Ceramics International covers the science of advanced ceramic materials. The journal encourages contributions that demonstrate how an understanding of the basic chemical and physical phenomena may direct materials design and stimulate ideas for new or improved processing techniques, in order to obtain materials with desired structural features and properties.

Ceramics International covers oxide and non-oxide ceramics, functional glasses, glass ceramics, amorphous inorganic non-metallic materials (and their combinations with metal and organic materials), in the form of particulates, dense or porous bodies, thin/thick films and laminated, graded and composite structures. Process related topics such as ceramic-ceramic joints or joining ceramics with dissimilar materials, as well as surface finishing and conditioning are also covered. Besides traditional processing techniques, manufacturing routes of interest include innovative procedures benefiting from externally applied stresses, electromagnetic fields and energetic beams, as well as top-down and self-assembly nanotechnology approaches. In addition, the journal welcomes submissions on bio-inspired and bio-enabled materials designs, experimentally validated multi scale modelling and simulation for materials design, and the use of the most advanced chemical and physical characterization techniques of structure, properties and behaviour.

Technologically relevant low-dimensional systems are a particular focus of Ceramics International. These include 0, 1 and 2-D nanomaterials (also covering CNTs, graphene and related materials, and diamond-like carbons), their nanocomposites, as well as nano-hybrids and hierarchical multifunctional nanostructures that might integrate molecular, biological and electronic components.

Ceramics International is particularly keen to attract papers which deal with fundamental scientific aspects that are relevant to the development of the whole range of advanced ceramics including e.g. phase equilibria and transformations, reactivity, transport processes, thermodynamic and electronic properties, as well as quantum effects in low dimensional materials.

Priority materials and areas of interest are:
Advanced ceramics and composites for civil, military and industrial applications at room and moderate temperatures - High and ultrahigh temperature structural ceramics and composites for use in extreme environments;
Electroceramics such as dielectric and microwave ceramics, ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, pyroelectrics, thermoelectrics, ferroelastics; magnetic, multiferroic, semiconducting and fast ion-conducting ceramics; high Tc superconductors, topological insulators;
Optical ceramics including luminescent and chromogenic materials, transparent conducting and semiconducting ceramics, electro-optical, magneto-optical and laser materials, inorganic optical fibers, plasmonic structures and electromagnetic metamaterials;
Ceramics for nuclear fission, fusion and nuclear waste management technologies;
Bioinert and bioactive ceramics for the full range of medical applications, including functional nanoparticles, composite materials and hybrid hierarchical nanostructures for tissue engineering, delivery systems, bio imaging and neural interfaces.

