Review: Densification process of ceramic materials

Ceramics has played an important role in the technological and socio-economic development of humanity, so that they can be used to identify different historical periods of the humanity. Babylonians, Greek, Andalusian, among other cultures have used the ceramics and developed several methods to improve the products obtained by pottery. Generally, the ceramics can be divided into two big areas, traditional and structural ceramics. Ceramics manufactured with clay, Traditional Ceramics, currently they are being studied in the improvement of structural, abrasives, cement, refractory, among other materials. On the other hand, the ceramics developed as a result of new technologies and the exploitation of natural resources, Structural Ceramics, they are a great interest for the science of ceramic materials due to the development of ceramics with properties that incorporate attributes of various materials in only one material, in addition to the contributing to the phenomenological study at a scientific level. Advances in the processes of densification and doping of these materials have allowed to obtain ceramics with high mechanical resistance, high hardness, high resistance to attrition and corrosion, good chemical and thermal stability; features that have directly influenced the type of applications such as bulletproof vests, transparent shields, high temperature electrical insulators, superconducting devices, electronic materials among other applications