TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Components: The amount of orientable ceramic particles is more than 80 vol.%. The set of ceramic particles comprises non-orientable ceramic particles. The fraction of non-orientable ceramic particles has a median length, which is less than ten times a median length of the orientable ceramic particles. The orientable ceramic particles are made of a material comprising an oriented function. The amount of first particulate fraction is: more than 50 vol.%; less than 50 vol.% or more than 5 vol.%; more than 80 vol.%; or less than 15 vol.%. The amount of second particulate fraction is: more than 7 vol.%; or less than 20 vol.%. The particles (more than 90 vol.%, preferably more than 95 vol.%) of second particulate fraction are non-orientable particles. The amount of first and second particulate fractions is more than 90 vol.%, preferably more than 95 vol.%. A particle size distribution of ceramic particles is bimodal. The first particulate fraction has an average elongation factor of greater than 10. The orientable ceramic particles are anisotropic particles or multi-faceted particles. The material comprises orientable ceramic particles, ceramic particles of second particulate fraction, particles of complementary fraction of orientable particles or anisotropic particles consist of oxides, nitrides, carbides and/or carbo-oxynitrides. The material consists of zirconium oxide, partially stabilized zirconium oxide, stabilized zirconium oxide, yttrium oxide, doped yttrium oxide, preferably yttrium oxide doped with samarium oxide, titanium oxide, aluminosilicates such as mullite, cordierite, alumina or aluminum oxide and hydrated alumina, preferably boehmite, magnesium oxide, talc, nickel oxide, iron oxide, cerium oxide, doped cerium oxide, oxides having perovskite structure, preferably gallates, compounds comprising lanthanum aluminum oxide, lanthanum gallium oxide or lanthanum strontium metal oxide (La(1-x)SrxMO3), compounds comprising lanthanum strontium titanium manganese gallium oxide (La4Sr8Ti11Mn1-xGaxO38) and lanthanum strontium titanium manganese oxide (La4Sr8Ti12-nMnnO38), compounds comprising barium titanium oxide, barium zirconium oxide, lead manganese niobium oxide (Pb(Mg(0.25)Nb(0.75))O3), barium zinc niobium oxide (Ba(Zn(0.25)Nb(0.75))O3), lead zinc niobium oxide (Pb(Zn(0.25)Nb(0.75))O3), lead titanium oxide and calcium copper titanium oxide (CaCu3Ti4O12), compounds having a bimevox structure including bismuth vanadium metal oxide (Bi2V1-xMexOz), where z ensures electroneutrality, compounds having a lamox structure comprising lanthanum molybdenum oxide (La2Mo2O9), compounds having an apatite structure comprising yttrium containing compound (Me110(XO4)6Y12), compounds including strontium cerium metal oxide (SrCe1-xM2xO3), compounds barium cerium metal oxide (BaCe1-xM3xO3), compounds including lanthanum strontium selenium oxide (LaxSr1-xSeO3), zeolite structure (Nax1Cax2Mgx3Bax4Kx5Alx6(Six7Ox8)x9H2O), potassium niobium oxide (KNbO3) optionally doped with lithium, tantalum and/or barium, sodium niobium oxide optionally doped with lithium, tantalum and/or barium, potassium sodium niobium oxide ((K(0.5)Na(0.5))NbO3) optionally doped with lithium, tantalum and/or barium, aluminum nitrate, boron nitrate, silicon nitrate, titanium nitrate, titanium carbide, silicon carbide, tungsten carbide and/or zirconium carbide. The walls have an open porosity of less than 30%, and a peripheral layer constituted by layers of orientable ceramic particles. The dispersion of orientation of the particles is less than 30 degrees , preferably less than 15 degrees .M = Cr, Co, Mg, Fe, Gd or Mn;Ma = Pt, Pd, Rh, Au or Ag;Me = Mg, Al, Si, Ti, Co, Ni, Co, Zn, Mn, Sb, Ta, Nb, Cr, Mo, W or U;x = 0-1;Me1 = cationic metal including Ca2+, de Cd2+, Sr2+, Ba2+, Pb2+, Na+ or K7+ or rare earth cation, preferably La3+, Nd3+, Al3+, U4+ or Th4+;XO4 = anionic metal including PQ43-, SiO44-, AsO43-, MnO4-, SO42-, CO32-, HPO42-, SiO44- or GeO44-;Y1 = anionic metal including F-, Cl-, OH-, Br-, I-, CO32- or O2-;M2 = rare earth metal, preferably ytterbium;M3 = rare earth metal such as barium cerium oxide;x = 0-1;y = 0-0.15;n = 0-1; andx1-x9 = less than 0.