Surface Modification and Functionalization of Ceramic Composites

Rajan Jose is Chair Professor of Energy and Battery Technology at Ming Chi University of Technology, Taiwan, and Senior Professor at Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA), Malaysia. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Nature journal Materials Circular Economy. He previously served as Dean of Research (Technology) at UMPSA and was also a member of the University's Senate and Graduate Council.He earned his PhD from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Trivandrum, India, where his doctoral research focused on nanostructured perovskite ceramics for microwave and superconducting electronics. His research has contributed to the science and engineering of a wide range of materials, including inorganic and organic semiconductors, polymers, metals and alloys, molecular electronic materials, biomaterials, glasses, and glass ceramics.Prior to joining UMPSA, he held research and scientific positions at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (India), AIST (Japan), Toyota Technological Institute (Japan), and the National University of Singapore (Singapore). His scholarly work spans renewable energy technologies, battery materials, sustainable materials, circular economy, data science, and artificial intelligence. He has authored numerous scientific publications, holds multiple patents, and has supervised researchers at postgraduate and postdoctoral levels. His research contributions have received international recognition within the materials science community.His current research interests include renewable energy devices, sustainable materials, circular economy, data science, and artificial intelligence.Fabian Ezema is a Professor at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and a visiting professor to NRS-EMT (MATECSS UNESCO Chair) in Varennes, Quebec, Canada and iThemba Labs South Africa. He is also a Fellow of UNESCO-UNISA South Africa Chair in Nanosciences and Nanotechnology (U2ACN2). His research interests are in several areas of materials science including synthesis and characterization of particles and thin film materials through chemical routes with emphasis on energy applications.

• 1. Introduction: Review of the status of modification and functionalization of ceramics composites, progress and perceptions2. Surface modification of zirconia ceramics using polymer surface modification and functionalization of ceramics composites3. Surface modification and functionalization of ceramics composite using self-assembled monolayer and graft polymerization4. Improving the thermal properties of ceramics–CNT composites by carbon nanotube (CNTs) surface modification5. Effect of surface modification on the dielectric properties of mixed transition metal oxides ceramics composites.6. Enhancement of ceramics applications using a surface modification of coated various deposition techniques in ceramics composites7. Effects of surface modification (surface treatment) on friction and surface abrasion of ceramic composites8. Synthesis, characterization and dielectric properties of surface functionalized ferroelectric ceramics composites9. The use of cellulose materials in surface modification and functionalization of ceramics composites10. Application of upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) as nano-ceramic materials for bioimaging11. Synthesis and fabrication of cathodic electrophoretic deposition of ceramic materials and composites using extracted dyes from different plants12. Functionalized ceramic matrix composites: fabrication, application and recycling13. Overview of electrical discharge coating technique of surface modification and functionalization of ceramics composites14. Surface modification and functionalization of ceramic composites for bone implantation15. Ceramic Based Functional Electrode Materials for Application in Solid Oxide Cell-based Electrochemical Devices16. Surface modification of calcium phosphates scaffolds with antimicrobial agents for bone tissue engineering17. Surface modification of multifunctional zinc ferrite nanocomposites for biomedical applications18. The role of ceramic composite materials in achieving the next-generation electrochemical energy storage devices19. Ceramic-polyaniline composite as electrode for asymmetric supercaapcitors20. Fabrication of bilayer/duplex layer on metallic implants: advanced surface modification of metallic implants for orthopedic applications21. Surface modification of borate composite for dosimetric application22. Organic and inorganic surface functionalization of some selected ceramic-nanocomposites for drug delivery in cancer therapy23. Piezoelectric and dielectric properties of phase re-engineered barium titanate prepared by self-propagating high-temperature24. Density function theory (DFT) approaches to property driven investigations in ceramic and composite materials