New ceramic materials are highly appreciated due to their manifold features including mechanical properties, environmental uses, energy applications and many more. This work presents the latest research development and covers a broad range of topics from stabilized zirconia ceramics with enhanced functional properties to ceramic components in medical/biological applications.

• Foreword: Proceedings – Paper selection “Advanced Ceramics and Applications”
• Contents
• List of contributors
• 1 A review on current status and future scope of hydrogen fuel cell technology in India and across globe
• 2 Porous graphitic carbons derived from seaweed for supercapacitors and the effect of the nanotexture on the rate performance
• 3 Rare earth oxide-stabilized zirconia ceramics and composites with enhanced mechanical and functional properties
• 4 Glass and glass ceramic layer composites with functional coatings
• 5 Structural health monitoring of glass fiber composite materials by piezoelectric nanosensors under cyclic loading
• 6 Fractal tools in combating terrorism and money laundering
• 7 Inkjet three-dimensional printing of bioceramics and bioglass
• 8 Identification of radicals responsible for DNA cleavage by photolysis of bis-oxime esters
• 9 Fabrication of hierarchical replicas with near-perfect microstructure using modified biotemplate method
• 10 Analysis of the in vivo course of foreign body response to a phycogenic bone substitute using FTIR spectroscopy
• 11 Synthesis and structural characterization of some cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries
• 12 Application of ceramic components in knee arthroplasties
• 13 Nanomaterials application in dentistry
• 14 Complications of utilizing ceramic components in orthopedic surgery
• 15 Growth and characterization of calcium fluoride single crystals
• 16 Ceramic electrolytes for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) as alternative energy sources
• 17 E-scrap processing: theory and practice
• 18 Intelligent nanomaterials for medicine diagnostic and therapy application
• 19 On the doughnut effect and the rainbow proton–silicon interaction potential
• 20 The methods of safe storage of spent nuclear fuel and waste
• 21 Fractal corrected Schottky potential and Heywang model