  Ceramic materials are ubiquitous in technologies operating under high
mechanical, thermal or chemical constrains. Research in ceramic processing aims
at creating ceramics with properties that are still challenging to obtain, such
as toughness, transparency, conductivity, among others. Magnetic slip casting
is a ceramic process where an external magnetic field is used to align the
ceramic grains along preferential crystallographic directions, thereby creating
controlled texture. Over the past 20 years of research on magnetic slip
casting, ceramics of multiple chemistry were found to exhibit enhanced
properties as a result from the texturation. This paper reviews the progress in
the field of magnetic slip casting, details the processing parameters, the
textures obtained for a diverse range of ceramic materials. The achieved
mechanical and functional properties of the magnetically textured parts are
presented. This overview of the magnetic slip casting process allows to
identify critical directions for future advancement in advanced technical
ceramics
