Porous ceramics are now expected to be used for a wide variety of industrial applications
from filtration, absorption, catalysts and catalyst supports to lightweight structural …

The piezoelectric d ij coefficient is often regarded in materials science as the most important
figure of merit of piezoelectric performance. For many applications, the piezoelectric g ij …

The intriguing biomineralization process in nature endows the mineralized biological
materials with intricate microarchitected structures in a facile and orderly way, which …

Piezoelectric sensors have attracted increasing attention due to their high sensitivity to
forces, pressures and acceleration. The use of porous piezoelectric ceramics with aligned …

Well-defined porous ceramics with controllable pore size and porosity were fabricated via a
hetero-coagulation of template/ceramic particle colloidal processing. Monodispersed …

This paper presents a homogenization study of porous piezoelectric materials through
analytical and numerical analysis. Using two of the most well-known analytical methods for …

This paper provides an overview of energy harvesting using ferroelectric materials, with a
particular focus on the energy harvesting capabilities of porous ferroelectric ceramics for …

Macro-cellular porous silicon carbide foams were produced using a polycarbosilane
preceramic polymer and a chemical blowing agent (azodicarbonamide). Polycarbosilane …

The paper reviews processing techniques used to produce porous ceramics with tri-
dimensionally interconnected porosity, in a wide range of pore volumes and pore size and …

Due to the unique electromechanical energy conversion capability of ferroelectric materials,
they have been at the forefront of materials science for a variety of applications such as …