AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY bulletin emerging ceramics & glass technology OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2014 Ceramics in Australia Raw and advanced materials drive Land Down Under\'s global reach VERS OUR 116th Annual Meeting and MS&T14 • Young faculty CAREER awards, career goals January meetings: ICACC\'15, EMA 2015 ⚫ Your kiln. Like no other. Your kiln needs are unique, and Harrop responds with engineered solutions to meet your exact firing requirements. For more than 90 years, we have been supplying custom kilns across a wide range of both traditional and advanced ceramic markets. Hundreds of our clients will tell you that our three-phase application engineering process is what separates Harrop from \"cookie cutter\" kiln suppliers. • Thorough technical and economic analysis to create the \"right\" kiln for your specific needs • Robust, industrial design and construction • After-sale service for commissioning and operator training. 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Madsen cover story Two assistant professors outline their technical and personal goals for their research. meetings Ceramics in Australia: Raw and advanced materials drive Land Down Under\'s global reach Credit: University of Melbourne MS&T14: Materials Science & Technology 2014 meeting planner . . 38 - page 26 ICACC\'15: 39th International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites. 46 EMA 2015: Electronic Materials and Applications 2015. 48 columns Deciphering the Discipline. 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Credit: Istockphoto 2 www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 news & trends ommission; Flickr; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DOE doles out $67M to advance nuclear research and clean energy innovation The United States Department of Energy announced a $67-million funding infusion for research on nuclear energy and clean energy innovation, which, according to a DOE news release, builds on the Obama administration\'s priorities in this area. \"The Department\'s support for cutting-edge nuclear science and engineering across our universities, national laboratories, and industry reflects the key role of nuclear energy in helping ensure America\'s low carbon future,\" says Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz in the release. \"These awards not only provide crucial funding for research and development, but also for the training and education of the next-generation nuclear energy workforce that will enhance American leadership in the safe, secure, and efficient use of nuclear energy here and around the world.\" New funding may help fuel nuclear energy from plants like this one, Susquehanna, in Salem Township, Pa. The awards will support 83 projects chosen for their potential for scientific breakthroughs that would slash carbon emissions or strengthen the nation\'s energy stores. $30 million will benefit 44 nuclear energy research projects led by 30 universities across the country. The funding will be funneled through the department\'s Nuclear Energy Research Programs; $4 million to 19 universities for improvements at the country\'s 25 infraIs your idea going to grow? Nurture your seed of an idea with Harper as your scale-up partner. Harper helps companies custom engineer thermal processes for the production of advanced ceramics. 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Schott\'s glass-ceramic provides clear view of grilled goods A 2013 study by the Hearth, Patio, and Barbecue Association found that 80% of all households in the United States own a grill or smoker-and 97% have used it in the previous year. Some 14 million grills were shipped in 2013 alone. Schott seems to have taken notice of this popularity: The company debuted two concept grills at last year\'s HPBA Expo. The grills have a \"Nextrema” transparent glass-ceramic panel that provides a clear view of food as it cooks. Because 4 Business news GE to invest billions in Africa\'s people, infrastructure, manufacturing (ge.com)... University of Manchester partners with Morgan Advanced Materials for graphene development (morganadvancedmaterials.com)...Saint-Gobain shuts down Devens plant (saint-gobain.com)…… Cambridge Nanotherm appoints new CEO (camnano.com)... Corning Gorilla Glass 3 featured in Micromax smartphones (corning.com)...Apple factory in Mesa ramps up sapphire production (apple.com)... New CNC grinder investment at American Roller and Plasma Coatings (americanroller.com)...US Silica completes acquisition of Cadre Services (ussilica.com)... the view is clear, there is no need to continually lift the hood and lose heat. And because they are glass-ceramic, the lids can withstand high temperatures without cracking. According to Schott, initial concerns about the panel\'s ability SCHOTT to prevent smoke or grease from obstructing the view were unfounded. The panel fits any hood, so Schott demonstrated the adaptable qualities in two grills: One comes with a curved glass sheet, and the other sports a domed lid that provides a 360-degree view. They also include two of the more popular features in many of today\'s grills-the side burner and the equally RAK Ceramics India to go public (rakceramics.com)...WTO upholds \'rare-earth\' ruling against China (wto.org)... Morgan Advanced Materials launches Heat Flow, new web-based heat-transfer calculator (morganadvancedmaterials.com)...PPI report shows dip in flat-glass prices for July (bls.gov/ppi)...Vesuvius announces technical services acquisitions in Brazil and US (vesuvius.com)...Avio\'s electron gun builds jet engines (avioaero.com)… US unemployment rate stagnant as construction employment increases (bls. gov)...Al Maha Ceramics IPO next month (almahaceramics.com)...Lippert buys windshield business (lci1.com) | Schott\'s concept grills feature a glass-ceramic panel that lets grillers see food while it cooks. desirable rotisserie. According to the company, Nextrema “efficiently and evenly\" radiates infrared waves, which means its rotisserie perfectly roasts chicken each time. Bill proposes incentives to overhaul, strengthen engineering at US universities Manufacturing is an important part of any vibrant economy. Here in the United States, manufacturers contribute $2.08 trillion to the economy (2013 figures) and provide 17.4 million jobs-or one in six private-sector positions. Lawmakers in Washington are backing a bipartisan bill to help strengthen engineering programs at learning institutions across the nation to meet the growing demands-and challenges-of manufacturing in the 21st century. Introduced by U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the Manufacturing Universities Act of 2014 bill would establish “manufacturing universities\" at 25 postsecondary schools and provide “incentives to better align education offerings with the needs of modern manufacturers,\" says a news release from Coons\' press office. According to the release, these incenwww.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 Lawmakers expect that a bipartisan bill will strengthen engineering programs at learning institutions across the nation. tives would be used to help overhaul the universities\' engineering programs and target specific industries. The bill also would establish a program at NIST-with additional oversight from DOD, DOE, and NSF officials-for designating the more than two dozen manufacturing universities, which Marine Corps; Flickr; CC BY-NC 2.0 would each receive $5 million annually, for four years, to meet goals related to \"focusing engineering programs on manufacturing, building new partnerships with manufacturing firms, growing training opportunities, and fostering manufacturing entrepreneurship.\" Germany tops global energy efficiency rankings Germany is the most energy efficient of the world\'s major economies, according to the 2014 International Energy Efficiency Scorecard from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. 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Across most metrics analyzed in this international scorecard, in the past decade the U.S. has made limited progress toward greater efficiency at the national level. The overall U.S. score of 42 is less than half of the possible points and is 23 points away from the top spot,\" according to the report. The report also ranks energy use and efficiency efforts at a national level (a three-way tie for the European Union, France, and Italy) and in the top three energy-consuming sectors-buildings (China), industry (Germany), and transportation (Italy). \"Countries that use energy more effiCredit: Light Painting; Flickr; CC BY-NC 2.0 ciently use fewer resources to achieve the same goals, thus reducing costs, preserving valuable natural resources, and gaining a competitive edge over other countries,\" says the report\'s lead author and ACEEE research analyst Rachel Young in a press release. To read the report in full, go to www. aceee.org/portal/national-policy/ international-scorecard. Organic biobrick made from mushrooms make for cool construction A new biobrick installation that marries form with function shows that carbon-friendly construction components also can be award-winning works of art. Designed by New York architecture-design firm The Living, Hy-Fi is an impressive-looking tower of brick made from mushrooms and corn stalks. These 100% organic-and, thus, 100% compostable-brick are made of corn that is dyed clay-red and held together by a mushroom \"glue.\" The biodegradable brainchild of Ecovative Design (Green Island, N.Y.), the company\'s high-performance \"Mushroom Materials\" are part-agricultural byproducts and part-mushroom mycelium. According to an Ecovative press release, David Benjamin, principal of The Living, knew early on that he wanted to incorporate the company\'s renewable materials into the organic blocks that would help shape the design of Hy-Fi. Working with the company to prototype and test Benjamin\'s biobricks resulted in the manufacture (to scale) of the more than 10,000 bricks that would become the 40-foot tower. The biobrick that form the Hi-Fy\'s three \"arteries\" also boast a special reflective film developed by 3M. A press release from the Museum of Modern Art, where the installation is currently on display, says that the mirror film will be used as growing trays, and, ultimately, shipped back to 3M for \"use in further research.\" According to the release, \"The structure inverts the logic of load-bearing brick construction and creates a gravity-defying effect-instead of being thick and dense at the bottom, it is thin and porous at the bottom. The structure is calibrated to create a cool microclimate in the summer by drawing in cool air at the bottom and pushing out hot air at the top.\" It is brains and beauty, and its sleek, spacelike design-which has practically no carbon footprint-was recognized by MoMA PS1, which declared Hi-Fy the Installation view of The Living\'s Hy-Fi, the winning project of MoMA PS1\'s 2014 Young Architects Program. www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 Credit: Kris Graves winner of the museum\'s 15th Young Architects Program. \"It is the first sizable structure to claim near-zero carbon emissions in its construction process, and, beyond recycling, it presents itself as being 100% compostable,\" says Pedro Gadanho, MoMA curator. “Recurring to the latest developments in biotech, it reinvents the most basic component of architecture-the brick-as both a material of the future and a classic trigger for openended design possibilities.\" Time is of the essence, though-at the conclusion of its run at MOMA, Hi-Fy, in the ultimate act of sacrificial sustainability, will be composted and converted to fertilizer. ceramitec 2015: The international ceramics trade show ceramitec 2015 Technologies Innovations Materials October 20-23 Messe München Ceramitec 2015, the international trade show for the ceramics industryfrom classic ceramics and raw materials to powder metallurgy and technical ceramics-will be held October 20-23, 2015 at the exhibition grounds of Messe München, Germany. Gerhard Gerritzen, deputy managing director of Messe München, describes the trade show\'s unique selling proposition: \"As the equipment trade show with the broadest range of products, ceramitec is a must for all those interested from all branches of the ceramics industry. It shows current technologies from industry, research and development. Thus, ceramitec is the competence and technology center for the entire spectrum of ceramics applications.\" A total of 613 exhibitors from 42 countries showcased their innovations at ceramitec 2012 to 16,800 trade visitors from 106 countries. Further development of the technical ceramics and powder metallurgy areas is planned for ceramitec 2015, although American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 | the classic areas of raw materials, heavy clay ceramics, fineware, and refractory ceramics will continue. The trade show provides both exhibitors and visitors with a wide product range. Ceramitec 2015 also debuts a new visual logo, with more dynamic flames and the slogan \"Hot spot for the ceramics industry.\" Visit www.ceramitec.com for more information. ROBOCASTING 3-D Printing of Ceramics LATTICES • filtration ⚫ catalyst supports • static mixers LABWARE • TGA/DTA • crucibles ⚫ custom • 30+ materials building millions of complex parts with 3-D printing since 2007 www.robocasting.net See us at MS&T14, Booth 316 and Ceramics Expo, Booth 315 oacers spotlight Introducing ACerS leaders for 2014-2015 The American Ceramic Society is pleased to introduce the 2014-2015 Society leadership. The new officers and directors will be installed at the 116th Annual Membership Meeting on October 13, held in conjunction with MS&T14 in Pittsburgh. Please refer to the June/July 2014 issue of the ACerS Bulletin for candidate statements and biographies, or read them in full at www. ceramics.org/about/governance. The June/July issue also includes the list of 2014-2015 Division and Class officers. Society officers and directors Executive Committee President Kathleen Richardson Board of Directors (new) Michael Alexander Vice president, research and product development John Halloran Professor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich. 8 Professor of optics and materials science and engineering University of Central Florida Richardson Orlando, Fla. President-elect Mrityunjay (Jay) Singh Chief scientist Ohio Aerospace Institute NASA Glenn Riverside Refractories Inc. Pell City, Ala. Alexander Geoff Brennecka Assistant professor Colorado School of Mines Golden, Colo. Research Center Cleveland, Ohio Singh Past president David Green Professor emeritus of ceramic science and Brennecka Hua-Tay (H.T.) Lin Professor Guangdong University of Technology P.R. China engineering The Pennsylvania Halloran Jain Vijay Jain Chief technology officer Savannah River Remediation LLC Aiken, S.C. Lara-Curzio Edgar Lara-Curzio Distinguished research staff member and leader of the mechanical properties & mechanics group Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, Tenn. Green State University University Park, Pa. Treasurer Daniel Lease CFO WT Holdings LLC Fremont, Ohio Board of Directors (returning) Bowman Keith Bowman Professor and chair Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Ill. Ohji Tatsuki Ohji Prime senior research scientist National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Nagoya, Japan Lease Secretary Charlie Spahr Executive director The American Ceramic Society Westerville, Ohio Spahr Elizabeth Dickey Professor and director of graduate programs North Carolina State University Raleigh, N.C. Dickey Johnson Parliamentarian David Johnson Editor, Journal of the American Ceramic Society Bedminster, N.J. www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 First call for 2015 awards Nominations for the Society awards that will be presented at the annual awards banquet in October 2015 are now open. Additional information on each award, plus many Division and Class awards, is available at www.ceramics.org/awards. Nomination deadline for all awards is January 15, 2015, unless otherwise noted. (Please note that the Fellows deadline was September 1). Contact Marcia Stout at mstout@ceramics.org or 614-794-5821. Lifetime achievement or service awards Distinguished Life Membership is ACerS\'s highest honor given in recognition of a member\'s contribution to the ceramics profession. Nominees need to be current members of the Society 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. John Jeppson Award recognizes distinguished scientific, technical, or engineering achievements in ceramics. 