We can consider that there are currently four types of materials in materials science: metals and alloys, polymers, ceramics, and composites [1,2]. For most people, the word ceramics is only related to construction material (cement, bricks, floor or wall covering) and crockery. Indeed, the oldest traces of ceramic materials are fragments of crockery, based on clay, made in prehistoric china. This type of ceramic, which is part of the so-called traditional ceramics, consists mainly of silicates, which are combined compounds of silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , and other metal oxides such as Al 2 O 3 , CaO, K 2 O or MgO. From the middle of the last century on, with the technological development of new elaboration and characterization processes, innovative ceramic materials, called advanced or engineering ceramics, began to be developed, considerably increasing the area of applications of these materials. While traditional ceramics are made from natural materials, usually with clay, quartz, and feldspar, advanced ceramics have no silicates and are made from synthetic powders of oxides, nitrides, carbides, borides, carbides, etc. The latter have chemical, physical, and mechanical properties far superior to traditional ceramics, such as biocompatibility, high hardness, high mechanical and thermal resistance, resistance to wear and corrosion, etc. Advanced ceramics are materials used in the manufacture of many high-tech products [3-6], which have applications in the health field, such as bioceramics [6][7][8], in the area electronics, such as functional ceramics (electroceramics, magnetic ceramics, and optical ceramics) [3,4,6,9,10], in energy conversion and storage, such as electrode materials, electrolytes, sealants and interconnectors [3,6,9,11,12]. They are also present in the home appliance, automotive, naval, and aeronautical industries due mainly to their thermal and mechanical properties [3,10]. The science and technology of ceramic materials are essential in the development of our society, and research in this area has a fundamental role, as illustrated in Table 1, which presents some of the main topics currently investigated internationally [13].