Forthcoming Special Issues
Digital Ceramics
Guest editors:
Prof. Fabrice Rossignol, Ph.D.
Institute of Research for Ceramics, CNRS, France.
Email: [email protected]
Prof. Aldo Boccaccini, Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c.
FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Björn Mieller, EngD.
Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Department of Materials Engineering, Berlin, Germany. Email: [email protected]
Dr. Andrew J. Pascall, Ph.D.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, United States.
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Fabrice Petit, D.Sc.
Belgian Ceramic Research Centre, Mons/Bertrix, Belgium.
Email: [email protected]
Open Ceramics, Editor-in-Chief
Dr.-Ing. Paolo Colombo, Ph.D.
University of Padova Department Industrial Engineering, Padova, Italy
Special issue information:
Recently, the digitalization of the design and the entire fabrication chain of ceramics has become a tremendous issue both at the academic level and in the industry. With this feature issue of Open Ceramics, the editors aim at gathering contributions that address current progresses in digitalization: from upstream materials design to downstream characterization, through shaping, consolidation/sintering and finishing post-treatments.
For this special issue, Open Ceramics welcomes novel contributions on recent developments in the field of the digitalization, including:
- Materials Ontology
- Numerical simulations (DFT ab initio calculations, FEM, DEM, etc.)
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning / Deep learning
- Additive Manufacturing / Industry 4.0
- Robotics
- Acquisition of Data, Data Storage, Data use
- Materials Design
Manuscript submission information:
Submission Deadline: 31st December 2022
We are pleased to inform you that this Special Issue will waive 100% of the APC (Article Publishing Charge). This will be applicable for any submissions received before the submission deadline, which are accepted for publication after peer review.
When submitting your manuscripts, please specify that your paper is a contribution to the Special Issue entitled "Digital Ceramics" and select the article type "VSI: Digital Ceramics".
Please also refer to the Author Instructions (via https://www.elsevier.com/journals/open-ceramics/2666-5395/guide-for-authors) prior to submission for the proper format of your manuscripts.
Supplementary data or material related to the articles published in this Special Issue can be uploaded in Mendeley Data Repository https://data.mendeley.com/ or in other repositories listed here and referred to as indicated in the Guide for Authors of this journal.
Why publish in this Special Issue?
- Special Issue articles are published together on ScienceDirect, making it incredibly easy for other researchers to discover your work.
- Special content articles are downloaded on ScienceDirect twice as often within the first 24 months than articles published in regular issues.
- Special content articles attract 20% more citations in the first 24 months than articles published in regular issues.
- All articles in this special issue will be reviewed by no fewer than two independent experts to ensure the quality, originality and novelty of the work published.
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Special Issue on Next frontier bioceramics: improvements from collaborative and multi-disciplinary approaches
Open Ceramics, the official peer-reviewed Open Access journal of the European Ceramic Society published by Elsevier, invites research and review articles to be published in a special issue "Next frontier bioceramics: improvements from collaborative and multi-disciplinary approaches".
Guest editors:
Paola Palmero, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Email: [email protected]
Aldo Roberto Boccaccini FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Email: [email protected]
Frank Kern, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Email: [email protected]
Nathalie Douard, Mines Saint-Etienne, France
Email: [email protected]
Maria Canillas, Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio, Madrid, Spain
Email: [email protected]
Special issue information:
Bioceramics have experienced a great development in the last 50 years, that make them increasingly used in different medical applications such as in orthopaedics, dentistry, and hard tissues surgery. While structural inert ceramics (like alumina, zirconia and their composites) find application in dentistry and bearings in joint arthroplasty, bioactive ceramics and glasses show an enormous potential in the regeneration of bone tissues and, usually in the form of composites, soft tissues. In this field, to meet the last and most challenging requirements of tissue engineering, new biomaterials have to be conceived as matrix/cells/signals constructs, termed scaffolds, able to boost new tissue formation and to be ideally reabsorbed into the human body.
Besides, new digital image acquisition techniques and the associated digital fabrication approaches allow the implants to be more precisely customized on the patients themselves, and give space to creativity in the design of advanced engineered multifunctional structures.
Despite continuous progress, there are still challenges that need to be faced. Examples are the full bio-integration of inert ceramics, the low reliability of calcium phosphates and bioglasses, the aesthetics of high-strength dental ceramics, the inflammatory response to implants, the ability to guide proper cell differentiation and boost early bone formation and wound healing. A collaborative and multi-disciplinary approach seems the key to overcome such challenges, merging strategies and skills from different areas, such as materials science, engineering, biology, medicine, chemistry, modelling and design.
Therefore, this Special Issue is especially intended for the publication of results emanating from collaborative research teams, in order to show how the cooperation between ceramists and experts from different / complementary fields can boost knowledge and technological development. Research results obtained in the frame of European Projects implying multi-disciplinary approaches and share of knowledge between different areas to fabricate better bioceramics are particularly welcome.
Authors are kindly invited to submit contributions on bioceramics, including both inert structural ceramics and bioactive/bioresorbable ceramics and glasses, that address (but are not limited to) the following topics:
- Inert bioceramics: strategies for improving bio-integration;- Bioceramics and biology: cells interaction, in-vitro and in-vivo studies, antimicrobial properties;
- Surface engineering and functionalization;
- Design and fabrication of novel /advanced/ multifunctional bioceramics and bioactive glasses;
- Modelling of bio-mechanical properties joined with experimental studies;
- Bioceramics in the frame of collaborative researches with clinicians, surgeons, biologists, engineers, experts in modelling and design.
Manuscript submission information:
Deadline for manuscript submission: 31st March 2023
We are pleased to inform you that this Special Issue will waive the APC (Article Publishing Charge). This will be applicable for any submissions received before submission deadline, which are accepted for publication after peer review.
When submitting your manuscripts, please specify that your paper is a contribution to the Special Issue entitled "Next frontier bioceramics: improvements from collaborative and multi-disciplinary approaches" and select the article type "VSI: NextBioceramics".
Please also refer to the Author Instructions (via https://www.elsevier.com/journals/open-ceramics/2666-5395/guide-for-authors) prior to submission for the proper format of your manuscripts.
Supplementary data or material related to the articles published in this Special Issue can be uploaded in Mendeley Data Repository https://data.mendeley.com/ or in other repositories listed here and referred to as indicated in the Guide for Authors of this journal.
Example of Reference to a dataset:[dataset] [6] M. Oguro, S. Imahiro, S. Saito, T. Nakashizuka, Mortality data for Japanese oak wilt disease and surrounding forest compositions, Mendeley Data, v1, 2015. https://doi.org/10.17632/xwj98nb39r.1.
Websites:
https://ecers.org/en/journals/open-ceramics.html
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/open-ceramics/
Why publish in this Special Issue?
- Special Issue articles are published together on ScienceDirect, making it incredibly easy for other researchers to discover your work.
- Special content articles are downloaded on ScienceDirect twice as often within the first 24 months than articles published in regular issues.
- Special content articles attract 20% more citations in the first 24 months than articles published in regular issues.
- All articles in this special issue will be reviewed by no fewer than two independent experts to ensure the quality, originality and novelty of the work published.
Learn more about the benefits of publishing in a special issue: https://www.elsevier.com/authors/submit-your-paper/special-issues
Interested in becoming a guest editor? Discover the benefits of guest editing a special issue and the valuable contribution that you can make to your field: https://www.elsevier.com/editors/role-of-an-editor/guest-editors