AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY bulletin emerging ceramics & glass technology OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2013 Ceramics and glass Canada and Mexico Introducing the 2013-2014 ACerS leadership Functional glasses for energy and IT apps • NSF CAREER program update MS&T final program, January 2014 meetings From slurry to sintering, count on Harrop. T Tape Casters The Harrop line of lab and production models feature automatic slurry control with micrometer adjustment to within 0.0001\" of wet tape thickness. PLC temperature controlled multi-zone infrared and forced air heating, self-aligning belt drive, and enclosed cabinet for cleanliness. Caster lengths from 6 ft. to more than 100 ft. Binder Burnout Ovens Harrop forced air conveyor ovens for binder removal from tape cast, pressed or extruded ceramic parts prior to sintering. Stainless steel belt and internals minimize contamination. Work is carried through multiple controlled heating zones. Processing temperatures to 450°C. 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Hecht From nanotechnology to dental ceramics to clean energy, Mexico plays a global role in advanced research and commerce. Billion-dollar (a day) border. .27 Mexico ceramics directory and profiles.. 28 cover story Ceramics and glass Canada and Mexico (Credit: Herrera; CNYN.) Functional glasses for energy and information technologies 30 - page 20 Carlo G. Pantano, Himanshu Jain, and Klaus Bange The international glass community finds opportunities for glass in emerging energy and information technologies. NSF\'s CAREER Program: New opportunities and the ceramics class of 2013. 34 Lynnette D. Madsen Update on NSF\'s program to boost the research and outreach activities and career-life balance of young professors. Inspiring a new generation of materials engineers. 38 Ricardo H.R. Castro K-12 outreach introduces students to materials science concepts with kits demonstrating strong materials, smart materials, and super materials. meetings Inspiring a new generation of materials engineers (Credit: Castro; UC, Davis.) 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Calling all potential Emeritus Members Attend your Division business meeting at MS&T\'13 • Welcome to our newest Corporate Members! • Division awards • Education Integration Committee: NICE Research Briefs. • Discovering the triple point of vanadium oxide • Slick chemistry uses isothermal water splitting to generate hydrogen Ceramics in Biomedicine 3 8 14 16 • Glass scaffolds help heal bone • Oxide nanowires made by simple process promote bone ingrowth, faster healing Ceramics in Energy. . 18 • Low-temperature SOFC aims to go commercial • From new fuels to waste disposal, next-gen nuclear depends on advanced ceramics columns Book Review: Scanning Probe Microscopy for Energy Research Yuri Gogotsi Deciphering the Discipline. . Kevin R. 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All feature articles are covered in Current Contents. 40 40 64 59 63 &28⌘ 58 60 2 www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 news & trends 2014 federal R&D budget: Glimmers of hope, but big battle still looms Basic government funding is set to expire at the end of September, and as we go to print the House, Senate, and Obama administration are tens of billions of dollars apart on funding levels in most budget areas. But there are glimmers of hope for some agencies that fund quite a bit of materials science research, according to a report from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. In late July, House and Senate Appropriations committees approved spending levels for the \"Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies\" grouping that includes the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Commerce, and the National Science Foundation. NSF might lead the pack among agencies seeing actual spending increases. AAAS estimates funds allocated for NSF R&D spending at $5.7 billion in the House version and $6.1 billion under the Senate appropriation. NSF\'s FY 2014 research budget request was $6.2 billion, and it received R&D estimated funding of $5.5 billion in FY 2013 after sequestration. \"While neither version would provide NSF funding equal to the request, the House version essentially provides an inflation adjustment from sequester spending plus a small additional amount,” the AAAS analysis says. \"By contrast, the Senate version would leave NSF R&D at an all-time high.” At Commerce, the National Institute of Standards and Technology received a small increase for R&D above estimated 2013 sequester levels from the House. The Senate met NIST\'s budget request, and provided funds for a manufacturing technology consortium program. For NASA, the picture is more The US Capitol dome at dusk. mixed. According to AAAS, the House would allocate $10.8 billion for NASA R&D in FY 2014, while the Senate would provide $11.9 billion. \"The House version would represent modest gains above sequester levels but a shortfall from both FY 2012 presequester spending and the request, while the Senate version would represent a substantial increase above sequester levels and would surpass both FY 2012 and the request,\" AAAS says. The difference between R&D spending levels for these agencies agreed upon in the House and Senate is about $5.5 billion in the grand scheme of Washington\'s trillion-dollar budgets, not an insurmountable difference. But, based on recent history, fiscal 2014 likely will start with a continuing resolution that will prevent a government shutdown but continue to kick the budget can down the road. Factor in looming fights on another increase in the US debt ceiling-the very issue that resulted in enactment of the automatic, across-the-board spending cuts known Credit: Diliff/Wikimedia Commons.) as sequestration two years ago—and on funding for the Affordable Care Act, and it is safe to assume there is a lot of federal funding uncertainty in the immediate future. Ceramic materials, glut of silicon cells drive global solar markets Driven by dramatically decreasing hardware costs, the installed cost of solar photovoltaic systems fell in 2012 and through the first half of this year, according to an annual report from the US Department of Energy\'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, Calif.). The lab\'s Tracking the Sun report says installed costs for solar power systems in 2012 decreased by $0.30/W to $0.90/W, or 6% to 14% compared with 2011, depending on system size. \"This marks the third year in a row of significant price reductions for PV systems in the US,\" says report coauthor Galen Barbose of Berkeley\'s Environmental Energy Technologies Division in a news release. System prices in California fell by an additional 10% to 15% in the first half of 2013, and the report suggests price reductions in 2013 will match or exceed those seen in recent years. According to the report, recent cost reductions mainly were caused by steep reductions in the price of PV cells— since 2008, average module prices on the global market fell by $2.60/W, or about 80% of the total decline in PV system prices over that period. In contrast, prices for inverters, mounting hardware, and other system components, plus installation costs, have remained relatively flat over the past few years. American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org 3 news & trends (Credit: GLBC.) Located in Northern New Mexico, the Cimarron solar facility uses 490,000 ground-mounted CdTe thin-film solar cells from First Solar to produce up to 30 MW of power. The question now is, how low can PV cell costs go? Prices of polycrystalline silicon cells the dominant technology in the solar market-continue to fall, and could eventually go as low as $0.25/W, according to a recent report in MIT Technology Review. But the article also outlines progress on a new type of solar cell made from ceramic materials with the perovskite crystal structure. \"Researchers developing the technology say that perovskite-based cells could be both inexpensive to produce and have good efficiency, leading to solar panels that cost just $0.10/W to $0.20/W,\" the article says. Perovskite PV cells are a thin-film technology, and a cell with 1 μm of perovskite material can absorb the same amount of light as silicon cells 180 μm thick, according to the article. One company working to commercialize perovskite PV cell technology is Oxford Photovoltaics, Begbroke, England. In June, the company announced it had achieved 15.4% efficiency for its perovskite solar cells. According to the MIT article, efficiencies for perovskite cells could eventu4 (Credit: First Solar.) ally reach 20% to 25%. Another thin-film technology competing with polycrystalline silicon is cadmium telluride, and some big players in the solar world are making moves to position themselves in this market. First Solar Inc., Tempe, Ariz., has been working to develop CdTe technology for several years. The company recently announced that it has acquired CdTe thin film technology from GE, which will transition from First Solar competitor to investor. The sale gave GE 1.75 million shares of First Solar\'s common stock, according to the announcement, and the companies also will purchase each others\' products-First Solar will buy inverters from GE, while the latter will buy PV cells from First Solar. The two companies had been in a race to improve the efficiency of CdTe cells. The business moves highlight the cut-throat nature of competition in the global solar cell market, which prompted GE to stop work on a planned manufacturing plant in Colorado at the end of 2012 and instead partner with First Solar. Forensic brewmastery: Ancient beer brewed in ceramic pots Great Lakes Brewing Co., a Cleveland, Ohio, microbrewery since before those were trendy, recently worked with archaeologists from the University of Chicago to recreate a 4,000-year-old recipe for Sumerian ale using traditional equipment and methods. Scholars at the university have been studying the ancient beer recipe-from a translation of a song to the goddess Ninkasi for some time. The lyrics say little about equipment, referring vaguely to a \"fermenting vat\" and a \"large collector vat.” Thankfully, the With help from University of Chicago archaeologists, Great Lakes Brewing Co. used a 4,000-year old Sumerian beer recipe and brewed it in ceramic pots replicating technology of the era. archaeologists had more than a little knowledge in this regard, and GLBC turned to Brian Zimerle, a \"preparer\" at UC\'s Oriental Institute, for help to make the vats. Zimerle used about 800 lb of clay to make multiple 25 gal. fermenting vessels, 20 gal. collecting vessels, and 10-15 gal. mashing vessels. He modified a buff stoneware clay somewhat similar to what the Sumerians might have used. For the pots that would be exposed to heat during brewing, Zimerle modified the clay with organic material to encourage porosity and thermal durability. \"The clays used in Mesopotamia were also fairly coarse and would also have a variety of organic temper added, such as chaff or straw,\" he says in an email. Zimerle then used an electric motor-driven wheel at a slow speed “equivalent to having an assistant turning the wheel by hand\" to construct the vessels, which were fired to cone 01-1 (about 1150°C), consistent with literature reports of firing parameters from the era. The brewery\'s tasting event featured the beer recipe made using both ancient methods and modern brewing techniques. According to a Cleveland Plain Dealer article, the ancient brew was rather sour and thick. So maybe the recipe needs some tweaking—after all, poetic song lyrwww.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 Technical Ceramic Flame retardant Abrasive Tile Refractory Special glass It all points to Alteo for high performance aluminas Our world-class P-series low-soda aluminas set the standard for the most demanding requirements of technical ceramic producers: ⚫ P152 and P152SB, the industry benchmarks ⚫ P172LSB, highly reactive alumina ◆ P172HPB, the new reference in high-purity and reactivity ⚫ P172SDP, ready-to-press powder ■ P112, P122, P662 semi-reactive standards Available as-calcined and superground (SB), as required. www.alteo-alumina.com alted A NEW WORLD OF ALUMINA Conception: sharkydesign.com 6 news & trends (Credit: Muller; YouTube.) ics may not provide the most rigorous of documentation. But the recipe and raw materials are just part of the art. Processing matters, too, and we know that equipment, tools, and technique impact outcome. Scientists look to define kilogram with super-round silicon sphere Rules-of-thumb like, \"A pint is a pound the world around,\" do not cut it with measurement scientists. They search for definitions of base units that relate to fundamental physical properties. Thus, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a meter is “the length of the path travBusiness news American Mug and Stein Co., one of just two potteries left in East Liverpool, Ohio, recently received an order for 20,000 mugs from coffeehouse giant Starbucks Corp. (www.americanmugandstein.com)... The Fraunhofer Center for Energy Innovation at UConn, a new partnership between the University of Connecticut, Fraunhofer USA, and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection will focus on developing advanced technologies related to energy storage, fuel cells, power management, and distribution (www.fraunhofer.org)... 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The kilogram is the only base unit in the Sl system defined by an object-a platinum-iridium alloy cylinder kept in a vault in France. Efforts are underway to define the kilogram based on fundamental material properties. The International System of Units (or SI, from the French, \"Le Système International D\'unités\"), also known as the \"metric system,\" is the most common global system of units for measurement. It comprises seven base units length, mass, time, electric curSolutions Inc. (www.global.kyocera. com)... PPG Industries\' fiberglass business has received certification from Germanischer Lloyd, a leading international certification body in the wind energy industry (www. ppg.com)... Abakan Inc. has launched MesoCoat Coating Services to provide thermal-spray-coating services using its nanocomposite PComP coating materials to customers in the oil and gas, mining, aerospace, chemicals, metal-processing, and metal-finishing industries (www.mesocoat. com)... 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Thus, the definition of the kilogram base unit appears relatively crude and circular: \"it is equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram.\" The \"international prototype of the kilogram\" is an actual object-the world\'s official kilogram—and is kept at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures in France, where it has been since 1889. The BIPM website admits, “The main disadvantage of this definition is that it relies on the long-term stability of the mass of a material artifact.\" And, it appears that the IPK\'s mass is not stable. Back in 1889, the IPK and six replicas were made from a platinum-iridium alloy. BIMP measured them several times between 1946 and 1989 and discovered that the masses of the seven supposedly identical cylinders diverged with a spread of about 50 µg over the century. In 1999, the General Conference for Weights and Measures recommended an international effort to free the kilogram from the IPK, which led to two projects: the Avogadro project and the Watt Balance project. The idea of the Avogadro project is to take Avogadro\'s constant, which is the number of atoms in 12 g of carbon-12, and turn it inside out. That www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 is, instead of defining Avogadro\'s constant in terms of mass (kilograms), use it to define how many atoms define a kilogram. Another approach involves using a single-crystal ball of silicon 28 to define Avogrado\'s constant, and thus, the kilogram. This ball, \"the \"world\'s roundest object,\" resides at Australia\'s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. The science underlying the superround silicon ball is explained in an 11-minute video by Derek Muller— one of the best \"popularizers” out there making videos about the coolness of science. The video—and many others can be viewed on Muller\'s Veritasium YouTube channel. NAMII announces new RFP for additive manufacturing NATIONAL NAMII ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING INNOVATION INSTITUTE The National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute recently announced a request for proposals for its second round of projects on additive manufacturing. The RFP is open to any organization or institution, but a NAMII member must be a partner in the proposal. NAMII expects to award $9 million for multiple projects. \"[This] announcement of NAMII\'s second call for projects is the accumulation of months of focused work and in-depth analysis on two fronts that are intrinsically linked: The creation of a formal, member-driven project call process and the development of a National Additive Manufacturing Roadmap, our technology investment strategy,\" NAMII director and NCDMM vice president Ed Morris says in a news release. NAMII\'s second call for projects came just two weeks after the organization commemorated its first anniversary. With the release of this second project call, NAMII is well positioned for yet another productive and successful year. NAMII\'s project call request for proposal (RFP) is limited to five technical topic areas: Design for A DELTECH, INC. American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org Additive Manufacturing; Additive Manufacturing Materials; Process and Equipment; Qualification and Certification; and Knowledgebase Development. Proposals are due by Oct. 31, 2013. WE BUILD THE FURNACE TO FIT YOUR NEED® Sustained Operating Temperatures up to 2000°C www.deltechfurnaces.com See us at ICACC\'14, Booth 326 7 acers spotlight Introducing the ACerS leadership for 2013-2014 The American Ceramic Society is pleased to introduce the 2013-2014 Society, Division, and Class leadership. The new officers and directors will be installed at the ACerS 115th Annual Membership Meeting on Oct. 28, 2013, held in conjunction with MS&T\'13 in Montréal. Please refer to the June/July 2013 issue of the ACerS Bulletin for candidate statements and biographies. Society officers and directors Executive Committee President David Green Professor emeritus of Board of Directors (new) John W. Halloran Professor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich. Vijay Jain Deputy manager, engineering Savannah River Remediation LLC Aiken, S.C. 8 ceramic science and engineering Pennsylvania State University Halloran Green University Park, Pa. President-elect Kathleen Richardson Professor of optics and materials science and engineering University of Central Florida Orlando, Fla. Richardson Past president Richard Brow Professor Missouri University of Science and Technology Rolla, Mo. Brow Treasurer Ted Day President & CEO Mo-Sci Corp. Rolla, Mo. Day Spahr Secretary Charlie Spahr Executive director The American Ceramic Society Westerville, Ohio Lara-Curzio Jain Edgar Lara-Curzio Distinguished research staff member, leader of the mechanical properties & mechanics group Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, Tenn. Tatsuki Ohji Prime senior research scientist National Institute of Advanced Industrial Reimanis Ivar Reimanis Herman F. Coors Distinguished Professor of Ceramic Engineering Colorado School of Golden, Colo. Mines Lora Cooper Rothen CEO Du-Co Ceramics Saxonburg, Pa. Science and Technology (AIST) Nagoya, Japan Rothen Ohji Board of Directors (returning) Keith Bowman Professor and chair Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Ill. Singh Mrityunjay (Jay) Singh Chief scientist Ohio Aerospace Institute NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, Ohio Bowman Elizabeth Dickey Dickey Professor and director of graduate programs North Carolina State University Raleigh, N.C. Johnson Parliamentarian David Johnson Editor, Journal of the American Ceramic Society Bedminster, N.J. www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 Division Officers Art, Archaeology, and Conservation Science Marc Walton, Chair Glenn Gates, Vice-chair Pamela Vandiver, Secretary Kathryn Logan, Treasurer Basic Science Wayne Kaplan, Chair Eduardo Saiz, Chair-elect Bryan Huey, Vice-chair Shen Dillon, Secretary Cements Kyle Riding, Chair Jeff Chen, Chair-elect Tyler Ley, Secretary Electronics Winnie Wong-Ng, Trustee Steven Tidrow, Chair Tim Haugan, Chair-elect Haiyan Wang, Vice-chair Geoffrey Brennecka, Secretary Brady Gibbons, Secretary-elect Engineering Ceramics Tatsuki Ohji, Trustee Sujanto Widjaja, Chair Michael Halbig, Chair-elect Soshu Kirihara, Vice-chair/Treasurer Andrew Gyekenyesi, Secretary Glass & Optical Materials Shibin Jiang, Chair Steve Feller, Chair-elect Randy Youngman, Vice-chair Edgar Zanotto, Secretary Nuclear & Environmental Technology Ram Devanathan, Chair Josef Matyas, Vice-chair Raghunath Kanakala, Secretary Refractory Ceramics Ben Markel, Chair Jens Decker, Vice-chair Josh Pelletier, Secretary Structural Clay Products Gregory Grabert, Chair Bill Daidone, Chair-elect John Hewitt, Secretary Class Officers Ceramic Education Council Ed Sabolsky, President Erica Corral, President-elect Shen Dillon, Vice president Sumin Zhu, Secretary National Institute of Ceramic Engineers Kristen Brosnan, President Kathy Lu, President-elect/Treasurer Ricardo Castro, Vice president Chris Dosch, Secretary American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org Developers of Specialty Glass and Custom Ceramics • Hybrids • Discrete Components • Overglazes • Thick Film Pastes • Solar Metallization Pastes • Dielectric & Conductive Paste Additives • Standard & Custom LTCC Formulations • Bioactive Glass Applications • Calcined Mixtures ceradyne, inc. 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Nominees must be current Society members who have attained professional eminence because of their achievements in the ceramic arts or sciences, service to the Society, or productive scholarship. W. David Kingery Award recognizes distinguished lifelong achievements involving multidisciplinary and global contributions to ceramic technology, science, education, and art. The award is open to anyone worldwide. John Jeppson Award recognizes distinguished scientific, technical, or engineering achievements in ceramics, and is open to anyone worldwide. Greaves-Walker Lifetime Service Award is presented to an individual who has rendered outstanding service to the ceramic engineering profession and who has exemplified the aims, ideals, and purpose of NICE. Corporate awards Corporate Environmental Achievement Award recognizes an outstanding environmental achieve10 ment made by an ACerS corporate member in the field of ceramics. Corporate Technical Achievement Award recognizes an outstanding technical achievement made by an ACerS corporate member in the field of ceramics. Young professional awards Richard M. Fulrath Awards recognize Japanese and American ceramic engineers and scientists and encourage a greater understanding among the diverse cultures surrounding the Pacific Rim. The awards recognize individuals for excellence in research and development of ceramic sciences and materials. Nominees must be 45 years old or younger at the time of award presentation. Karl Schwartzwalder-Professional Achievement in Ceramic Engineering Award recognizes an outstanding young ceramic engineer whose achievements have been significant to the profession. A nominee must be between 21 and 40 years of age and must be a member of NICE and ACerS. Robert L. Coble Award for Young Scholars recognizes an outstanding scientist who is conducting research in academia, industry, or at a government-funded laboratory. Candidates must be an ACerS member and must be 35 years old or younger. Du-Co Ceramics Young Professional Award recognizes a young professional who demonstrates exceptional leadership and service to ACerS. Deadline for nominations is April 1, 2014. Lecture awards Frontiers of Science and Society— Rustum Roy Lecture is given each year by a nationally or internationally recognized individual in the area of science, industry, or government. The Award Committee selects the lecturer but invites suggestions from members. Edward Orton Jr. Memorial Lecture selection is based on scholarly attainments in ceramics or a related field. The Award Committee selects the lecturer but invites suggestions from members. Varshneya Frontiers of Glass Science and Technology Lectures encourage scientific and technical dialog in glass topics of significance that define new horizons, highlight new research concepts, or demonstrate the potential to develop products and processes. The lectures are presented at the GOMD annual meeting. The Award Committee generally selects the lecturers, but suggestions from membership are invited. Deadline for suggestions is Oct. 1, 2013. Arthur L. Friedberg Ceramic Engineering Tutorial Lecture Award is given to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to ceramic engineering that relate to the processing or manufacturing of ceramic products. The awardee must be a member of NICE and ACerS. Robert B. Sosman Award is given by the Basic Science Division in recognition of outstanding achievement in basic science that results in a significant impact to the field of ceramics. The awardee is considered by the Award Committee to have made the most significant contribution to the field of ceramics. Deadline for nominations is Feb. 28, 2014. Best paper awards Ross Coffin Purdy Award is given to the author(s) who made the most valuable contribution to ceramic technical literature during the previous calendar year. Richard and Patricia Spriggs Phase Equilibria Award is given to the author(s) who made the most valuable contribution to phase stability relationships in ceramic-based systems literature during the previous calendar year. Educator and student awards Ceramic Education Council Outstanding Educator Award recognizes outstanding work and creativwww.