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 achievement 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 promote technical and personal friendships between Japanese and American ceramic engineers and scientists. 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 Bioactive Glass Engineering for a better life 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. 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Du-Co Ceramics Young Professional Award (deadline April 1) is awarded to a young professional member of ACerS who demonstrates exceptional leadership and service to ACerS. Lecture awards Frontiers of Science and SocietyRustum Roy Lecture is given each year by a nationally or internationally recognized individual in the area of science, industry, or government. Generally the committee selects the lecturer, but suggestions from membership are invited. Edward Orton Jr. Memorial Lecture selection is based on scholarly attainments in ceramics or a related field. Generally the committee selects the lecturer, but suggestions from membership are invited. 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 Welcome to our newest Corporate Members! ACerS recognizes organizations that have joined the Society as Corporate Members. For more information on becoming a Corporate Member, contact Megan Bricker at mbricker@ceramics. org, or visit www.ceramics.org/corporate. NOVABONE DRIVING INNOVATION IN OSTEOBIOLOGICS NovaBone Jacksonville, Fla. www.novabone.com Celsian Glass & Solar Celsian Glass and Solar b.v. Eindhoven, Netherlands www.celsian.nl For more Society and Division news, visit www.ceramics.org/knowledge-center/acers-blog. must be a member of NICE and ACerS. Robert B. Sosman Award (deadline February 28) is awarded by the Basic Science Division in recognition of outstanding achievement in basic science that results in a significant impact to the field of ceramics. 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 calendar year two years prior to selection. 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 creativity in teaching, directing student research, or in the general educational process (lectures, publications, etc.) of ceramic educators. Du-Co Ceramics Scholarship (deadline April 1) is awarded to an undergraduate student pursing a degree in ceramics or materials engineering, and who actively participates in ACerS activities, such as PCSA. Division awards Several ACerS Divisions presented awards at their annual meetings this spring and summer. Other ACerS Divisions will present their awards at the 116th Annual Meeting held in conjunction with MS&T14. Cements Division 2013 Stephen Brunauer Award Jeffrey J. Thomas, Schlumberger-Doll Research. Winning paper: “The instantaneous apparent activation energy of cement hydration measured using a novel calorimetry-based method,\" Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 95 [10] 32913296 (2012) Della Roy Lecture Ellis Gartner, Lafarge Central Research, France. Lecture title: \"40 years a cement scientist-can this be sustainable?\" Student Poster Winners Ojas Chaudhari, Tennessee Technological University; William Hunnicutt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Alvaro Paul, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mohammad Rashidi, Georgia Institute of Technology; Peter Stynoski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory; Raikhan Tokpatayeva, Purdue University; and Christopher Galitz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. ACers leadership attends 5th International Congress on Ceramics ACers and Chinese Ceramic Society leaders met in Beijing during the ICC5 conference. At left: Jin Zhanping, Peng Shou, Charlie Spahr, David Green, Xu Yongmo, and Tan Fu. ACerS president David Green and executive director Charlie Spahr, along with nearly 800 people from 37 countries, took part in the 5th International Congress on Ceramics in Beijing, China, organized by the Chinese Ceramic Society, in August. After attending the conference-which is the flagship meeting of the International Ceramic Federation-Green and Spahr met with CCerS representatives (pictured above) to update each other on ACerS and CCerS activities and to discuss continued avenues of cooperation. 10 www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 Electronics Division Edward C. Henry Award J.-C. M\'Peko, University of Colorado at Boulder, and Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil; J.S.C. Francis, University of Colorado at Boulder; and Rishi Raj, University of Colorado at Boulder. Winning paper: \"Impedance spectroscopy and dielectric properties of flash versus conventionally sintered yttria-doped zirco nia electroceramics viewed at the microstructural level,\" Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 96 [12] 3760-3767 (2013) Lewis C. Hoffman Scholarship Kevin R. Talley, Boise State University Glass & Optical Materials Division Alfred R. Cooper Scholar Award Winner Nicole T. Johnson, Coe College. Lecture title: \"Development of electronically conductive glasses for resistive plate calorimeter particle detectors\" Alfred R. Cooper Distinguished Lecturers C. Austen Angell, Arizona State University. Lecture title: \"Forty years of silica simulations. Where are we now? (With a digression on Al Cooper and the Deborah number)\" Cornelius T. Moynihan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Lecture title: \"Interesting aspects of the glass transition\' Student Poster Award Winners 1st Place: Justine Galbraith, Dalhousie University, Canada \" 2nd Place: Katharina Philipps, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Co-3rd Place: Oscar Laurent, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée - LPTMC, France Co-3rd Place: Simon Striepe, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany Nuclear & Environmental Technology Division D.T. Rankin Award James C. Marra, Savannah River National Laboratory Best Paper Award Pavel Hrma, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Winning paper: \"Experimental investigation and mathematical modeling of cold cap behavior in high-level-waste glass melter,\" Advances in Materials Science for Environmental and Energy Technologies III, Ceramic Transactions, 250, 137-145 (in press) Attend your Division\'s business meeting at MS&T14 Six ACerS Divisions will hold business meetings on October 13 and October 15 at MS&T14. 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The findings are published in Nanotechnology. \"Our study has shown that used cigarette filters can be transformed into a high-performing carbon-based material using a simple one-step process, which simultaneously offers a green solution to meeting the energy demands of society,\" says study coauthor Jongheop Yi. \"Numerous countries are developing strict regulations to avoid the trillions of toxic and nonbiodegradable used cigarette filters that are disposed of into the environment each year-our method is just one way of achieving this.\" Yi and his fellow researchers used pyrolysis to prepare the nitrogen-doped mesoporous/microporous hybrid carbon material from the cellulose acetate fibers contained in a used cigarette filter. This one-step method creates tiny pores that provide \"a favorable pathway for electrolyte permeation and contact probability, resulting in the extended rate capability for the supercapacitor.\" To test that capability, the team coated an electrode with the material to measure how well it could adsorb and release electrolyte ions within a threeelectrode system. According to researchers, the material New research shows that cigarette butts can be converted into a material that boosts supercapacitors. 12 Credit: multisanti; Flickr; CC BY 2.0 stored more electrical energy than supermaterial graphene, high-capacity carbon nanotubes, and the commercially available carbon used in most supercapacitors. The paper is \"Preparation of energy storage material derived from a used cigarette filter for a supercapacitor electrode\" (DOI: 10.1088/09574484/25/34/345601). Tattooed biobatteries could use sweat to provide power What if a tattoo could do more than look pretty, tell a story, or represent something worth representing? New research presented at the 248th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco, Calif., shows that it is possible to combine sensors embedded in temporary tattoos with power generators. The biobattery runs on lactate, a substance found in sweat that is a byproduct of glycolysis. When in heavy use, such as during intense exercise, muscle cells activate glycolysis to extract energy from glucose molecules. The University of California San Diego researchers developed a lactate sensor that they could print on temporary tattoo paper. \"The sensor contained an enzyme that strips electrons from lactate, generating a weak electrical current,\" according to an ACS press release. \"Batteries produce energy by passing current, in the form of electrons, from an anode to a cathode. In this case, the anode contained the enzyme that removes electrons from lactate, and the cathode contained a molecule that accepts the electrons.\" But in the researchers\' tests so far, less-fit exercisers, probably because glycolysis set in sooner when out-of-shape individuals became fatigued rather early on, generating more power overall. \"The current produced is not that high, but we are working on enhancing it so that eventually we could power some small electronic devices,\" postdoctoral researcher Wenzhao Jia says in the press release. \"Right now, we can get a maximum of 70 μW per cm² [of skin], but our electrodes are only 2 by 3 mm in size and generate about 4 μW-a bit small to generate enough power to run a watch, for example, which requires at least 10 μW. So besides working to get higher power, we also need to leverage electronics to store the generated current and make it sufficient for these requirements.\" Eventually, the little skin stickers could provide enough energy to power a host of wearables and, hopefully someday, supply smartphones with a little extra juice to get through each sweat session. The research, published in Angewandte Chemie, is \"Epidermal biofuel cells: Energy harvesting from human perspiration\" (DOI: 10.1002/ange.201302922). I ΝΕ individuals produced far A tattoo biosensor runs off lactate generated during exermore power than regular cise and could someday power electronics. www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 Credit: Joe W e Wang; ACS Furnaces & Ovens If you are looking for a complete line of furnaces & ovens for heat treatment, look no further than CARBOLITE. Totally transparent solar concentrator offers clear view There is not much that cannot be powered by solar energy. Thanks to the work of researchers at Michigan State University, however, that power is now completely transparent. The team\'s recently developed transparent luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) appears transparent and colorless to the human eye. \"No one wants to sit behind colored glass,\" says Richard Lunt, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and materials science, in an MSU release. “It makes for a very colorful environment, like working in a disco. We take an approach where we actually make the luminescent active layer itself transparent.\" The new LSC is less colorful than other solar cells designed to encompass plastic materials and is more efficient, offering a conversion efficiency of close to 1%. To create the clear concentrator, Lunt and the MSU team developed small organic molecules that harvest the sun\'s power by way of \"specific nonvisible wavelengths of sunlight.\" According to Lunt, \"We can tune these materials to pick up just the ultraviolet and the near infrared wavelengths that then \'glow\' at another wavelength in the infrared.\" That \"glow\" is then converted to electricity by way of photovol taic solar cells that are grouped in thin strips around the edge of the plastic. \"Because the materials do not absorb or emit light in the visible spectrum, they look exceptionally transparent to the human eye,\" he says. The transparent concentrator\'s efficiency could reach 5% if fully optimized. The current “best” LSC offering taps out at 7%. Although still in the early stages of development, Lunt believes that the technology offers a great deal of promise in potential commercial or industrial applications—such as in building windows or smartphone screens. The paper, published in Advanced Optical Materials, is \"Nearinfrared harvesting transparent luminescent solar concentrators\" (DOI: 10.1002/adom. 201400103). (R) CARBOLITE Leading Heat Technology part of VERDER scientific Researchers have developed a luminescent and transparent solar concentrator, offering the promise of completely clear energy-harvesting windows and smartphone screens. American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org Credit: Yimu Zhao; MSU Temperature range from 20°C to 1800°C ■Chamber, tube and application specific furnaces Customized solutions and modifications CARBOLITE 1-866-473-8724 www.carbolite.com See us at MS&T\'14, Booth 309; ICACC\'15, Booth 206 13 ceramics in energy Spongelike material soaks up sunlight to make steam A new material developed by scientists at MIT soaks up the sun-and uses it to make steam. The disk-shaped, spongelike structure is porous, insulating, and floats on water. Its two hydrophilic layers-one of ultraabsorbing flakes of graphite and one of insulating foam-draw water to the surface. The graphite acts as a hotspot, soaking up the sun and releasing water as steam. Absorbing and hydrophilic Insulating and hydrophilic Bulk water A new spongelike material soaks up the sun to make steam. The material incorporates two hydrophilic layers, one of carbon foam and one of exfoliated graphite, that draw water to the surface. MIT\'s material is not the only solar-powered, steamgenerating substance, but what helps it to stand out from the crowd is its betterthan-average efficiency-85% of incident solar energy powers the water-to-steam conversion. According to an MIT News report, the approach \"generates steam at a solar intensity about 10 times that of a sunny day-the lowest optical concentration reported thus far. The implication, the researchers say, is that steam-generating applications can function with lower sunlight concentration and less-expensive tracking systems.\" \"This is a huge advantage in cost reduction,\" says Hadi Ghasemi in the story. Ghasemi is a post-doctoral researcher at MIT and one of the authors of the Nature Communications paper detailing the work. \"That\'s exciting for us because we\'ve come up with a new approach to solar steam generation.