B 4 C–SiC composite ceramics exhibit a combination of the desirable performance C and SiC, making them better candidate material for engineering applications as structural ceramic materials.

R. G. Lacerda, M. H. Yang, A. S. Teh, K. B. K. Teo, L. A. W. Robinson, N. L. Rupesinghe, D. Roy, M. Chhowalla, F. Wyczisk, P. Legagneux, D. G. Hasko, G. A. J. Amaratunga and W. I. Milne Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK Microelectronics Research Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK ...

Traditionally, bioactive glasses have been used to fill and restore bone defects. More recently, this category of biomaterials has become an emerging research field for bone tissue engineering applications. Here, we review and discuss current knowledge on porous bone tissue engineering scaffolds on the basis of melt-derived bioactive silicate glass compositions and relevant composite structures...

Of the principal classes of engineering materials, ceramics are in many ways the most interesting and challenging. Many properties, or combination, of properties, not achievable with other classes of materials give ceramics enormous technical potential. The main obstacles that prevent the wider use of ceramics include insufficient reliability, reproducibility, and high cost. The physical basis ...

BACKGROUND Natural products have numerous medicinal applications and play important roles in the biology of the organisms that accumulate them. Few methods are currently available for identifying proteins that bind to small molecules, therefore the discovery of cellular targets for natural products with pharmacological activity continues to pose a significant challenge in drug validation. Simil...

This article reports a new process chain for custom-made three-dimensional (3D) porous ceramic scaffolds for bone replacement with fully interconnected channel network for the repair of osseous defects from trauma or disease. Rapid prototyping and especially 3D printing is well suited to generate complex-shaped porous ceramic matrices directly from powder materials. Anatomical information obtai...

Complex ceramic and composite materials used in alternative energy technologies often present challenges during electron microscopy analysis. Bulk electrical properties such as transport and mobility are crucial factors in carbon based or nanomaterial composites often analyzed at the atomic or molecular level despite the presence of localized chemical composition and resultant phase transformat...