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Advances in Sustainable Ceramic Materials

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 4798

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Alisson Mendes Rodrigues

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Academic Unit of Materials Engineering, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande 58429-900, Brazil
Interests: glasses; glass ceramics; solid wastes; clays; crystallization; sustainable materials; eco-friendly materials; biomaterials; processing of ceramic materials; ceramic materials; environmental; development of new materials; durability and recycling of solid waste
Prof. Dr. Romualdo Rodrigues Menezes

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Academic Unit of Materials Engineering, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande 58430-330, PB, Brazil
Interests: ceramic materials; microwave synthesis and processing; solid waste recycling; nanotechnology; ultrafast sintering; drilling fluids; biomaterials and water treatment
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Prof. Dr. Gelmires de Araujo Neves

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Academic Unit of Materials Engineering, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande 58430-330, PB, Brazil
Interests: processing of ceramic materials; nonmetallic materials; extraction and transformation of materials; ceramic materials; environmental; development of new materials; durability and recycling of solid waste
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Contemporary society is becoming increasingly aware of how their lifestyle choices can affect the environment. These choices have a substantial impact on the economy and political decisions. This has led scientists and researchers to develop ecofriendly and sustainable technologies to face harmful practices to the environment.

Given such a scenario, it is my pleasure to present the Special Issue entitled “Advances in Sustainable Ceramic Materials”. This Special Issue aims to highlight and share recent scientific findings in recycled materials, glasses and glass ceramics, materials for construction, solid wastes, process optimization, trends and advances, traditional pottery, and any other topic related to the frontier of knowledge in sustainable ceramic materials.

Therefore, we kindly invite you to submit a manuscript(s) to this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and review articles are all welcome.

Prof. Dr. Alisson Mendes Rodrigues
Prof. Dr. Romualdo Rodrigues Menezes
Prof. Dr. Gelmires de Araujo Neves
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • sustainable concrete and mortar
  • recycled materials
  • traditional pottery
  • glasses and glass ceramics
  • lightweight materials
  • recycled materials
  • clean and renewable energy production
  • mechanical, optical, electrical, thermal e-magnetic properties
  • green manufacturing
  • highly porous ceramics
  • technical ceramics
  • high-performance materials
  • coatings
  • neural networks
  • deep learning

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New Urea Controlled-Release Fertilizers Based on Bentonite and Carnauba Wax
by João Fernandes Duarte Neto, Jucielle Veras Fernandes, Alisson Mendes Rodrigues, Romualdo Rodrigues Menezes and Gelmires de Araújo Neves
Sustainability 2023, 15(7), 6002; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15076002 - 30 Mar 2023
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Controlled-release fertilizers are interesting alternatives to current commercial chemical fertilizers, which present a higher nutrient release rate, and can negatively impact the ecosystem. In this work, two urea controlled-release fertilizer types were manufactured from carnauba wax (CW), commercial granulated urea (U), and natural [...] Read more.
Controlled-release fertilizers are interesting alternatives to current commercial chemical fertilizers, which present a higher nutrient release rate, and can negatively impact the ecosystem. In this work, two urea controlled-release fertilizer types were manufactured from carnauba wax (CW), commercial granulated urea (U), and natural and sodium bentonite (Bent-R and Bent-Na, respectively). In the first type, the mechanochemical method produced fertilizers in bars, from a mixture containing different proportions of U, Bent-R, and Bent-Na. In the second type, the dip-coating method was used to coat urea bars with coatings containing different proportions of the Bent-R, Bent-Na, and CW. The cumulative urea release was evaluated over the 30-day incubation period, through soil columns tests and UV/visible spectroscopy. Overall, both fertilizers developed in this work presented lower cumulative urea release than standard fertilizers. On the other hand, the new fertilizers produced from the dip-coating method, provided cumulative urea release lower than that obtained by the mechanochemical method. In summary, carnauba wax and bentonite (raw and sodium modified) are promising materials for developing new urea controlled-release fertilizers. Furthermore, both carnauba wax and bentonite are non-toxic, biodegradable, relatively inexpensive, and created from materials that are easily purchased in Brazil, indicating that the new fertilizers developed in this work have the potential to be produced on a large scale. Full article
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Reusing Waste Coffee Grounds in the Preparation of Porous Alumina Ceramics
by Mihone Kerolli Mustafa, Ivana Gabelica, Vilko Mandić, Rea Veseli and Lidija Ćurković
Sustainability 2022, 14(21), 14244; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142114244 - 31 Oct 2022
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Porous ceramics can be used in various industrial applications, such as thermal insulation, orthopedic implants, high-temperature filtration, lightweight structural components, and catalyst supports, etc., and can be obtained using various methods. In this study, the sacrificial fugitive method was used to prepare a [...] Read more.
Porous ceramics can be used in various industrial applications, such as thermal insulation, orthopedic implants, high-temperature filtration, lightweight structural components, and catalyst supports, etc., and can be obtained using various methods. In this study, the sacrificial fugitive method was used to prepare a porous alumina ceramic. The appropriate amount of sacrificial fugitive was combined with raw ceramic powder as a pore-forming agent, and was then evaporated or burned out either before or during the sintering process to create the desired pores. Various materials can be used as pore-forming agents; in this work, eco-friendly waste coffee grounds (WCG) were utilized. First, alumina ceramic green bodies were prepared via slip casting of 60 wt. % alumina suspensions with five different amounts of WCG (0 wt. %, 1 wt. %, 5 wt. %, 10 wt. % and 15 wt. %) and the dispersant Dolapix (0.2 wt. %), and using PVA (0.5 wt. %) as a binder for all solutions. The effect of the various amounts of WCG on the alumina ceramic green bodies, and subsequently on the obtained sintered ceramics, was tracked and validated through different analyses. Suspension viscosity was determined through a rotational viscometer. Simultaneous differential thermal and thermogravimetric (DTA/TGA) analyses were used to observe the thermal decomposition of WCG and to determine the sintering regime. After sintering, the density, porosity, and shrinkage of the samples were examined and calculated. In addition, the phase composition and crystallite size of all sintered samples were determined by powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) analysis, as well as their morphology and composition using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) equipped with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS). The results show that density decreased from 3.743 to 2.172 g/cm3 and porosity increased from 6.12% to 45.52%, both with the increasing amount of WCG (from 0 wt. % to 15 wt. %). Full article
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