\" According to MIT, “the setup loses very little heat in the process and can produce steam at relatively low solar intensity. This would mean that, if scaled up, the setup would likely not require complex, costly systems to highly concentrate sunlight.\" Also relatively low is the cost of the materials needed to make the structure. \"Steam is important for desalination, hygiene systems, and sterilization,\" says Ghasemi. \"Especially in remote areas where the sun is the only source of energy, if you can generate steam with solar energy, it would be very useful.\" The paper is \"Solar steam generation by heat localization\" (DOI: 10.1038/ ncomms5449). Perovskite materials lead to better LEDs Perovskites have enjoyed some storied success over the past couple of years-solar cells containing the materials are now almost 20 percent efficient, although silicon solar cells required 10 times as many research years to reach a similar efficiency. Now, perovskites may be showing their superiority over silicon when it comes to LEDs, too. Researchers from the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversitat in Munich have discovered a way to use organometal halide pervoskites to make high-brightness LEDs. The research is published in Nature Nanotechnology. \"These organometal halide perovskites are remarkable semiconductors,\" Zhi-Kuang Tan, lead author and graduate student at Cambridge\'s Cavendish Laboratory, says in a university press release. \"We have designed the diode structure to confine electrical charges into a very thin layer of the perovskite, which sets up conditions for the electron-hole capture process to produce light emission.\" To make the thin layer, researchers dissolved the perovskites in solvent and spin-coated the solution onto a substrate. When dried, the pervoskites spontaneously order into crystals. In comparison with the conventional manufacture of LEDs, the new perovskite LEDs do not need hightemperature heating or a high vacuum, so manufacturing is simple and inexpensive. Plus, it is no longer cost prohibitive for projects such as large-area displays. \"The big surprise to the semiconductor community is to find that such simple process methods still produce very clean semiconductor properties, without the need for the complex purification procedures required for traditional semiconductors such as silicon,\" says professor Richard Friend, who led the Cambridge program. In addition to simple and cheap, the LEDs also are versatile. \"It\'s remarkable that this material can be easily tuned to emit light in a variety of colors, which makes it extremely useful for color displays, lighting, and optical communication applications,\" Tan says. \"This technology could provide a lot of value to the ever-growing flatpanel display industry.” The paper is \"Bright light-emitting diodes based on organometal halide perovskite\" (DOI: 10.1038/ nnano.2014.149). New perovskite LEDs are versatile when it comes to color. 14 www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 Easy to Choose. Easy to Use. Simultaneous Thermal Analysis Old tires find new purpose as better lithium-ion anode Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory say that discarded tiressome 290 million each year—might be the perfect material to help build a better lithium-ion battery anode. The team, led by ACerS and Electronics Division member Parans Paranthaman and Amit Naskar, is working to build that better anode by modifying the microstructure of the carbon black found in old tires. According to the paper published in RSC Advances, the team\'s approach is preferable to conventional methods for making anodes for lithium-ion batteries. \"Using waste tires for products such as energy storage is very attractive not only from the carbon materials recov ery perspective, but also for controlling environmental hazards caused by waste tire stock piles,\" he says in an ORNL news release. According to the release, \"The ORNL technique uses a proprietary pretreatment to recover pyrolytic carbon black material, which is similar to graphite but man-made. When used in anodes of Li-ion batteries, researchers produced a small, laboratory-scale battery with a reversible capacity that is higher than what is possible with commercial graphite materials.\" After 100 cycles, the carbon anode\'s \"unique microstructure” outperformed graphite, boasting a capacity of close to 390 (mAh)/g. \"This kind of performance is highly encouraging, especially in light of the fact that the global battery market for vehicles and military applications is approaching $78 billion and the materials market is expected to hit $11 billion in 2018,\" says Paranthaman. The team believes its new method could remove some of the hurdles of producing an anode with a high-surface area, higher-rate capability, and longterm stability. 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Microscopy and modeling work together to improve nuclear fuel design CAUTION CAUTION RADIOACTIVE MA Melissa Teague is busy at work trying to better understand irradiated nuclear fuels. ACerS member Melissa Teague is getting up close and extremely personal with materials that most people want absolutely nothing to do with-irradiated nuclear fuel. Irradiated, or spent, nuclear fuel is normally stored in the bottom of giant pools, tucked deep underground, or, unfortunately, dumped overseas. No one wants it around, because it is radioactive and useless-but not to Teague. Teague and colleagues at Idaho National Lab are pioneering research that is providing a microscale view of irradiated fuel, a 3D glimpse that has never been seen before. They know that a better understanding of what happens in nuclear fuel microstructure in response to irradiation can provide insights into how to develop fuels that are more efficient and safer. \"It\'s always been kind of a holy grail to understand fuel at the atomic level, but there\'s never been a way to get this type of data on the small scale,\" Teague says in an INL press release. But thanks to some novel techniques developed at INL, Teague can manipu late microscopic particles of irradiated nuclear fuel and subject them to electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) analyses. EBSD uses high-energy electrons to probe the surface of a material, and crystallographers can read the diffraction of those electrons to explore a material\'s structure. Teague collaborated with INL colleague Michael Tonks, a computational materials scientist. Tonks is head of INL\'s MARMOT modeling project to simulate how irradiation microscopically changes nuclear fuel. Teague and Tonks, along with ACerS member and EBSD reconstruction expert Bradley Fromm, a Ph.D. student in materials science and engineering from Washington State University, set to work together to unlock the secrets irradiated fuel was hiding. Combining Teague\'s view with Tonks\' models and Fromm\'s analyses, the team made some important discoveries. According to the press release, \"The data they collected provided several important insights. First, they proved it was possible to get EBSD information from \'really messed up\' highly irradiated fuel. The www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 work also revealed how solid particles form, grow, and migrate along crystal boundaries inside the fuel during irradiation.” According to the press release, the effects are far-reaching: \"Such atomic-scale data ... can help inform the development of nuclear fuel with enhanced safety and performance. The information can reveal how and why certain materials perform better than others. It can also make testing and validation more efficient by cutting down the number of time-consuming irradiation experiments required to qualify a new material.\" Joining yttrium superconducting tapes creates super magnet for fusion reactors Scientists at Japan\'s National Institutes of Natural Sciences report the fabrication of a large-scale magnet conductor-generating a record-breaking electrical current of 100,000 A-that could soon find use in fusion reactors. The conductor is generating buzz because of its novel and simple manufacturing method. By simply stacking together 54 individual yttrium-based high-temperature superconducting tapes (10 mm wide by 0.2 mm thick), the scientists fabricated a super powerful magnet that conducts at temperatures down to -253°C. Because the tapes\' joints are important for large-scale coils, NINS scientists worked with colleagues at Tohoku University to produce a low-resistance \"joint winding method\" to secure the tapes together. For the final conductor, the scientists surrounded the tapes with a copper jacket and a stainless steel jacket for insulation. The conductor\'s overall current density exceeds 40 A/mm², which the scientists say “is of practical use for manufacturing large-scale fusion reactor magnets.\" The papers describing the work are: “Feasibility of HTS magnet option for fusion reactors\" (DOI: 10.1585/pfr.9.1405013) published in Plasma and Fusion Research; and \"Progress of the design of HTS magnet option and R&D activities for the helical fusion reactor\" (DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2013.2292775) published in IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. Yttrium-based High-Temperature Superconducting tapes TURBULAⓇ SHAKER-MIXER For homogeneous mixing of powdered materials. 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That inorganic film is then capped with a hydrophobic and oleophobic organic coating to make the surface a breeze to clean. But Corning, a company with “more than 160 years of innovation,\" is not satisfied with just antireflective and easyto-clean surfaces-it wants more. Corning scientists, in collaboration with some friends from the Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques and the Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats (both in Spain), also have been working on a more ambitious project, described in a recent ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces paper, that some may call the holy trinity of monolithic screen properties-antiglare, antireflective, and superhydrophobic. This technology goes beyond thin films and coatings by engineering a nanostructured surface that destructively interferes with light waves and scatters light to get that antiglare effect. Applying the ETC coating onto the nanostructured surface boosts its waterrepelling ability, Lahiri says. This new surface is now superhydrophobic-achieving contact angles greater than 150 degrees-while the AR/ETC surface is simply hydrophobic-with contact angles of a measly 110 degrees. To scatter light and get rid of glare, the researchers roughened the glass by fusing a particulate polymer mask to the surface and then etching it with an acid mix. The process created a textured antiglare surface with a lateral range of 1-100 μm and a vertical range \"typically on the order of tens to hundreds of nanometers,\" the paper states. To add a layer of nanosized teeth for antireflectivity, they then sputtered the textured surface with a copper ultrathin metal film. Dewetting the film transformed it to a metal nanoparticle mask, which also was etched to fabricate antireflective nanopillars. Once they removed the metal mask, the scientists had one super see-through surface. Lahiri says that a couple of technological barriers remain before bringing the surface to the commercial arena—including robustness and a need to engineer scaling-up of the technology. The paper is \"Monolithically integrated micro- and nanostructured glass surface with antiglare, antireflection, and superhydrophobic properties\" (DOI: 10.1021/am5013062). Corning\'s new antireflective and easy-to-clean glass technology may be the future in visible device screens. www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 Credit: Corning New insights into how water plays with metal oxides NEW! OUTD How do water molecules interact with the surfaces of metal oxides? Metal oxides are extremely important commercially—they are used in various forms for catalysts and catalyst supports, as gas sensors, and much more. Sometimes, their commercial importance stems from their unwanted presence, as evidenced by the $3 trillion per decade corrosion problem. Researchers from Aarhus University (Denmark), Lund University (Sweden), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are collaborating to learn more about how metal oxide surfaces interact with the some 326 million trillion gallons of water cycling around the planet. The research, published in Nature Communications, \"opens doors for greater understanding and control of chemical reactions in fields ranging from catalysis to geochemistry and atmospheric chemistry,\" according to a University of Wiscon sin-Madison press release. In fact, \"Ninety percent of all catalytic processes use metal oxides as a support,\" Manos Mavrikakis, senior author and Wisconsin engineering professor, says. “Therefore, all of the reactions including water as an impurity or reactant or product would be affected by the insights developed.\" Because metal oxides have occasional oxygen defects, scientists previously did not understand how water molecules interacted with them in contrast to the interaction with more homogeneous nonoxide metals. \"When water meets with one of those defects, it forms two adjacent hydroxyls-a stable compound comprised of one oxygen atom and one hydrogen atom,\" the press release states. But then what? The researchers probed this question, trying to understand how the hydroxyl molecules affected surrounding water molecules on nanostructured iron oxide films. Researchers at Aarhus characterized the reactions with scanning tunneling microscopy, then Wisconsin scientists picked the images atomically apart with quantum mechanical analysis. Their scrutiny found two very different results. \"On a smooth surface, you form amorphous networks of water molecules, whereas on a hydroxylated surface, there are much more structured, well-ordered domains of water molecules,\" Mavrikakis says. American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org Catalina Olavarria; Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Alumina ♦ Fused Quartz Rods Zirconia ◆ Sapphire Crucibles Furnace Tubes Thermocouple Insulators Plates & Disks ◆ Quartz Cuvettes Alumina & Sapphire Sample Pans for Thermal Analysis Custom Components ADVALUE TECHNOLOGY 3470 S. 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The work has a variety of applications beyond basic science, too. \"It opens the doors to using hydrogen bonds to make surfaces hydrophilic, or attracted to water, and to [template] these surfaces for the selective absorption of other molecules possessing fundamental similarities to water,\" Mavrikakis says. “Because catalysis is at the heart of engineering chemical reactions, this is also very fundamental for atomic-scale chemical reac tion engineering.\" The paper is \"Water clustering on nanostructured iron oxide films\" (DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5193). Corrosion wars: C2D2 inspects and detects concrete wear Corrosion is a big problem, especially when it comes to the mainstay of modern building materials-steelreinforced concrete. Swiss researchers at ETH Zürich pioneered a method decades ago to detect damage in steel-reinforced concrete structures by wheeling an electrode across the surface. The sensor detects electric potential differences and indicates regions where corrosion has occurred. C2D2, the bridge-inspecting robot. Although measuring electric potential with a wheeled electrode works really well, it is labor-intensive, time-intensive, and limited. \"The wheel electrode is attached to a stick and has to be wheeled manually,” Bernhard Elsener, professor at the Institute for Building Materials, says in an ETH Zürich press release. \"This means that many areas, such as supporting pillars and the undersides of high bridges, lie out of reach.