The quality of water is continuously deteriorating due to its increasing toxic threat to humans
and the environment. It is imperative to perform treatment of wastewater in order to remove …

This review article aims to provide an updated and comprehensive description of the
development of the Electric Current Activated/assisted Sintering technique (ECAS) for the …

Carbon nanotubes represent one of the most exciting research areas in modern science.
These molecular-scale carbon tubes are the stiffest and strongest fibres known, with …

Due to the remarkable physical and mechanical properties of individual, perfect carbon
nanotubes (CNTs), they are considered to be one of the most promising new reinforcements …

For decades, enormous investigation effort has been devoted to the fabrication of new
ceramic matrix composites with enhanced mechanical properties. One of the most explored …

Sol-gel process is categorized as a well-known and reliable coating process. The useful
characteristics of this method are composition selection, easy to coat complex mechanical …

Graphene with ultrahigh intrinsic strength and excellent thermal physical properties has the
potential to be used as the reinforcement of many kinds of composites. Here, we show that …

Ceramics suffer the curse of extreme brittleness and demand new design philosophies and
novel concepts of manufacturing to overcome such intrinsic drawbacks, in order to take …

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been considered as a new promising reinforcement for
ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) over the last decade, owing to their exceptional …

The increasing interest in ecological aspects related to the reduction of harmful emissions to
the atmosphere and, at the same time, the need to achieve higher efficiencies of energy …