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 ity in teaching, in directing student research, or in the general educational process of ceramic educators. Du-Co Ceramics Scholarship is awarded to an undergraduate student pursing a degree in ceramics or materials engineering and who actively participates in ACerS activities such as PCSA. Nomination deadline is April 1, 2014. Calling all potential Emeritus Members ACerS is reaching out to long-time members to see if they qualify for Emeritus membership. Members qualify if they are age 65 or older and also will have completed at least 35 years of continuous Society membership by Dec. 31, 2013. Emeritus members\' dues are waived, and they also get reduced meeting registration rates. Members who believe they are eligible are invited to contact Marcia Stout (mstout@ceramics.org; phone 614-794-5821). Attend your Division business meeting at MS&T\'13 Six ACerS Divisions will hold executive or general business meetings at MS&T\'13. Executive meetings will be held Sunday, Oct. 27, in the Hyatt Regency Montréal. General business meetings will be held Monday, Oct. 28, or Tuesday, Oct. 29, in the Convention Center. See pages 45 and 46 for the time and location of each meeting. • Art, Archaeology and Conservation Science: Oct. 29 • Basic Science: Oct. 28 • Electronics: Oct. 28 Engineering Ceramics: Oct. 28 • Glass & Optical Materials: Oct. 28 • Nuclear & Environmental Technology: Oct. 28. Welcome to our newest Corporate Members! ACerS recognizes companies that have joined the Society as Corporate Members. For more information on Corporate Membership, contact Tricia Freshour (tfreshour@ceramics. org) or visit the ACerS Corporate Member web page at www.ceramics. org/corporate. Cerametek Materials Beijing Cerametek Materials Co. Ltd. Beijing, P.R. China www.cerametmaterials. com/?yy=english&work Xinjiang Longhai Silicon Industry Development Co. Ltd. Kuitun, Xinjiang, China It\'s A Matter Of Choice ED CM Furnaces, long recognized as an industrial leader in performance-proven, high temperature fully continuous sintering furnaces for MIM, CIM and traditional press and sinter now OFFERS YOU A CHOICE, for maximum productivity and elimination of costly down time. Choose one of our exclusive BATCH hydrogen atmosphere Rapid Temp furnaces. Designed for both debinding and sintering, these new furnaces assure economical, simple and efficient operation. OR... choose our continuous high temperature sintering furnaces with complete automation and low hydrogen consumption. E-Mail: info@cmfurnaces.com Web Site: http://www.cmfurnaces.com CONTACT US for more information on our full line of furnaces with your choice of size, automation, atmosphere capabilities and temperature ranges up to 3100°F / 1700°C. CM FURNACES INC. 103 Dewey Street Bloomfield, NJ 07003-4237 Tel: 973-338-6500 Fax: 973-338-1625 See us at MS&T\'13, Booth 1207 | ICACC\'14, Booth 311 American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org 11 acers spotlight Division awards Several ACerS Divisions held their annual meetings this spring and summer and presented a number of awards. Other ACerS divisions will present awards at the 115th Annual Meeting held in conjunction with MS&T’13. Check the January ACerS Bulletin for information on those winners. Congratulations to all the deserving winners! Cements Division 2012 Stephen Brunauer Award Winner Bernie O\'Hare, Rachel A. Steinle, Hayden Black, Pearl Kaplan, Michael W. Grutzeck, and Alan J. Benesi, Pennsylvania State University Winning paper: \"Evidence of Solid Water Bridges Found in Hydrating Tricalcium Silicate Paste,\" Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 94 [4] 1250–55 (2011) Della Roy Lecture Leslie J. Struble, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Lecture title: \"Effects of Calcium on the Geopolymer Reaction\" Student Poster winners Suengmin Lim, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Jason Mote, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Scott Muzenski, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Elizabeth Nadelman, Georgia Institute of Technology Saamiya Seraj, University of Texas at Austin Jeevaka Somaratna, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Nima Zohhadi, University of South Carolina, Columbia Electronics Division Edward C. Henry Best Paper Award Winners Dennis P. Shay, Pennsylvania State University Nikolas J. Podraza, University of Toledo, Ohio Niall J. Donnelly, Recapping Inc., California Clive A. Randall, Pennsylvania State University Winning paper: \"High Energy Density, High Temperature Capacitors Utilizing Mn-Doped 0.8CaTiO3-0.2CaHfO3 Ceramics,\" Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 95 [4] 1348-55 (2012) Lewis C. Hoffman Scholarship Award Winner Clayton J. Cozzan, University of Florida Glass & Optical Materials Division Alfred R. Cooper Scholar Award Winner Maxwell Marple, Iowa State University Lecture title: “Thermal Behavior of Mechanically Milled Chalcogenide Glasses\" Cooper Session Distinguished Lecturer Alexandra Navrotsky, University of California, Davis Lecture title: \"New Frontiers in the Thermochemistry of Glassy, Amorphous, and Nanoscale Materials\" Student Poster Award Winners 1st Place, Graduate: Guangming Tao, University of Central Florida 2nd Place, Graduate: Peter J. Lezzi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 3rd Place, Graduate: Deborah Elizabeth Watson, Iowa State University Honorable Mention: Yuki Funamoto, Tokyo University of Science Nuclear & Environmental Technology Division D.T. Rankin Award Winner Vijay Jain, Savannah River Remediation LLC 2012 Best Paper Award Winners Kazuya Idemitsu, Yoshihiko Matsuki, Masanao Kishimoto, Yaohiro Inagaki, and Tatsumi Arima, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan Yoshiko Haraguchi, Yu Yamashita, and Michitaka Sasoh; Toshiba, Kawasaki, Japan Winning paper: \"Migration of Iodine Solidified in Ettringite into Compacted Bentonite\" Refractory Ceramics Division Al Allen Award Winner Wagner M. Silva, Magnesita Refractories S.A., Brazil, Christos G. Aneziris, Technical University Freiberg, Germany, and Modestino A.M. Brito, Magnesita Refractories S.A., Brazil Winning paper: \"Effect of Alumina and Silica on the Hydration Behavior of Magnesia-Based Refractories,\" Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 94 [12] 4218-25 (2011) 12 www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 Education Integration Committee: NICE By Janet Callahan The National Institute of Ceramic Engineers has long Education Integration Committee Callahan ceramics field, focusing on issues associated represented the profesSubcommittees sional aspects of the CEC reps EIC chair Representatives Keramos (pres) PCSA (chair) NICE reps Staff liaison SAC reps with accreditation, licensure, ethics, and education. ACerS represents the ceramics community on the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology for accreditation of ceramic and glass engineering programs. ABET accreditation is an assurance that engineering and applied science programs meet the standards set by the profession for which they prepare their students. Currently there are four ABETaccredited ceramic and glass engineering programs: Alfred University (ceramic and glass), Clemson University (ceramic), and the Missouri University of Science and Technology (ceramic). ACerS works closely with The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society on accreditation, sharing identical program criteria. Thus, program evaluators with ceramic engineering expertise can be considered for assignment as materials engineering evaluators. Becoming an ABET evaluator is not difficult, but it does require a significant time commitment. First, you must be an active ACerS member and preferably a member of NICE, which assigns a Society mentor to each candidate for ABET program evaluator training. The next step is to speak with a current evaluator, ABET commissioner, or NICE officer about your interest. You will be directed to the NICE Accreditation Committee, which is being resurrected after a period of inactivity. You will attend a one-day ACerS Evaluator training session. This usually takes place in conjunction with the Annual Meeting. After ACerS training, you will participate in a day-long training session provided by ABET. Dates and locations for these sessions can be found on the ABET web site (www.abet.org). Finally, you will participate as an observer on an actual ABET program visit. Candidates who successfully complete the process can be considered for visits to materials science programs throughout the United States and worldwide. YPN At-large (optional) As mentioned previously, program evaluators can be considered for crosslisting with TMS and are encouraged to jointly submit their application to TMS. The TMS accreditation committee meets in March, and applications should be submitted to the TMS staff liaison, Mary Samsa. Don\'t leave the scale up of your new material to chance. Thermal Process Engineering, Testing, Design & Systems American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org KHarper Spark the future harperintl.com See us at ICACC\'14, Booth 317 13 Oresearch briefs Discovering the triple point of vanadium oxide Lots of cool science involves expanding frontiers by exploring new materials that are free from the \"tyranny of equilibrium,\" thanks to processing innovations. However, as a new paper in Nature makes clear, equilibrium can be a fascinating place and still has a lot to offer. In this case, the material is vanadium oxide-famous for possessing the fastest known phase transition, which occurs at about 10 times the speed of sound, or in about 10 trillionths of a second. Researchers know that on heating, VO, undergoes an insulator-to-metallic transition, usually called the \"MIT,\" or metal-insulator transition. The optical properties and electrical conductivity of VO2 undergo rapid and large changes with the transition. The stunning speed of the transition, combined with its occurring at a very reasonable 68°C, has led to interest in the material for applications such as ultrafast optical and electrical switching, sensors, and more exotic uses such as ionic gating and ultrafast microscopy techniques. In VO2, the MIT corresponds to a monoclinic-to-rutile transformation. However, several factors make the transition especially interesting and piqued the curiosity of University of Washington professor David Cobden. Similar to water, VO, has a triple point where three solid phases exist in equilibrium. The material has two insulating monoclinic phases-M1 and M2—and a \"metallic\" rutile phase, R. There is little difference between the free energies of M1 and M2 near the MIT, so they compete against each other. (There is a triclinic insulating phase, too. It is not present in the triple point, although its existence contributes to MIT theories.) Cobden says in a press release, \"If you don\'t know the triple point, you don\'t know the basic facts about this phase transition. You will never be able to make use of the transition unless you understand it better.” However, VO, is a challenging material. In bulk or film form it tends to be 14 Stress (GPa) 0.2 0.0 -0.2 55 65 Temperature (°C) 75 a complex soup of solid phases with compositional variations from oxygen vacancies and hydrogen doping as well as inhomogeneities brought on by nonuniform strains. Cobden\'s team grew \"nanobeams\" of VO, by physical vapor deposition and studied them using a special testing rig where they could observe the nanobeams in an optical microscope. The apparatus allowed them two variables, length and temperature. When temperature varies under constant length, the material undergoes an R-M2-M1 transition. However, when length changes under constant temperature, it undergoes an R-M1-M2 transition. The three crystal structures differentiate most notably along the c-axis. Cobden explained in a phone interview that the nanobeams are high-quality single crystals that grew along the c-axis. \"Nature has been very generous,\" he says. By varying length, the researchers actually vary stress (force/area), which Cobden compared to the role of pressure in the water P-T phase diagram. As the nanobeams “stretch,” the crystal structure aligns itself along its c-axis to accommodate the stress. Pulling on the sample encourages the R-M1-M2 transition, but there is a point—the triple point where the three phases coexist in equilibrium balance. The lattice constant is respectively longer for RM1-M2, also. Pulling on the nanobeam makes it longer, and the material comWashington.) The VO, phase diagram shows the triple point where three solid phases exist in equilibrium at 65°C and zero stress. The olive region is monoclinic M1, the purple region is monoclinic M2, and the brown region is rutile. pensates and reduces the elastic energy to zero by balancing the three phases in equilibrium. \"The key point is the crystal structures of the three phases have three lattice constants along the nanowire,\" Cobden says. \"The unit cell gets a little longer, and, thermodynamically, the longest phase is favored because of the Clausius-Clapeyron equation.\" By systematically studying the phases present as functions of temperature and length (i.e., stress), the team determined that the triple point of VO2 corresponds to zero stress and 65°C±0.1°C. Also, VO2, similar to many transition metal compounds, is a strongly correlated material, meaning that its electronic structure is a mixture of freeelectron (metallic) structure and ionic (insulator) structure, and electrons do not move independently. According to Cobden, in VO2, there is an \"exotic nature to the behavior of the electrons. They must change collectively in a type of electron dance.\" The mechanism by which this happens is not understood, but Cobden hopes his team\'s “simple results will be a guiding influence for developing the theory.\" The paper is \"Measurement of a solid-state triple point at the metal– insulator transition in VO2,\" by Jae H. Park, Jim M. Coy, T. Serkan Kasirga, Chunming Huang, Zaiyao Fei, Scott Hunter, and David H. Cobden, Nature (DOI:10.1038/nature12425). www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 Solar energy for action 1400°C 20 (Credit: Roeb, Sattler; Science.) Slick chemistry uses isothermal water splitting to generate hydrogen A central attraction of the so-called hydrogen economy is its cleanliness. Hydrogen \"burns\" with oxygen to create benign water, and it does so efficiently. But it cannot be mined or pumped. It needs to be peeled out of something usually water. A means to this end is the \"two-step temperature-swing\" water splitting reaction. Step one is a metal oxide reduction reaction that releases oxygen. Step two reacts the oxygen-deficient metal oxide with water. The thermodynamic driving force is such that the oxygen dumps the hydrogen for a more stable home in the metal oxide. Some metal oxides used for water splitting are CeO2 and solid solutions of ferrites. Reducing these compounds takes a lot of energy. It also takes a lot of energy to trigger the oxygen-hydrogen divorce, but not quite as much. The water splitting oxidation reaction purrs along at about 1,000°C, but at the cost of releasing heat to drop the reaction temperature to its sweet spot. A recent paper in Science notes that the two-step reaction process has the advantage of keeping the oxygen-generating and hydrogen-generating reactions separate from each other. However, throwing away heat to effect the thermal cycling is thermodynamically inefficient and induces thermal stresses in the solarpowered reaction vessel. The authors from the University of Colorado (Boulder) looked for isothermal redox reactions. The UC group studied a reaction called the \"hercynite cycle\"―a redox reaction for decomposing iron oxide compounds by reacting them with other metal oxides. In a second step, the reaction products recombine in the presence of water to form the starting compounds again, plus hydrogen. The first reaction begins when the temperature reaches 940°Ca significantly lower temperature and the reason the group used it. Water splitting by a two-step temperatureswing reaction (left) and by isothermal reaction. 1000°C MOHD NO The investigators studied this cycle based on cobalt ferrite at 1,350°C: CoFe2O4 + 3Al2O3 + heat → COA₁₂O4 + 2FеA₁₂O4 + 0.502 CoAl₂O + 2FeAl₂O4 + H₂O → CoFе2O4 + 3Al2O3 + H₂. The higher temperature leads to a larger fraction of Fe2+ ions, which determines hydrogen-generating capacity. The maximum possible is one H2 molecule for every two Fe2+ cations. Their results show that the reaction can be optimized by controlling the partial pressures. Higher steam pressures had the effect of increasing the thermodynamic driving force for the reaction and CARBOLITE Ⓡ LABORATORY FURNACES & OVENS • Microwave Assist Furnace to 1600°C • Box Furnaces to 1800°C • Horizontal & Vertical Tube Furnaces to 1800°C • Top & Bottom Loading Furnaces to 1800°C •Ovens to 600°C • • Precise Temperature Control Superior Temperature Uniformity Tel: 800-543-6208 Fax: 800-543-6209 sales@carbolite-usa.com www.carbolite.us 2400°C Hydagen produce increasing the reaction rate by having more reactant available. According to the abstract: \"... at 1350°C using the \'hercynite cycle\' exhibits H, production capacity >3 and >12 times that of hercynite [iron oxide] and ceria, respectively, per mass of active material when reduced at 1350°C and reoxidized at 1000°C.\" The paper is \"Efficient generation of H, by splitting water with an isothermal redox cycle,\" by Christopher L. Muhich, Brian W. Evanko, Kayla C. Weston, Paul Lichty, Xinhua Liang, Janna Martinek, Charles B. Musgrave, and Alan W. Weimer; Science; 2 August 2013 (DOI: 10.1126/science.1239454). CALL FOR OUR NEW CATALOG American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org See us at MS&T\'13, Booth 1304 | ICACC\'14, Booth 206 15 ceramics in biomedicine Glass scaffolds help heal bone Invention of the original 45S5 Bioglass in the late 1960s marked a watershed moment in the history of biomedical engineering. The material\'s ability to bond with bone was revolutionary, but the material was not suited for load-bearing applications. Scientists have worked to change that with varying degrees of success. Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Rolla) have developed bioglass scaffolds capable of bearing significant loads in the arms, legs, and other weight-bearing parts of the body, according to a news release. According to lead researcher Mohamed N. Rahaman, professor of materials science and engineering and director of the Center for Biomedical Science and Engineering at MS&T, the advance is the first glass implant material that is strong enough to bear weight and promote bone ingrowth, thus opening new possibilities for bone repair. “Right now, there is no synthetic material that is practical for structural bone repair,\" he says. In previous work, the researchers developed a glass scaffold strong enough to handle the weight and pressure of repetitive motions, such as walking or lifting. Published in the journal Acta Biomaterialia (DOI: 10.1016/j. actbio.2013.03.039), their most recent study was aimed at determining how well the material would integrate with bone and promote bone growth. The researchers used robocasting to fabricate porous scaffolds of silicate 13-93 bioactive glass with compressive strength comparable to human cortical bone. The scaffolds featured a grid-like microstructure with porosity of 50%, filament width of 330 and um, width of 300 μm. They were tested by implanting them into sections of the calvarial bones (skullcaps) of laboratory rats. pore The skullcap is not a load-bearing bone, but it consists primarily of cortical bone the type of material that makes up most of the long, weightbearing bones of the body, such as those in the arms and legs. \"You can have the strongest material in the world, but it also must encourage bone growth in a reasonable amount of time,\" says Rahaman. He defines a reasonable time frame for completely regenerating an injured bone into one that can bear weight as three to six months. In testing, the amount of new bone formed in implants composed of the as-fabricated scaffolds was 32% of the available area after six weeks. Pretreating the scaffolds in an aqueous phosphate solution for one, three, and six days to convert the scaffolds\' surface layers to hydroxyapatite before implantation enhanced new bone formation to 46%, 57%, and 45%, respectively. New bone formation in scaffolds pretreated for one, three, and six days and loaded with 1 μg/defect of bone morphogenetic protein-2 was 65%, 61%, and 64%, respectively. (Credit: B.A. Rupert/MS&T.) Porous, robocast glass scaffolds produced by scientists at Missouri University of Science and Technology bear significant weight and have been shown to promote bone ingrowth. 16 \"The results show that converting a surface layer of the glass to hydroxyapatite or loading the surface-treated scaffolds with BMP-2 can significantly improve the capacity of 13-93 bioactive glass scaffolds to regenerate bone in an osseous defect,\" the researchers write. \"Based on their mechanical properties evaluated previously and their capacity to regenerate bone found in this study, these 13-93 bioactive glass scaffolds, pretreated or loaded with BMP-2, are promising in structural bone repair.\" The scientists are now experimenting with true load-bearing bones by testing the 13-93 bioglass implants in rat femurs. Future studies will examine how composition changes to the glass scaffolds might enhance other desirable properties. Oxide nanowires made by simple process promote bone ingrowth, faster healing Researchers at Ohio State University, Columbus, have developed a simple, affordable technique for creating oxide nanowires they say can improve cell growth by nearly 80% compared with other surfaces. \"What\'s really exciting about this technique is that we don\'t have to carve the nanowires from a solid piece of metal or alloy. We can grow them from scratch, by exploiting the physics and chemistry of the materials,\" says Sheikh Akbar, professor of materials science and engineering, in a news release. The research is described in a paper published in the July 2013 issue of the journal Ceramics International (DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2012.12.004). According to the paper, the scientists grew the nanowires on a Ti-6Al-4V substrate that had been coated by thermal spray with titanium dioxide. The coated substrate was placed in an oxidizing atmosphere at 700°C for 8 h. Fine TiO2 nanowires developed on the substrate, but the scientists are still working to explain the mechanism behind what happened next: Each nanowire grew a www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 1 μm 20μm 6. Akbar/OSU.) (Top) Transmission electron micrograph shows cell growth 15 h after placement on a nanowire-coated titanium alloy surface. Inset at upper left shows filaments reaching from cells to surface. (Bottom) Scanning electron micrograph showing a single nanowire consisting of a titanium oxide core surrounded by aluminum oxide. protective coating of aluminum oxide. To test the bone growth capabilities of the wires, the researchers grew human osteosarcoma (bone cancer) cells on bare Ti-6-4, TiO2, and their nanostructured TiO2 substrates. Cancer cells were used because they reproduce in the same manner as healthy bone cells and are particularly hardy, according to the release. The researchers employed fluorescence microscopy and laser scanning cytometry to monitor cell proliferation on the three samples. They also monitored the alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity of the cells at regular intervals. According to the release, the researchers measured a 20% higher concentration of ALP produced by the cells growing on the nanowires in the first 15 h of testing. By the end of the study, the nanowire substrate contained about 90,000 cells/cm²-80% more than the other two substrates. According to study researcher Derek Hansford, associate professor of biomedical engineering and materials science and engineering, the nanowire coating could aid people who have hip and knee replacements, dental implants, or broken bones that require screws and plates for repair. “Our hope is that this surface treatment will become a simple-to-implement modification to titanium implants to help them form a stronger interface with surrounding bone tissue,\" Hansford says in the release. \"A stronger interface means that implants and bones will be better able to share mechanical loads, and we can better preserve healthy bone and soft tissue around the implant site.\" Akbar says $100 worth of metal foil is enough to make hundreds of samples using the process, and he stresses its simplicity. \"The beauty is that the process is simple, inexpensive, and has mass-production capability (an entire surface of several square inches, for example, can be covered with nanostructures in a single step,\" he says in an email. 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First reported nearly two years ago in the journal Science (\"Lowering the temperature of solid oxide fuel cells,\" DOI:10.1126/science.1204090), the approach bypassed the yttrium-stabilized zirconia used in other SOFC electrode designs in favor of a functionally graded cerium oxide/bismuth oxide bilayered electrolyte. Work to optimize the thickness and composition of the bilayered material yielded breakthroughs in energy density and operating temperature when the researchers fabricated “an anodesupported cell composed of a thin, dense gadolinia-doped ceria (~10 µm)/erbiastabilized bismuth oxide (~4 μm) bilayered electrolyte with a newly developed high-performance bismuth ruthenate/ bismuth oxide (BRO7-ESB) composite cathode,\" according to the paper. Now the University of Maryland and Redox Power Systems LLC are working jointly to commercialize SOFCs using the technology. Formed in early 2012, Redox hopes to bring the technology to market at about one-tenth the cost of current commercial SOFC systems and plans to build a prototype with an eye toward commercialization in 2014. The prototype unit already is under development, and Redox has been in contact with \"numerous organizations asking us to test at their site,\" ACerS Fellow Eric Wachsman, UMD professor and one of the developers of the technology, says in an email message. Called the Redox PowerSERG 2-80 Cube (SERG for secure, efficient, and reliable generation; 2-80 for the device\'s initial configurability to generate from 2 to 80 kW), the 750-lb unit is about one meter on a side. Specifications call for it to produce 2.5 W/cm² at an operating temperature of 550°C. The unit\'s energy density is roughly 10 times that of other commercial SOFCs. Its low-temperature operation other commercial units operate at 800°C-900°C-improves reliability and service life and reduces potential problems with interconnects and other auxiliary systems that can occur at higher operating temperatures. The release claims the system press can achieve 80% efficiency when generating heat and power. The Cube initially will operate on natural gas converted to methane, but plans call for units fueled with biomass, propane, diesel, and JP-8. The first units will be configured to produce 25 kW, enough power to run commercial establishments, such as gas stations and strip malls. \"Every business or home should be able to safely generate its own energy,\" Redox CEO Warren Citrin says in a news release. \"We currently rely upon a vulnerable electrical grid. The best way to decrease that vulnerability is through distributed energy—that is, by making your own energy on-site. We are building systems to do that, with an emphasis on efficiency and affordability. These should be common appliances.\" Redox Power Systems envisions its low-temperature SOFC units on rooftops and other locations distributed around the country. 18 Credit: Redox Power Systems.) From new fuels to waste disposal, next-gen nuclear depends on advanced ceramics Nuclear power is dead, at least in Germany and Switzerland, and perhaps a few other countries. But it is alive and well in many other parts of the world, according to a recent article in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society, and is breathing life into power-hungry economies in places like China, Vietnam, and India. The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are fairly well along in their nuclear power plant planning, too. In Europe, Finland and France are in building mode, and the UK government is backing plans to build 12 new reactors during the next 10 years. Even Japan, which suffered the devastating tsunami and destruction of its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, is reactivating several nuclear power plants that were shut down after the March 2011 disaster. Several requirements drive the need for new technologies since the advent of nuclear power generation more than a half-century ago. They include improved safety and reliability, longer service life, waste disposal, and improved “proliferation resistance.