\" Therefore, the pioneering Swiss researchers are setting a robot out to perform the task. Pairing with colleagues at ETH Zürich\'s Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, the team has tailored a previously designed robot that can walk walls and ceilings-and originally designed to do some fancy filming for Disney-to inspect bridges. \"The robot\'s movement is based on Vortex technology, where a type of propeller is attached to the underside of the robot,\" states the press release. \"The propeller rotates fast enough for a movable suction cup to stick the robot on to walls and ceilings, where it can then use its wheels to move along these surfaces. The robot is steered via remote control or a computer.\" The robot, now aptly named the Climbing Corrosion Detecting Device, or C2D2, has an underneath-mounted electrode that records potential differences as it goes. Peter Rüegg; ETH Zürich Although the robot is controlled manually with a remote control, “The team hopes that by the end of the project in mid-2015, the robot will be able to identify and overcome such obstacles by itself,\" the release states. The team intends to fit C2D2 with a navigation system and also is working to devise software that would allow C2D2 to analyze its own data. The team already has shown that C2D2 can accurately detect damaged concrete. Therefore, with advances that make it autonomous and all-inclusive, this robot could save a lot of money, maintain safer structures, and simplify corrosion detection. Synchrotron\'s X-rays probe the failure of thermal barrier coatings University of Central Florida engineering professor Seetha Raghavan and a team of researchers from the Institute of Materials Research at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Argonne National Laboratory, and Cleveland State University have succeeded in capturing a glimpse into the ceramic coating that protects aircraft engines from the extreme thermal cycling and mechanical strain they encounter with every flight. Turbine engines work most efficiently when the combustion gases that enter the turbine are hot-so hot that the superalloy turbine blades would melt if it were not for the protection of an oxide ceramic thermal barrier coating. Raghavan is studying ways to improve those coatings, a goal that requires a better understanding of how they fail in the first place. Therefore, the international team devised a plan to see how the coatings respond, in real time, to the extreme temperatures and stresses they undergo with each flight. To get the glimpse into precisely what happens in the coatings, the team devised a plan-drawing on the expertise of all team members-to use X-rays from Argonne\'s synchrotron to study the thermal barrier coating on a nickel-based superalloy substrate under simulated ser20 20 www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 TA Instruments vice conditions inside a custom-built compact furnace. \"While the idea sounded impossible, we had a team of willing collaborators with complementary skills as well as excellent students who were motivated to take on the challenge,\" Raghavan says in a UCF press release. Ragahavan and her students traveled to DLR to work with their German colleagues to build the furnace, which was then brought back across the Atlantic to use with X-ray beams at Argonne. And the outcome? The team has \"succeeded in efforts to replicate complex operating conditions of turbine coatings under extreme temperatures of 1,000°C, while simultaneously capturing the in-cycle mechanics of material response,\" Raghavan says in an email. “[Our] paper presents the first quantitative high-resolution strains obtained from this study.\" The team\'s unique approach allowed it to gather data on the diffraction peaks within the material, “overcoming challenges associated with the curvature and dynamic expansion conditions,\" Raghavan says, so that the team could determine the strains that develop in the material during service. 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American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org Credit: DLR; UCF SmartControl Touch Screen Control System www.thermcraftinc.com info@thermcraftinc.com +1.336.784.4800 See us at MS&T14, Booth 520 21 research briefs \"Two factors set our work apart: the creation of a realistic extreme environment coupled with high-resolution data collection, and unique results that capture the evolving strains as they are subjected to varying levels of each or both,\" she says. Together, the team members quantitatively measured strain at various depths in the coating, and that data validated current views of high-temperature relaxation. The real-time measurements also validated previous microscopy studies of failure locations at the interface between Reduce research time and avoid costly experimentation with ACerS-NIST critically-evaluated phase diagrams for ceramic systems. 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The pioneering efforts present a game-changing approach to the study of materials under extreme environments-it takes high-temperature materials testing to the next level.\" The paper, published in Nature Communications, is \"Strain response of thermal barrier coatings captured under extreme engine environments through synchrotron X-ray diffraction\" (DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5559). Nature\'s entomological secrets reveal key to whiter whites The Cyphochilus beetle is an über white bug native to southeast Asia-this beetle is whiter than the whitest white paint, plastics, and paper that humans can manufacture. New research shows that the secret to the beetles\' color lies in the optical properties of their scales, which are made of a material called chitin. Chitin makes up mollusk shells, fungi cell walls, and bug exoskeletons. It is functionally similar to keratin, the stuff that makes up human hair and nails. The research, a collaboration between the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) and the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (Italy), set out to examine just how the beetles achieve their white color-which indicates that the material reflects all wavelengths of light-despite the low refractive index of chitin. \"Current technology is not able to produce a coating as white as these beetles can in such a thin layer,\" says lead researcher Silvia Vignolini in a Camwww.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 bridge press release. \"In order to survive, these beetles need to optimize their optical response, but this comes with the strong constraint of using as little material as possible in order to save energy and to keep the scales light enough in order to fly.\" The researchers measured how light propagated in the bugs\' scales and found that their chitin scatters light \"more efficiently than any other lowrefractive-index material yet known,\" states the release. According to the paper\'s abstract, that is caused by \"a remarkably optimized anisotropy of intra-scale chitin networks, which act as a dense scattering media.\" \"These scales have a structure that is truly complex since it gives rise to something that is more than the sum of its parts,\" says coauthor Matteo Burresi of the Italian National Institute of Optics in Florence. \"Our simulations show that a randomly packed collection of its constituent elements by itself is not sufficient to achieve the degree of brightness that we observe.\" The researchers hope their insight will help to develop whiter products with less material, reducing waste and generating lighter finished products. The open-access paper, published in Scientific Reports, is “Bright-white beetle scales optimise multiple scattering of light\" (DOI:10.1038/srep06075). CALL FOR PAPERS Submit abstracts by December 10th International Symposium on Ceramic Materials and Components for Energy and Environmental Applications Ceramic technologies for sustainable development June 14-19, 2015 Hyatt Regency Vancouver, BC Canada Track I: Ceramics for Energy Conversion, Storage, and Distribution Systems Track 2: Ceramics for Energy Conservation and Efficiency Track 3: Ceramics for Environmental Systems Track 4: Cross-cutting Materials Technologies Cyphochilus beetles are whiter than white. t: Wild Center; Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0 ceramics.org/11cmcee American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org The American Ceramic Society www.ceramics.org CMCee 23 advances in nanomaterials Can lizards help design better materials? Nature designs smart materials. When it comes to strength, structures like bone and nacre are excellent examples. When it comes to surface nanostructures, lotus leaves and Namibian Desert beetles reign supreme. And when it comes to adhesion, gecko feet hold the gold standard. Geckos-and some other lizards-have toes that are equipped with thousands of little spatula-shaped structures, or setae, that provide their feet with remarkable surface area. While it was long believed that weak molecular van der Waals forces \"indisputably\" explained the stick between gecko toes and a smooth surface, new research suggests that electrostatic forces may be at work, too. The study, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, looked at how tokay geckos stick to two different surfaces-Teflon AF and silicone rubber poly(dimethylsiloxane)—that have similar van der Waals interactions with gecko toes. If van der Waals interactions were solely responsible for sticking to these surfaces, then, the scientists postulated, the geckos should adhere equally well to each. Gecko setae stuck to Teflon AF about twice as strong as to silicone, suggesting more than just van der Waals interactions between the materials. Measuring electrostatic charges between the toes and surfaces showed that they were interacting with one another, suggesting that both types of interactions may be important for the geckos\' sticky feet. The paper is \"Role of contact electrification and electrostatic interactions in gecko adhesion\" (DOI: 10.1098/ rsif.2014.0371). No matter what scientific principles describe how they stick, the fact is that geckos are really good at sticking to surfaces. So, how exactly do they \"unstick\" those little toes when they want to move? Rows of lamellae further branch into many tiny setae on each gecko toe. Credit: Rob Osborne; Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Researchers at Oregon State University have been using applied physics to investigate that question. \"Understanding the subtleties of the process for switching stickiness on and off is groundbreaking,\" author and engineering professor Alex Greaney says in an American Institute of Physics press release. \"By using mathematical modeling, we\'ve found simple, but ingenious, mechanism that allows the gecko to switch back and forth between being sticky or not. Geckos\' feet are by default nonsticky, and this stickiness is activated through application of a small shear force. Gecko adhesion can be thought of as the opposite of friction.\" The paper, published in the Journal of Applied Physics, suggests that gecko toes can unstick and stick easily because their setae are set at oblique, rather than straight, angles. When geckos drag their feet, they can change the contact angles of those setae and stick/unstick at will, with no loss of energy and, thus, minimal effort. The work may unlock some of the secrets needed to design better materials. The paper is \"Role of seta angle and flexibility in the gecko adhesion mechanism\" (DOI: 10.1063/1.4892628). Structure and functionSurface properties are key to smarter materials Much attention has been given to how surfaces interact with liquids, particularly water-whether materials cozy up to (hydrophilic) or shy away from (hydrophobic) water molecules. Many so-called self-cleaning surfaces have a coating that prevents water molecules from lingering on the surface. But another way to manipulate surface interactions with water is to fabricate patterned nanostructures on the materials\' surface. Inspired by nature, researchers have come a long way from their humble beginnings with surface nanostructures. \"Ten years ago no one had the ability to pattern surfaces like this at the nanoscale,\" Sumanta Acharya, a National Science Foundation program director in the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems, says in an NSF Discoveries report. But in just a decade, a lot has changed. Scientists now have the design knowledge and fabrication ability to synthetically pattern nanoscale structures onto materials\' surfaces. Brigham Young University mechanical engineering professor Julie Crockett studies superhydrophobic surfaces. Her team of scientists has found that combining the best of both water-fearing worldsnanostructures and surface coatings-can significantly boost water resistance. 24 24 www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 Crockett\'s team is testing surfaces with two different structures—miniature posts or ribs and cavities-to see how each structure influences interaction with water droplets. The research shows that altering the width of these structures can have a big impact on their interaction with water. And understanding these interactions is the key to designing new materials with improved functions and performance. \"People know about these surfaces, but why they cause droplets or jets to behave the way they do is not particularly well-known,\" Crockett says in a BYU press release. \"If you don\'t know why the phenomena are occurring, it may or may not actually be beneficial to you.\" Other researchers are investigating the surface structure of oxide materials to better understand the materials\' interactions with the world. A droplet of water beads up on top of a hydrophobic surface. \"Surface properties are key for any sensitive application, because the surface controls the interaction with the outside world,\" materials scientist Art Baddorf says. Baddorf, a scientist at Oak Ridge National Lab\'s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, and a team of ORNL scientists recently published a paper in Nature Communications detailing the surface structure of oxide materials. Using high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy to scrutinize the surface of perovskite manganite-a material that exhibits \"dramatic magnetic and electronic behavior\"-the scientists showed that a surface\'s chemical and physical properties are heavily intertwined. \"It\'s like the material has many knobs, and if you turn one, all the properties change,\" lead author Zheng Gai says in a press release. \"You turn a different knob and the whole thing changes again. It turns out the surface is another knob-you can use it to change the properties.\" The team created distortion maps that showed the position of oxygen atoms on the material\'s surface, revealing that they are arranged into a checkerboard pattern or JahnTeller distortion. \"The oxygen totally changes the surface energy,\" Gai says. \"Once you introduce oxygen, the electrons don\'t like to form a straight line; they zigzag to get to a lower energy state. This distortion is a very common concept in bulk materials, but nobody has been able to show this effect on the surface before.