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I would suggest if this technology is being pursued then they will have moved onto "Cermets".

Remember ceramics have been used in gas turbine engines for some years.
Ceramics can be very strong in both compresion and tension and have excellent "Creep" properties.

But this is old hat in materials technology now. One possible future is Cermets.

A composite structure composed of ceramic around a metal matrix at the molecular level.