Helping people remain healthy and fit for as long as possible will be crucial as populations around the world get older. Could a new generation of smart ceramics enhance the body’s potential to heal?

Toughening glass matrix ceramics remains a challenge due to their intrinsic brittleness, yet high-toughness ceramics are crucial for various applications, especially dental restoration. Dental glass ...

The College of Ceramics is a world-renowned ceramics and glass science school, with one of the only glass science PhD programs in the country. Now past its 30th anniversary, the CACT was recently ...

He has taught this course for over 25 years. Dr. Jeffery J. Swab received a BS in Ceramic Science & Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University and his MS and PhD in Material Science & ...

In addition to plain, hard solids, modern ceramics come in many new guises such as fabrics, ultrathin films, microstructures and hybrid composites. Built on the solid foundations laid down by the ...

For decades, a university degree was seen as the golden ticket to a secure and prestigious job in Kenya. Parents pushed their children to pursue careers in medicine, law, and engineering, believing ...

The team published their work in Journal of Advanced Ceramic s on January 09, 2025.

[Ben Krasnow] over at Applied Science was experimenting with cutting inexpensive ceramic sheets with his cheap CO2 laser cutter when he found that (just as expected) the thermal shock of the CO2 ...

The researchers achieved this by leveraging the chemical versatility of pre-ceramic polymers through the Polymer-Derived Ceramic (PDC) process. This collaborative effort brought together experts ...