\" Connecting Global Competence Messe München International Hot spot for the ceramics industry To register: www.ceramitec.de/application ceramitec 2015 Technologies Innovations. Materials October 20-23 Messe München ceramitec.de American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org 25 25 Credit: BYU O bulletin | cover story Ceramics in Australia: Raw and advanced materials drive Land Down Under\'s global reach From technical ceramics to nuclear and solar R&D, Australia\'s sector is more than a zircon in the rough. By Alex Talavera and Randy B. Hecht LE ake one island continent rich in ☐ natural resources, academic strength, and economic muscle. Add a relatively small population that is concentrated in a handful of metropolitan areas and dispersed across a vast terrain. Throw into the mix a distance from global markets that can make foreign trade daunting-Melbourne is more than twice as many miles from Los Angeles (7,931) as it is from the South Pole (3,614). (\"Nearby\" is a relative term in this landfrom the capital city, Canberra, it is 1,449 miles to Wellington, New Zealand; 3,353 to Jakarta, Indonesia; and 4,920 to Tokyo, Japan.) Combine all these factors and you begin to get a sense of the opportunities and challenges that come together in the Australian ceramic sector. Wealth of minerals available For example, Australia is the source of 37% of the world\'s supply of zircon. World production in 2012 was approximately 1.3 million tons, according to Iluka, the world\'s largest producer of this mineral sand. In its \"Mineral Sands Industry Fact Book,\" the Australian company notes, “In the majority of mineral sands deposits, zircon is produced in lower quantities than titanium dioxide. The historical average ratio between the two 26 26 Credit: CFC A ceramic anode-supported fuel cell-composed of a yttria-doped zirconia (YSZ) anode support, nickel oxide anode, YSZ thin electrolyte membrane, and strontium-doped lanthanum manganite cathode-manufactured by Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd. (Noble Park, Victoria). www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 Timor Sea Legend Universities Research institutes Major heavy mineral sand deposits Northern Territory Perth Curtain University Western Australia Jacinth-Ambrosia mine Great Australian Blight Australia South Australia Queensland Coral See Brisbane oGold Coast University of New South WalesNew South Wales University of Newcastle Adelaide CSIRO Victoria Me me Monash University Swinburne University of Technology Industrial Research Institute Swinburne University of Melbourne Australian Catholic University ANSTO Australian Capital Territory Australian National University Tasmania Map data ©2014 GERMPA, Google Geographic locations of major universities, research institutes, and primary mineral sand deposits in Australia. mined product streams is in the range of 1:4 to 1:5. Iluka\'s Jacinth-Ambrosia mine in South Australia is the exception, with zircon accounting for approximately 50% of the assemblage of valuable heavy mineral.\" Approximately 50% of zircon is used in the ceramics sector, the company says, and demand for it is heavily concentrated in China (41%), Europe (25%), and Asia-Pacific (18%), whereas North America accounts for only 8% of global demand.¹ Rare earths are another area of natural resource activity. The government agency Geoscience Australia estimates that the country\'s rare earths, reported as rare-earth oxides (REO), as of December 31, 2012, “amounted to 3.19 million tons (Mt) of economic demonstrated resources (EDR), 0.42 Mt of paramarginal resources, and 31.14 Mt of submarginal resources.\' About 67% of Australia\'s accessible EDR comprises reserves as defined under the Joint Ore Reserve Committee (JORC) code.\" Of this, “33% of the EDR comprises published JORC code compliant measured and indicated resources in operating mines, deposits being developed for mining, and in deposits that have published scoping/ feasibility studies with positive results. There is a further 16.13 Mt REO in the inferred resources category.\" \"2 The agency adds, \"Using available information, Geoscience Australia estimates that Australia\'s monazite resources are around 7.8 Mt. Assuming the REO content of monazite to be about 60%, the heavy mineral deposits could hold a resource of around 4.68 Mt contained REO. Currently, extraction of rare-earth elements from monazite is not viable because of the cost associated with disAmerican Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org posal of thorium and uranium present in the monazite.\" The Australia Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), which is part of the country\'s Department of Industry, has been involved in rare-earth processing, analysis, and development for more than 20 years. Its ANSTO Minerals department processing capabilities extend from \"rare earths that contain major economic minerals, such as monazite, bastnasite, and xenotime,\" to \"rare earths from accessory, more complex mineral phases, such as apatite, zirconium/niobium minerals, and other less frequently exploited minerals.\" In addition, it has developed “conceptual studies to introduce new technology into existing mineral processing flow sheets\" and been involved in \"solvent extraction technologies used for production of separated rare-earth products.\"³ 27 Ceramics in Australia: Raw and advanced materials drive Land Down Under\'s global reach Back-and-forth commercial transactions But the ceramic sector\'s materials requirements and the parameters of Australia\'s domestic market can lead to commercial transactions that move across borders and back again. A case in point is the high-purity aluminum oxide and high-purity zirconia that are the principal raw materials used by Ceramic Oxide Fabricators, whose single biggest product is the SIRO2 oxygen sensor. \"None of those materials are refined to the high purity that we need in Australia, so we import most of our raw materials, because the market for these high-purity oxides in Australia is too small to justify refining them here,\" says Alan Walker, manager. The company has a long-standing relationship with two suppliers in Japan, which also is the destination for some of its exported finished products. \"The great majority of our sales are exports,\" Walker says. \"We import raw materials from Japan, turn them into finished ceramics, and some of those finished ceramic products we export back to Japan.\" Similarly, the company resells \"various parts and materials that we can\'t or don\'t make here in Australia because the domestic market is too small,\" he adds. \"In the United States, we have some companies who supply specialty insulation. The market in Australia for them is not particularly big, but we have had a very long-standing relationship with those suppliers.\" Its ties to the U.S. also include relationships with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NASA, and Caltech. \"To an engineer, those places are the pinnacle, and we\'re tremendously proud of the fact that even though it\'s only a very small part of what we do, that those very highly regarded organizations sometimes come to us.\" The overachievers down under Steady growth and a stable economy make Australia a market worth watching. By Alex Talavera and Randy B. Hecht Australia sprawls across 2,988,901.76 square miles, an area slightly smaller than that of the 48 contiguous U.S. states. All that terrain is home to only 22,507,617 people-roughly 8% less than the combined populations of Ohio and Pennsylvania and a labor force of 11.58 million. But if the home team is small in numbers, it compensates with economic brawn. The CIA World Factbook notes that, as of 2012, Australia has achieved \"more than 20 years of continued economic growth, averaging 3.5% a year\" and that its economy is characterized by \"contained inflation, very low public debt, and a strong and stable financial system.\" Until recently, its economic virtues also included consistently low unemployment. However, in August, the Australian Bureau of Statistics announced that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate had risen to 6.4%, the highest in more than a decade. The country\'s GDP (purchasing power parity) is $998.3 billion, which makes it the 18th largest in the world and translates to $43,000 per capita. Services generate 68.7% of GDP, followed by industry (27.4%), and agriculture (3.8%). Major industries include mining, industrial, and transportation equipment; food processing; chemicals; and steel. For 2013, the industrial growth rate was 3.2%. Australia\'s trading partners are concentrated in the Asia-Pacific region. Leading destinations for the country\'s exports, which totaled $251.7 billion in 2013, were China, Japan, South Korea, and India. The world\'s largest net exporter of coal, Working with customers Because Ceramic Oxide Fabricators\' customers are for the most part in mature industries, such as automotive, \"a lot of the changes that they adopt tend to be incremental rather than revolutionary,\" Walker says. For that reason, the company\'s focus is on increasing the accuracy and extending the life of its sensors. Fifteen years ago, their lifetime could be six months to one year. Today, a span of one year to 18 months is more common, and R&D efforts are targeting opportunities to enhance that aspect of performance. Areas of investigation include novel materials for and new configurations of oxygen sensors. \"The intention would be to provide more precise control of combustion to improve fuel efficiency.\" Like the size of the market, limited awareness of ceramic capabilities can pose additional constraints on the Australia generates 29% of global coal exports. Its natural resource exports also include bauxite, iron ore, copper, tin, gold, silver, uranium, nickel, tungsten, rareearth elements, mineral sands, lead, zinc, diamond, natural gas, and petroleum. Additional exported commodities include meat, wool, alumina, wheat, and machinery and transport equipment. The country also is home to 37% of the world\'s zircon mining, although the mineral sands are mostly exported to trading partners, such as Japan for processing and then reimported into Australia for commercial use. Imports for 2013 totaled $245.8 billion and included machinery and transport equipment, computers and office machines, telecommunication equipment and parts, crude oil, and petroleum products. Top import trading partners are China, U.S., Japan, Singapore, Germany, Thailand, and South Korea. The U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement has been in effect since 2005 and made more than 99% of U.S. manufactured exports to Australia duty-free. For information about trade or joint venture opportunities in Australia, contact the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Australia Working Group, or one of the regional Chamber of Commerce offices listed on the Embassy of Australia webpage. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative maintains online market information about Australia, and the U.S. Commercial Service offers further information through an online library of resources related to doing business in Australia. 44446) The kangaroo is the unofficial symbol of Australia. David Cook; Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0 industry. Morgan Advanced Materials Technical Ceramics exports close to 80% of what it produces in Melbourne, says Stuart Pratt, sales and marketing manager. On the domestic side, it must contend with prevalent \"preconceived ideas about ceramic\" that have their roots in memories of alumina ceramic as brittle and lacking strength-\"so a lot of my work is almost a re-education of some of those ingrained fears that engineers have about ceramics.\" \"The usage of ceramic in Australia is not particularly high. Australia doesn\'t have a huge manufacturing base, so we would never survive just making ceramics and selling it in Australia. We have to consider that the world is our customer base and our marketplace,” Pratt: says. \"That\'s been a challenge over the years. People say, \'Oh, but you\'re over on the other side of the world.\' And I have to say, in my working life here, that sort of perception has changed dramatically,\" he adds. That has happened, in part, thanks to another characteristic of the Australian ceramic sector-frequent collaborations by companies, research institutes, and government agencies on materials research, development, and commercialization. Pratt takes pride in \"the fact that Melbourne is the birthplace of toughened zirconia ceramic,\" which was invented by a team at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia\'s national science agency. \"This business licensed that technology, licensed the patent for the material, and over the years we\'ve improved it, developed it, and so on. I think a lot of people are surprised that our business was at the very forefront of toughened zirconia ceramic and that we still make, I believe, the best zirconia ceramic in the world.\" Like Ceramic Oxide Fabricators, Morgan Advanced Materials Technical Ceramics is heavily invested in enhancing its existing applications-for example, components for severe service valvesand broadening its customer base for those applications. Its business is focused on customized solutions and often develops replacements not for other ceramics, but, rather, metal parts. Morgan Technical Ceramics manufactures a variety of advanced ceramic products for many applications including replacement of metal parts. In response to demand from customers in industries such as mining and chemical processing, the company has developed the capability to manufacture larger parts. \"Everybody wants to make a process line bigger so that they can get more capacity into it,\" Pratt says. However, given the \"limitations on how big ceramic parts can be made,\" he does not see this trend continuing indefinitely: \"I think we\'ve got up to a level that caters to most applications.” But, as with Ceramic Oxide Fabricators, he is seeing increased demand for extended cycle time. \"Twenty years ago, a plant would run for three months. Then it would have a close down and they would replace all the valves, pumps, and wear parts, and then they would run for another three months,\" he says. \"The cost of a shutdown is enormous-not just the cost of the parts that you were having to replace, but the loss of productivity that you get while the plant is shut.\" Customers, therefore, are seeking the company\'s help in extending cycle time and reducing downtime. The same goals apply within the company itself. \"From the year dot [the year one] we\'ve had a continuous improvement program,\" Pratt says. \"To this day, we\'re always looking at more effective ways so that we can get more product out of the same amount of equipment and the same amount of man-hours. That\'s something that\'s enshrined in every successful business these days.\" American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org Patnerships and sharing intellectual property Public-private partnerships take on an added layer of complexity when technologies or products emerge from research at ANSTO, the government\'s nuclear science and technology agency. \"In some cases, technology fusion provides the company with materials and processes that will enable them to take or advance their opportunity in their specific domain,” says Gerry Triani, research program leader in Nuclear Materials Science. \"What we generally do is, we retain foreground technology in our nuclear space and assign rights to our partners to exploit the technology in their area of application.\" In some cases, that means that ANSTO ends up owning the patent, but the agency is \"keen to seek licensing opportunities.