When you mention the word "ceramics," the majority of people immediately think of pottery and chinaware. The history of ceramics can be traced back more than 10,000 years, and this includes both the earthenware and pottery forms of the material. In spite of this, these inorganic and non-metallic materials are providing the foundation for a contemporary revolution in materials technology, which is one of the factors contributing to the acceleration of industrial development around the world.
In recent years, new processes and advances in forming and manufacturing techniques have led to the development of advanced ceramics. These advanced ceramics have the properties and application potential to solve technical and engineering challenges that were once thought to be impossible.
The advanced ceramics of today have very little in common with the ceramics that came before them. Because of their one-of-a-kind and astonishingly potent physical, thermal, and electrical properties, they have made a whole new world of development opportunities available to manufacturers in a wide variety of industries.
Traditional materials like metals, plastics, and glass are being replaced by a superior, more cost-effective, and technologically advanced material known as advanced ceramics, which provide the ideal solution.
In a broader sense, advanced ceramics are characterized by the presence of exceptional properties that confer upon them a high degree of resistance to melting, bending, stretching, corrosion, and wear. They are one of the most useful groups of materials in the world because they are hard, stable, resistant to extreme heat, chemically inert, biocompatible, have better electrical properties, and, last but not least, can be used in mass-produced products.
There is a wide variety of advanced ceramics available today, including alumina, zirconia, beryllia, silicon nitride, boron nitride, aluminum nitride, silicon carbide, boron carbide, and many more. Each of these advanced ceramics has its own unique set of performance characteristics and advantages. In order to meet the challenges presented by ever-evolving applications, new materials are consistently being developed.
