In 26,400 BC, the first ceramic statue made from clay was fabricated in Brno, Czech Republic. Early examples of pottery emerged in Eastern Asia tens of thousands of years later (16,400 BC) in the ...

Generally, the production of modern ceramic components falls into one of two distinct processing stages. The ceramic powder is first evenly dispersed in a liquid to specific proportions, and next, it ...

Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) is a major structural probe and is widely used to solve new crystalline structures, identify phases, estimate their mass fractions, analyse phase transformation and ...