\" For example, \"I currently hold a U.S. patent in solar, and in that space, we\'re looking for licensing opportunities with a number of companies, from hardware providers to module manufacturers,\" he says. \"We feel that we shouldn\'t be the gatekeepers of the intellectual property and that it should be exploited. This IP was generated through our collaborative program in solar through the Cooperative Research Centre for Polymers. We\'re looking to find licensing opportunities with partners globally to make sure that the IP is available to innovative companies.\" ANSTO has a record of success in incubating IP, creating seed companies internally, and then selling those com29 Credit: Morgan Ceramics in Australia: Raw and advanced materials drive Land Down Under\'s global reach roc ANSTO ANSTO\'s synroc hot isostatic pressing technology can reduce radioactive waste volume. Metal cans are loaded with radioactive nuclides and a ceramic powder, and then hot isostatic pressed an encapsulate solid waste for disposal into a respiratory. panies. One example is Ceramisphere Ltd., a business that was spun off ANSTO\'s materials chemistry labs and has \"developed a generic platform for delivering controlled release of active molecules\" for such applications as \"anticorrosion and biocidal coating, including delivery of therapeutics and vaccines.\" Another technology company, Biogill Ltd., works in wastewater treatment using \"ANSTO\'s IP in nanoceramic membranes, which consume nutrients in the wastewater using biomass.\" Immobilization of nuclear waste is Credit: ANSTO the primary area of focus at ANSTO\'s Materials Engineering Institute, which developed titanate ceramics for that purpose and continues to pursue advances in that arena. \"We use a technology called hot isostatic pressing, and anything that looks good-whether it\'s glass, ceramic, or glass-ceramic-we\'ll press it as a dense solid for nuclear waste immobilization,\" says Lou Vance, chief scientist at Wasteforms Research. \"Because we don\'t have any high-level waste in Australia, we use this information to develop these sorts of solids for high-level waste immobilization. What we want to do is to partner with engineering companies in other countries that actually have the nuclear waste, where we\'d provide advice on the composition of the solids.\" Further out on the horizon, “We have this waste from the production of molybdenum-99, a radiopharmaceutical that\'s used in cancer treatment and diagnosis,\" Vance says. \"We\'re gearing up in the next two or three years to increase our generation of this material, which produces what is known as intermediate-levDirectory of Australian ceramics industry, associations, and institutes COMPANIES AND COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES Note: For links to information about and contact details for ceramic tile companies in Australia, see the Australian Tile Council listing in the Associations and Research Institutes section of this directory. AZOM.com Suite 24, 90 Mona Vale Road Warriewood, New South Wales 2102 Phone: +61 2 9999 0070 Fax: +61 2 9999 0071 E-mail: info@azom.com (general inquiries) Website: www.azom.com AZOM publicizes news, views, and developments in the materials science community to increase use of advanced materials by the engineering and design community worldwide. Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd. 170 Browns Road Noble Park, Victoria 3174 Phone: +61 3 9554 2300 Fax: +61 3 9790 5600 E-mail: info@cfcl.com.au Website: www.cfcl.com.au CFC develops, manufactures, and markets solid oxide fuel cell technology and products developed for small-scale, microcombined heat and power, and distributes generation applications that cogenerate electricity and heat for homes and businesses. The company notes that its technology has achieved \"the world\'s highest electrical efficiency from a small-scale generator (up to 60%)\" and \"reduces carbon dioxide emissions by more than two-thirds compared to coal-fired electricity generation.\" Ceramic Oxide Fabricators 83 Wood Street Eaglehawk, Victoria 3556 Phone: +61 3 5446 3489/+61 3 5446 8151 Fax: +61 3 5446 1215 E-mail: ceramics@cof.com.au Website: www.cof.com.au Ceramic Oxide Fabricators works in the manufacture and distribution of advanced ceramic components for abrasion, corrosion, and electrical resistance; laboratory ware; thermocouple sheaths and insulators; and zirconia-based oxygen sensors. Its business extends to importation and distribution of advanced ceramics. The company\'s family of products encompasses solid electrolyte oxygen sensors, laboratory crucibles, low-wear clutch parts, wire guides, furnace components, thermocouple components, bearings, water knife nozzles, and radar insulators. Hitech Materials Pty. Ltd. 60/62 Murray Park Road Wollongong, New South Wales 2525 Phone: +61 419 991 930 E-mail: info@hitechmaterials.com.au Website: www.hitechmaterials.com.au Hitech is an independent, materials engineering consultancy founded in 2008 by Phil Walls, Ph.D., that focuses on improving plant performance and reducing maintenance costs and down time. Iluka Resources Ltd. Level 23 140 St. Georges Terrace Perth, Western Australia 6000 GPO Box U1988 Perth, Western Australia 6845 Phone: +61 8 9360 4700 E-mail contact form: www.iluka.com/products/ product-enquiry Website: www.iluka.com Iluka\'s focus is mineral sands product exploration, project development, mining and processing, and marketing. Established 60 years ago in Australia, where most of its production base remains, it has had mining and processing operations in the U.S. for more than 40 years. The company notes that it is \"the major producer of zircon globally and a significant producer of the high-grade titanium dioxide products of rutile and synthetic rutile.\" Morgan Technical Ceramics Australia Pty. Ltd. 30-36 Birralee Road, Regency Park Adelaide, South Australia 5010 Phone: +61 8 8243 5300 4 Redwood Drive Melbourne, Victoria 3168 Phone: +61 3 9550 9144 5-21 Amour Street Sydney, New South Wales 2212 Phone: +61 2 9772 5600 34 Aerodrome Road Caboolture, Queensland 4510 Phone: +61 7 5433 7100 30 30 www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 el waste-about 5,000 liters a year. We\'re in the stage of detailed engineering to produce a plant to immobilize this material in a glass-ceramic. This engineering plant is probably our main focus and activity at present.\" \"That will be the first-of-a-kind plant of the hot isostatic pressing technology for actual nuclear waste,\" Triani adds. \"It will be done in a way that it will be in line with our nuclear medicine production facility, and it will be done remotely, in a hot cell to demonstrate the robustness of this technology.\" ANSTO is open to working with U.S. researchers and companies in pursuit of joint ventures, joint research, and commercialization and is in the process of completing a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Savannah River Laboratory in the U.S. \"The object of this CRADA is to study these waste solids produced by melting versus hot isostatic pressing,\" Vance \"In Britain, hot isostatic pressing says. is the baseline technology now, because we\'ve been collaborating with them for Trelleborg Engineered Systems (Brisbane, Queensland) manufactures a variety of products, including those related to mining and mineral processing. One example is this cyclone underflow launder for iron ore, which is lined with glue in ceramic mats. years. We\'ve worked with researchers from Japan and France over the years. But we\'ve never worked with companies to actually engineer a plant to do the job, basically because in all countries the immobilization of nuclear waste, while considered important, is a bit low on funding these days.\" \"We leverage our know-how and technology into other areas of classical ceramic application,\" adds Triani, who is working with U.S. companies—including several start-ups on the west coast-on solar projects. \"We are developing our ceramic powders and films for their applications. These connections have Lot 13 Cutler Road Jandakot, Western Australia 6064 Phone: +61 8 9417 9600 Website: www.morgantechnicalceramics.com Launched in 2003 with the merger of Morgan Advanced Ceramics and Morgan Electro Ceramics, Morgan Technical Ceramics uses ceramics, glass, precious metals, and related materials to develop engineered solutions for clients in the electronics, energy, healthcare, industrial, petrochemical, security and defense, and transport industries. The scope of its ceramic production capabilities includes compaction pressing, ceramic injection molding, extrusion, isostatic pressing (dry and wet bag), green machining, laser cutting, diamond grinding, metalizing (refractory, thick film, and thin film), and laser marking. It also offers such testing and verification services as CMM (3D measurement), scanning, X-ray thickness, vacuum leak testing, pressure testing, mechanical strength testing, and thermal cycling. Palmer Technologies Pty. Ltd PO Box 513 New Farm, Queensland 4005 Phone: +61 7 3852 4448 Fax: +61 7 3852 4934 E-mail contact form: www.palmertechgroup.com/ contact.php Website: www.palmertechgroup.com Palmer is an engineering cosultancy headed by Greg Palmer, Ph.D., that specializes in improving the engineering and reliability of refractory concrete structures. Shinagawa Refractories Australasia Pty. Ltd. Head office: 23 Glastonbury Avenue Unanderra, New South Wales 2526 Phone: +61 2 4221 1700 Fax: +61 2 4221 1795 Kwinana plant: 1 Beard Street Naval Base, Kwinana, Western Australia 6165 Phone: +61 8 9410 8700 Fax: +61 8 9410 8799 E-mail: info@shinagawa.com.au Website: www.shinagawa.biz Shinagawa Refractories Australasia is the successor to Shinagawa Thermal Ceramics, the largest manufacturer and supplier of quality, cutting-edge refractory products and insulating materials in the region. The company markets refractory solutions for all heat-intensive industries in the region, including iron and steel, aluminum and alumina, mineral processing, nonferrous metals, petrochemicals, and power generation, among other sectors. It conducts tests and trials of new and improved materials at an in-house pilot plant, and its research and development activities are enhanced by access to technology from its parent company, Shinagawa Refractories of Japan, and technical exchange agreements with refractory manufacturers worldwide. Trelleborg Engineered Systems Australia 515 Zillmere Zillmere, Brisbane, Queensland 4034 Phone: +61 7 3866 7444 Fax: +61 7 3263 4912 25 Glassford Road, Kewdale Perth, Western Australia 6105 Phone: +61 8 9256 6000 Fax: +61 8 9353 5990 E-mail: tqr.info@trelleborg.com Website: www.trelleborg.com.au Trelleborg Engineered Systems offers engineered rubber products for offshore, infrastructure, construction, and marine industries. The company focuses on specialty engineered products, such as acoustic isolation systems, movement supports for structures, specialty water seals, and sheeting for industrial and mining applications. Trelleborg Engineered Systems is part of the worldwide Trelleborg Group, founded in 1905, that specializes in advanced polymers for high-performance industrial environments. Weir Minerals Australia Ltd. Level 3, 1 Collins Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Phone: +61 2 9934 5100 Fax: +61 2 9934 5201 E-mail: robb.clawson@weirminerals.com 1 Marden Street Artarmon, New South Wales 2064 Phone: +61 2 9934 5100 Fax: +61 2 9934 5201 E-mail: australiansales@weirminerals.com Website: www.weirminerals.com/weir_minerals_ australia.aspx Weir provides diverse slurry equipment solutions-including pumps, valves, hydrocyclones, and linings-for mining, transportation, milling, processing, and waste management applications. Weir Group operates about 200 manufacturing American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org 31 Credit: Trelleborg Ceramics in Australia: Raw and advanced materials drive Land Down Under\'s global reach come about through an evolution of other technologies that we actually have here at ANSTO, such as sol-gel processing and atomic layer deposition.\" Examples include perovskite ceramics and piezoelectric ceramics for sonar application. Looking ahead to the next five to ten years, ANSTO will Carolina Tallon is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Melbourne. Credit: U. of Melbourne continue to monitor trends and emerging technologies in the immobilization of nuclear waste, which it regards as an area of continuing market opportunities. “There\'s quite a bit of interest in countries that house nuclear energy programs,\" Vance says. “When the plans for those countries are more advanced, we\'d be seriously interested in engaging engineering companies to actually do the work. It\'s a bit odd, actually-in Australia we don\'t have even a low-level waste dump after all this time, and yet we\'ve been working with academics and the practicalities of nuclear waste for about 35 years.\" Another key driver of future business at ANSTO is expanded production of molybdenum-99, the base material for nuclear medicines used to diagnose cancer, heart disease, and muscular and skeletal conditions. \"At the same time, within the nuclear science and technology portfolio, we\'re also developing inorganic sorbent materials for our next-generation radioisotope medical generators that will be used in positron emission tomography imaging,” Triani says. \"Our outreach Directory of Australian ceramics industry, associations, and institutes and service facilities in more than 70 countries worldwide. Its Artarmon, New South Wales, location is the only fully integrated slurry pump facility in the world. UNIVERSITIES Australian Catholic University The university has campuses in Ballarat, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, North Sydney, and Strathfield. Contact details by campus: www.acu.edu.au/about_acu/ our_university/contact Website: www.acu.edu.au Australian National University Canberra, ACT 0200 Phone: +61 2 6125 5111 (general switchboard) Phone: +61 2 6125 0330 (business and government) E-mail: innovation@anu.edu.au Website: www.anu.edu.au Curtin University Australia Main Campus: Kent Street, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia 6102 Additional campuses: Curtin Sydney, Curtin Sarawak, Curtin Singapore Jane Coole, Director of External Relations Phone: +61 8 9266 1868 Fax: +61 8 9266 3175 E-mail: jane.coole@curtin.edu.au Website: www.curtin.edu.au Monash University Monash University has campuses in Berwick, Caulfield, Clayton, Parkville, and Peninsula. The university also operates a campus in Malaysia, a joint graduate school in China, a learning center in Italy, and a research center in India, and it offers courses at other locations, including Monash South Africa. Contact details by campus: www.monash.edu.au/ people/contact.html Website: www.monash.edu.au Swinburne University of Technology The university has campuses at Croydon, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Prahran, Wantirna, and Sarawak. Contact details by campus: www.swinburne.edu.au/ contacts-campuses/campuses/index.html Phone: +61 3 9214 8000 (main switchboard) Staff directory: www.swin.edu.au/directory Website: www.swinburne.edu.au Industrial Research Institute Swinburne (IRIS) Contact: Sally McArthur, director Phone: +61 3 9214 8452 E-mail: smcarthur@swin.edu.au Website: www.swinburne.edu.au/engineering/iris As a whole, Swinburne targets research in niche and developing markets and prides itself on its \"innovation and excellence in applied research.