The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series

This collection emphasizes the advances of powder and ceramic/glass materials in the fundamental research, technology development, and industrial applications. Ceramic materials science covers the science and technology of creating objects from inorganic, non-metallic materials, and includes design, synthesis, and fabrication of ceramics, glasses, advanced concretes, and ceramic-metal composites. In recent years, the hybrids of ceramic and metallic materials have received plenty of interdisciplinary inspirations and achievements in material processes and functional applications including ionic conductors, catalysis, energy conversion and storage, superconductors, semiconductor, filtrations, etc. Topics cover, but are not limited to:*       Silicates, oxides, and non-oxide ceramics and glasses        Synthesis, characterization, modeling, and simulation of ceramic materials        Design and control of ceramic microstructure and properties        Ceramic powders and processing        Catalyst and catalyst support materials        Fundamental understanding of ceramic materials and processes        Novel methods, techniques, and instruments used to characterize ceramics and glasses        High entropy ceramics (and/or entropy stabilized, complex-concentrated, compositionally-complex, multi-principal cation ceramics)        Bioceramics, electronic, magnetic ceramics, and applications        Surface treatment and ceramic thin films, membranes, and coatings        Porous ceramic materials        Hybrid systems of ceramic, metal, and/or polymer composites        Ceramics used for extreme environments        Metallurgical byproducts for ceramic manufacturing