\" (This last item relates to \"repurposing\" of spent or stolen fuel for weaponry.) Every facet of nuclear power generation requires ceramics. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Imperial College of London, and other locations expect ceramic materials to be important for fuel design and reactor design. Starting with fuel, the beating heart of the reactor, the tristructural-isotropic (TRISO) fuel design has been under development for many years. In this design, microspheres of fuel are encapsulated within three layers, such as a carbon buffer layer, dense pyrolytic carbon, and silicon carbide. TRISO fuel designs provide improved safety in extreme situations, self-encapsulation of spent fuel, and longer fuel life, and they are difficult to coopt for evil purposes. The ORNL team is investigating a new TRISO design it calls \"fully www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 ceramic microencapsulated fuel,\" which grew out of an effort to develop a new fuel design that looks and performs similar to fuels already in service. Silicon carbide offers radiation resistance, steam resistance, and refractory properties. According to the JACerS article, ceramics will be important for many other aspects of fuel technology, from the fuels themselves to design of the fuel component. The focus is on developing new fuels based on thorium oxide or incorporating difficult-toburn elements, such as neptunium, curium, and americium in mixed oxide fuels. Fuels dispersed in a metal or ceramic matrix may eventually replace the conventional uranium pellet system currently in use. Besides fuels, new approaches to waste containment are under investigation. Hydroceramics similar to zeolitized rock have been shown to carry 40-60 wt% waste loads. Previous thermal processes for waste containment involved immobilizing the waste through cementation, bituminization, or vitrification. Researchers are studying a wider range of thermal processes that include hot isostatic pressing, pyrolysis, and novel vitrification technologies, such as plasma melting and cold crucible melting, where the frozen glass serves as an in-situ refractory. It also may prove possible to incorporate actinides directly into the crystal structures of some ceramics, such as zirconite and some perovskite structures. Additionally, perovskite ceramics, such as barium titanate and pyrochlores, are expected to be useful for containing separated waste streams. Finally, new fuel designs open the opportunity to redesign the reactor itself. Ceramics are being investigated for use in several reactor components, such as lithium orthosilicate breeder blankets and silicon carbide/silicon carbide or carbon/carbon composites in tokamaks, as well as other regions requiring radiation, steam, and thermal tolerance. The JACerS paper, written by an Imperial College London Schematic illustration of TRISO fuel pellet. Inset: false-color image of TRISO fuel pellet, diameter 930 μm. ACerS Director and Fellow William Lee, notes that ceramic processing will be crucial to incorporating ceramics into all aspects of emerging nuclear technology and provides a comprehensive and detailed overview of ceramics for nuclear power generation technology. Members can access it for free Fuel kernel (UCO, UO₂) Porous carbon buffer Inner pyrolytic carbon Silicon carbide Outer pyrolytic carbon through the ACerS website. The paper is \"Opportunities for advanced ceramics and composites in the nuclear sector,\" by William Edward Lee, Matthew Gilbert, Samuel Tomas Murphy, and Robin William Grimes, DOI: 10.111/ jace.12406. Creating a perfect refractory is more than our passion. It\'s an Emhart Glass tradition. Partnering for Perfect Packaging Solutions EMHARTGLASS BUCHER company www.emhartglass.com USA, Owensville, MO +1 (573) 437 2132 group American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org led by Cradau Natal Laboratory 19 (Credit: Western Refractory Services, Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.) O bulletin | cover story Refractory installation of a rotary hearth dome in western Canada. 20 Canadian ceramic clout Universities, corporations, and government agencies team to foster research advances and commercial opportunities. By Alex Talavera and Randy B. Hecht Can anada may not be the most prominent nation to appear in industry headlines, but universities, businesses, and government agencies throughout the country are collaborating on impressive advances in ceramic technology. These breakthroughs are being driven by a combination of commercial opportunity and societal demands in areas such as environmentalism, which is a particular concern among students and young professionals. \"Strictly speaking about ceramics, I would say the big focus is in sustainable use of materials, trying to make materials last longer or degrade less or make them out of materials that are going to prevent fracture or degradation,\" says Mary Anne White, University Research Professor of Chemistry at Dalhousie University, which conducts ceramics research in the departments of chemistry and engineering. \"I think that students are going to be ever more concerned about energy and sustainability, and I think materials hold a lot of answers to some of our major problems.” Partha Sarkar is principal scientist, environment and carbon management, in the Clean Energy group at Alberta InnovatesTechnology Futures, which supports Alberta\'s strategy for playing a significant role in the global nanotechnology market. “My projects are geared toward reduction of greenhouse gases and improving environmental sustainability,” he says. \"Within our work, we have developed tubular micro solid oxide fuel cells (μSOFC) where we employed an electrophoretic-deposition-based tubular cell manufacturing method. We have developed a novel concept of \'porous matrix embedded stack\' to improve the μSOFC performance and mechanical robustness.\" Sarkar also is working in partnership with Raj Gupta, a professor at University of Alberta, and AITF\'s combustion expert, Allan Chambers, on carbon capture projects related to alternate combuswww.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 ecamp SMART Cube Modules SDmicro Memory ARM® Cortex-M3 scamp? SMART Cube Modules USB Communication & Power Inertial & Environmental Sensors Gro tion technology-chemical looping combustion (CLC). \"The CLC process has two coupled fluidized-bed reactors, fuel and air,\" he says. “In the air reactor, a metal is oxidized in contact with air. The metal oxide is then supplied to the fuel reactor, where it supplies the oxygen required for combustion. The metal oxide is thus reduced and resupplied to the air reactor in a continuous process. The metal/metal oxide solids act as an oxygen carrier. In the CLC process, the fuel does not come in contact with air during combustion, and the fuel reactor exhaust is mainly CO2 and water vapor. The water is condensed and the CO2 is captured.\" Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) presents another area of environmental concern and another field in which Canadian ceramic researchers are seeking solutions in nanotechnology. \"Some of the extraction technologies today use a lot of water,\" says Ken Brizel, CEO of ACAMP, Alberta Centre for Advanced Micro Nano Technology Products. \"The nanocatalysts that are being created would require a lot less water to be able to do the same amount of extraction. That\'s work that\'s going on in a lot of research areas around Alberta. Everybody wants to get to be greener.\" At McMaster University, Igor Zhitomirsky, professor of materials science and engineering, conducts research focused on nanostructured materials for energy storage and generation. \"The most promising project I have is related to electrochemical supercapacitors,” he says. “One of the most important materials for electromechanical supercapacitors is manganese oxide. Our research is focused on fabrication of nanoparticles, fabrication of composite electrodes, and testing of electrochemical devices.\" His team is testing a prototype device that should be ready to be offered to industry within the next year or two. White\'s colleague at Dalhousie University, professor Jeff Dahn, is leading a team that has been working on materials for lithium-ion batteries and developing new cathode materials. Dahn reports that there is a 35% chance that material he American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org (Credit: ACAMP). Low temperature cofired ceramic sections for advanced sensor assemblies and processes (left). The assembled device is about the size of a Canadian dime (above). discovered is found in any given lithium-ion battery on the market today. The materials are manufactured in the United States. Canadian graduate students also are active in ceramic research. One of White\'s students, Carl Romao, is attempting to combine positive thermal expansion and negative thermal expansion materials to create composite materials that are immune to thermal stress. Refractory industry-international and innovative An interesting characteristic of the refractories sector in Canada is that although it is dominated by national and international corporations, such as Clayburn Refractories and Vesuvius, it also allows space for smaller players. Greg Langlois is president of Refractories Plus Inc. in Hamilton, Ontario. \"In our business, a lot of it is personal. There\'s still some relationship selling here,” he says. \"The big players will work with us here.\" His operation is nimble enough to react more quickly than some larger companies. His company has managed to land some big cross-border projects. “I have an arrangement with some trading companies in China that we have our own engineers on the ground over there. We were able to buy better-quality brick at lower cost and bring it over here.\" That interaction between small and big business, often in partnership with academic researchers and governmentsponsored initiatives, is seen throughout the Canadian ceramic sector. “There\'s one company we work with that\'s involved in using titanium dioxide nanomaterials interwoven into aluminum—so they do titanium aluminide. Those are super strong, and they\'re used in everything from energy to automotive applications,\" Brizel says. \"That\'s a startup here in Alberta 90% of the companies we tend to work with come right out of universities or someone\'s garage.\" It is an approach that, although centered on small players, is producing big results in Canada\'s ceramic industry. 21 (Credit: ACAMP). Canadian ceramic clout Investing in growth The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) \"supports university students in their advanced studies, promotes and supports discovery research, and fosters innovation by encouraging Canadian companies to participate and invest in postsecondary research projects.\" The government agency, which was created in 1978, reports that during the past decade it has \"invested more than $7 billion in basic research, projects involving partnerships between postsecondary institutions and industry, and the training of Canada\'s next generation of scientists and engineers.\" For fiscal year 2011-2012, NSERC awarded grants for pursuit of the following ceramic-related research projects: • Development of direct fuel injection technology based on piezoceramic actuation. To Ridha Ben Mrad of the University of Toronto\'s Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department. • MRI characterization of implantable drug delivery bioceramics. To Steven Beyea of Dalhousie University\'s Physics and Atmospheric Science Department. • Mechanical behavior of zirconiabased ceramics for use in CANDU supercritical water nuclear reactors. To Lukas Bichler of the University of British Columbia\'s Okanagan School of Engineering. • Fabrication of porous ceramic from multilayer-coated SiC particles through sol-gel followed by in-situ polymerization. To Jamal Chaouki of the École Polytechnique de Montréal Génie Chimique. • Advanced ceramic structures and coatings for corrosion protection and thermal insulation for generation IV SCWRs; and Fabrication and potential Northern (market) exposure US-Canadian trade ties create jobs and economic opportunity on both sides of the border. By Alex Talavera and Randy B. Hecht Although Canada\'s land mass is 61,002 square miles greater than that of the United States, its citizens number just 11% of the US population. In fact, fewer people live in all of Canada than in the state of California. In terms of trade with the US, however, Canada bench-presses many times its body weight. It is the world\'s number one destination of US exports and is second only to China as a source of goods imported by the US. Prominent among those imports are oil, gas, uranium, and electric power. Canada is the largest foreign supplier of energy to the US. The petroleum sector is a particularly significant economic driver, and the country\'s proven oil reserves place it third in the world, behind Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. Moreover, Canada is the world\'s fifth-largest investor in the US. For 2012, Canada\'s purchasing power GDP is estimated at $1.513 trillion, or $43,400 per capita, which reflects a 1.8% growth rate over 2011. This makes Canada the 13th-largest national economy in the world, although it ranks 37 in terms of population. Services generate 69.8% of GDP, followed by industry (28.5%) and agriculture (1.7%). Canadian export volume for 2012 is estimated at $462.9 billion. Its leading commodity exports include motor vehicles and parts, industrial machinery, aircraft, telecommunications equipment, chemicals, plastics, fertilizers, wood pulp, timber, crude petroleum, natural gas, electricity, and aluminum. Import volume for 2012 is estimated at $474.8 billion. Leading commodity imports include machinery and equipment, motor vehicles and parts, crude oil, chemicals, electricity, and durable consumer goods. It all adds up to significant economic performance and market opportunity in \"an affluent, high-tech industrial society in the trillion-dollar class,\" notes the CIA Fact Book. The US State Department terms this bilateral relationship \"among the closest and most extensive in the world\" and adds that the trading relationship is \"the world\'s largest and most comprehensive\" and \"supports millions of jobs in each country.\" For guidance on competing successfully in Canada and connecting with trading or business partners there, contact the American Chamber of Commerce in Canada, the Canada-US Chamber of Commerce, or the Canadian-American Business Council. The US Commercial Service has published Doing Business in Canada, and US-Canada trade news can be followed on the website of the Embassy of the United States in Ottawa. application of macroporous ceramic materials/structures through chemical sintering. Both to Weixing Chen of the University of Alberta\'s Chemical and Materials Engineering Department. • Solution precursor plasma spray deposition of nanocrystalline functional ceramic coatings. To Thomas Coyle of the University of Toronto\'s Materials Science and Engineering Department. • Metal and ceramic interactions in materials processing. To Robin Drew of Concordia University\'s Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department. • Ceramic electrolytes and secondary recovery. To Thomas Etsell of the University of Alberta\'s Chemical and Materials Engineering Department. • Development of high-toughness silicon nitride ceramics. To Vladimir Krstic of the Queen\'s University Mechanical and Materials Engineering Department. . Development and characterization of high-performance ceramic-metal composites; and High-performance ceramic-metal composites. Both to Kevin Plucknett of Dalhousie University\'s Process Engineering and Applied Science Department. ⚫ Amine-borane functionalized materials: Hydrogen storage media and precursors to boron nitride ceramics. To Eric Rivard of the University of Alberta\'s Chemistry Department. • Synthesis and characterization of novel biomedical glass-ceramic polymer composites. To Amin Rizkalla of the University of Western Ontario\'s Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department. • Process engineering for smart bioceramic cements. To Tom Troczynski of the University of British Columbia\'s Materials Engineering Department. • Laser machining of ceramics with controlled microstructure. To Gennady Zak of the Queen\'s University Mechanical and Materials Engineering Department. Moreover, NSERC awarded 13 ceramic-related research scholarships for the 2011-2012 fiscal year. 22 22 www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 Sulfur recovery unit reaction furnace checker wall in a sour gas plant. Canada ceramics directory and profiles COMPANIES AND COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES Alberta Innovates Website: www.albertainnovates.ca Alberta Innovates functions as a globally competitive research and innovation system where government, industry, and academia interact to develop solutions to global challenges and use knowledge for the growth and diversification of Alberta\'s economy. Alberta Innovates operates as an integrated system aligned with the strategies and priorities of the province. Alberta Innovates Technology Futures Website: www.albertainnovatestechfutures.ca Highly client and industry focused, Alberta Innovates Technology Futures advances ideas and innovations, through applied research and commercialization support, to solve problems, enhance productivity, and move new products and services to market. Antex Western 1340 Church Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba R2X 1G4 Phone: 204-633-4815 Fax: 204-633-0550 Website: www.antexwestern.com Email: antex@antexwestern.com Established more than 80 years ago and employee owned since 2004, the company is a leader in installing interior commercial building products in Manitoba. It specializes in the commercial construction industry. Avalon Rare Metals Inc.⭑ 1901-130 Adeline Street West Toronto, Ontario M5H 3P5 Phone: 416-364-4938 Fax: 416-364-5162 Website: www.avalonraremetals.com A mineral development company, ARM focuses on rare metals and materials. Barrday Energy Solutions Barrday Protective Solutions 75 Moorefield Street PO Box 790 Cambridge, Ontario N1T 1S2 Toll-free: 800-667-3725 Website: www.barrday.com Founded in 1958, the company is a technical leader in the protective, composite, and energy markets. Working in the area of advanced material solutions, it develops fiber reinforcements, prepregs and laminates, coating adhesives, and core materials. Brampton Brick Ltd. 225 Wanless Drive Brampton, Ontario L7A 1E9 Phone: 905-840-1011 Admin. Fax: 905-840-1535 Sales Fax: 905-840-6461 Website: www.bramptonbrick.com Email: sales@bramptonbrick.com Canada\'s second largest manufacturer of clay brick, the company also manufactures stone veneer products and concrete window sills. Its concrete interlocking paving stones, retaining walls, garden walls, and environmental products are manufactured in Canada and sold in Canada and the United States for residential construction and for industrial, commercial, and institutional building projects. Clayburn Refractories Ltd. 33765 Pine Street Abbotsford, British Columbia V2S 5C1 Phone: 800-859-4885 Fax: 604-8592923 Email: tdiguistini@clayburngroup.com 16010 118th Avenue Edmonton, Alberta T5V 1C6 Phone: 780-468-4100 Fax: 780-468-5200 Email: gbjornsson@clayburngroup.com 108 4140 6th Street Northeast Calgary, Alberta T2E 8C8 Phone: 403-276-4421 Fax: 403-277-8661 Email: bmanz@clayburngroup.com American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org * ACers Corporate Member 2409 39 Riedel Street Fort McMurray, Alberta T9E 3E1 Phone: 780-790-0464 Fax: 780-790-0475 Website: www.clayburnrefractories.com Email: swhitehead@clayburngroup.com Clayburn\'s refractory products include brick, castables, plastic refractories, anchoring systems, and insulation. The company has completed installation of castables, brick, plastics, and many other high-temperature and abrasion-resistant linings on thousands of major projects. Its crews are experienced in bricklaying, casting and pouring, ceramic fiber, demolition, guniting, plastic refractory, shotcreting, and pumping. DuraSystems 199 Courtland Avenue Vaughan, Ontario L4K 4T2 Toll-free: 866-338-0988 Phone: 905-660-4455 Fax: 905-660-8887 Website: www.durasystems.com Email: durasystems@durasystems.com Founded more than a half-century ago, this manufacturer specializes in supplying fire-rated systems and assemblies to the industrial, commercial, and institutional market sectors. The company can provide passive fire protection solutions for telecommunication and electrical power utilities; petrochemical, mining, and resource industries; transportation industry; and offshore oil and gas platforms. Endurance Technologies 71, 4511 Glenmore Trail Southeast Calgary, Alberta T2C 2R9 Phone: 403-720-3633 Toll-free: 877-806-3910 Website: www.endurancetechnologies.com Email: info@endurancetechnologies.com Established in 1993 to serve the oil and gas industries with diffusion alloying technology, the company provides abrasion and corrosion-resistant solutions to clients worldwide. Its technology provides protection to materials exposed to high-temperature and highly corrosive environments in the process industry. 23 (Credit: Western Refractory Services Ltd.) Canadian ceramics directory and profiles IMACRO Inc. 1254 Plains Road East Burlington, Ontario L7S 1W6 Phone: 905-634-3133 Website: www.imacroinc.com Email: info@imacroinc.com Established in 1988, IMACRO offers refractory products, magnesium and aluminum sacrificial anodes, magnesium extrusions, strontium metal, specialty alloys, and consulting services to the iron, steel, aluminum, and other nonferrous metals and manufacturing industries. Jazbrick 18 Namco Road Toronto, Ontario M9W 1M5 Toll-free: 888-772-8999 Phone: 416-741-4498 Fax: 416-741-5657 Website: www.jazbrick.com Email: info@jazbrick.com A leading manufacturer and distributor of brick and stone products, Jazbrick also hosts the annual Jazbrick Forum to share information about new technology, green certification, and other topics for builders, developers, and architects. Refractories Plus Inc. 600 Wentworth Street North Hamilton, Ontario L8L 5X3 Phone: 905-540-4224 Website: www.refractoriesplus.com Refractories Plus has installed refractory and insulation products in almost every application. It specializes in servicing the iron and steel, aluminum and nonferrous metals, industrial, and ceramic and glass sectors. Sanjel Corporation 200, 505 2nd Street Southwest Calgary, Alberta T2P 1N8 Phone: 403-269-1420 Fax: 403-716-4024 Website: www.sanjel.com/Index.cfm Sanjel offers two specialized products: pressure pumping and completions. Each product offering is complete with its own innovative engineering products and custom-designed and manufactured equipment. SIMCO Technologies Inc. 2666, Boul. du Parc-Technologique Suite 100 Quebec QC G1P 4S6 Phone: 418-656-1003 Fax: 418-656-6083 Website: www.simcotechnologies.com Email: info@simcotechnologies.com Established in 1997, SIMCO offers integrated solutions for optimum design and maintenance of concrete infrastructure that combines sophisticated materials analysis techniques and leading-edge service life predictive software. Morgan Thermal Ceramics Thermal Ceramics Canada 1185 Walkers Line Burlington, Ontario L7M 1L1 Phone: 905-335-3414 Website: www.morganthermalceramics.com Morgan Thermal Ceramics supplies intelligently engineered insulation solutions to a wide variety of industries and market sectors. Its advanced ceramic insulation products include insulating fibers, firebrick, and monolithics. 