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Ceramics are becoming increasingly useful to the medical world. Surgeons
are using material bioceramic for repair and to replace bones of hips,
knees and other parts of the human body. They are also using it to substitute
heart valves in deficient functions. When used in the human body as implantations
or as covering for metallic materials, the ceramic materials can stimulate
bone growth; promote tissue formation and supplyprotection from the immune
system. They are used for dentists in implants, crowns, cement and implantations.
The ceramic materials are of the few materials that have durability and
stability enough to support the corrosive effect of corporal fluids. The
modern ceramic materials have an important paper in the systems of computerized
axial cat scan (TAC) of X and sonic rays, essential for medical diagnostics.
The ceramics have an important paper in the requests of the ambient necessities.
They can help in the reduction of the pollution, capture toxic materials
and encapsulate nuclear trashes.
Today, catalytic converters of the automobiles and trucks are made of
cellular ceramics and help to convert harmful gases as the carbon monoxide
into hydroxide water and of carbon. Advanced ceramics are starting to
be used in devices diesel. The lightness property, resistance the high
temperatures and to the consuming confer bigger efficiency in the combustion
and significant fuel savings.
The Resistance to the heat and lightweight are some of the attractive
characteristics in the ceramic materials. For these reasons the ceramics
roofing tiles supply shield to the heating in the spaceships of today,
nominated in the used ones for the space program of NASA.
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