Original papers; review articles; short communications; letters to the editor

General Editor
P. Vincenzini
World Academy of Ceramics, National Research Council, Faenza, Italy
Editors-in-Chief
R.K. Bordia
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States
Z.Y. Fu
Ministry of Education of the Peoples Republic of China Changjiang Scholar Program, Wuhan, China
T. Ohji
T. Ohji
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Advanced Manufacturing Research Inst., Chubu, Nagoya, Japan
V.C. Pandolfelli
Federal University of Sao Carlos Department of Materials Engineering, SAO CARLOS, Brazil
R. Riedel
Technical University of Darmstadt Department of Materials and Earth Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany
Associate Editor
Z.J. Yu
Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Editorial Board
J.H. Adair
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, PA 15228, United States
D. Agrawal
D. Agrawal
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
A. Akbar
The Ohio State University Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 295 Watts Hall, 2041 College Road, Columbus, Ohio, 43210-1124, United States
R. Asthana
University of Wisconsin at Stout Department of Engineering and Technology, 326 Fryklund Hall, Menomonie, Wisconsin, , United States
M.W. Barsoum
M.W. Barsoum
Drexel University Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States
J.P. Bennett
US Department of Energy, Washington, OR, United States
G. Bertrand
Graduate National School of Chemical and Technological Engineering, 31077, Toulouse, France
K. Byrappa
University of Mysore Department of Studies in Earth Science, P.B. 21, 570 006, Mysore, India
T. Chartier
Institut de Recherche sur les Ceramiques, 12, rue Atlantis, 87068, Limoges, France
P. Colombo
P. Colombo
University of Padova Department Industrial Engineering, Via Marzolo 9, 35131, Padova, Italy
R. Danzer
University of Mining, Leoben, Austria
B. Derby
The University of Manchester, M13 9PL, Manchester, United Kingdom
A. Dominguez-Rodriguez
University of Seville Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Apartado 1065, 41080, Sevilla, Spain
J. Dusza
Institute of Materials Research of SAS, 4001, Kosice, Slovakia
M. Ferrari
National Research Council Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies, Trento, Italy
M.F. Ferreira
University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal
J.R. Frade
University of Aveiro Department of Economics Management Industrial Engineering and Tourism, 3810-191, Aveiro, Portugal
N. Frage
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84105, Be'er Sheva, Israel
W.L. Gladfelter
University of Minnesota Department of Chemistry, 207 Pleasant Street S.E, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455-0431, United States
T. Graule
Empa Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland
H.J. Hannink
CSIRO Australian Manufacturing and Materials Precinct, Normandy Road, Clayton, 3168, Australia
T. Ishikawa
Sanyo-Onoda City University, 756-0884, Sanyoonoda, Japan
S.J.L. Kang
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
M. Kawashita
Tohoku University International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Sendai, Japan
D.K. Kim
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 34141, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of
H-D. Kim
Korea Institute of Materials Science Engineering Ceramics Research Department, 531 Changwondaero, 641-831, Changwon, Korea, Republic of
Y.-W. Kim
University of Seoul, Dongdaemun-gu, 02504, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
J. Knowles
University College London Eastman Dental Institute, 256 Grays Inn Road, WC1X 8LD, London, United Kingdom
W. Krenkel
University of Bayreuth Department of Ceramic Materials Engineering, Ludwig-Thoma-Strasse 36b, D-95447, Bayreuth, Germany
Y. Li
Wuhan University of Technology, 430070, Wuhan, China
H.T. Lin
Guangdong University of Technology - University Town Campus, 510006, Guangzhou, China
J. Lis
AGH University of Science and Technology Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics, Al. Mickiewicza Adama 30, 30-059, Krakow, Poland
L.M. Llanes Pitarch
Polytechnic University of Catalonia Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, ETSEIB, avinguda Diagonal 647, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
P. Miele
University of Montpellier, 34095, Montpellier, France
M. Naito
Osaka University Joining and Welding Research Institute, 11-1 Mihogaoka, 567-0047, Ibaraki-shi, Japan
A.P. Nosov
Institute of Metal Physics UB RAS, 18 S. Kovalevskaya St., 620990, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation
J. Poirier
Orleans University, Orleans, France
S. Ramesh
University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
I.E. Reimanis
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, 80401-1887, United States
K. Rezwan
University of Bremen, 28359, Bremen, Germany
R.E. Riman
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, NJ 08854, United States
A.S. Rogachev
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
F. Rosei
National Institute for Scientific Research Energy Materials and Telecommunications Research Centre, Varennes, J3X 1S2, Quebec, Canada
Y. Sakka
National Institute for Materials Science, 305-0044, Tsukuba-Shi, Japan
Z.J. Shen
Stockholm University Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, S-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
W. Sigmund
University of Florida Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 225 Rhines Hall, P.O. Box 116400, Gainesville, Florida, 32611-6400, United States
M. Singh
NASA John H Glenn Research Center, MS 106-5 Ceramic Branch, Cleveland, Ohio, OH 44135-3191, United States
G. Srinivasan
Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, 48309-4401, United States
D. Suvorov
Jozef Stefan Institute, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
T. Troczynski
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4, British Columbia, Canada
W.H. Tuan
National Taiwan University Department of Materials and Science Engineering, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, 10617, Taipei, Taiwan
A. Vinu
Newcastle University, NE1 7RU, Newcastle, United Kingdom
M. Wang
M. Wang
University of Hong Kong Department of Mechanical Engineering, 7/F, Haking Wong Building, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
S. Yin
Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, 980-8577, Sendai, Japan
N. Zhou
Henan University of Technology, Luoyang, China
Y. Zhou
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Y. Zhou
Harbin Institute of Technology Institute of Advanced Ceramics, 92 West Dazhi Street, Nan'gang District, 150001, Harbin, China