224 24 Treibacher Industrie AG 515 Consumers Road, Suite 212 Toronto, Ontario M2J 4Z2 Phone: 416-535-2600 Fax: 416-535-2602 Website: www.treibacher.com/en.html Email: customerservice@treibacherinc.com Treibacher Industrie AG develops and produces technically demanding materials and powders for many applications in the advanced ceramic sector. Its areas of focus include precision investment casting, thermal spraying powder, engineering ceramics, structural ceramics, sputter targets and evaporation materials, and electroceramics and ionic conductors. Western Refractory Services Ltd. 10008 32 Avenue Edmonton, Alberta T6N 1G7 Phone: 780-466-4540 (24 hours) Fax: 780-465-5099 Website: www.westernrefractories.com Email: Sales@westernrefractories.com A privately owned Canadian company established in 1984, Western Refractory Services has completed refractory projects throughout Canada and supplied engineering, materials, and supervision for projects worldwide. The company\'s turnkey services span planning, engineering, and dryout. Zochem Inc. 1 Tilbury Court Brampton, Ontario L6T 3T4 Toll-free: 800-324-1806 Phone: 905-453-4100 Fax: 905-453-2920 Mailing address: PO Box 1120 Brampton, Ontario L6V 2L8 Website: www.zochem.com/ Email contact form: http://zochem.com/contact-us/ Established in 1933, Zochem is Canada\'s largest zinc oxide manufacturer and the second-largest single-site producer in North America. Its complete line of zinc oxide grades serves the needs of most industries, including rubber products, chemicals, ceramics, paints, pharmaceuticals, and agriculture UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2 Phone: 902-494-2211 Website: www.dal.ca Faculty directory: https://directory.dal.ca/ Polytechnique Montréal (École Polytechnique de Montréal) 2900, Boul. Édouard-Montpetit Université de Montréal Campus 2500, Chemin de Polytechnique Montréal, Québec H3T 1J4 Mailing address: C.P. 6079, Succ. Centre-ville Montréal, Québec H3C 3A7 Phone: 514-340-4711 Website: www.polymtl.ca/en Faculty and other directories: http://www.polymtl.ca/ bottin/en McGill University 845 Sherbrooke Street West Montréal, Québec H3A OG4 Phone: 514-398-4455 Website: www.mcgill.ca Departmental directory: http://kb.mcgill.ca/kb/?ArticleId= 1251&source=article&c=12&cid=2#tab:homeTab:crum b:7:artld:1251 Faculty and staff directory: www.mcgill.ca/directory/staff McMaster University 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, Ontario L8S4L8 Phone: 905-525-9140 Website: www.mcmaster.ca Faculty directory: http://telecom.mcmaster.ca/directory.cfm Queen\'s University 99 University Avenue Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 Phone: 613-533-2000 Website: www.queensu.ca/ Faculty and departmental directory: http://www.queensu. ca/search/people Thompson Rivers University 900 McGill Road Kamloops, British Columbia V2C 0C8 Phone: 250-828-5000 Fax: 250-828-5086 Website: www.tru.ca Faculty directory: http://kamino.tru.ca/telbook University of Alberta 116 Street and 85 Avenue Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2R3 Phone: 780-492-3111 Website: www.ualberta.ca Directory: http://faculties.ualberta.ca University of British Columbia Vancouver Campus 2329 West Mall Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4 Phone: 604-822-2211 Okanagan Campus 3333 University Way Kelowna, British Columbia V1V 1V7 Phone: 250-807-8000 Website: www.ubc.ca Faculty directory: www.ubc.ca/directories University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2 Phone: 800-432-1960 Website: www.umanitoba.ca Faculty and departmental directories: http://umanitoba.ca/ faculties/info_links.html University of Toronto 563 Spadina Crescent Toronto, Ontario M5S 2J7 Phone: 416-978-2011 Website: www.utoronto.ca Faculty and departmental directories: http://directory. utoronto.ca/phonebook/pages/admin/main.xhtml University of Windsor 401 Sunset Avenue Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4 Phone: 519-253-3000 Website: www.uwindsor.ca Faculty and departmental directories: http://apps. uwindsor.ca/uwincpb/jsp/DirectoryServices.jsp www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 O bulletin Icover story Modern MexicoFar-reaching research From nanotechnology to dental ceramics to clean energy, Mexico plays a global role in advanced research and commerce. By Alex Talavera and Randy B. Hecht ceramics.org (. Credit: Tlavera.) T he phrase \"Mexican ceramics\" may first call to mind images of objects of art and tableware created by artisans whose work follows centuries-old and even pre-Columbian traditions. That\'s understandable: In Mexico City, Puebla, and other major urban areas, there are multistory buildings whose entire exteriors are covered in handcrafted tile as shown in the image to the left. But those images do not begin to encompass the full range of advanced technological projects being researched, developed, and manufactured in contemporary Mexico\'s ceramic sectors. Nanotechnology is one area of strong focus and will be in the spotlight during the Nanotech Biotech 2013 New Venture Competition being held November 7-8 in Monterrey, one of the country\'s largest business and industrial centers. Its purpose is to spark the launch of high-value businesses in particular, small and medium enterprises—that work with emerging technologies. Since 2000, the ceramics industry in Mexico has been advancing its work in research and development of applications in the area of nanotechnology. Growth in this area has been promoted by such institutions as the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), the National Petroleum Institute, the National Polytechnic Institute, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Work in the area of nanotechnology engineering has resulted in the launch of a range of new products and applications related to the manufacture of electricity-generating equipment and electrical apparatuses and computers, communications, and peripheral equipment. Product development has focused on the use of nonmetallic minerals in the manufacture of glass, cement, ceramics, refractories, and abrasives. In the research arena, the Advanced Materials Research Center (a division of CONACYT known by its Spanish acronym CIMAV) published articles during 2013 on • Microemulsions as reaction media for the synthesis of mixed oxide nanoparticles: Relationships between micro25 Modern Mexico-Far-reaching research emulsion structure, reactivity, and nanoparticle characteristics; • Antimicrobial activity, cytotoxicity, and inflammatory response of novel plastics embedded with silver nanoparticles; • Corrosion behavior of AISI 409Nb stainless steel manufactured by powder metallurgy exposed in H₂SO and NaCl solutions; • Density functional theory study of indigo and its derivatives as photosensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells; • Influence of sugar-cane bagasse ash and fly ash on the rheological behavior of cement pastes and mortars; • Magnetic susceptibility studies of the spin-glass and Verwey transitions in magnetite nanoparticles; • Effect of sintering temperature on the electric properties and microstructure of SnO2-Co₂O4-Sb₂O-Cr₁₂O₂ varistor ceramics; • sors; ZnO-Ag ceramics for ethanol sen• Essential work of fracture: An approach to study the fracture behavior of acrylic bone cements modified with comonomers containing amine groups; and • Alumina-toughened zirconia (ATZ) nanocomposite incorporating Al₂O, whiskers. For a full listing of this year\'s research projects—there are 45 in all and English-language abstracts, visit http://cimav.edu.mx/investigacion/ listado-articulos/listado-articulos2013/#articulo1. This research is based on current industrial needs and on projections of future economic opportunity. According to a study by NANOTECH, Mexico\'s National Nanotechnology Lab, worldwide demand for specialists in microtechnology and nanotechnology will grow to two million jobs by 2015. Companies and universities, therefore, see the field as one that will help Mexico remain competitive in the world economy. Another area of activity that reflects global concerns relates to sustainability. Leticia Torres, of the Department of Ecomaterials and Energy at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León\'s Institute of Civil Engineering, leads an investigation into the development of advanced materials that can aid the improvement of the environment through the use of clean technologies and processes. Her areas of inquiry center on superfunctional materials and clean, nonrenewable energy alternatives that offer integrated solutions to promote environmental decontaminaXII Centro de Nanociencias y Nanotecnologia Scientists at the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CNN) in Ensenada, Mexico, have engaged in ceramics research since its founding in the 1980s, including work on doped oxides, ferroelectrics, and catalysts. 26 tion. The goal is to generate energy based on technologies that are emerging internationally. Torres and her team work in collaboration with industry to bring the fruits of their research to market. “Our research has had an indirect impact on the US market, because the majority of the businesses with which we\'ve worked on development are transnational and offer their products in the international market,\" she says. With market globalization, companies have come to recognize the connection between supporting research into advanced technologies and sustaining cross-border competitiveness. Dental ceramics-Restoring smiles Ceramic dental prostheses are another area of focus in Mexico. Statistics reported by the country\'s National Oral Health Program indicate that an elevated number of people in the country are suffering from severe dental problems. For this reason, businesses and laboratories that specialize in ceramic dental prostheses are working on advances that use CAD/CAM and robotic technology in the construction of devices made of metal-porcelain and zirconia. One of the advances in dental technology involves the development and use of porcelain veneers, a process that is more economical and improves the aesthetics of a partial reconstruction of a broken tooth. The technique is the work of Mexico\'s American Academy of Dental Technology. Further ceramicbased innovations in odontology have led to the development of metal-free implants that incorporate new applications of such materials as lithium silicate, fluorapatite, and zirconium oxide. Ivoclar Vivadent is among the Mexican companies leading the exploration of these new applications. “The development of ceramics that our brand has implemented and disseminated has established us as pioneers in fields related to cosmetic dentistry. This has sparked considerable global fanfare with regard to the strength of metal-free ceramics, which are without a doubt one of the alternatives preferred by both middle and high-end customers in www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 need of dental restoration,\" says Sergio Hernandez, coordinator of the company\'s Council for Open and Distance Education\'s Professional Services. \"Today we explore possibilities that involve the use of diverse materials, including lucite, lithium silicate, and zirconium, in order to realize a wide range of restorative procedures in the reconstruction of lost dental structures. Our objective is to achieve a solution that delivers an excellent long-term biological, functional, and aesthetic integration. At the global level we see high rates of successful application of this type of restoration, with product lifespans in excess of five years.\" Refractories-Steel and cement enablers Of course, refractories also play a prominent role in Mexico\'s ceramic industry and national economy. Mexico\'s history of ceramic production dates to pre-Columbian times. The city of Monterrey, capital of the border state of Nuevo León, began its ascent to business and economic prominence with the growth of its steel and cement industries. Steel production, which stood at 13.3 million tons in 2001, rose to 17.6 million tons by 2007 but plummeted following the global economic crisis to 14.1 million tons in 2009. By 2012 the industry had recovered and surpassed that 2007 high. Production last year reached a volume of 18.1 million tons, according to CANACERO, the country\'s national chamber of the iron and steel industries. However, production remains on unsteady footing: The organization announced on July 8 that volume had fallen from 1.6 million tons in March to 1.4 million tons in April, the most severe drop in the preceding 13 months. In March, Alonso Ancira Elizondo, CANACERO\'s president, told the Mexican daily newspaper El Universal that he anticipates a “tsunami” of steel imports into Mexico. Skyrocketing automobile manufacturing in Mexico will spur part of that increased import demand. An April 17 Bloomberg article reported that Mexico\'s automobile production nearly doubled since 2009 MonoCL4 Graduate student Luz Zavala studies cathodoluminescence of doped hydroxyapatite materials to determine dopant distribution in powders and films at CNyN. This laboratory is under the direction of Manuel Herrera. and that the steel industry was investing $3 billion on factory improvements to catch up to that hike in production, which the Mexican Automobile Industry Association projects will grow to four million vehicles a year by 2017. In Mexico, the manufacture of crucibles for induction stoves is advancing via the use of graphite clay, which allows nonferrous metals, such as Billion-dollar (a day) border As our third-largest trade partner, Mexico powers US economic growth. By Alex Talavera and Randy B. Hecht Mexico\'s 758,449 square miles of territory are home to a population of 116,220,947. With an economy in the trillion-dollar class, this market is attractive to US businesses because of its proximity and free trade agreements and because of the size of the opportunity it represents. \"The United States and Mexico trade over $1.25 billion in goods and services each day, a number we expect to grow as we help more US companies succeed in Mexico,\" says US ambassador to Mexico E. Anthony Wayne. and agriculture (4.1%). The industrial production growth rate for 2012 in estimated at 3.6%. Key industries include food and beverages, tobacco, chemicals, iron and steel, petroleum, mining, textiles, clothing, motor vehicles, consumer durables, and tourism. The CIA Fact Book reports that since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect in 1994, Mexico\'s share of US imports has increased from 7% to 12%. The US is the destination of 78% of Mexican exports and the source of 50.5% of the country\'s imports. \"Mexico is the United States\' second-largest export market (after Canada) and third-largest trading partner (after Canada and China),\" the US State Department notes. For 2012, Mexico\'s purchasing power GDP is estimated at $1.799 trillion, or $15,600 per capita, which reflects a 3.9% growth rate over 2011. On that basis, Mexico is the 11th-largest national economy in the world. Services generate 61.8% of GDP, followed by industry (34.2%) American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org Mexican export volume for the year is estimated at $370.9 billion, up from $349.4 billion in 2011. Leading commodity exports include manufactured goods, oil and oil products, silver, fruits, vegetables, coffee, and cotton. Import volume for the year is estimated at $370.8 billion, up from $350.8 billion in 2011. Leading commodity imports include metalworking machines, steel mill products, agricultural machinery, electrical equipment, car parts for assembly, repair parts for motor vehicles, aircraft, and aircraft parts. For guidance on competing successfully in Mexico and connecting with trading or business partners there, contact the United StatesMexico Chamber of Commerce or the American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico. In addition, the US Commercial Service has published Doing Business in Mexico. US-Mexican business news and links to business data can be found on the website of the Embassy of the United States in Mexico City. 27 22 (Credit: Herrera; C Modern Mexico-Far-reaching research (Credit: iStock.) zinc, tin, bronze, and aluminum, to be heated to high temperatures without melting. Among the Mexican companies manufacturing crucibles to this standard is C.E. Fire, which specializes in crucibles and refractories for walls, vaults, work areas, and doors that can withstand a variety of heat treatments. Another essential advance for the industry in Mexico is the development of concrete refractories to construct structures that contact molten metals or abrasive environments. They resist thermal shock and can be used for repairs in high-temperature environments. Each of these areas of research, development, and new product launches builds on Mexico\'s long history of using and commercializing a wide Central University Campus of the Mexico National Autonomous University. The image shows the Central Library Building covered spectrum of ceramic products and technologies. As the world sees continued demand for further advances in ceramic applications, Mexico is investing in the Mexico ceramics directory and profiles COMPANIES AND COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES AFIBRA Av. 8 de Julio 1653 Col. Morelos Guadalajara, Jalisco CP 44910 Website: www.afibra.com/sitio/index.php?lang=en English language website: www.afibra.com/sitio/index. php?lang=en Email: contacto@afibra.com Phone: 52 33 3810 6625 or 52 33 3810 6629 The company has more than 40 years of experience manufacturing fiberglass. Working with materials that include wood, stone, brick, twig, quarry, reed, and bamboo, among others, it creates materials that require less maintenance and weigh less than those built conventionally. Aislamientos y Control de Fluidos, S.A. de C.V. Website: http://www.empaqacf.com/ACF/Pagina_de_ Inicio.html Email: aislamientosctrl@hotmail.com The company has 30 years of experience in the manufacture and commercialization of a variety of packing materials, including fiberglass, chrysotile, tetrafluoroethylene, graphite, kevlar, and other materials used in industrial maintenance and repair. Arta Cerámica Grecia 87 Col. Los Encinos Tlalpan/Ajusco, México DF Phone: 52 55 5630 3142 Website: www.artaceramica.com Email: info@artaceramica.com or proyecto@ artaceramica.com Arta Cerámica designs and produces decorative ceramic objects that have been exhibited at national and international fairs and expos. The company has collaborated on projects with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, architectural firms, and restaurants. 28 C.E. Fire Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 6100 B21 Col Satelite Monterrey, Nuevo Léon Phone: 52 81 8103 2233 or 52 81 8103 2239 Website: www.ce-fire.com/ English language website: www.ce-fire.com/English.html The company supplies such refractory products as insulating firebrick, ceramic filters, refractory castables, firebrick, mortars, and metallic and refractory anchors as well as ceramic fiber and insulation, high-temperature textiles, and microporous insulation. Cerconsult Phone: 52 81 8133 3741 Website: www.cerconsult.com Email contact form: www.cerconsult.com/contact.html Founded in Italy in 1994, the company has expanded to offices in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Its North American operations are concentrated in Mexico. Concejo Cerámico de Norte América Batallón de San Patricio #109, Oficina 627 Col. Vallle Oriente San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo Léon CP 66269 Phone: 52 81 8625 3306 Fax: 52 81 8133 2707 Website: www.tcna.com.mx/perfil.htm Email contact form: www.tcna.com.mx/contacto.htm Member directory: www.tcnatile.com/es/resources/ product-locator.html?categoryid=3 The Consejo Cerámico de Norte América México (TCNAMéxico) was created in 2005 as a subsidiary of the Tile Council of North America. Its goal is to develop the industry, expand the market, and represent the interests of Mexico in an international context. COMINSA Calle del Molino #117 Frac. Industrial el Obispo Santa Catarina, Nuevo León CP 66359 Phone: 52 81 8316 8019 Website: www.cominsaminerales.com with tile works from Juan O\'Gorman. academic, technological, and human resources necessary to remain an important global player in the industry\'s future. Email: Diana.Flores@cominsaminerales.com Comercializadora de Minerales Cerámicos, S.A. de C.V., was founded in 2003 to meet the market demand for raw materials used in the manufacture of industrial ceramics. Endress+Hauser México Fernando Montes de Oca 21 Edificio A Piso 3 Frac. Industrial San Nicolás Tlalnepantla de Baz, México CP 54030 Phone: 52 55 5321 2080 Fax: 52 55 5321 2099 Website: www.mx.endress.com Email: eh.mexico@mx.endress.com Endress+Hauser was founded in 1953 in Switzerland, home to its global headquarters, and is a global leader in measurement instrumentation, services, and solutions for industrial process engineering. The company entered the Mexican market in 1999 and has sales offices in many cities. Innovaseals Website: www.innovaseals.com.mx Directory of offices, phone numbers, and emails: www. innovaseals.com.mx/contac.php Founded in 1997, Innovaseals conceptualizes, designs, manufactures, repairs, and develops technological applications for a variety of mechanical seals. Ivoclar Vivadent Av. Insurgentes Sur No. 863, Piso 14 Col. Nápoles México DF CP 03810 Phone: 52 55 5062 1000 Fax: 52 55 5212 0585 Website: www.ivoclarvivadent.com.mx/es-mx/ Directory of contacts: www.ivoclarvivadent.com.mx/ es-mx/contacto/contacto Ivoclar Vivadent is a global leader in innovative materials and processes for esthetic dentistry. Its products include direct restoratives as well as fixed and removable prosthetics. Launched in Zurich in 1923, its Mexican operations have advanced the development of lucite, lithium, and zirconium ceramics used to replace lost or damaged dental structures. www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 Mexico ceramics directory and profiles Krohne de México, SA de CV Poza Rica 706 Col. Petrolera Tampico, Tamaulipas CP 89110 Phone: 52 833 217 3830 Website: www.krohnemexico.com Email: contacto@krohnemexico.com Krohne\'s Mexican operations handle service and sales for a region that spans Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. The company\'s high-performance ceramic products include electromagnetic, variable area, ultrasonic, mass, and vortex flowmeters as well as flow controllers. Laboratorio Nacional de Nanotecnología Centro de Investigación en Materiales Avanzados, S.C. Miguel de Cervantes 120, Comp. Ind. Chihuahua Chihuahua, Chihuahua CP 31109 Website: www.nanotech.cimav.edu.mx/# Email: www.nanotech@cimav.edu.mx The National Nanotechnology Laboratory promotes the advance of nanoscience and nanotechnology in Mexico by supporting the academic and manufacturing sectors. Its mission is to serve as a hub of Mexico\'s national nanotechnology network. Nitropiso Eje 140 #1000, Zona Industrial Deleg. la Pila, San Luis Potosí Phone/Fax: 52 444 832 0100 Website: www.nitropiso.com Email contact form: www.nitropiso.com/contacto Founded in 2003, the company produces flooring and ceramic tile for domestic and international clients in one of the world\'s most modern manufacturing plants. Polarimundo Azalea Mz. 41 Lt. 22 Santa Rosa, Chicoloapan Website: www.polarimundo.mex.tl/12733_Quienessomos-.html Email contact form: www.polarimundo.mex.tl/?mail=1 A specialist in the use of nanotechnology for ultraviolet protection of industrial glass, the company develops and manufactures ceramic nanoseals that reduce ultraviolet exposure by 99%. Porcelanas Dentales Hamburgos 108 Desp. 304 Col. Juárez Cuauhtemoc, México DF CP 06660 Phone: 52 55 5511 5582 Fax: 52 55 5525 8141 Website: www.porcelanasdentales.com.mx The company develops and manufactures metal-free porcelain, ceramic metal, and other resin, titanium, and laser products for dental use. Praxair México Website: www.praxair.com.mx Directory by state: www.praxair.com.mx/portal/site/ praxair/Sucursales Email form: www.praxair.com.mx/praxair_view/jsp/ sendlink_mail.jsp Praxair Specialty Ceramics, a commercial segment of Praxair Surface Technologies, pioneers the development of products that make use of emerging technologies and have a variety of industrial applications, including microelectronic circuits, solid oxide fuel cells, superconductor cables, and cellular technology. Prolec SA de CV⭑ Blvd. Carlos Salinas de Gortari km 9.25 Apodaca, Nuevo León 66600 Phone: 52 81 8030-2553 Fax: 52 81 8030-2500 Website: www.celeco.com.mx Celeco manufactures electrical porcelain insulators for distribution and medium power (up to 138 kV) class. Celeco is the most modern facility in its field, reaching an annual capacity of 12,000 tons. Its principal products are transformer bushings, cutouts, arresters, and transformer components. Refractarios Sajuri, S.A. de C.V. Zahuatlan 366 Col. La Romana Tlalnepantla, México CP 54030 Phone: 52 55 5565 8281 Fax: 52 55 5390 1965 Website: www.sajuri.com.mx Email: info@sajuri.com.mx Email contact form: www.sajuri.com.mx/formulario.html Founded 20 years ago, the company develops and manufactures refractory products for a wide variety of industries. Vitro Cerámica de México, S.A. de C.V. Website: www.vitroceramica.com.mx/vitro/index.asp Directory of locations and phone numbers: www. vitroceramica.com.mx/vitro/english/contacto.htm English language website: www.vitroceramica.com.mx/ vitro/english/index.asp Founded in Hermosillo in 1991, this ceramic tile company has expanded operations to Culiacán, Torreon, Ciudad Juárez, Mexicali, and Tijuana. UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES Acta Universitaria Website: www.actauniversitaria.ugto.mx/index.php/acta/ index This scientific journal, which operates under the auspices of the Universidad de Guanajuato, is published six times a year in print and digital editions, in English and Spanish. Centro de Investigación Cinvestav Av. Industria Metalurgica #1062 Parque Industrial Saltillo-Ramos Arizpe Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, CP 25900 Website: www.cinvestav.edu.mx/saltillo Foro Consultivo Científico Tecnológico Insurgentes Sur No. 670 piso 9 Col. del Valle Deleg. Benito Juárez, México DF CP 03100 Phone: 52 55 5598 8940 or 5598 8986/ 5611 8536 Website: www.foroconsultivo.org.mx/home English language website: www.foroconsultivo.org.mx/ home_ing Email: foro@foroconsultivo.org.mx Established in 2002, the Foro Consultivo Científico y Tecnológico (Science and Technology Advisory Forum) is an autonomous and impartial body in charge of analyzing the development of science, technology, and innovation in Mexico. Its Board of Directors includes 21 representatives from the research, technology, and business sectors. Instituto Politécnico Nacional Av. Luis Enrique Erro S/N Unidad Profesional Adolfo López Mateos, Zacatenco Deleg. Gustavo A. Madero, México DF CP 07738 Website: www.ipn.mx/Paginas/inicio.aspx English language website: www.ipn.mx/english/Paginas/ Inicio.aspx American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org *ACers Corporate Member ITAM Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México Campus Río Hondo Río Hondo #1 Col. Progreso Tizapán Deleg. Álvaro Obregón, México DF CP 01080 Campus Santa Teresa Av. Camino a Santa Teresa #930 Col. Héroes de Padierna Deleg. Magdalena Contreras, México DF CP 10700 Phone: 52 55 5628 4000 Website: www.itam.mx/es Email directory: www.itam.mx/es/contactos/ contactos.php EGAP Gobierno y Política Pública del Tecnológico de Monterrey Eugenio Garza Lagüera y Rufino Tamayo Col. Valle Oriente San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo León CP 66269 Phone: 52 81 8625 8300 Website: www.egap.itesm.edu/wps/portal/egap?WCM_ GLOBAL_CONTEXT= Email: egap.mty@servicios.itesm.mx Tecnológico de Monterrey Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501 Sur Col. Tecnológico Monterrey, Nuevo León CP 64849 Phone: 52 81 8358 2000 Website: www.itesm.edu English language website: www.itesm.edu/wps/wcm/ connect/ITESM/Tecnologico+de+Monterrey/English Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México Instituto Literario # 100 Col. Centro Toluca, México, CP 50000 Phone: 52 722 226 2300 Website: www.uaemex.mx Faculty and administrative directory: www.desarrollo. uaemex.mx/directorios Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León 2013 Pedro de Alba s/n San Nicolás de Los Garza, Nuevo León Website: www.uanl.mx English language website: www.uanl.mx/utilerias/folletouanl_ingles.pdf Universidad de las Américas Puebla Sta. Catarina Mártir Cholula, Puebla CP 72810 Phone: 52 222 229 2000 Website: www.udlap.mx/home.aspx Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara Periférico Sur Manuel Gómez Morin 8585 Tlaquepaque, Jalisco CP 45090 Phone: 52 33 3669 3434 Website: www.portal.iteso.mx/portal/page/portal/ITESO Departmental email and phone directory: www.portal. iteso.mx/portal/page/portal/ITESO/Informacion_ Institucional/Contactanos Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Av. Universidad 3000 Coyoacán, México DF 04510 Phone: 52 55 5622 2522 Website: www.unam.mx English language website: www.unam.mx/index/en Phone and email directory: www.directorio.unam.mx/ consultasvarias.htm 29 MIN GRAND (Credit: IMI-NFG.) A panel of industry representatives fields questions at a conference on functional glasses for energy and information technologies. From left-right: Rene Gy, Saint-Gobain Research; M. K. Badrinarayana, Corning, Inc.; and Roland Langfeld, Schott AG. Functional glasses for energy and information technologies The international glass community finds opportunities for glass in emerging energy and information technologies. By Carlo G. Pantano, Himanshu Jain, and Klaus Bange \"Th he International Interactive Conference on Functional Glasses: Properties and Applications for Energy & Information” took place on January 6-11, 2013, in Siracusa, Sicily. This unique conference resulted from a multiyear effort by the NSF-funded International Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glass (IMI-NFG) to bring together active glass researchers with the industries using or manufacturing glass. The conference promoted extensive discussion among academics, technologists, and manufacturers with invited speakers only, defined discussion leaders, an industry panel, a detailed summary report, and a roadmap outlining glassbased needs and opportunities for energy and information technologies. (Table 1 lists participants and presentation topics.) This short summary outlines the topics covered and the key outcomes. We encourage you to download the complete report at www.lehigh.edu/imi and to register your opinion about the relative importance of the technologies discussed. Powering up-Glass for energy technology Speakers described needs and opportunities for glass in solid-state lighting, photovoltaics, energy-efficient windows, 30 and batteries. Advances in glass processing, such as the development of flexible glasses, and surface coatings will enable advances in energy technology systems. Solid-state lighting. Key challenges include the need for higher-refractive-index substrates or light-extraction coatings, encapsulation glasses for (organic) light-emitting diode materials (LED and OLED), and large-area coatings of glass with transparent conducting oxide, OLED materials, and metal films. Glass as a barrier against water and oxygen ingress is especially important for OLED, where the high index enhances light-extraction. An integrated glass substrate incorporating the anode and light extraction layers is one possible approach for flat-glass producers to lower costs for this fast-growing market. Photovoltaics. Although the PV market is quiet at this time, it is evolving and likely to grow if costs can be reduced. Glass is used primarily as a protective cover for crystalline silicon PV, and as substrate and superstrate in the case of thin-film PV. Improvements in optical transmission, stiffness, and strength can help, especially if combined with thinner, lighter-weight glass. However, lower-cost coating and secondary processing of float glass may be more important here. Of course, new, more efficient PV thin-film materials could change glass requirements, but the price-to-performance ratio is not yet favorable for existing materials, such as CuInGaS and CdTe. In the case of other solar energy conversion technologies, such as concentrated solar power (CSP) and glass bioreactors, transparent coatings on the glass are critical for light and heat management, antifouling, light transmission, and service life. The optical transmission of the glass component is important for PV, CSP, and bioreactors, and it can be improved by lowering the iron impurity content of the raw materials or by using thinner glass. Energy-efficient buildings. Coated glass already is important for low-E windows, but smart windows need glasses coated with active materials that can respond to light intensity (phowww.