A porous ceramic structure includes a porous honeycomb structure composed primarily of cordierite, and Ce- and Zr-containing particles fixedly attached to the honeycomb structure. The Ce- and Zr-containing particles contain Ce and Zr. The Ce- and Zr-containing particles have a fixedly attached portion located inside the honeycomb structure and a protrusion contiguous with the fixedly attached portion and protruding from the honeycomb structure.

A porous ceramic structure includes a porous honeycomb structure composed primarily of cordierite, and Ce- and Zr-containing particles fixedly attached to the honeycomb structure. The Ce- and Zr-containing particles contain Ce and Zr. The Ce- and Zr-containing particles have a fixedly attached portion located inside the honeycomb structure and a protrusion contiguous with the fixedly attached portion and protruding from the honeycomb structure.

A ceramic body exhibiting % P≥50%, df≤0.36, and a combined weight percentage of crystalline phases containing cordierite and indialite of at least 85 wt %, and up to 10 wt % of a crystalline pseudobrookite structured phase, such as armalcolite. The ceramic body contains, as expressed on an oxide basis, either: 1% wt % to 11% wt % titania and 89% wt % to 99% wt % MgO, Al.sub.2O.sub.3, and SiO.sub.2 that have relative weight ratios of MgO:Al.sub.2O.sub.3:SiO.sub.2 within the field defined by 15.6:34.0:50.4, 12.6:34.0:53.4, 13.9:30.7:55.4, and 16.9:30.7:52.4, or 2.5% to 11% titania and 89% wt % to 97.5% wt % MgO, Al.sub.2O.sub.3, and SiO.sub.2 that have relative weight ratios of MgO:Al.sub.2O.sub.3:SiO.sub.2 within the field defined by 15.6:34.0:50.4, 12.6:34.0:53.4, 12.0:35.7:52.3, and 15.0:35.7:49.3. Batch composition mixtures and methods of manufacturing ceramic bodies using the batch compositions are provided, as are other aspects.

A ceramic body exhibiting % P≥50%, df≤0.36, and a combined weight percentage of crystalline phases containing cordierite and indialite of at least 85 wt %, and up to 10 wt % of a crystalline pseudobrookite structured phase, such as armalcolite. The ceramic body contains, as expressed on an oxide basis, either: 1% wt % to 11% wt % titania and 89% wt % to 99% wt % MgO, Al.sub.2O.sub.3, and SiO.sub.2 that have relative weight ratios of MgO:Al.sub.2O.sub.3:SiO.sub.2 within the field defined by 15.6:34.0:50.4, 12.6:34.0:53.4, 13.9:30.7:55.4, and 16.9:30.7:52.4, or 2.5% to 11% titania and 89% wt % to 97.5% wt % MgO, Al.sub.2O.sub.3, and SiO.sub.2 that have relative weight ratios of MgO:Al.sub.2O.sub.3:SiO.sub.2 within the field defined by 15.6:34.0:50.4, 12.6:34.0:53.4, 12.0:35.7:52.3, and 15.0:35.7:49.3. Batch composition mixtures and methods of manufacturing ceramic bodies using the batch compositions are provided, as are other aspects.

A pillar shaped honeycomb structure, including: an outer peripheral wall; and porous partition walls disposed inside the outer peripheral wall, the partition walls defining a plurality of cells, each of the cells penetrating from one end face to other end face to form a flow path, wherein one or both of the one end face and the other end face includes a groove portion; and wherein at least one annular conductive loop containing a conductive material is embedded in the groove portion.

A pillar shaped honeycomb structure, including: an outer peripheral wall; and porous partition walls disposed inside the outer peripheral wall, the partition walls defining a plurality of cells, each of the cells penetrating from one end face to other end face to form a flow path, wherein one or both of the one end face and the other end face includes a groove portion; and wherein at least one annular conductive loop containing a conductive material is embedded in the groove portion.

Ceramic honeycomb bodies with a matrix of intersecting walls having an interior portion with a first average bulk porosity, and a skin having a second average bulk porosity, wherein the second average bulk porosity is less than the first average bulk porosity. Methods of manufacturing a ceramic honeycomb bodies include providing a firing cycle for the ceramic honeycomb structure such that at least the skin of the honeycomb structure is subjected to a thermal spike in firing temperature while the interior portion of the matrix is subjected to a lesser spike in firing temperature.

A circumferential coating material to be applied to a circumferential surface of a honeycomb structure made of ceramics formed by extrusion, the circumferential coating material including a ceramic raw material that forms a circumferential coating layer, wherein the ceramic raw material contains: a ceramic mixture of first ceramic particles having particulate shapes, and second ceramic particles having particulate shapes and an average particle diameter different from an average particle diameter of the first ceramic particles; and a fiber material having an elongated strip-like shape, wherein the ceramic mixture has particle size distribution including at least two local maximum values, and the fiber material has an average fiber length ranging from 30 to 100 μm in a longitudinal direction.

A ceramic honeycomb structure comprising large numbers of flow paths longitudinally formed by cell walls arranged in a lattice pattern in cross section, and an outer peripheral wall formed around the flow paths; in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, fan-shaped bulges projecting in a fan shape toward the flow paths from cell wall intersections at which the cell walls are crossing; the circumscribed circles of circular portions of the fan-shaped bulges at all cell wall intersections having a constant radius; and when the distance between the center point of the circumscribed circle and the center point of the cell wall intersection is defined as a center point distance S, a center point distance So in the outer peripheral portion of the ceramic honeycomb structure and a center point distance Sc in the center portion meeting Sc<So.

A manufacturing method of a honeycomb structure including: a formed body forming step of extruding a forming raw material, to form a plurality of quadrangular prismatic columnar honeycomb formed bodies; a firing step of firing the honeycomb formed bodies, to form a plurality of quadrangular prismatic-columnar quadrangular segments; a triangular segment forming step to form a triangular prismatic-columnar triangular segment; a bonded body forming step to form a honeycomb bonded body; and a circumference grinding step to manufacture the honeycomb structure, wherein the bonded body forming step further includes: a pressurizing step of pressurizing the triangular segment from a circumferential direction of the temporary assembly toward a central direction thereof, by use of a pressurizing jig comprising a pressurizer.