“…As pointed out in a recent review [33], modification of the surface of the ceramic fillers, through chemical grafting or the production of core-shell structures is key to improve filler dispersion, reduce porosity, thereby improving the mechanical, and electrical properties of the composites. Most of the existent studies focus on the dielectric [34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43] and electromechanical [4,7,13,15,17,25,44] properties of such composites and relatively few systematic studies on their thermal and mechanical behavior have been published so far. Furthermore the ceramic volume fractions considered are often much lower than those used in most applications [45], studies of highly filled composites mainly being limited to lead-based ferroelectric materials [46,47].…”