ABSTRACT

Engineering ceramics are extensively used by modern technologies, such as telecommunication and energy storage and environmental technology, transport technology, tools, as well as the medicine and information technology. Due to their unique properties, including dielectric, pyroelectric, ferroelectric, piezoelectric, ferromagnetic, and electro-optical properties, engineering ceramics have a wide range of applications. In recent years, various kinds of oxide-, nitride-, carbide-, and boride-based technical ceramics were used to reinforce polymers, thus providing new kinds of micro- and nanocomposites exhibiting excellent combined properties from both constituents. This chapter summarizes recent trends and developments, processing methods, properties, and industrial applications of ceramic particles.