\" The university\'s \"research, development, and deployment activities\" are concentrated in the areas of future manufacturing, sustainable futures, digital frontiers, personal and societal well-being, and inspirational science and technology. Within that context, IRIS is the center for manufacturing research at the university and defines its core area of interest as surface science and interface engineering. Areas of inquiry encompass biointerface engineering and analysis, electron microscopy and characterization, laser and plasma deposition technologies, rapid prototyping and manufacturing, and robotics and noncontact inspection. The faculty includes ACers Fellow Christopher Berndt, who also is an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University in New York and whose research focus is thermal spray technologies. University of Melbourne The University has campuses at Burnley, Creswick, Dookie, Parkville, Shepparton, Southbank, and Werribee. Directory of contacts for commercial inquiries: www.commercial.unimelb.edu.au/contact-us Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department Phone: +61 3 8344 7441 Fax: +61 3 8344 4153 E-mail: eahod-chemeng@unimelb.edu.au Website: www.unimelb.edu.au The School of Engineering\'s Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department includes a Ceramics and Minerals Processing Group that works on the development of \"fundamental knowledge in suspension rheology, colloid and surface chemistry in order to improve processing of ceramics and minerals.\" Research interests encompass ceramics processing, minerals processing, and surfaces and modeling. University of Newcastle The University has campuses in Newcastle Callaghan, Newcastle City, Central Coast, Port Macquarie, Singapore, and Sydney. Contact details by campus: www.newcastle.edu.au/ contact Website: www.newcastle.edu.au University of New South Wales The University has campuses at Kensington, Paddington, and Canberra. Contact details by campus: www.unsw.edu.au/contacts Website: www.unsw.edu.au One of the leading research-intensive universities in the Asia-Pacific region, the University of New South Wales is \"investing considerable resources in particular areas where we feel we can make a difference\" and \"identifying emerging problems and opportunities, and moving to meet the challenge.\" Faculty and researchers work in collaboration with external partners from industry, government, and other organizations to fulfill this mission. Among the university\'s areas of research strengths are biomedical sciences; water, environment, and sustainability; next-generation materials and technologies; and ICT, robotics, and devices. Within that frame of reference, research focuses on such areas as nanomaterials, silicon solar cells, superconductors, and building materials. ASSOCIATIONS AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES Australian Ceramic Society Website: www.austceram.com The Australian Ceramic Society is dedicated to \"furthering all aspects of ceramics in science, industry, research, trade, and art.\" Its Federal Council includes representatives from New South Wales, Victoria, and Western Australia, each of which \"operates autonomously with its own committee.\" 32 www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 projects within the Institute of Materials Engineering also see our researchers working closely with several firms. In one such case, we are working with a U.S.-based SME to develop semiconducting materials for low-cost flexible solar cells.\" So, although half the planet separates the Australian and U.S. markets geographically, there\'s a world of opportunity available to U.S. companies that are willing to go the distance to collaborate on ceramic innovations and advances. References \'Iluka, \"Mineral sands industry fact book,\" February 2014. 2Geoscience Australia, \"Australian atlas of minerals resources, mines, & processing centres,\" http://www.australianminesatlas.gov.au/aimr/ commodity/rare_earths.html#Industry_Developments. 3ANSTO, \"Rare-earth processing,” http://www.ansto.gov.au/ Business Services/ANSTOMinerals/Capabilities/RareEarthProcessing. Monash University has several campuses in Australia, including locations in Berwick, Caulfield, Clayton, Parkville, and Peninsula, and around the world. In keeping with the Australian industry\'s strong ties to Japan, the organization cosponsors, along with the Ceramic Society of Japan, an annual Joint Ceramic Award designed to promote bilateral cooperation in the sector. The award covers modest travel and living expenses that allow an annual exchange of one \"distinguished ceramicist\" from each country to visit the other to complete a short-term research project. The Society publishes its Journal of the Australian Ceramic Society twice a year, and the organization publishes abstracts and complete papers online at www.austceram. com/journal.htm. Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation New Illawarra Road Lucas Heights, New South Wales 2234 Contact: Gillian Blackburn, Research Management Officer Phone: +61 2 9717 3111 E-mail: gillian.blackburn@ansto.gov.au or gib@ansto.gov.au Website: www.ansto.gov.au ANSTO is a public research agency that operates under the aegis of the Commonwealth Ministry for Industry. In the area of nuclear safeguards, the organization is committed to \"helping train personnel from Pacific Basin countries to manage nuclear materials safely and securely\" and \"ensuring that countries not experienced in handling nuclear materials keep to international standards and best practice.\" The scope of its work encompasses a wide variety of disciplines and areas of concern, including: • Advising the Australian government on global nuclear issues; •Providing 85% of nuclear medicines used in Australian hospitals; • Using nuclear tools to detect past climate change; • Neutron scattering, which \"allows scientists to see what X-rays cannot;\" • Manufacture and supply of radiopharmaceuticals; and • Delivering services in mining, silicon irradiation, and radiation safety training. Many of ANSTO\'s research publications are available online at www.ansto.gov.au/Resources/Publications/index.htm. The agency also maintains an online glossary of nuclear terminology at www.ansto.gov.au/NuclearFacts/ Glossary Of NuclearTerms/index.htm. ANSTO Institute of Materials Engineering Website: www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/IME ANSTO\'s Institute for Materials Engineering develops, manufactures, characterizes, and models materials in support of the advanced nuclear fuel cycle and next-generation power systems. Recognized worldwide for its expertise in nuclear waste immobilization, radioactive waste management, and associated technologies, it is the home of ANSTO\'s synroc waste form technology, which the U.S. and U.K. are exploring as a solution to their radioactive waste immobilization needs. Australian Tile Council Website: www.australiantilecouncil.com.au National office and officer contact details: www.australiantilecouncil.com.au/contact-us State websites, including contact details for member companies: Australian Capital Territory: www.australiantilecouncil. com.au/act New South Wales: www.atcnsw.com.au Queensland: www.tilecouncilqld.com.au South Australia/Northern Territory: www.sa-tile.on.net Tasmania: www.tilecouncilvic.com.au Victoria: www.tilecouncilvic.com.au Western Australia: www.australiantilecouncil.com.au/ downloads/WA-Membership.pdf Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Australia CSIRO Enquiries Locked Bag 10 Clayton South, Victoria 3169 Phone: +61 3 9545 2176 Fax: +61 3 9545 2175 Directory of international locations and contacts: www.csiro.au/Portals/Contact/Locations.aspx Website: www.csiro.au CSIRO is Australia\'s national science agency. It was created by the Australian government with passage of the Science and Industry Research Act of 1949 to conduct scientific research that could be used to assist Australian industry. The law also gave the agency responsibility for \"contributing to the achievement of Australian national objectives or the performance of the national and international responsibilities of the Commonwealth\" and acting \"as a means of liaison between Australia and other countries in matters connected with scientific research.\" Today, CSIRO describes its vision as using its science \"to make a profound and positive impact for the future of Australia and humanity.\" To that end, sustainability figures prominently in its current areas of focus under the manufacturing and materials research umbrella. One of the world\'s largest and most diverse scientific institutions, CSIRO employs 6,400 people at 56 sites throughout the world. Among these facilities are 33 research facilities, including three major National Research Facilities. Headquartered in Canberra, it maintains a laboratory in France and has staff in Ireland, the Netherlands, and the U.S. CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering Website: www.csiro.au/Organisation-Structure/Divisions/ CMSE.aspx Research at CSIRO\'s Materials Science and Engineering Division spans a variety of projects related to ceramics, including: • Nanostructured electronic materials: The agency is conducting research into \"the development of scalable synthetic protocols for a wide variety of metal and semiconductor nanocrystals.\" • Surfaces and nanosciences: \"We use our capability in controlling molecular function, structure, and surfaces at the micro- and nano-scale to understand, model, and develop new materials, such as membranes, coatings, sensors, and hierarchical structures,\" the agency notes. • Fiber science: In 2010, the Australian government approved a $37 million allocation for the launch of the Australian Future Fibres Research and Innovation Centre (AFFRIC). Two years later, a CSIRO team was assigned to the project, which is focused on research and development of nanofibers, smart fibrous materials, green natural fibers, and carbon fiber. American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org 33 33 NSF\'S CAREER competition and the Ceramics Class of 2014 By Lynnette D. Madsen Probe-corrected FEI Titan 60-300 kV S/TEM at North Carolina State University. Two assistant professors outline their technical and personal goals for their research. Credit: NCSU ntroducing the new class of National Science Foundation CAREER awards provides an opportunity to shine light on the CAREER program and its role in developing young faculty to become excellent teachers, scholars, and leaders in their fields of research. This annual article introduces these emerging leaders and presents the relevance of their research to the ceramic and glass community. Previous article highlights include • 2009: Historical perspective and overview of the CAREER program;¹ • 2010: CAREER Workshop Series has experts provide feedback to CAREER awardees on their progress;2 • 2011: Career-Life Balance initiative at NSF;³ • 2012: Statistical and geographic details about CAREER awardees in the Ceramics Program; 4 and • 2013: Supplements to grants.5 This year\'s article highlights personal perspectives from the newest awardees and provides some “food-for-thought\" for new assistant professors. 2014 awardees The NSF Ceramics Program made two CAREER awards in 2014-to principal investigators Corinne Packard at Colorado School of Mines and James LeBeau at North Carolina State University. The Ceramics Program also cofunded one award to Roman Engel-Herbert at Pennsylvania State University (\"Tuning electronic phases in layered complex oxides\"), managed by the Electronic and Photonic Materials Program. 34 www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 Corinne Packard Controlling phase transformation kinetics in metastable materials CAREER: Controlling pressureinduced transformation in rare-earth orthophosphates (Award Number: 1352499; Packard) Cracks-sudden and slow-growing ones-in high-temperature ceramic components, such as combustors, nozzles, and thermal insulation in aircraft engines, turbines, and rockets, can lead to catastrophic failure. Some ceramics undergo a change in their shape and volume owing to a new crystal structure when they are deformed, which can be harnessed to impart increased toughness in a material by absorbing energy caused by an impact or propagating crack. This project investigates the influence of chemistry, grain size, temperature, and stress state on pressureinduced phase transformation kinetics in rare-earth orthophosphate ceramics (REPO4 crystal structure). Phase transformations in these materials are examined using a range of techniques that include high-temperature nanoindentation, transmission electron microscopy, and diamond anvil cell (combined with Raman spectroscopy). This work addresses a grand challenge of the field to understand the factors controlling phase transformation kinetics that can lead directly to new ways to process metastable materials with enhanced Credit: Colorado School of Mines functionality. One goal is to enable precise control over the trigger for plasticity transformation in coatings for improved ceramic-matrix composites (CMCs). The influence of kinetic effects on the transformation onset pressure and degree of reversibility are being identified. Insights gained through this research are aiding the science-based design of ceramic composites, components, and devices in which pressure-induced transformation must be triggered with precise timing for maximal effect. This project will help strengthen United States innovation and economic competitiveness in the area of turbine engines and in education. Educationwise, undergraduate and graduate students are being trained and mentored in materials science and engineering. This project also is developing science learning modules for local elementary school teachers from minority-rich school districts and the Rocky Mountain Camp for the Dyslexic. These complementary education and outreach components broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in science and engineering in an effort to meet the national need for expanding the highly qualified science and technology workforce. Understanding interface charge compensation in electroceramics CAREER: Understanding polar surfaces and interfaces using ultrahigh-resolution electron microscopy and spectroscopy (Award Number: 1350273; LeBeau) This integrated research and education effort stands to advance the understanding of material interfaces essential to enable next-generation electronics. This CAREER award addresses the fundamental nature of structural and electronic reconstructions at the interface between distinctly different polar materials and their surfaces. In particular, rock salt oxides are combined with wurtzite nitrides to examine the charge compensation mechanisms at heterogeneous polar interfaces. at the interface is being studied with state-of-the-art electron microscopy tools. The results guide and validate modeling from ab-initio calculations that lead to transformational understanding of unique behaviors. Moreover, in-situ electron microscopy is used to study the stability and structure of rock salt oxides to provide critical input relevant to growth, integration, and control of this class of materials. Simultaneously, electron microscopy capabilities are being developed to fully extract the detailed atomic or electronic structure and chemistry at polar interfaces. This project will increase U.S. innovation and economic competitiveness in electroceramics and through advances in characterization techniques. The project couples to several targeted educational programs. Undergraduate students contribute directly to the project by building computer programs that facilitate new approaches to microscopy education. Moreover, because traditional approaches to recruit new students into science have been met with mixed success, the centerpiece of the