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 tochromic), temperature (thermochromic), applied electric field (electrochromic), or applied redox gas (gasochromic). Candidate coatings include metal films, heavily doped wide-bandgap semiconductors, and nanocarbons, such as carbon nanotubes, graphene monolayers, and C60 buckeyballs, that are conducting films and transparent in the near-IR. Semiconducting phase change materials, such as VO2, which can switch from an IR-transparent semiconductor to an IR-reflecting metallic phase at T > 68°C, also are possible coating materials. For energy technologies as well as for displays and integrated optics described later, coating glass with optical or electronic thin-film coatings is common. For example, transparent conducting oxide thin films, such as tin-doped indium oxide, fluorine-doped tin oxide, or aluminum-doped zinc oxide, coat glass for thin-film PV, electrochromics, displays, and touch screen applications. In most cases, the surface chemistry of the glass is passivated with a barrier layer to minimize interactions with the dopants. The coating process and physical characteristics of the glass surface must be uniform over large areas. For large and small electronic displays, patterning of the films also is required. In this regard the recent development of thin, flexible glass is significant. As displays and electronics become lighter, thinner, and more flexible, the importance of substrate choice to overall performance increases. The substrate directly affects improvements in design, material selection, fabrication processes, weight, and performance. Currently, there are several producers of glass with thicknesses in the range 30-200 μm. At the lower end of this range, roll-to-roll processing of thin-film deposition and device patterning is possible with potential benefits for displays as well as for energy-efficient windows, lighting, and photovoltaics. Researchers have demonstrated the feasibility of continuous vacuum deposition, photolithography, laser patterning, screen printing, slot die coating, and lamination. Another benefit of flexible glass is its mechanical reliability. The edge strength and resistance-to-tearing is maintained by an edge finish, but otherwise the mechanical behavior of this glass is unique and favorable. In most loading conditions, it will bend rather than fracture. Batteries. Solid-state batteries are the primary target for energy storage, although capacitors may become a significant technology with the advent of low-alkali boroaluminosilicate glasses. Glass and glass-ceramic ion conductive materials could provide safer and higherenergy-density electrolytes for batteries. On the other hand, mixed electron-ionconducting glasses may prove useful as high-temperature electrodes for the proposed all-solid-state lithium-ion battery, which is expected to yield more than an order of magnitude increase in the energy and power density of lithium cells. Solid-state lithium batteries eliminate capacity-lowering carbonaceous cathodes, flammable liquid electrolytes that foster metallic lithium dendrites, and low capacity high-mass transition-metal oxide cathodes. The enabling core scientific and technological breakthroughs require development of new, low-cost, green, stable solid electrolytes and electrodes that exhibit high ion conductivity. The wide compositional ranges of glasses, their relatively low cost and ease of fabrication, and their chemical and electrochemical durability make them promising candidate materials. However, safety remains an issue with lithium, especially metallic lithium anodes. Thus, there is increasing interest in all-solid-state sodium-ion batteries, and new materials and processes were described for sodiumion battery systems. For example, a nonoxide \"sulfide glass system,\" made by melt quenching or mechanical milling of Na₂S and P₂S, glasses, may work as the electrolyte in room-temperature sodium batteries, while chalcogenide glasses are being considered for anodes. A new lowcost cathode material, Na₂FeP₂O, fabricated by a glass-ceramic process, also is being developed for sodium-ion systems. At the same time, LiFePO4 glass-ceramic cathodes are pursued for lithium-ion batteries. Dielectric and ion transport properties are fundamental to using glass and glass-ceramics for battery electrolytes and electrodes and high-energy-density storage capacitors. To optimize the design of new superionic glass conductors, the role of short- and intermediate-range order structure in ion transport needs to be better understood. Fast lithium-ion conducting glass-ceramics also are promising materials for allsolid-state lithium batteries, although the high resistivity of the grain boundaries in glass-ceramics must be resolved. Similarly, limited understanding of ion transport across particle boundaries plagues milled and cold-pressed sulfide and phosphate battery materials. For high-energy-density storage capacitors, ion transport is undesirable and must be limited to prevent dielectric breakdown. The new very thin flexible glasses offer high dielectric breakdown strength, but composition does not yet maximize energy density. Many energy systems, including electrochemical devices for energy conversion and storage, energy-efficient vacuum and gas-filled windows, and high-temperature systems, require hermetic seals. Engineering properties (thermal expansion, viscoelasticity, etc.) of oxide glasses can be tailored, and glasses can be screen-printed, tape-cast, made into sintered preforms, etc. Similarly, glass seals, glass substrates, and coated glasses require improved mechanical strength and damage resistance. Despite the recent commercialization of ion-exchanged glasses, sharp, high-rate contact damage remains a challenge that requires better understanding of localized plastic deformation, friction, and mechanochemical effects. Data flow-Glass for information technology In the sessions concerning information technologies, presentations addressed optical fibers for communication and lasers as well as the use of femtosecond lasers for fabrication of integrated optics and memory devices for photonics. Fiber optics. The tremendous growth of the Internet has created the need for higher-bandwidth components. To operate at bit rates beyond 150 Gb/s, optical communication systems will have to process signals entirely in the optical domain. All-optical signal proAmerican Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org 31 Functional glasses for energy and information technologies cessing means the control of light by light, which is possible only in a nonlinear optical material. To minimize propagation losses, there has been progressive use of longer wavelengths-from 0.85 μm to 1.3 μm to 1.5 μm. Thus, developing the next generation of telecommunication systems requires a better understanding of nonlinear optical processes, and parallel development of new optical materials and optical-fiber designs that operate in the near-IR. Microstructured and nanoscale optical fibers guide and manipulate light in new ways to create novel fiber-based optical devices. The first photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with a solid-glass core emerged from the drawing tower in 1995, and fiber optics entered a new phase because more than 99% of the guided mode field resides in the hollow regions of the fiber. Thereby, the effective transmission loss can Table 1. List of presentation titles and speakers Presentation title Integrated Glass Substrates for OLED Lighting High-Refractive-Index Glass for OLED Lighting be many times lower than that 5 μm Mechanically robust and flexible nanofiberoptic devices are critical for practical applications. This silica microfiber has a diameter of 300 nm and bending radius of 4 μm. Typical room-temperature tensile strengths exceed 5 GPa. of the glass itself. Emerging applications for these fibers include ultrawideband transmission and multispectral amplification as well as space division multiplexing with multicore fibers. They also are being developed for \"lab-in-a-fiber\" devices by using PCF as a microfluidic channel that guides light to manipulate particles and cells. There is growing interest in optical microfibers and nanofibers, glass fibers with diameters close to or smaller than the wavelength of the guided light. These new fibers, usually fabricated by redrawing larger fibers, open the door Photovoltaic Industry and Role of Glass for Reducing the Cost of Solar Energy A General Introduction for the Use and Needs of TCMs Ultraslim Glass for Electronic Applications Alterations of Glass Surfaces and Functional Coatings for Energy Conversion Systems Sealing Glasses for Electrochemical Devices Coated Glass for Energy-Efficient Buildings: Spectral Selectivity, Angular Dependence, and Time Variability Dielectric Properties of Glasses and Glass-Ceramics and Examples of Applications Fundamentals of Indentation Cracking in Glass: A Measure of Strength? Sharp Contact Damage in lon-Exchanged National Cover Glass Surface Chemistry of Glass: Interfacial Water (NEG) and Mechanochemical Properties Glasses for Energy Storage: Advancing the Energy Density and Safety of Batteries Glass-Ceramics for the Innovative Secondary Batteries Ion Transport Across Grain Boundaries in Fast-Lithium Ion Conducting Glass-Ceramics Proton Behavior at Glass/Water Interfaces: Implications on Reactions and Proton Transport Glass and Glass-Ceramic for Nonlinear Optics: Fundamentals to Applications Phase-Change Materials: Trends and Prospects Micromodification of Glass by Femtosecond Laser: Fundamentals and Applications Microstructured Optical Fibers: Opportunities and Challenges Microfiber and Nanofiber Photonics Photosensitivity of Optical Materials for Photonics and Integrated Optics Toward the Development of New Optical Fibers Making Glass Better Surface Interactions on Glass Optics during Fabrication, Postprocessing, and Laser Operation Production of Chalcogenide Glass Optics: Motivation, Current Status, and Future Developments Unlimited Glass A Mirror of Our World\'s Trends Path to the Realization of \"A Day Made of Glass\" 32 to devices based on near-field optics, plasmonics, and optomechanics. They also enhance nonlinear optical effects for photonic engineering. Likewise, nanofibers are being developed as optical sensors, but they require engineering and fabrication of the nanoscale \"optical-chemical interface.\" Laser-glass interaction. The posAuthor Mehran Arbab, PPG Industries Inc., USA Takashi Murata, Nippon Electric Glass (NEG), Japan Şener Oktik, Şişecam, Turkey Driss Lamine, Saint-Gobain Recherche, France Sean Garner, Corning, Inc., USA Joachim Deubener, Clausthal Univ., Germany Richard Brow, Missouri Univ. of Sci. and Technol., USA Claes-Goran Granqvist, Uppsala Univ., Sweden Martin Letz, SCHOTT AG, Germany Satoshi Yoshida, Univ. of Shiga Perfecture, Japan Timothy Gross, Corning, Inc., USA Seong Kim, Pennsylvania State Univ., USA Steve W. Martin, Iowa State Univ., USA Tsuyoshi Honma, Nagaoka Univ. of Technology, Japan Bernhard Roling, Univ. of Marburg, Germany Stephen H. Garofalini, Rutgers Univ., USA Thierry Cardinal, Univ. of Bordeaux, France Yong Gyu Choi, Korea Aerospace Univ., Korea Jianrong Qiu, South China Univ. of Technology, China Philip Russell, Max Planck Institute, Germany Limin Tong, Zhejiang Univ., China Raman Kashyap, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Younès Messaddeq, Université of Laval, Canada Roland Langfeld, SCHOTT AG, Germany Tayyab Suratwala, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA Xiang-Hua Zhang, Univ. of Rennes, France Marc van den Neste, Asahi Glass-Europe M.K. Badrinarayana, Corning, Inc., USA www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 ((Credit: Tong; ZJU).) Table 2. Glass R&D priorities for energy and information technologies Glass technologies considered • Lighting • Photovoltaics • Windows • Batteries/capacitors • Coatings (conductive/optional) •Thin/flexible glass (roll-to-roll) ⚫Telecom/photonics • Information storage • Displays Enabling properties and process •Substrates for electronics and optics •Surface and chemical durability • Strength and damage resistance ⚫lonic and electronic conduction • Photoactivity—NLO • Optical fibers―Design and processing • Laser interactions and processing • Glass-ceramics and crystallization • Phosphate, sulfide, and chalcogenide glasses •Melting-Quality and sustainability Computer modeling and simulation • Thermochemical data • Functional coatings and their low-cost, large-area processing sibility of using femtosecond lasers to fabricate integrated optics devices based on the associated photosensitive properties of glasses may accelerate the development of all-optical photonic communication and data storage systems. For this reason, the study of photosensitivity and laser-induced modification and damage in glasses has attracted considerable interest. The nonlinear nature of the absorption confines any induced changes to the focal volume making it possible to transform properties and micromachine geometrically complex structures in three dimensions. Although fabrication of several waveguides and (nano)gratings has been demonstrated, better understanding of the fundamental lasermaterial interactions still is needed, especially concerning the competition between thermal and electronic effects of high-intensity laser irradiation. In this regard, various glasses and transparent glass-ceramics including phosphates, chalcogenides, and tellurites are being studied to understand laser-material interactions and to find optimal materials for device performance. A combination of glasses will be needed to meet all the requirements of such systems. Fortunately, it seems that these less-common glasses are compatible with silica-based telecommunication fiber and could enable low-cost fabrication by laser processing. Nonlinear optical properties. The nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of glasses are important in the femtosecond laser treatment and fabrication of these devices as well as in their performance in all-optical photonic systems. Although lacking complete understanding, researchers are studying fast, intensity-driven index changes, second and third harmonic generation, stimulated Raman emission, and multiphoton absorption. This fundamental research has led to the study of less-common glasses, such as tellurites, transparent glass-ceramics, metal and semiconductor nanoparticle glasses, and glass/polymer hybrids. The transparency of these materials and the magnitude of the NLO effect are limited, but several specific glass and glass-ceramic compositions are approaching practical applications. More research is needed to clarify whether such materials can outperform thermal poling for maximizing second harmonic generation, to understand the role of their short and medium range structure, and to engineer the plasmon resonances in nanoparticle glasses and glass-ceramics. Industry\'s perspective On the final day of the conference, a panel of industrial R&D managers convened for a discussion session to summarize the outcomes and draft a list of topics (Table 2) for future R&D and further discussion at workshops or conferences. The list of topics in Table 2 is by no means a consensus, but is based on short summaries from the discussion leaders. For sure, the characteristics, properties, and processing of glass surfaces are important in many of the technologies discussed at this meeting. Surface impacts all applications that require coatings on glass as well American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org as strength, optics, laser damage resistance, and durability. Other properties that could advance many technologies with improved understanding include ion and proton transport, dielectric stability, spatial uniformity and temporal stability of physical properties, nonlinear optics, and photosensitivity. There was unanimous agreement that anything that can accelerate the traditional melting process without loss of glass quality could make glass more cost competitive. Likewise, large-area coating of glass for windows, electronics, and architecture requires innovative new processes and improved monitoring in manufacturing. The possible use of thin, flexible, roll-to-roll glass could positively impact the cost and performance of electronics on glass, but this technology is very young. The group discussed the idea of a roadmap for specific glass properties and other performance criteria, with quantitative targets, as a way to ensure a societal impact for glass research. However, both the panel and audience recognized that development of new products by the glass industry is not always uniformly driven as, for example, the computer chip industry where higher speed and smaller chips are common goals. Interestingly, the Usable Glass Strength Coalition (of glass manufacturers) has identified glass strength as a property whose improvement can positively impact the entire industry and also has opened a dialog with academia. Acknowledgement The authors and conference participants thank the National Science Foundation International Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glasses (DMR-0844014) for its support. About the authors Carlo G. Pantano is distinguished professor of materials science and engineering at Pennsylvania State University, Himanshu Jain is professor of materials science and engineering at Lehigh University, and Klaus Bange is with MK Consulting. Contact: Carlo Pantano at cgp1@psu.edu. 33 (a) (b) Figure 1. (a) Ferroelectric nanostructures processed by soft-template infiltration, the same technique proposed for the creation of dielectric nanocomposites in the CAREER project. (b) Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb and former doctoral student Ashley Bernal (front) analyzing a sample. Bernal is now a tenure-track assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. NSF\'s CAREER Program: New opportunities and the ceramics class of 2013 By Lynnette D. Madsen It the US National Science AR Foundation, the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program has an annual competition that provides five-year grants to assistant professors. This article provides some background information on the CAREER Program, an introduction to the 2013 awardees in the Ceramics Program, information about supplemental opportunities, and a few remarks about CAREER workshops. Four articles about the CAREER program have been published in previous issues of this magazine. Each highlighted one year\'s recipients of the NSF CAREER award in the Ceramics Program. The first of these covered 2009 grantees and provided a historical perspective and overview of the CAREER program.¹ The next covered the 2010 grantees and mentioned the pilot of a CAREER workshop designed to provide feedback from experts on the principal investigators\' developments in their CAREER projects and overall career progression.² These workshops have continued in subsequent years, and the most recent was held in conjunction with the International Conference & Exhibition on Advanced & 34 Nano Materials³ in Québec City, Canada in August. The 2011 article described the new Career-Life Balance initiative at NSF4 and associated supplemental awards available.5 The current article also provides information about this and other opportunities. The next article in the series focused on 2012 grantees and provided statistical and geographic details from the perspective of the Ceramics Program.6 NSF made five awards from the summer of 2012 CAREER submissions to the Ceramics Program. These projects began in 2013. Following is a summary of the new CAREER grantees and their research. Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb of the Georgia Institute of Technology proposed a timely CAREER project focused on flexoelectricity, which capitalizes on the spontaneous electrical polarization of a dielectric material when it is subjected to strain or electric field gradients. She will examine flexoelectric micro- and nanocomposites with lead-free compositions and geometric confinement. The work will entail original fabrication approaches and should advance the fundamental understanding of the underlying physics of flexoelectricity and explain the discrepancies between experimental observations and theoretical predictions (Figure 1). In turn, this work may enable new transduction approaches in micro- and nanosystems. Bassiri-Gharb also will guide graduate and undergraduate students, mentor new women engineering students, and engage in high school student-parent day camps that focus on women. (Award 1255379) Shen J. Dillon of the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign proposed a challenging CAREER project to www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 quantitatively establish relationships between properties of individual heterojunction nanowires and their performance as photocatalysts. His approach includes in-situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to quantify the rate of photocatalytic gas evolution at individual nanostructures, ex-situ characterization to extend the structural and chemical information, and electrical measurements to obtain photoconductivity and relaxation data (Figure 2). This work will help to optimize high-efficiency, low-cost heterojunction photocatalysts that might lead toward new approaches to enhancing photocatalytic efficiency and new experimental methods for studying photochemistry at the nanometer scale. Dillon also will involve a diverse group of undergraduate and graduate students in this research, work closely with two K-12 teachers annually, and foster an inquiry-based approach to learning in his classes. (Award 1254406) Liping Huang of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., proposed an original CAREER project with new concepts that use a combination of experimental and computational approaches to examine the role of elasticity in strengthening glasses. Her plans include use of in-situ light scattering techniques for measuring elastic moduli, development of models for multicomponent glasses, and use of (a) faster and less expensive virtual testing protocols (Figure 3). Ultimately her work may prove useful in the design of tailored glasses, and benefits may derive from her development of a structural probe for understanding materials under extreme conditions. Huang also will integrate computation and modeling into courses, and she will motivate K-12 students, especially women and underrepresented minorities in high school, to pursue science and engineering careers. (Award 1255378) Alexander Orlov of the State University of New York at Stony Brook proposed a CAREER project that will develop novel biomimetic-inspired photosynthesis (the so-called Z-scheme) for water splitting by synthesizing heterostructured metal oxides (e.g., rhodium-doped SrTiO, and BiVO photocatalysts) that could provide higher efficiency than traditional catalysts. These structures mainly will be examined using surface science techniques to ascertain their surface morphology, electronic structure, and interactions with water (Figure 4). A possible outcome of this research is the development of a new approach to the utilization of solar power. Orlov will continue with the development of an innovative computer game and educational platform called Enviropedia to teach sustainability concepts, engage undergraduate and graduate students in research, develop curH₂O (b) Gas bubble riculum, and continue his interactions with high schools. He also will endeavor to apply photocatalytic materials in additional self-cleaning applications. (Award 1254600) Xueyan Song of West Virginia University, Morgantown, proposed a comprehensive and focused CAREER project to optimize, through nanoscale engineering approaches, the energy interconversion properties of the p-type oxide thermoelectric material Ca, Co O, (Figure 5). Her approach includes doping of the lattice to enhance the electrical transport properties as well as the simultaneous insertion of nanoscale-sized inclusions to reduce the thermal conductivity. This research ultimately will serve to improve thermoelectric materials for waste heat recovery. Song intends to include a diverse set of undergraduate and graduate students in her research efforts and to engage high school teachers through the existing WVU Teacher Research Experience for the Advancement of Knowledge (TREK) program. (Award 1254594) Other funding opportunities Career-life balance. The NSF-wide CLB initiative, which outlines new workplace flexibility policies to support scientists and their families, was announced jointly by the White House and NSF in 2011. Gender-neutral TiO2 100 nm Figure 2. (a) Preliminary in situ photocatalysis demonstrating gas evolution after ~20 minutes of UV irradiation. Direct imaging of nanoscale bubbles provides a very sensitive measure of photocatalytic gas production. (b) Shen Dillon (left) working with undergraduate researchers Meng Huang (partially hidden, back middle), Jordan Turner (with hat), and Mingou Zhang (right rear) and postdoctoral associate Kaiping Tai (right front). American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org 35 (Credit: S. Dillon.) NSF\'s CAREER Program: New opportunities and the ceramics class of 2013 (a) (b) (c) including several to CAREER grantees in the Ceramics Program. provide up to approximately $60,000 per year, renewable for up to three years. MPS made 29 supplements in FY 2012, the program\'s inaugural year, and recomFigure 3. (a) Map of shear deformation around a pre-existing crack during tensile test of densified silica glass. Yellow color indicates a high degree of deformation. (b) Liping Huang sets up optics for studying the elastic properties of glass under high temperature, pressure, and strain conditions. (c) Outreach effort with high school students at the Engineering Institute for Young Women, Niskayuna, N.Y. policies and practices are critical to attracting and retaining top scientists to academic positions. The CAREER Program page describes a special supplemental funding opportunity under CLB (NSF 13-075) and invites requests to support additional personnel when principal investigators are on family leave. Funding is available to sustain research for up to three months or $12,000 of salary support for research technicians or equivalent plus indirect costs. In FY 2012, 27 supplements were provided to support CLB across NSF, Graduate research supplements for underrepresented groups. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences Dear Colleague Letter (NSF 13-071) describes a supplemental funding opportunity that emphasizes broadening participation of underrepresented minorities. Requests for these supplements require a connection to an existing or previous grant under the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate program. Supplements Supplemental opportunities Researchers with active NSF awards may request supplemental funding based on justification and the availability of program funds. Some requests are easily justified, e.g., an unanticipated need for additional funds for special equipment or repairs, or for assistance to facilitate participation by persons with disabilities in an NSF-supported project. Selected supplemental opportunities have some set-aside funds, which are often described in NSF Dear Colleague letters. Following are guidelines for Supplemental Support as described in the Jan. 2013 NSF Award and Administration Guide (Chapter I, Section E.4). • In unusual circumstances, small amounts of supplemental funding and up to six months of additional support may be requested to assure adequate completion of the original scope of work. Such requests for supplemental funding support should be submitted to the cognizant NSF Program Officer at least two months prior to the need for the additional funds and must be adequately justified. Program officers may make decisions regarding whether or not to recommend a small supplement without merit review of the supplemental request. Requests for larger supplements may require external merit review. • A request for supplemental support must be submitted electronically via FastLane and must 36 include: (i) A summary of the proposed work; (ii) A justification of the need for the supplemental funds; and (iii) A budget, highlighting the use by budget category of the additional funding as distinguished from the original funding provided in those categories of cost. Authorized Organizational Representatives are required to electronically sign the supplemental funding request via the AOR Functions in FastLane. • NSF will not approve requests for supplemental support for such purposes as defraying the costs of increases in salaries, wages or staff benefits or for additional indirect cost reimbursement, whether caused by a change in the indirect cost rate or by changes in direct cost expenditures which affect the indirect cost base. • If approved, the NSF Grants and Agreements Officer will amend the grant to provide additional funding for the current support period. The amendment notice will specify both the amount of supplemental funding and the cumulative amount awarded through the expiration date, which normally will remain unchanged. Special NSF programs such as Research Experiences for Undergraduates may provide their funding through supplements to other NSF grants. In such instances, the guidance in this section may not be applicable. mended 39 in FY 2013. The Ceramics Program approved eight of these, including several to CAREER grantees. Collaborations between European and American researchers. Under an agreement signed by NSF and the European Commission in 2012, the European Research Council (ERC) will identify researchers seeking to host junior NSF-funded investigators for up to one year. US-based scientists and engineers supported either by a CAREER award or through one of NSF\'s Postdoctoral Research Fellowships may be invited to join an ERC team. If they are selected, they can apply to NSF (through a supplemental proposal) for travel expenses. In-Europe costs may be covered by the ERC grant. NSF Dear Colleague Letter 13-050 provides more details about this opportunity. Workshops. NSF has sponsored dozens of career-focused workshops over the years; some focus on CAREER grantees while others target pre-CAREER awardees. Topics have included educating junior faculty about NSF, career planning, preparing an NSF CAREER proposal, and assisting junior faculty in navigating the tenure process. Since 2011, the Ceramics Program has sponsored a series of annual professional development workshops focused on mentoring of CAREER awardees. The first of these, piloted by William Fahrenholtz in 2011 (Award 1048443), focused on 2010 Ceramics Program CAREER grantees. Participants received an intensive two-day technical and prowww.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 (Credit: L. Huang.) (a) Visible light Ti atom O atom\' Rh atom Sratom SrTiO: Rh (Rh= 1 mol %) (b) H₂O (c) Figure 4. (a) Hydrogen production from water and sunlight on doped Rh-SrTiO 3. (b) Transmission electron microscopy image shows Pt-modified Rh-doped SrTiO 3, which serves as an H2 production site for biomimetic Z-scheme based ceramics. (c) Alexander Orlov (right) with his students Peichuan Shen (left) and Shen Zhao and a photochemical reactor. fessional development workshop with more than a dozen colleagues and peers from the international scientific community. CAREER grantees received critical and constructive comments about their research plans and progress, education efforts, and career development. These sessions were augmented with presentations on topics such as entrepreneurship, professional society goals, and research priorities. Other participants, including additional assistant professors as well as postdoctoral associates, benefited greatly from the scientific and professional presentations and ensuing discussions. The aim of these workshops is to positively impact the research of participants, foster exchange of best practices for teaching and training students, and forge new cooperation and collaborations worldwide. (a) Erica Corral, one of the Class of 2010 CAREER awardees, then organized and hosted the next workshop (Award No. 1240580). Ricardo Castro continued this tradition and hosted the 2013 workshop (Award 1338627). About the Author Lynnette D. Madsen is program director, Ceramics, at the National Science Foundation. Contact Lynnette Madsen at Imadsen@nsf.gov. Acknowledgments The author thanks the CAREER grantees for providing images, and the thoughtful input of her colleagues, including Ashley A. White, Richard N. Smith and Graham H. Harrison. NSF publication clearance number 1300142. (b) References \"L.D. Madsen, \"NSF recognizes Three Assistant Professors with 2009 CAREER Awards in Ceramics\", Am. Ceram. Soc. Bull. 88(3), 30-33 (2009). 2 L.D. Madsen, \"An Update on the National Science Foundation Ceramic CAREER Awards: Class of 2010\", Am. Ceram. Soc. Bull. 91(6), 22-23 (2012). http://www.iaemm.com/ICANM2013/ 4 http://www.nsf.gov/career-life-balance/ 5 L.D. Madsen, \"Class of 2011 National Science Foundation CAREER Awards in Ceramics,\" Am. Ceram. Soc. Bull. 91(8), 27-29 (2012). 6 L.D. Madsen, \"Where are the Ceramic CAREER Awards: Class of 2012?\", Am. Ceram. Soc. Bull. 92(1), 30-31 (2013). 7 http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ. jsp?pims_id=503214■ 50 nm 2 nm Figure 5. (a) TEM image from the nanoscale lamellas in calcium cobaltite, and high-resolution TEM image from the grain boundary region. (b) Song (right) with graduate students Maria Torres Arango and Diego Palacio. American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org 37 (Credit: X. Song.) Credit: SUNY at Stony Brook.) Student standing on wine glasses during demonstration at Einstein Educational Center, Woodland, Calif. Sabyasachi Sen (left) also participated in this activity. (Credit: Castro.) Inspiring a new generation of materials engineers 38 By Ricardo H. R. Castro Typical K-12 curricula have little connection to materials. Lessons on the physics of electrical and magnetic properties rarely connect them to materials science. Interested students, when they get to college or university, gravitate to majors such as physics or electrical engineering. Educating K-12 teachers and modifying curricula are pathways to highlight the importance of materials engineering for the new generation. he Division of Materials Research of ☐ the National Science Foundation has Th directed college faculties to promote materials science via outreach activities. Although college faculties usually are not trained to teach K-12 students, they certainly have the experience to connect a material\'s property to the concepts students are learning in the classroom. Without the \"push\" from NSF, it is unlikely that college faculties would engage in such an enterprise. On the other hand, this can be a very rewarding activity for inspiring the future materials engineers of our country and for the professor, who will have an unparalleled educational experience. Bringing the \"materials perspective” to K-12 students requires effort, including preparation, scheduling, teacher training, solving logistical issues, and, finally, conducting the activity. With support from the Ceramics Program in NSF DMR, we recently systematically faced these challenges and learned that most of them are onetime problems—once they are solved, subsequent activities are straightforward. However, simple questions, such as how to select a school and how to interest teachers, can be big obstacles. Other problems, such as how to bring experiments to the classroom or how to train K-12 teachers, also can be critical impediments to a successful outreach program. Here we report a successful approach used at University of California, Davis in collaboration with the Yolo County Office of Education. We hope to provide tips to faculty interested in performing similar activities. Finding your school Unless you have a school-age child, connecting with a school to perform the outreach program can be challenging. This is particularly true for faculty members who did not come through the American K-12 system and might need some time to understand it. We found the Yolo County Office of Education was helpful for choosing the school for our activity. Similar offices in other counties can direct the educator to interested schools. The OE can contact principals, has current knowledge of the curriculum, and can provide viable time frames for the outreach program. We believe that, when the match is made through the OE, teachers and principals are more enthusiastic about the program. The OEs also can give you information on school demographics and can identify schools that have a larger population of underrepresented groups, if this is of interest. Hands-on activities: Kits to help your outreach Nothing competes with an in-class activity to amaze students with the marvels of materials engineering. However, developing experiments that are suitable for a classroom or a laboratory outside a well-equipped university or company laboratory is not simple. Here www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 (Credit: Castro.) we share our experience developing educational kits suitable for classrooms, considering limited budget, portability, and versatility. Detailed descriptions of each kit (including a materials list and activity) are available for download on the ACerS website at www.ceramics.org/ knowledge-center/ceramic-resourcecenter. Interested teachers can print them for use in their classrooms. We designed activities according to three topics: Strong Materials, Smart Materials, and Super Materials. Three or four experiments demonstrate each topic. It is difficult to find time in the busy schedule of K-12 students, so each activity is designed to take place once a quarter and last one hour. We tested the kits in two public schools in Woodland, Calif.-Einstein Education Center and Midtown High School. The results were outstanding! A survey revealed that 90 percent of the students thought the activities made them more interested in science and technology overall, and, not surprisingly, that they were hearing about materials engineering for the first time as a possible university major. Although we tested the kits in only Incandescent effect demonstrated at Midtown High School, Woodland, Calif. two public schools in the California educational system, we believe they will adapt well in other environments, or at least serve as a base for customized efforts. The kits comprise exciting or counterintuitive experiments to get the students\' attention. We combined the activities with slideshows of easy-to-digest images (typically cartoons) that explain the phenomena, and we used nontechnical language to bring the concepts to life. We intentionally aligned the topics with those proposed by the NOVA \"Making Stuff\" television series (www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/education/tech/making-stuff-collection.html) to create some universal synergy. The website has some interesting resources for outreach activities, but our expanded experiments have very interesting impacts and observations that appeal even to teenagers. See an example activity in the sidebar and check the full series online. Acknowledgments The author thanks the NSF DMR CAREER Award 1055504, Ceramics Program, for financial support and the Yolo County Office of Education. Input from the Material Advantage chapter at UC, Davis is also acknowledged. About the author Ricardo H. R. Castro is associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of California, Davis. Contact Castro at rhrcastro@ ucdavis.edu. Smart Materials Educational Kit- Activity Example Most students have a relatively intuitive understanding of mechanical properties, but less so of electrical and magnetic properties. They are particularly impressed by experiments based on these phenomena. Therefore, we based the Smart Materials series on the history of light. The activity asks, How has man created light from the Stone Age to the present, and what role do \"smarter\" materials have in enabling this task? This example is an experimental pamphlet for incandescent lights. The light bulb. Thomas Edison made a great advance in \"controlling\" light. Light bulb technology is simple but a great advancement to society, and of course, materials are important. To show this, we build an incandescent light in the classroom by coiling a metal wire and applying a voltage with a Variac (AC controllable power supply). Coil size can vary, but 0.25 in. diameter chromel alloy works great. It can withstand high temperatures so that a bright light can be seen at high voltages. Clamp the coiled wire to lab supports, turn on the power supply, and increase the voltage. The wire will glow beautifully. Keep increasing the voltage until the wire fails (after an intense glow). This happens because the wire oxidizes and because the temperature reaches the melting point of the wire. Explain that commercial light bulbs have an inert gas inside and the filaments are made of tungsten. Invite a student to feel the heat emanating from the wire (without touching!) and explain that this is wasted energy. Link the observation to more efficient new technologies, such as LEDs. Briefly explain that the metal is not a perfect conductor, and therefore it gives off both light and heat. The electrons \"hit\" the internal structure and defects as they travel from one end to the other. Attention: This is a simple but dangerous experiment. Depending on the size of the coil, high power may be needed, and the wire gets very hot. Perform the experiment yourself on a table in front of the class and do not let students come too close. What they learn. Light can be generated because of the imperfect conductivity of metals, but heat also is generated, causing inefficiency. Materials oxidize and melt, requiring smart materials selection and operating conditions such as a tungsten wire in an inert atmosphere. wall plug alligator clips What you will need coiled chromel wire eeeeeeee universal lab stand VARIAC up to ~120V • Chromel alloy wires for coiling • AC power supply (Variac) • Alligator clips and power cords • Two universal lab stands Note: You will need to short the fuse in the Variac to allow more current to flow. Replace it with an aluminum/copper wire. Be careful because too much current may burn out the power supply. American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org 39 book review Scanning Probe Microscopy for Energy Research Edited by Dawn A. Bonnell and Sergei V. Kalinin, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, 2013, 602 pages; ISBN 978-981-4434-70-6 This book is Volume 7 in the World Scientific Series in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. The ability to study material structure and measure material properties at the nanoscale facilitated recent progress in nanotechnology and development of nanoscale materials, such as nanotubes and graphene. Atomic force microscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy were among the most important tools used to answer emerging questions as new nanomaterials were developed. The field of call for papers 40 40 Scanning Probe Microscopy for Energy Research scanning probe microscopy (SPM) has progressed dramatically in the past five years, allowing characterization of a variety of properties in-situ and at the nanometer scale. SPM has yielded new areas of scientific endeavor, and many new SPM techniques have been introduced. These advances already are being applied to research on fundamental processes in energy materials and devices, and they have potential to further accelSubmit abstracts by November 1st DGG-ACerS GOMD 2014 . Aachen, Germany May 25-30, 2014 Submit your abstract in: • Advances in Fusion & Processing of Glass • Energy Applications of Glass • Health, Medical, Biological Aspects • Fundamentals of the Glassy State and Amorphous Materials • Optical Materials & Devices Points of contact: Steve W. Martin, swmartin@iastate.edu Gang Chen, cheng3@ohio.edu www.dgg-gomd.org &+ The American Ceramic Society www.ceramics.org Yury Gogotsi Guest columnist erate advances in this field. Many materials scientists, electrochemists, and energy researchers are familiar with common SPM techniques. This book provides state-of-the-art coverage of a much larger variety of wellestablished and recently developed techniques as well as methods for measuring specific properties of solar cells, fuel cells, and energy storage materials and devices. Nanoscale observations of ionic movement and electrochemical phenomena enabled by SPM will be required to understand electrochemical phenomena in structurally inhomogeneous materials. The book collects recent advances in SPM approaches that are useful for energy research. Leading scientists from the US, Europe, and Asia have contributed chapters to the book, presenting SPM as a toolbox of techniques for studying materials and devices at the nanoscale. The editors themselves are recognized experts who developed several widely used SPM techniques and applied them to a variety of materials, especially advanced ceramics. They coauthored several of 20 chapters in this book. The first chapter introduces the topic and summarizes some of the energy challenges, showing that SPM can provide information required to obtain the fundamental understanding that will be the basis of knowledge-driven design of energy devices. The authors then focus on four main areas: photovoltaic materials and solar cells; fuel cells and electrochemistry; batteries, with a focus on mapping ion motion and distribution; and emerging SPM techniques. The photovoltaic section is the largest, comprising seven chapters. It includes descriptions of Kelvin probes, photoassisted, and photoconductive mapping. Chapters also cover analysis of organic and semiconducting materials. Imaging and spectroscopic characterization of Li-ion and other batteries may be of particular interest to battery researchers. Other chapters describe the use of classical SPM techniques to study device performance in-situ, use of the SPM tip as a nanoscale electrochemical probe (electrode) as well as novel, www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 recently developed approaches, such as scanning nanoimpedance spectroscopy and electrochemical strain microscopy. These techniques can be applied to a wide range of materials and devices for all energy applications. The book is a very useful addition to SPM literature, providing a review with a clear focus on energy applications that is generally easy to read. The index allows for quick navigation through the volume. However, as with any publication, this book could be further improved. Not all techniques are covered. Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, a powerful technique for in-situ characterization of chemical processes on the surface of materials, is only briefly mentioned. All color images are collected in the beginning of the book, which decreases the publication cost but might make reading the book less convenient. SPM is a field that requires color, but this falls under the domain of the publisher, and the editors are not to blame. Despite those shortcomings, this book certainly provides the most comprehensive coverage of SPM techniques for energy materials and devices to date and is recommended to graduate students and researchers working in the energy field. It is not a book for learning COLOR PLATE 5 SPM basics, but those looking for the right SPM method to use, or wanting to know how to apply a specific technique to a ceramic, semiconducting, or polymer material, should be able to find an answer in this book. The series is available at www.worldscientific.com/series/wssnn. About the author Yury Gogotsi is Distinguished University and Trustee Chair Professor of materials science and engineering at Drexel University and director of the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, Philadelphia, Pa. Sintering of Ceramics Short Course on DVD The American Ceramic Society www.ceramics.org 5.00 eV 500 nm (Credit: Bonnell and Kalinin; WSP.) Learn sintering fundamentals at your own pace, or host multi-person training sessions at your facility. Taught by Dr. Mohamed N. Rahaman, the course covers sintering basics; diffusion and defect chemistry; solidstate, viscous and liquid-phase sintering; microstructure development and control; and much more. Scanning probe microscopy characterization of CuGaSe₂ thin film grown on singlecrystal ZnSe substrate. American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org List: $565 ACerS Member: $495 www.ceramics.org/sinteringdvd 41 final program Join us for the ACerS 115th Annual Meeting! MS&T13Ⓡ Materials Science & Technology 2013 (Credit: ©Stéphan Poulin) october 27-31, 2013 | Palais des congrès de Montréal | Montréal, Québec, Canada ACerS Award Lectures Sunday, Oct. 27 Hench ACers Frontiers of Science and Society: Rustum Roy Lecture 5:00 6:00 p.m. Affordable Healthcare? Role of Bioceramic Technology, Socio-Economic, and Ethical Issues Lawrence Hench, Florida Institute of Technology Tuesday, Oct. 29 ACerS Edward Orton Jr. Memorial Lecture 1:00 2:00 p.m. Griffith Cracks at the Nanoscale Sheldon M. Wiederhorn, National Institute of Weiderhorn Standards & Technology Tuesday, Oct. 29 Wednesday, Oct. 30 ACers Arthur L. Friedberg Memorial Lecture ACerS Robert B. Sosman Lecture 1:00-2:00 p.m. Hilmas 8:00 9:00 a.m. Engineered Structural Ceramic Materials: Novel Methods for Increasing Toughness, Wear Resistance, and Thermal Shock Gregory E. Hilmas, Missouri University of Science and Technology Organizers: The American Ceramic Society www.ceramics.org AIST ASSOCIATION FOR IRON & STEEL TECHNOLOGY 42 Setter Structure and Functions of Ferroic Domain Walls Nava Setter, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland INTERNATIONAL 100 ANNIVERSARY MET SOC 1913-2013 CIM TMS ICM Co-sponsor: NACE INTERNATIONAL THE CORROSION SOCIETY www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 www.matscitech.org Plenary Session Oct. 28, 2013, at 8 to 10:20 a.m. | Rm 517 Advanced Materials and Manufacturing for Extreme Environments Bowcutt Kevin G. Bowcutt, Senior Technical Fellow, Chief Scientist of Hypersonics, The Boeing Company Hypersonic Flight: The Final Frontier of Aeronautics Abstract: Efforts to develop technologies that will enable hypersonic flight have been ongoing since the late 1950s. During this time substantial advancements have been made in high-temperature structural materials and thermal protection systems, hypersonic propulsion systems, such as scramjets, and advanced vehicle design methods and tools. Taken together, these advancing technologies are moving mankind ever closer to achieving practical hypersonic flight. During the past decade, emphasis has been placed on validating in flight the key technologies, design techniques, and design concepts for hypersonic vehicles. For example, in 2004, NASA successfully flight tested the world\'s first airframe-integrated scramjet (X-43A), in 2010, the US Air Force successfully flight tested the world\'s first flight-weight and fuel-cooled scramjet (X-51A), and other flight experiments are being conducted by the Hypersonic International Flight Research and Experimentation (HIFIRE) program. Maturing technologies to the point where hypersonic platforms are technically viable and hypersonic flight is economically affordable will provide means to enable dramatically faster military mission execution and global transportation as well as dramatically more affordable space transportation. This presentation will address the key technical aspects and challenges of hypersonic vehicle design and will summarize progress made in maturing technologies critical to the successful development of practical hypersonic systems. The successful X-51A and HIFIRE flight test programs will be highlighted. The presentation will conclude by describing a vision for a hypersonic space and global transportation system. Sarrao John Sarrao, Associate Director for Theory, Simulation, and Computation, Los Alamos National Laboratory The Codesign of Experiment and Theory at the Mesoscale: A MARIE Perspective data utilization are of comparable significance and challenge as the acquisition of said data. Our recent experience in attempting to pursue this vision of prediction and control will form a central element of the presentation. Abstract: MARIE, for Matter-Radiation Interactions in Extremes, is Los Alamos National Laboratory\'s facility concept for addressing decadal challenges in materials, especially in extreme environments, through a focus on predicting and controlling materials microstructure. MARIE will be an international user facility and will enable unprecedented in-situ, transient measurements of \"real\" mesoscale materials in relevant extremes, especially dynamic loading and irradiation extremes. Concurrent advances in multiscale modeling and computational resources hold great promise for rapid progress toward these goals. In this presentation we will discuss the science questions that motivate such a facility and our vision for realizing it. Importantly, theoretical and computational advances that enable effective Pollock Tresa M. Pollock, ALCOA Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara Materials in Turbine Engine Environments Abstract: The extreme combinations of temperature, stress, strain rate, vibratory loading, and oxidizing conditions encountered in turbine engines pose a major challenge for the materials operating in these environments. As a result, the design and performance of new aircraft engines, power generation plants, and rocket propulsion systems often are limited by the turbine materials. For an individual component, a spectrum of failure modes may occur. The challenges in developing monolithic materials as well as hybrid combinations of materials that satisfy a wide range of property constraints will be discussed. Some examples of successes and failures in the development of new materials for turbine engines will be highlighted. The need for computational and experimental tools that enhance the discovery, design, and deployment of new materials for turbine environments also will be discussed. new for 2013! MS&T The conference app is new & improved for 2013. It will not only include programming information, but you will also be able to build your conference schedule. Download the app now at www.matscitech.org. Remember to use the email address you used to register to login. American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org 43 MS&T13* Materials Science & Technology 2013 october 27-31, 2013 | Palais des congrès de Montréal | Montréal, Québec, Canada Special Events Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013 Welcome Reception | 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Network with your colleagues, meet new people, and learn about the exciting membership offerings of the organizing societies. Monday, Oct. 28, 2013 ACerS 115th Annual Meeting | 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Be there as newly elected officers take their positions during the Annual Membership Meeting. All ACerS members and guests are welcome. Women in Materials Science Reception | 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. ACerS Annual Honors & Awards Banquet | 7:30 - 10:00 p.m. Come early for the reception at 6:45 and stay to celebrate ACerS\'s new awardees. Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013 MS&T\'13 Exhibit Happy Hour Reception | 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Network with colleagues and build relationships with attendees, buyers, and prospects! MS&T Young Professional Reception | 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. Attend this reception to meet and network with fellow young professionals. Hotel Information Reserve your room through reservation@tourisme-montreal.org at one of the official conference hotels. Hyatt Regency - ACerS Headquarters Hotel Le Westin Montréal - ASM Headquarters Hotel Intercontinental Montréal – TMS and AIST headquarters hotel Travelodge Montréal Centre Holiday Inn Select Montréal Reserve your room online at www.matscitech.org. Young Professional Programming at MS&T\'13 Tuesday, Oct. 29 | 9:15 – 10:30 a.m. Young Professional Committee Meeting - TMS Tuesday, Oct. 29 | Noon - 2 p.m. Student Plant Tour - Hosted by AIST Tuesday, Oct. 29 | Noon - 2 p.m. Young Professional Tutorial Luncheon - Hosted by TMS Tuesday, Oct. 29 | 4:30 – 6 p.m. Young Professional Reception - Hosted by ACerS 44 www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 MS&T Activities (ACerS activities are highlighted in red. Information subject to change) Friday, Oct. 25 Time Location COMMITTEE MEETINGS Executive Committee Meeting Noon 5:00 p.m. HR-Petite Soprano www.matscitech.org Legend: HR-Hyatt Regency PDC- Palais des Congrès Time Location Monday, Oct. 28 CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES Registration 7:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m. PDC-2nd Floor 7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. PDC-510/511 2:00-7:30 p.m. 2:00-7:00 p.m. 6:00-7:30 p.m. Prefunction PDC-2nd Floor Lobby PDC-2nd Floor Lobby PDC-510/511 Prefunction Saturday, Oct. 26 COMMITTEE MEETINGS President\'s Council of Student Advisors Business Meeting - Day 1 ACerS Board of Directors Meeting Sunday, Oct. 27 CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES ACerS/BSD Ceramographic Exhibit & Competition Registration Society Member Lounges Welcome Reception 8:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m. HR-Ovation 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. HR-Symphonie 3 Lobby Authors\' Coffee 7:00 8:00 a.m. PDC-517D Society Member Lounges 7:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m. PDC-2nd Floor Lobby ACerS/BSD Ceramographic Exhibit & Competition LECTURES 7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. PDC-510/511 Prefunction MS&T Opening Plenary ACers Richard M. Fulrath Award Session ACerS Cooper Award Session MATERIAL ADVANTAGE STUDENT FUNCTIONS Undergraduate Student Poster Contest Display 8:00 10:30 a.m. 2:00-4:40 p.m. 2:00-5:10 p.m. PDC-517AB PDC-512E PDC-516A 7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. PDC-510/511 Prefunction ACerS Student Tour Noon 5:00 p.m. PDC SOCIAL FUNCTIONS Guest Tour - Bonjour Montreal City Tour 9:00 a.m. Noon LECTURES/WORKSHOP Frontiers of Science and Society Rustum Roy Lecture 5:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. PDC-516C Women in Materials Science Reception ACers Banquet Reception 5:30-6:30 p.m. 6:45-7:30 p.m. PDC-2nd Floor Lobby PDC-523B HR-Grand Salon Opera Foyer MATERIAL ADVANTAGE STUDENT FUNCTIONS Chapter Leadership Workshop ACerS Annual Honors & Awards Banquet 7:30-10:00 p.m. HR-Grand Salon 10:00a.m. Noon PDC-517D Opera Undergraduate Student Speaking Contest ANNUAL MEETINGS Semifinal Rounds 1:00-3:00 p.m. Final Round 4:00-5:00 p.m. Undergraduate Student Poster Contest 6:00-7:30 p.m. Display PDC-518A/518B PDC-518B PDC-510/511 Prefunction ACerS Annual Membership Meeting COMMITTEE MEETINGS 1:00-2:00 p.m. PDC-516D Student Networking Mixer 7:00-9:00 p.m. PDC-517C COMMITTEE MEETINGS Keramos National Board and Business Meeting 7:00 9:00 a.m. HR-Saveur BSD General Business Meeting ECD General Business Meeting ED General Business Meeting EIC Business Meeting Meetings Committee Meeting NICE Business Meeting GOMD General Business Meeting NETD General Business Meeting Noon-1:00 p.m. Noon–1:00 p.m. PDC-524A PDC-515A Noon-1:00 p.m. PDC-514A 2:00-4:00 p.m. PDC-523A 3:00-4:30 p.m. PDC-516E 4:00-5:30 p.m. PDC-523A 5:30-6:30 p.m. 5:45-6:45 p.m. PDC-516A PDC-511D Keramos Student Chapter Business Meeting Keramos Convocation and Business Meeting Board and Division Leaders Meeting Keramos Career Speaker 8:00 9:00 a.m. 9:00 - 11:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Noon 11:00 a.m. Noon Noon 1:00 p.m. Restaurant HR-Inspiration HR-Inspiration HR-Symphonie 4 HR-Inspiration Offsite-Trattoria di Mikes HR-Symphonie 2B HR-Symphonie 3A HR-Symphonie 1 HR-Maestro HR-Symphonie 4 PDC-517D Tuesday, Oct. 29 CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES Registration Authors\' Coffee Society Member Lounges Keramos Board, Student Representative & Chapter Advisors Meeting ACerS Publications Committee Meeting ED Executive Committee Meeting 12:30-3:00 p.m. 1:00-4:00 p.m. BSD Executive Committee Meeting 2:30-4:30 p.m. NETD Executive Committee Meeting ECD Executive Committee Meeting President\'s Council of Student Advisors Business Meeting - Day 2 2:30-4:30 p.m. 3:00-4:30 p.m. 5:00-7:00 p.m. 6:00-7:00 p.m. PDC-518B General Poster Session Installation General Poster Viewing GOMD Programming & Executive Committee Meeting ACerS/BSD Ceramographic Exhibit & Competition 7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. PDC-2nd Floor 7:00-8:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Lobby PDC-517D PDC-2nd Floor Lobby 7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. PDC-510/511 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. 2:00-6:00 p.m. Prefunction PDC-Exhibit Hall PDC-Exhibit Hall American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org 45 MS&T13€ Materials Science & Technology 2013 october 27-31, 2013 | Palais des congrès de Montréal | Montréal, Québec, Canada MS&T Activities Legend: HR- Hyatt Regency (ACerS activities are highlighted in red. Information subject to change) PDC-Palais des Congrès Tuesday, Oct. 29 (continued) EXHIBITION Mini-Materials CampⓇ Exhibition Show Hours Hockey Feature Time Location Wednesday, Oct. 30 (continued) Time Location EXHIBITION Professional Recruitment & Career Pavilion 9:00 11:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. MS&T Food Court Noon 2:00 p.m. PDC-Exhibit Hall PDC-Exhibit Hall PDC-Booth 1327 PDC-Exhibit Hall PDC-Exhibit Hall Exhibitors\' Meeting Mini-Materials CampⓇ 8:00 9:00 a.m. 9:00 11:00 a.m. Exhibition Show Hours 9:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m. Professional Recruitment & Career Pavilion 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Hockey Feature Mini-Materials CampⓇ Happy Hour Reception Noon 2:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. PDC-Exhibit Hall PDC-Exhibit Hall LECTURES ACerS Arthur L. Friedberg Memorial Lecture ACerS Edward Orton Jr. Memorial Lecture 8:00-9:00 a.m. 1:00-2:00 p.m. PDC-516C PDC-516C Refreshment Break/Poster Session General Poster Session General Poster Session - Tear Down MS&T Food Court Mini-Materials Camp® 9:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. PDC-Exhibit Hall 10:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. PDC-Exhibit Hall Noon 2:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. PDC-Exhibit Hall PDC-Exhibit Hall 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. 9:15 10:45 a.m. PDC-Exhibit Hall PDC-Exhibit Hall PDC-Exhibit Hall PDC-Exhibit Hall PDC-Exhibit Hall PDC-Exhibit Hall LECTURES MATERIAL ADVANTAGE STUDENT FUNCTIONS Undergraduate Student Poster Contest Display 7:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m. PDC-510/511 Mug Drop Contest Disc Golf Contest Student Awards Ceremony 11:15 a.m. 12:15 p.m. 12:30 1:30 p.m. 2:00-3:00 p.m. Prefunction PDC-Booth 1615 PDC-Booth 1615 ACerS Robert B Sosman Lecture MATERIAL ADVANTAGE STUDENT FUNCTIONS Undergraduate Student Poster Contest Noon 1:00-2:00 p.m. PDC-516C 7:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. PDC-510/511 Prefunction INDUSTRY TOURS PDC-Exhibit Hall Hydro-Québec\'s Research Institute 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. PDC-1st floor SOCIAL FUNCTIONS COMMITTEE MEETINGS Companion Breakfast 7:30-10:00 a.m. HR-Maestro Guest Tour- Bonjour Montreal City Tour 9:45 a.m. 12:45 p.m. PDC-2nd Floor Strategic Planning & Emerging Opportunities 7:30 - 9:00 a.m. Committee Meeting HR-Symphonie 5 Young Professionals Reception 4:30-6:00 p.m. Lobby PDC-520A Nominating Committee Meeting 9:00 10:00 a.m. HR-Symphonie 6 COMMITTEE MEETINGS Thursday, Oct. 31 ACerS International Journal of Applied Glass 8:00 9:00 a.m. HR-Symphonie 3 Science Associate Editors Meeting 9:00 11:00 AM HR-Symphonie 6 Noon 1:00 p.m. 3:00-5:00 p.m. 3:15-4:15 p.m. PDC-511D PDC-516E PDC-517D Past Presidents Council Meeting AACS General Business Meeting Panel of Fellows Meeting Books Subcommittee Meeting Wednesday, Oct. 30 CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES Registration Authors\' Coffee Society Member Lounges ACerS/BSD Ceramographic Exhibit & Competition Poster Session with Presenters Poster Dismantle 7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. PDC-2nd Floor 7:00-8:00 a.m. Lobby PDC-517D 7:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m. PDC-2nd Floor Lobby 7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. PDC-510/511 9:30 10:30 a.m. Prefunction PDC-Exhibit Hall 10:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. PDC-Exhibit Hall EDUCATIONAL COURSES Electroceramics Basics: Applications and Devices Sintering of Ceramics Friday, Nov. 1 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. HR-Symphonie 2B 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. HR-Symphonie 2A EDUCATIONAL COURSES Sintering of Ceramics 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. HR-Symphonie 2A CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES Registration Authors\' Coffee Society Member Lounges 7:00 a.m. Noon 7:00 8:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m. Noon PDC-2nd Floor Lobby PDC-517D PDC-2nd Floor Lobby 46 46 www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 Program-at-a-Glance BIOMATERIALS Bioinspired Materials Engineering Next-Generation Biomaterials Surface Properties of Biomaterials IV CERAMIC AND GLASS MATERIALS Amorphous Materials: Common Issues within Science and Technology Ceramic-Matrix Composites Glass and Optical Materials, Including the Cooper Award Session Innovative Processing and Synthesis of Ceramics, Glasses, and Composites Multifunctional Oxides Solution-Based Processing for Ceramic Materials Robert B. Sosman Award Symposium Richard M. Fulrath Award Session ELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS Advances in Dielectric Materials and Electronic Devices Pb-Free Solders and Advanced Interconnecting Materials Recent Advances in Low-Temperature Processes for the Development of rf, EO, Magnetic, and Electronic Bulk and Thin-Film Crystals ENERGY ISSUES Energy Storage III: Materials, Systems, and Applications Symposium Hybrid Organic - Inorganic Materials for Alternative Energy Materials Development and Degradation Management for Nuclear Applications Materials for CO2 Capture and Conversion Materials Issues in Nuclear Waste Management in the 21st Century Thin-Film Structures for Energy-Efficient Systems Water and Energy in Mineral Processing FUNDAMENTALS AND CHARACTERIZATION Applied Neutron Scattering in Engineering and Materials Science Research Boron, Boron Compounds, and Boron Nanomaterials: Structure, Properties, Processing, and Applications Deformation and Transitions at Grain Boundaries III Failure Analysis and Prevention First Symposium on Computational Materials Design - CMAD I International Symposium on Defects, Transport, and Related Phenomena Material Data and Software Tools Needed to Make MGI and ICME a Reality Materials Tribology: Fundamentals, Applications, and Solutions Mechanical Properties of Thermoelectric Materials Multiscale Modeling of Microstructure Deformation in Material Processing Multiscale Perspectives on Plasticity in BCC Metals Optical and X-ray Imaging Techniques for Material Characterization Phase Stability, Diffusion, Kinetics, and Their Applications (PSDK-VIII) Recent Approaches and Challenges in Smart Coatings Scanning Probe Techniques for Functional Materials Semiconductor Heterostructures: Theory, Growth, Characterization, and Device Applications Synthesis and Structural and Functional Characterization of Thin Films and Self-Assembled Nanostructures American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org www.matscitech.org Mon Mon a.m. Thu Tue Tue Wed Wed p.m. a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. a.m. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • . • • • • • • • 47 MS&T 13Ⓡ Materials Science & Technology 2013 Program-at-a-Glance IRON AND STEEL Advanced Steel Metallurgy: Design, Processing, and Technological Exploitation Tubular Processing and Technology MATERIALS PERFORMANCE Light Metals for Transportation Magnesium Technology Measurement and Modeling of High-Strain-Rate Deformation Particulate Composites Surface Protection for Enhanced Materials Performance: Science, Technology, and Application Titanium and Titanium Alloys: Processing, Deformation Behavior, Properties, and Applications MATERIALS-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS Advanced Materials for Harsh Environments Coatings for Corrosion and Wear-Resistance Applications Environmentally Assisted Cracking (EAC): Laboratory Research and Field Experiences High-Temperature Corrosion and Oxidation of Materials Predicting and Combating Corrosion and Degradation of New Coating and Material Technologies NANOMATERIALS Commercial Production and Applications of Nanomaterials Controlled Synthesis, Processing, and Applications of Structural and Functional Nanomaterials Nanostructured Magnetoelectrics and Multiferroics Nanotechnology for Energy, Environment, Electronics, and Industry Optical Nanomaterials for Photonics/Biophotonics Structure-Property Relationships in Low-Dimensional Metallic Nanostructures PROCESSING AND PRODUCT MANUFACTURING Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Advanced Materials, Processes, and Applications for Additive Manufacturing Advanced Materials, Processes, and Evaluation Methods for Aerospace and Defense Applications Advances in Hydroelectric Turbine Manufacturing and Repair Advances in Metal-Casting Technologies Green Composite Materials: Development, Manufacturing, and Testing Green Technologies for Materials Manufacturing and Processing V Hydrometallurgy: Materials and Equipment Joining of Advanced and Specialty Materials (JASM XV) Metal- and Polymer-Matrix Composites Powder-Based Processes and Products for Advanced Applications Rare-Earth Elements Sintering and Related Powder-Processing Science and Technologies SPECIAL TOPICS ASM/TMS Distinguished Lecture Symposium Continuous Improvement of Academic Programs (and Satisfying ABET Along the Way): The Elizabeth Judson Memorial Symposium Ensuring Safety in Academic and Industrial Lab Settings Perspectives for Emerging Materials Professionals Ralph Lloyd Harris Memorial Symposium Rustum Roy Memorial Symposium Technology Cross-Pollination 48 a.m. Mon Mon Tue Tue Wed Wed Thu p.m. a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. a.m. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • . • www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 (Credit: ©Stéphan Poulin) MS&T\'13 Exhibitors (As of 9/19/13) 323 ANT Materials Camp General Poster Session Exhibitor Lounge 725 MS&T Show 1026 8 Office 1024 1025 1124 TSI Inc. 923 1022 1023 1122 www.matscitech.org 1327 HOCKEY FEATURE Student Awards Ceremony 1623 TEC 919 1018 917 1016 MTI 1019 1118 Hunan Angstrom Premco Sce 1017 1116 Micro Bleach Optics 1119 1218 1219 1319 1418 1419 Swiss Pavilion Disc Golf Competition and Mug Drop 1117 1216 1217 1316 1317 1416 1417 1517 UES 1015 1114 1115 1214 1315 1414 1415 1615 FEI Buehler 1013 1312 1313 1412 Hysitron, Inc Applied Test Rigaku 1512 Ashland 1513 3 High Drape Inc 911 1011 1110 1111 1210 1211 1310 1311 1410 1411 1510 Aldrich AdValue CM APS High Keyence Canada 707 806 807 906 907 1006 1107 1206 1207 1307 1406 1407 1506 1507 Delong 705 804 805 904 1005 1104 TA Inst 1105 1204 America 1205 1304 LTEE 1305 1404 Horiba Object 1405 1504 1505 CZ 703 802 803 902 903 Metal USA Inc 1303 1402 1403 1502 1503 Proto IMR Test Labs 1000 1001 1100 1101 1201 1300 1301 1400 1401 1500 1501 PROFESSIONAL RECRUITMENT CAREER PAVILION 700 701 800 801 900 Seating for 400 It ENTRANCE Booth# Company Booth# Company Booth# Company 1504 Accutek Testing Laboratory 1316 Hitachi High Technologies America Inc. T12 800 Across International LLC 1405 HK Technologies 1301 1117 Activation Laboratories LTD. (ACT Labs) 1414 Hockmeyer Equipment Corp. 1107 1307 AdValue Technology LLC 1303 Horiba Scientific 707 1000 Agilent Technologies 1305 Hoskin Scientifique LTEE 1313 Photon Etc. Proto Manufacturing PTX-Pentronix/Simac Ltd. Pultrusion Technique Inc. Quinn Process Equipment Co. 1006 Air Liquide Canadad 1403 Huizhou Top Metal Material Co. 1410 Rigaku Americas Corp. 1007 Aldrich Materials Science 1017 Hunan Premco Ltd. 903 Romquest Technologies 1100 Alfa Aesar, a Johnson Mathey Co. 1011 Hysitron Inc. 1506 RPS Composites Inc. 1115 Alfred University 923 IMS Metallographic Contest Display 1218 SAMCO Technologies Inc. 1104 Allied High Tech Products Inc. 1026 International Metallographic Society 1501 Saudi Aramco 1105 American Stress Technologies Inc. 1400 IMR Test Labs 1206 Sente Software Ltd. 1116 Angstrom Scientific Inc. 1317 INNOVNANO S.A. 1023 Shape Memory & Superelastic Tech. 1311 Applied Test Systems Inc. 1101 JEOL USA Inc. Society 1510 Ashland Inc. 1507 Keyence Canada Inc. 700 Springer 1419 Blasch Precision Ceramics 1201 LECO Corp. T17 SSAB 1312 Brim G&H Fluid Handling Products Inc. 917 Maney Publishing 901 Strem Chemicals Inc. 911 Buehler 900 Metal Samples Co. 1111 Struers Inc. 1304 Carbolite 1207 Metcut Research Inc. 1018 Surface Combustion Inc. 1001 Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC 1319 Micro Materials 1517 Swiss Pavilion T13 Carpenter Technology Corp. 1500 Micromeritics Instrument Corp. 1102 TA Instruments 1407 Centorr Vacuum Industries Inc. 919 Momentum Press 1019 TEC 1411 Clemex Technologies 1118 MTI Corp. 1300 Tescan USA 1406 CM Furnaces Inc. 1110 MTS Systems Corp. 1025 Thermal Spray Society 904 CMD Network 807 NANOVEA 1204 Thermcraft Inc. 1214 Computherm LLC 1200 Netzsch Instruments North America LLC 907 Thermo-Calc Software 701 CSM Instruments Inc. 1210 NIST 1122 TSI Inc. 1205 Delong America Inc. 1402 Objects Research Systems (ORS) Inc. 1114 UES Inc. T16 Dispersion Technology Inc. 1219 Ocean Optics 1401 Union Process Inc. 1418 Edax Inc. 1217 Olympus Canada Inc. 1016 University of California, Davis 1024 EDFAS Society 1511 OSIsoft Canada ULC 806 Watson Valve Services Inc. T18 Euraxess Links North America 1310 Oxford Instruments 1202 Wiley 1013 Evans Analytical Group 1005 PANalytical 1017 Zhuzhou Kori Convertors Ltd. 1211 FEI Co. 1416 FLIR Systems LTD. 801 GEA Westfalia Separator 1119 Goodfellow Cambridge Ltd. 906 Granta Design 1022 Heat Treating Society Contact Pat Janeway to reserve your booth space at MS&T\'13. pjaneway@ceramics.org or 614-794-5826 American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org 49 MS&T13€ Materials Science & Technology 2013 october 27-31, 2013 | Palais des congrès de Montréal | Montréal, Québec, Canada Featured Ceramic-Related Exhibitors Company Across International LLC 50 Booth # Booth # 800 917 1307 AdValue Technology LLC 1319 Micro Materials 1000 Agilent Technologies 1500 1006 Air Liquide Canada 1517 1007 Aldrich Materials Science 1118 MTI Corp. 1100 Alfa Aesar, a Johnson Mathey Co. 1110 1115 Alfred University 1517 1104 Allied High Tech Products Inc. 807 Nanovea 1105 American Stress Technologies Inc. 1517 1116 Angstrom Scientific Inc. 1200 1311 Applied Test Systems Inc. 1210 NIST 1419 Blasch Precision Ceramics 1219 Company Maney Publishing Micromeritics Instrument Corp. Micronarc, Swiss Pavilion MTS Systems Corp. Nanosensors, Swiss Pavilion NanoWorld, Swiss Pavilion Netzsch Instruments NA LLC Ocean Optics 911 Buehler 1217 Olympus Canada Inc. 1015 Beckman Coulter Canada Ltd. 1511 OSIsoft Canada ULC 1018 California Nanotechnologies Inc. 1310 Oxford Instruments 1304 Carbolite 1005 PANalytical 1001 Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC T12 Photon Etc. T13 Carpenter Technology Corp. 1216 Plasma Processes LLC 1407 Centorr Vacuum Industries Inc. 1301 1411 Clemex Technologies 1315 1406 CM Furnaces Inc. 1107 1214 CompuTherm LLC 1313 701 CSM Instruments Inc. 903 1205 Delong America Inc. 1506 Proto Manufacturing Pyrogenesis Canada Inc. PTX-Pentronix / Simac Ltd. Quinn Process Equipment Co. Romquest Technologies RPS Composites Inc. T16 Dispersion Technology Inc. 1218 SAMCO Technologies Inc. 1418 Edax Inc. 1501 Saudi Aramco 1517 Empa, Material Science & Tech., Swiss Pavilion 1404 Simens PLC T18 Euraxess Links North America 700 Springer 1013 Evans Analytical Group T17 SSAB 1415 Extec Corp. 901 1211 FEI Co. T14 1416 FLIR Systems Ltd. 1018 1119 Goodfellow Cambridge Ltd. 1517 1412 GT Advanced Technologies 1517 1316 Hitachi High Technologies America Inc. 1102 Strem Chemicals Inc. Stress Engineering Services Inc. Surface Combustion Inc. Swiss Business Hub Canada, Swiss Pavilion SwiSSnano, Swiss Pavilion TA Instruments 1405 HK Technologies 1300 Tescan USA 1414 Hockmeyer Equipment Corp. 804 TevTech LLC 1303 Horiba Scientific 1204 Thermcraft Inc. 1011 Hysitron Inc. 1517 Tribotron, Swiss Pavilion 1400 IMR Test Labs 1517 Trimos, Swiss Pavilion 1317 Innovnanno SA 1122 TSI Inc. 1101 JEOL USA Inc. 1114 UES Inc. 1507 Keyence Canada Inc. 1401 Union Process Inc. 1201 LECO Corp. 1016 University of California, Davis 1513 Light Age Inc. 1202 Wiley 1517 Lyncee Tec SA, Swiss Pavilion www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 www.matscitech.org Student Activities (Information subject to change) Material Advantage Student Chapter Travel Grants The Material Advantage Student Program offers $500 travel grants to student chapters to support attending AISTech, the TMS annual meeting, or the ACerS and ASM annual meetings held at MS&T. The student chapter may determine how the grant is spent, either to cover students\' hotel costs, or to cover one or two students traveling from afar. The grants are restricted to one grant per chapter per academic year. All grants are issued in check form to the chapter advisor and will be sent after the event upon verification that the chapter was in attendance. If a chapter has special circumstances that require the checks to be issued prior to the meeting, exceptions can be made on a case-by-case basis. Travel grants will be awarded on a first come, first-served basis, so act early! Chapters must be active and in good standing to be eligible for a travel grant. For more information, contact ASM Student Relations, students@asminternational.org, or by phone at 800-336-5152, ext. 5527. Student Monitors Students may partially defray expenses by serving as session monitors. Monitors assist session chairs, record session attendance statistics, assist with audio/visual equipment, etc. Monitor positions are limited and are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Interested students should contact Patricia Warren at pwarren@tms.org. Undergraduate Student Poster Contest Display Stop by the convention center to view all the submissions to the 2013 undergraduate poster contest. The posters will be displayed from Sunday, Oct. 27, to Wednesday, Oct. 30. All students attending MS&T are eligible to enter the poster contest. Any undergraduate student interested in submitting a poster abstract for this poster contest should email Tricia Freshour at tfreshour@ceramics.org. Professional Recruitment & Career Pavilion Stop by the Professional Recruitment & Career Pavilion in the Exhibit Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday during regular hours. Visit booths, talk with company reps, and view job postings in the Career Pavilion while you explore the Exhibit Hall. This is your chance to make valuable contacts with potential employers. Admission to the Career Pavilion is included in your conference registration fee. Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013 Chapter Leadership Workshop-FOR MATERIAL ADVANTAGE CHAPTER OFFICERS ONLY Network and share best practices. This workshop provides a detailed introduction to the Material Advantage Student Program for chapter officers. Separate registration is required for this workshop, besides the MS&T conference registration. This workshop is for Material Advantage Chapter Officers only. Contact ASM Student Relations for more information at students@asminternational.org, or by phone at 800-336-5152 ext. 5527. Undergraduate Student Speaking Contest MS&T hosts the national semifinal and final rounds of the Material Advantage Undergraduate Student Speaking Contest. The purpose of the contest is to encourage undergraduate students to present technical papers and to improve their presentation skills. The presentation subject must be technical but can relate to any aspect of materials science and engineering. Only one contestant per university may compete in this contest, and each entrant must be the winner of a local speaking contest. Participants receive a travel grant awarded at the end of the semifinal/final rounds. Winners of the finals receive cash prizes. Contact Tricia Freshour at tfreshour@ ceramics.org for more information. Student Networking Mixer Join in this relaxed, casual, and fun atmosphere designed for students, faculty advisors, and society volunteer leaders. Students are encouraged to wear their school colors. Music will be provided. Monday, Oct. 28, 2013 ACers Student Tour ACerS\'s student tour is at Bombardier\'s Saint-Laurent Manufacturing Centre. Bombardier is a worldwide manufacturer of business jets, commercial aircraft, high-speed trains, and public transit. The Saint-Laurent Manufacturing Centre is the oldest Bombardier building. This purchase in 1986 was Bombardier\'s first step in the aerospace industry. Today, this modern facility can be considered as the biggest supplier of manufactured parts and sub-assemblies for Bombardier plants worldwide. During this tour, students will first walk through the production facility, then visit the CSeries Experimental Static Test Hangar, and will end the visit at the M&P Engineering Laboratory. Bus transportation is provided. The tour is organized by ACerS\'s President\'s Council of Student Advisors (PCSA). Advanced registration is required. Contact Aaron Lichtner at alichtner@gmail.com or Tricia Freshour at tfreshour@ceramics. org with any questions. Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013 Mug Drop Contest Mugs fabricated by students from ceramic raw materials are judged on aesthetics and breaking thresholds. Mugs are dropped from varying levels until the breaking threshold is reached. The mug with the highest successful drop distance wins! NEW...Ceramic Disc Golf Contest This new student-initiated contest is sure to draw a crowd! Students create discs from ceramic or glass materials to meet certain specifications, and the discs are then thrown into a regulation disc golf basket. Each disc will be judged in the categories of farthest distance achieved and artistic merit (aesthetics). The disc that is successfully thrown into the disc golf basket from the farthest distance in the fewest number of shots will be named winner of the Ceramic Disc Golf Contest, and the most aesthetically pleasing/creative disc will be recorded as the \"Best Looking\" disc. Student Awards Ceremony Congratulate the winners of this year\'s contests: Material Advantage Chapters of Excellence, Student Speaking Contest, Graduate and Undergraduate Poster Contests, Ceramic Mug Drop Contest, Ceramic Disc Golf Contest, TMS Superalloys Awards, ASM Materials Design Competition, AIST/AISI Scholarships, and Keramos National Awards. American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org 51 January 26-31, 2014 | Hilton Daytona Beach | Resort and Ocean Center | Daytona Beach, Fla., Register by December 19th to save! USA 38TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND EXPOSITION ON ADVANCED CERAMICS AND COMPOSITES Organized by: The American Ceramic Society www.ceramics.org Engineering Ceramics Division Michael Halbig 2014 ICACC Program Chair NASA Glenn Research Center 21000 Brookpark Road, MS 106-5 Cleveland, OH 44135 USA Tel: 216-433-2651 Fax: 216-433-5544 Email: michael.c.halbig@nasa.gov INTRODUCTION The 38th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC) continues the strong tradition as the leading international meeting on advanced structural and functional ceramics, composites, and other emerging ceramic materials and technologies. Since its inception in 1977, this prestigious conference has been organized by ACerS Engineering Ceramics Division and ACerS. Since then, the conference has experienced tremendous growth in interest and participation from ceramic researchers and developers from national, regional, and global technical communities. The technical program consists of oral and poster presentations and provides an open forum for scientists, researchers, and engineers from around the world to present and exchange findings on recent advances on various aspects related to ceramic science and technology. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Sunday - January 26 Welcome Reception 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Wednesday - January 29 Technical Sessions 8 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Expo and Reception 5 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Monday - January 27 Poster Session B 5 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Opening Awards Ceremony and 8:30 a.m. - Noon 020 10 N 52 Plenary Session Technical Sessions 1:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. Tuesday - January 28 Technical Sessions Expo and Reception Poster Session A 8 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. www.ceramics.org/cacc2014 102 304 05 06 07 00 N Thursday - January 30 Technical Sessions 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. Friday - January 31 Technical Sessions 8 a.m. - Noon MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CERAMICS AND GLASS SHORT COURSE Instructors: George D. Quinn, NIST; Richard C. Bradt, Univ. of Alabama Thursday and Friday, Jan. 30 - 31, 2014 This two-day course covers: • Mechanical properties of ceramics and glasses for elastic properties, strength measurements, fracture parameters, and indentation hardness; • Fundamentals of properties for each topical area; • Relation of properties to structure and crystal chemistry of the materials; • And more. Visit www.ceramics.org/icacc2014 for rates. www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 EXPOSITION Contact Patricia Janeway at pjaneway@ceramics.org or at 614794-5826. Reserve your booth space today for the premier advanced ceramics and composites event. This event offers an exceptional opportunity to present your company\'s latest products, services, and technology to a sophisticated audience sharply focused on this market. AWARD AND PLENARY SPEAKERS MUELLER AWARD Sheldon Wiederhorn, NIST Associate, Ceramics Division, Material Measurement Laboratory (MML), National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA Title: To be announced Wiederhorn Exhibitor Alfred University American Ceramic Society (The) Carbolite Inc. CM Furnaces Inc. Booth No. 315 101 206 311 Deltech Inc. 326 Dorst America 303 ESL ElectroScience 202 Varela Evans Analytical Group 412 BRIDGE BUILDING AWARD Jose A. Varela, Chief Executive Officer of São Paulo State Research Foundation - FAPESP Center of Nanostructured Functional Materials University of São Paulo State - UNESP, Brazil Title: Building Bridges in Materials Science and Technology: An Important Issue for Solving Basic Problems in Modern Society Furuya Metal Co. Ltd. 223 H.C. Starck 305 Haiku Tech Inc. 313 Harper International 317 PLENARY SPEAKERS Willard Cutler, Technology Director, Environmental Technology, Corning Incorporated Title: To be announced Harrop Industries Inc. 201 Heraeus Thick Film Division 212 Hockmeyer Equipment Corp. 205 Cutler Innovnano 204 Keith Co. 220 Laeis GmbH 321 Linseis Inc. MEL Chemicals 304 322 Ulrich Simon, Professor, Chair of Inorganic Chemistry and Electrochemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Title: To be announced MTI Corp. 222 Nabertherm 307 Simon Netzsch Instruments NA LLC 300 New Lenox Machine Co. Inc. 306 NIST 111 HILTON DAYTONA BEACH RESORT Oxy-Gon Industries Inc. 320 PremaTech Advanced Ceramics 210 100 North Atlantic Avenue Rates Process Design & Innovation 302 Daytona Beach, FL Phone: 386-254-8200 One to four occupants Students $153 $126 PTX-Pentronix (Gasbarre Products) 207 Fax: 386-253-8841 R.D. Webb Co. 216 Robocasting Enterprises 200 Mention The American Ceramic Society to obtain the special rate. Sonoscan Inc. 221 Room rates are effective until December 14, 2013, and are based Swindell Dressler International 301 on availability. TEAM by Sacmi 321 TevTech 214 Thermal Wave Imaging 323 Watt Fuel Cell 203 American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org 53 REGISTER NOW Sign up by December 19th to save! www.ceramics.org/ema2014 ELECTRONIC MATERIALS AND APPLICATIONS 2014 Jan. 22-24 | DoubleTree by Hilton Orlando at Sea World® | Orlando, Fla., USA INTRODUCTION Electronic Materials and Applications 2014, jointly programmed by the Electronics Division (ED) and Basic Science Division (BSD) of The American Ceramic Society, is the fifth in a series of annual international meetings. EMA 2014 will be held January 22-24, 2014 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Orlando at Sea WorldⓇ. The 2014 meeting covers the basic science, engineering, and applications of electroceramic materials for electronic, magnetic, dielectric, and optical components, devices, and systems. The symposia address passive, active, and multifunctional electroceramic materials across broad themes covering theory and computation; structure, interfaces, and novel characterization methods; doping, defects, and nanoscale phenomena; processing science; thin films; mutlilayers, heterostructures, and graded materials; single crystals; composites; and device integration. The symposia emphasize applications in electronics, data storage, lighting, sensors and actuators, and energy conversion, transduction, and storage. The conference features plenary lectures from leaders in the field representing industry and academia. The technical program includes invited lectures, contributed papers, and poster presentations, and provides ample opportunity for the exchange of information and ideas on the latest developments in the theory, experimental investigation, and applications of electroceramic materials. The participants represent an international mix of industrial, university, and federal laboratory researchers, engineers, technologists, and leaders. For students, there is a separate student-run symposium that features best-paper awards and provides development and networking opportunities. We are pleased to build on the previous successes of this conference series in providing a distinctive forum to address emerging needs, opportunities, and key challenges in the field of electronic materials and applications. We anticipate that this meeting will continue to highlight the most recent scientific advances and technological innovations in the field and to facilitate the interactions and collaborations that will help to shape its future. Please join us in Orlando to participate in this unique experience. EMA 2014 Organizing Committee ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Tidrow Rossetti Wang STEVEN C. TIDROW, ED The University of Texas Pan American sctidrow@utpa.edu GEORGE A. ROSSETTI JR, BSD University of Connecticut rossetti@ims.uconn.edu HAIYAN WANG, ED Texas A&M University wangh@ece.tamu.edu EMA 2014 SYMPOSIA S1 Functional and Multifunctional Electroceramics for Commercialization S2 Multiferroic Materials and Multilayer Ferroic Heterostructures: Properties and Applications S3 Structure of Emerging Perovskite Oxides: Bridging Length Scales and Unifying Experiment and Theory S4 LEDs and Photovoltaics-Beyond the Light: Common Challenges and Opportunities S5 Structure and Properties of Interfaces in Electronic Materials S6 Thermoelectrics: Defect Chemistry, Doping, and Nanoscale Effects S7 Computational Design of Electronic Materials S8 Advances in Memory Devices S9 Thin-Film Integration and Processing Science S10 Ceramic Composites for Defense Applications S11 Failure: The Greatest Teacher S12 Recent Developments in High-Temperature Superconductivity S13 Highlights of Undergraduate Student Research in Basic Science and Electronic Ceramics 54 54 www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 PLENARY SPEAKERS JAMES BRAY GE Global Research, USA JOSEPH V. MANTESE United Technologies Research Center, USA JÜRGEN RÖDEL Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany 2013-14 DIVISION OFFICERS Basic Science Division Chair: WAYNE KAPLAN Chair-Elect: EDUARDO SAIZ Vice Chair: BRYAN D. HUEY Secretary: SHEN DILLON Electronics Division Trustee: WINNIE WONG-NG Chair: STEVEN C. TIDROW Chair-Elect: TIM HAUGAN Vice-Chair: HAIYAN WANG Secretary: GEOFFREY BRENNECKA Secretary-Elect: BRADY GIBBONS TENTATIVE SCHEDULE Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014 Registration Opening Comments Plenary Session I Concurrent Technical Sessions Lunch On Own Poster Session Setup Concurrent Technical Sessions Poster Session & Reception Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014 Registration Plenary Session II 7:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. 8:30 a.m. 8:45 a.m. 8:45 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Noon - 5:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. 8:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Concurrent Technical Sessions Lunch On Own 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Concurrent Technical Sessions Conference Dinner 2:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 Registration Plenary Session III Concurrent Technical Sessions Lunch On Own Concurrent Technical Sessions 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. 8:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. HOTEL INFORMATION DoubleTree by Hilton Orlando at Sea World 10100 International Drive, Orlando, FL 32821 Phone: 407-352-1100 or 800-327-0363 Fax: 407-352-2632 Rate: Single/double/triple/quad-$149.00 US Government Employee-current prevailing rate* *Limited number of available rooms Cut off date: December 16, 2013 American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org CEONGNECOL 55 55 SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT NOW! H₂ February 16-20, 2014 | Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort, Clearwater, Fla., USA Materials Challenges In Alternative & Renewable Energy INTRODUCTION MCARE 2014 facilitates information sharing on the latest developments involving materials for alternative and renewable energy systems. Emphasis will be on materials challenges and innovations in areas of hydrogen, solar fuels, solar power and concentrators, battery and energy storage, nanocomposites and nanowires, nuclear, critical resources, and other energy areas. MCARE 2014 is intended for scientists and engineers active in energy and materials science research and for those new to the field. Visit www.ceramics. org/mcare2014 to learn more about the technical program and to review the schedule. Special activities for students and young professionals, including a poster contest, are planned. Make your plans to participate. PROGRAM COCHAIRS SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT IN ONE OF THESE ENERGY THEMES: Hydrogen Solar fuels Solar power and concentrators Batteries and energy storage Nanocomposites and nanowire materials for photovoltaic and photonic technologies Nuclear Critical resources Other energy areas Lin Mathur Zidan H.T. Lin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Sanjay Mathur, University of Cologne, Germany Ragaiy Zidan, Savannah River National Laboratory Abstracts due October 18th! Organized by: Co-organized by: ASM Everything Material NTERNATIONAL The Materials Information Society Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort 400 Mandalay Avenue, Clearwater Beach, FL Phone: 727-461-3222 | 800-753-3954 Rates: Single/Double: $179 Cut-off Date: January 8, 2014 Government: Current per diem rate The American Ceramic Society www.ceramics.org www.ceramics.org/mcare2014 Endorsed by: Materials MRS Research Society 12th N International Conference on Ceramic Processing Science (ICCPS-12) early 200 people traveled to the beautiful city of Portland, Ore., for the 12th International Conference on Ceramic Processing Science, August 4-7, 2013, at the Hilton Portland and Executive Tower. The series began 1986 to address challenges in particle-based processes and has since evolved to include thin-film processes, precursor processes, and other aspects of processing to tailor ceramic materials to specific microstructures and properties. The organizing committee cochairs included Gary Messing (Pennsylvania State University), Jennifer Lewis (Harvard University), Kunihito Koumoto (Nagoya University, Japan), and Lennart Bergström (Stockholm University, Sweden). HIGHLIGHT (Credit for all images: Geiger; ACerS.) The American Ceramic Society Welcomes You Messing described the meeting as a success, saying, \"We welcomed many of the foremost experts in disciplines related to ceramic processing science with more than 40 invited talks and five plenary lectures. The quality of the science presented was stateof-the-art and the speakers clearly mapped out the future directions and challenges in the field of ceramic processing science.\" 3 1 2 1 Marilyn Stoltz of the ACerS staff greets meeting delegates and finalizes their registrations. 2 Nearly 200 delegates attended the opening session of the conference. 3 Poster sessions on Sunday and Tuesday evenings gave presenters and visitors a chance to \"talk science\" at length. 4 From left: Ricardo Castro (University of California, Davis), William Fahrenholtz (Missouri University of Science and Technology), and Shen Dillon (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). 5 The conference dinner was a good place for young processing scientists to meet the larger community. Call for Contributing Editors for ACerS-NIST Phase Equilibria Diagrams Program Professors, Researchers, Retirees, Post-Docs, and Graduate Students... The General Editors of the reference series Phase Equilibria Diagrams are in need of individuals from the ceramics | community to critically evaluate published articles containing phase equilibria diagrams. Additional contributing editors are needed to edit new phase diagrams and write short commentaries to accompany each phase diagram being added to the reference series. Especially needed are persons knowledgeable in foreign languages, including German, French, Chinese, and Japanese. Recognition: The Contributing Editor\'s initials will accompany each commentary written for the publication. In addition, your name and affiliation also will be included on the Title Pages under Contributing Editors. Qualifications: General understanding of the Gibbs phase rule and experimental procedures for determination of phase equilibria diagrams, and/or knowledge of theoretical methods to calculate phase diagrams. Compensation Per Article: $40 for commentary & first diagram, plus $10 each second & third diagrams, plus $5 for each additional diagram For Details Please Contact: Mrs. Mary Harne National Institute of Standards and Technology 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8524 Building 223, Room A229 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8524, USA Tel. 301-975-6109 E-mail: mary.harne @nist.gov NIST The American Ceramic Society www.ceramics.org 5 57 new products Mixer/pump for refractory, shotcrete applications Th he RMX-5000 mixer/pump for refractory, shotcrete, and concrete repair is said to have 15% more pumping pressure than any other machine of its size. Available with either a spiral or paddle mixer with a planetary gearbox, the unit features a 2,200-psi piston pump that enables it to produce up to 5 yd³/h and achieve vertical pumping distances up to 450 ft. An optional automatic lubrication system greases wear components hourly during operation. The unit has a 1,000-lb mixer capacity and 1,200-lb hopper capacity. 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(Stoke-on-Trent, UK) www.ipsceramics.com +44 0 1782 711511 www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 resources Calendar of events October 2013 1-2 ACerS AACS Division Workshop: Using X-rays to Analyze Cultural Heritage SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Cantor Art Museum at Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.; www.ceramics.org/meetings/acersmeetings 1-4 Nanoscale Multilayers\' 13 IMDEA Materials Institute, Madrid, Spain; www.tms.org/meetings/2013/ nanoscalemultilayers13 5-9 TACT 2013: Int\'l Thin Films Conference - The Grand Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan; www.tact.org.tw 7-11 IC-RMM1: 1st Int\'l Conference on Rheology and Modeling of Materials - Hunguest Hotel Palota, MiskolcLillafüred, Hungary; www.ic-rmm1.eu 8-11 MiMe: Materials in MedicineCeramics Cells and Tissues - City Hall, Faenza, Italy; http://mime.centuriaagenzia.it 14-17 74th Conference on Glass Problems - Greater Columbus Convention Center, Columbus, Ohio; www.glassproblemsconference.org 14-17 SPIE OptiFab 2013 Rochester Riverside Convention 27-31 ACers Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet - Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada; www.ceramics.org November 2013 4-7 CICC-8: 8th Int\'l Conference on High-Performance Ceramics Chongqing, Sichuan Province, China; www.ccs-cicc.com 10-13 ACTSEA-2013: 4th Int\'l Symposium on Advanced Ceramics and Technologies for Sustainable Energy Applications Toward a LowCarbon Society-The Grand Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan; http://conf.ncku.edu.tw/ actsea2013 9-13 ICE-2013: 6th Int\'l Conference on Electroceramics Hotel Tambau, João Pessoa, Brazil; www.ice2013.net 18-20 Int\'l Conference on Structural and Physical Properties of Solids (SPPS 2013). Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India; www.ismdhanbad.ac.in/applied-physics/seminarworkshop/ 18-20 11th European Conference on Thermoelectrics ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands; www.congrexprojects.com/2013-events/13a05/ Center, Rochester, N.Y.; www.spie.org/ 19-21 Materials Today Virtual x6567.xml 22-25 The 4th Asian Symposium on Advanced Materials (ASAM-4) — National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan; www. asam4.org 27-30 NuMat 2014: The Nuclear Materials Conference Hilton Clearwater, Clearwater, Fla.; www. nuclearmaterialsconference.com 27-31 MS&T\'13: Materials Science & Technology Conference and Exhibition - Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada; www.matscitech.org Conference: Biomaterials - www. materialstoday.com/virtualconference/ materials-today-virtual-conferencebiomaterials-2013 20-22 Nanosafety 2013: INMLeibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken, Germany; http://nanosafety.inm-gmbh.de December 2013 1-6 2013 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit – Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Mass.; www.mrs.org/fall-meetings 8-11 SPIE Micro+Nano Materials, Devices, and Applications - RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia; www. spie.org/x27167.xml American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org 8-11 3rd Nano Today Conference · Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore; www. nanotoday2013.com 8-12 5th Int\'l Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues - Sitges, Spain; www.mechanicsofbiomaterials.com January 2014 8-10 1st Int\'l Workshop on Lithium, Industrial Minerals and Energy - Center for Advanced Research in Lithium and Industrial Minerals, Antofagasta, Chile; www.celimin.com/#!workshop/csst 18-19 Gordon Research Seminar on Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels Ventura, Calif.; www.grc.org/programs. aspx?year=2014&program=grs_renew 19-24 2014 Gordon Conference on Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels Ventura, Calif.; www.grc.org/programs. aspx?year=2014&program-renewable 22-24 Electronic Materials and Applications (EMA 2014) - Orlando, Fla.; www.ceramics.org/meetings/electronicmaterials-and-applications-2014 26-31 38th International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC 2014) - Daytona Beach, Fla.; www.ceramics.org/ meetings/38th-international-conferenceand-expo-on-advanced-ceramics-andcomposites 26-29 37th Annual Conference on Composites, Materials, and Structures Radisson Resort at the Port, Cocoa Beach, Fla.; www.bit.ly/104uq3r Dates in RED denote new entry in this issue. Entries in BLUE denote ACerS events. denotes meetings that ACerS cosponsors, endorses, or otherwise cooperates in organizing. 59 classified advertising Career Opportunities Faculty Positions in MSE Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering College of Engineering The School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) is seeking to add tenure-track faculty in several areas as described below. Applicants with exceptional records of creativity, originality, and excellence will be considered at all levels. Ceramics: Outstanding candidates with demonstrated expertise in the synthesis and processing of ceramics, and the ability to build a strong research program based on functional ceramics for electronic, magnetic, optical, thermal, or catalytic/chemical applications, will be considered. Qualified candidates must possess a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering or a closely-related field, with an emphasis on ceramics. 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Cleveland Ave, Suite 210 merican Westerville, OH 43082 Ceramic ociety ww.ceramics.org 63 O deciphering the discipline Kevin R. Talley Guest columnist SURFing at the National Institute of Standards and Technology The National Institute of Standards and Technology funds and hosts a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program. I was fortunate to be one of the more than 150 students from around the nation selected for SURF. my I and many of the other students selected participate in research at our home universities and have done other summer fellowships in industry and national laboratories alike. But when I first began the program, I had no idea what we were about to experience. When SURF experience ended 11 weeks later, I was astonished. Not knowing if this was just my perspective, I asked other participants what they valued most about the program and what made it unique. Their responses touched on some common themes elements that are essential for any educational research experience. The first element was the workplace. All SURF students were paired with staff researchers who offered guidance to their projects. Students got to experience firsthand the life of a research scientist, which involves much more than frequent trips to the coffee pot. The program offered daily interaction with other scientists, ongoing seminar series, group and team meetings, and plenty of lab time. This was a welcome change for students who get overloaded by the school year\'s coursework, which tends to blur their vision of a postdegree world. Many students commented toward the end of our stay about how much they would miss the day-to-day rhythm of research. That has proved true for me since beginning my junior year, I find myself missing my NIST experiences. I know I will remember them through the rest of my career. The second common theme was the methodological focus. NIST has a scientific culture that is clearly focused on precision and accuracy. There is no such thing as “good enough.\" Other students often commented that, at previous internships, the focus of NIST NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY ED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMER 100 Bureau Drive their work was results for application, whereas at NIST everything is done with the highest level of precision and accuracy. At the end of the program, everyone gave presentations of their work from the summer, during which this emphasis could be seen in almost every project. The lesson learned from this heightened standard is one that I will always remember when designing experiments, collecting data, and analyzing results in my career—professionally and academically. The relevance of our work was the third element noted by my fellow SURFers. The NIST mission is \"To promote US innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.\" Every project had a clearly defined purpose that aligned with that mission statement. The sense of realworld impact in each of our projects only served to highlight our growing skill sets and their applicability to realworld problems for which we could work to create real-world solutions. This is very empowering and can encourage students as young scientists to engage with and contribute to the scientific community. I and many of my colleagues consider the NIST SURF program an invaluable experience for many reasons, and those who qualify to reapply will undoubtedly do so. If the successful elements of this program are transferred to other research institutions, many more students will find themselves motivated, focused, and empowered as they enter their scientific careers. (Credit: K. Talley.) 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