MOx) nanoparticles (MONPs) are a class of nanomaterial with interesting and diverse chemical, optical, electrical and magnetic properties. Different metals bond to oxygen forming a variety of crystal structures under specific conditions. The shape and nanostructure of these materials effects their surfaces which in turn impacts the way they interact with light, electricity, magnetic fields and other materials.
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What is a Ternary Lithium Battery?
A ternary lithium battery is a type of lithium-ion battery (LIB) that has a cathode composed of three different metals. The metals are nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), manganese (Mn) or aluminium (Al).
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What is an NCA Battery?
The NCA battery gets its name from the cathode active material, lithium nickel cobalt aluminum oxide (LiNixCoyAlzO2, where x+y+z=1) which gets shortened to nickel cobalt aluminum (NCA). NCA is the cathode active material with a specific ratio of metals.
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