**Figure 1.**

*Different types of smart and advanced ceramic materials.*


Smart and advanced ceramic materials are referred to as special and engineering ceramics. **Table 1** shows the various applications of advanced ceramics which include two types.

Smart and advanced ceramic materials provide products and services to an increasing and important range of advanced manufacturing industries, involving automotive, aerospace, energy, defense, telecommunications, etc. More extensive research on the processes of ceramic materials is necessary and extensive

*Introductory Chapter: Smart and Advanced Ceramics and Applications DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.105977*


### **Table 1.**

*Applications of smart and advanced ceramic materials.*

development plans should be presented. Thus, the advanced ceramic materials possess some challenges including the high cost of product research and development, the innovation at the industrial scale could acquire a remarkable investment in capital and time, the commercialization of innovation is slow, and the deficiency of crosssector technology transfer.
