Silicon oxycarbide glasses and glass‐ceramics:“All‐Rounder” materials for advanced structural and functional applications

C Stabler, E Ionescu, M Graczyk‐Zajac… - Journal of the …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon oxycarbides can be considered as being carbon‐containing silicates consisting of
glass networks in which oxygen and carbon share bonds with silicon. The carbon‐for …

Macro-porous ceramics: processing and properties

T Ohji, M Fukushima - International Materials Reviews, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Porous ceramics are now expected to be used for a wide variety of industrial applications
from filtration, absorption, catalysts and catalyst supports to lightweight structural …

Porous polymer derived ceramics

C Vakifahmetoglu, D Zeydanli, P Colombo - Materials Science and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Porous ceramics, in particular cellular ceramics with open and closed porosity, are key
enabling components in different demanding applications because of their favorable set of …

Solid acid mediated hydrolysis of biomass for producing biofuels

F Guo, Z Fang, CC Xu, RL Smith Jr - Progress in Energy and Combustion …, 2012 - Elsevier
Solid acid catalysts, which have favorable characteristics such as efficient activity, high
selectivity, long catalyst life and ease in recovery and reuse, have great potential for …

Hierarchically porous silicon–carbon–nitrogen hybrid materials towards highly efficient and selective adsorption of organic dyes

L Meng, X Zhang, Y Tang, K Su, J Kong - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
The hierarchically macro/micro-porous silicon–carbon–nitrogen (Si–C–N) hybrid material
was presented with novel functionalities of totally selective and highly efficient adsorption for …

Fabrication of ceramic components with hierarchical porosity

P Colombo, C Vakifahmetoglu, S Costacurta - Journal of materials science, 2010 - Springer
This article reviews different methodologies for the fabrication of monolithic ceramic
components possessing multiscale porosity, ie, with pores ranging from a few nanometers to …

Fabrication of HA/TCP scaffolds with a graded and porous structure using a camphene-based freeze-casting method

A Macchetta, IG Turner, CR Bowen - Acta biomaterialia, 2009 - Elsevier
A room temperature camphene-based freeze-casting method was used to fabricate
hydroxyapatite/tricalcium phosphate (HA/TCP) ceramic scaffolds. By varying the solid …

Direct Ink Writing of micrometric SiOC ceramic structures using a preceramic polymer

G Pierin, C Grotta, P Colombo, C Mattevi - Journal of the European Ceramic …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this work we manufactured micro-sized SiOC ceramic components by 3D printing (Direct
Ink Writing) of a preceramic polymer. Model porous ceramic scaffolds with the lateral …

Engineering porosity in polymer-derived ceramics

P Colombo - Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 2008 - Elsevier
By employing carefully controlled processing methods, a large amount of porosity (>
70vol%) was introduced in ceramic materials derived from preceramic polymers (silicone …

Processing of polysiloxane-derived porous ceramics: a review

BVM Kumar, YW Kim - Science and Technology of Advanced …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Because of the unique combination of their attractive properties, porous ceramics are
considered as candidate materials for several engineering applications. The production of …