Contents

#### **Preface XI**



Preface

of porous ceramic materials.

during their solid-state processing optimization.

others that work in this kind of ceramics.

Porous ceramics are now expected to be adopted for a wide range of industrial applications such as lightweight structures, membranes, heat insulators, scaffolds and support structures of catalyst applications. During the last decade, tremendous efforts have been devoted for the researches on innovative processing technologies of porous ceramics, resulting in better control over porous structures and significant improvements of the properties. Generally, porous ceramics have good properties such as high mechanical strength, low density, chem‐ ical and thermal stability, abrasion resistance, and high thermal shock resistance. Further‐ more, permeability is one of the most important properties of porous ceramics for filters because this property directly relates to the pressure drop during filtration. Thus, the devel‐ opment of porous ceramics requires sufficient mechanical and chemical stability as well as permeability. This book, however, focuses on preparation, structures, properties, and testing

This book is proposed to share recent research and knowledge related to porous ceramics and it consists of 11 chapters. Chapter 1 is an introduction of this book; it briefly explains the introduction to porous ceramics. Chapter 2 introduces novel biomaterials utilizing porous bone-like apatite coating formation by using apatite nuclei, and Chapter 3 presents the ce‐ ramic foams process by using foaming technology. Chapter 4 discusses the production of porous ceramic sensors for hydrocarbon leak detection under diverse environmental condi‐ tions. Chapter 5 shows the research results of synthesized Zn2SnO4 ceramics on their struc‐ ture, morphology, and properties with large open porosity, as well as the results obtained

Chapter 6 explains tailoring of magnetic and structural properties of some spinel ferrites through different fabrication methods. Chapter 7 presents the sintering of porous ceramic by using microwave plasma technique. Chapter 8 deals with the preparation and numerical modeling of ceramic foam insulation for energy-saving applications. Chapters 9, 10, and 11 are related to the physical and mechanical properties of porous ceramic with different objectives such as physical properties of porous barium titanate after doping with zinc and tin oxides, as well as the mechanical properties and shock compression of porous ceramic, respectively.

We hope that the knowledge and objectives of recent research achievements on porous ce‐ ramic that we shared in this book will be useful for researchers, students, engineers, and

Chapter 11 **Shock Compression of Porous Ceramics 201** Yin Yu and Hongliang He