educational outreach program is to stimulate interest in science through a combination of microscopy with visual arts. Working with local museums and schools and the NSF Nanoscale Informational Science Education network, the program has initiated an exhibit that communicates advanced electron microscopy and mateThe influence of strain and defects on the electronic and atomic structures James LeBeau American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org 35 Credit: NCSU NSF\'S CAREER competition and the Ceramics Class of 2014 Packard makes an adjustment to the laboratory nanoindenter. rials science research through the universal medium of art, highlighting the inherent beauty of atomic structure symmetries. Q&A Assuming your research is wildly successful across the five years of your CAREER award, what could be its single biggest impact in terms of science or engineering? Packard: The key scientific breakthrough I expect is to gain control over the phase transformation in REPO4 materials. This knowledge would allow the design of composites that will trigger performance-enhancing transformation at precisely the right time and under the correct conditions to avoid catastrophic failure of CMCs. This breakthrough would provide insight into how transformations can be controlled through manipulation of chemistry, structure, and stress state and may improve nanocrystalline ceramic processing, phase change memory, and toughened ceramic composites. LeBeau: The single biggest breakthrough may be in the discovery of new interface phenomena. For example, superconductivity has been discovered at the interface between two otherwise insulating oxides. New opportunities are just on the horizon for oxide-nitride interfaces now that serious growth challenges have been overcome. Through understanding provided by atomic resolution electron micros36 copy, oxide-nitride polar interfaces could significantly accelerate future electronic device development. What do you see as the impact of your work for industry? Packard: Trainees will gain expertise in ceramic synthesis, mechanical testing, and in-situ electro/optical characterization, which will prepare them for careers in R&D laboratories in aerospace, nuclear and renewable energy, and automobile industries. Through my outreach involvement, I also expect a trickle-down effect to increase the supply of trained scientists and engineers by encouraging local middle school students to pursue careers in STEM fields through my laboratory\'s involvement in a teacher training program and the Rocky Mountain Camp for Dyslexic Children. LeBeau: Electron microscopy skills enable students to conduct research in almost any area of materials science, because the technique is broadly applicable and essential to understand atomic-scale phenomena. Relatively few graduates have had the opportunity to conduct atomic and electronic structural studies with aberration-corrected electron microscopy, and thus the students of this project will be strongly sought after for their expertise. Apart from the science or engineering, what aspect of your CAREER award do you envision having the largest broader effect and why? Packard: Involvement in the Rocky Mountain Camp for Dyslexic Children provides the greatest opportunity for transformative impact. Children with dyslexia often struggle with writing and reading and thus perform poorly in school, but their propensity for hands-on problem solving and 3D spatial reasoning is extremely valuable for science and engineering problems. Early intervention and exposure to science and engineering can set these children up to succeed. My group will design experiments and science modules for the camp that focus on understanding scientific concepts and the scientific method through tactile activities and group work. LeBeau: In addition to graduating the next generation of electron microscopists, my CAREER award is tightly coupled to a unique and engaging educational outreach project using atomic resolution microscopy as art. Working with the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, the project will install an exhibit of atomic resolution art that will focus on the work conducted as part of the award. By presenting the inherent beauty of atomic structure, the project aims to capture the attention of a general audience that may otherwise overlook the science, while still communicating importance advances in our ability to characterize and understand materials. How do you expect this award to affect your career? Packard: This award is unique in that it will allow me to focus on a fundamental scientific problem over a longer period than a typical grant. The time scale will allow me to fully investigate the intricacies and anomalies that we might discover to gain a deep, thorough understanding that will propel future research directions and applied research. When I found out that I\'d be receiving the CAREER award, it took a few days to absorb the news-but it has profoundly impacted the way I think about pursuing projects. I now focus on identifying scientific problems I want to solve and that will have lasting value for the scientific community and industry, rather than chasing funding opportunities where I might propose a few experiments that have limited promise as longterm research directions. LeBeau: Receiving this award is a tremendous step toward establishing the foundation for my academic career. The duration of the award will enable my group to focus on an important, rapidly advancing field of materials science and to develop new expertise that will last a lifetime. The graduates from this program will go on to make impacts across materials science with the skills they learn. Further, the award\'s broader impacts will enable my program to www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 remain well-rounded and enable new opportunities to reach out to those outside the academic sphere. Overall, my future successes will in large part be the direct result of the CAREER award. Do you plan on any requesting supplemental support? If yes, can you share one idea? Packard: I applied for and received a Career Life Balance supplement to my award. This relatively new program is an amazing opportunity to support early career scientists in maintaining research productivity when life circumstances and career responsibilities collide. This supplement will provide advanced training to my personnel, who will accelerate project progress in award\'s first year and set me up for continued success through the remainder of the award. my LeBeau: Yes, I plan on applying to the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate-Graduate Research Supplements (AGEP-GRS) program. This supplemental support provides the distinct advantage to expand my research program to further broaden participation of underrepresented minorities in science. Paired with the atomic resolution microscopy as art initiative, the CAREER program will significantly help attract a wide cross section of students that may have otherwise overlooked (materials) science. What advice do you have for future applicants of the CAREER program? Packard: I have two top pieces of advice for future applicants. First, contact potential program directors about your proposed research as soon as you identify the basics of your investigation. You may have a different understanding of the content of a particular program\'s research portfolio than the program director does! I\'ve found NSF program directors to be quick, responsive, and direct about the fitness of proposed research. An email with a proposal summary or a short phone call can save you months of time compared with developing a proposal that can\'t find a home. Second, play it smart, but don\'t play it safe. You must be able to justify your hypotheses, but definitely propose work that goes far beyond what you know will work. Reviewers want to see you utilize your existing strengths, but stretch your capabilities to develop skills that will further develop your career. LeBeau: My main advice would be More advice on writing a CAREER proposal Most program directors at NSF agree with LeBeau\'s advice-spend at least a few months or a semester on campus before writing your first CAREER proposal. It is difficult to write the broader impacts without on-campus experience. At present, NSF rules allow principal investigators to apply only three times—every attempt should be a solid one. Other factors that might influence the timing of your CAREER proposal include the number of times you have applied before, how many years you have left to apply (before being promoted to associate professor), whether you can put together a proposal that is different from your currently funded (or soon to be funded) research, whether your laboratory is set up for independent research, and whether you have the time to write a great proposal (are there other priorities, in terms of publishing, teaching a new course, family, etc., competing for your time?). If f you have federal funding, also consider whether you can show publication progress from current or past awards. It is a good idea to find the right program at the start by contacting NSF well in advance of your first submission. In that regard, it is better to contact a few program directors at once, rather than sending separate inquiries. NSF staff then can more easily work together to provide you with the best response. If you do not succeed with your first proposal, contact the program director if you need advice for your revision. It likely is best to stick with the same program for your next submission if your topic remains the same. (If you have doubt about the program, check with the program director who handled your first submission.) Packard makes a good point about being unadventurous-ensure you convey the transformative aspects of your ideas. Keep in mind that there are many and varied opinions about what to write and when. One size does not fit all-ultimately it is a personal decision about your career. to not write a CAREER proposal your first year-instead, develop your ideas and fully flesh them out. Along these lines, it is important to always remember that this award is a combination of science and broader impact, where both must be balanced in the proposal. It also is important to seek advice from colleagues and program directors early on (months before submission, not weeks), while you can still integrate their feedback into the proposal. About the author Lynnette D. Madsen has been the program director, Ceramics, at NSF since 2000. Contact: Imadsen@nsf.gov. Disclaimer Any opinion, finding, recommendations, or conclusions expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF. Acknowledgements I am grateful to C. Packard and J. LeBeau for their input. I also would like to thank Z. Charles Ying at NSF for his comments. References \"L.D. Madsen, “NSF recognizes three assistant professors with 2009 CAREER Awards in Ceramics,\" Am. Ceram. Soc. Bull., 88 [3] 30-33 (2009). 2L.D. Madsen, \"An update on the National Science Foundation Ceramic CAREER Awards: Class of 2010,\" Am. Ceram. Soc. Bull., 91 [6] 22-23 (2012) 3L.D. Madsen, \"Class of 2011 National Science Foundation CAREER Awards in Ceramics,\" Am. Ceram. Soc. Bull., 91 [8] 27-29 (2012). 4L.D. Madsen, \"Where are the Ceramic CAREER Awards: Class of 2012?,\" Am. Ceram. Soc. Bull., 92 [1] 30-31 (2013). 5L.D. Madsen, \"NSF\'s CAREER Program: New opportunities and the ceramics class of 2013,\" Am. Ceram. Soc. Bull., 92 [8] 34-37 (2013). American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org 37 join us for the ACerS 116th annual meeting! David L. 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Moynihan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA (Distinguished lecturer) - Jared Seaman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA - Cooper Scholar winner: Nicole T. Johnson, Coe College, USA Women in Materials Science and Engineering Reception 5:30-6:30 p.m. | CC-Allegheny Overlook Enjoy the chance to Network with professionals and peers in a relaxed environment. ACers 116th Annual Honors and Awards Banquet 7:30 10 p.m. | WE- Allegheny 2-3 Enjoy dinner, conversation, and the presentation of Society awards. Purchase tickets in advance for $90 via the conference registration form. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14 MS&T14 Exhibit Happy Hour Reception | 4-6 p.m. | CC-Hall A Network with colleagues and build relationships with knowledgable attendees, buyers, and prospects! MS&T Young Professionals Reception | 4:30-6 p.m. | CC-308 Attend this reception to meet and network with fellow young professionals. www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 plenary session Monday, October 13, 8 - 10 a.m. Drivers for Advanced Manufacturing: Energy, Sustainability, and Economics Bréchet Yves Bréchet, Professor, Grenoble-INP, France Materials Issues in Energy Future: Emerging Architectured Materials Energy issues are in essence systemic issues. One cannot address any of them without considering their impact on the whole energy cycle: energy production, energy transportation, energy storage, and energy in use management all contribute in an essential manner to the choice of an energy mix. A first step to address these questions is to set properly the boundary conditions for an energy mix. Driven by efficiency, safety, and durability, design of products involved in the energy circle requires materials with new properties, sometimes contradictory with each other. This amounts to \"filling gaps in materials space.\" A classical approach is to play on compositions and/or microstructure. A possible alternative strategy for these materials choice relies in an appropriate combination of materials and geometries at scales that are comparable to the scale of the component. These are called \"architectured materials.\" This new variety of materials can play an important role in production, transport, storage, and better use of materials. They present new challenges in multiphysical multiscale modeling as well as challenges for manufacturing processes compatible between different materials classes. Examples of such challenges will be found in production of energy, in energy transportation, in energy storage, and in energy savings. King Alex King, Director, Critical Materials Institute, Ames Laboratory Critical Materials In 2010, the prices of neodymium, dysprosium, and several other rare-earth elements ballooned to levels never seen before, and the attention of the world was drawn to the issue of critical materials-substances for which there are fragile supply chains and no easy substitutes. We will review the underlying causes of materials criticality, describe the impact on manufacturing and innovation, assess the current state of play, and discuss the strategies that can be used to mitigate supply chain problems. Taub Alan Taub, Chief technical officer, American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (ALMMII); Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan Advanced Manufacturing of Lightweight Materials for Transportation Applications: Technology Challenges and Opportunities Today\'s land, sea, and air transportation industries—as a business necessity—are focused on technology solutions that will make vehicles more sustainable in terms of energy, the environment, safety, and affordability. Reducing vehicle weight is a key enabler for meeting these challenges as well as increasing payload and improving performance. The potential weight reductions from high-strength steels, aluminum, titanium and magnesium alloys, and polymer composites are well established. The challenge is to optimize the material properties and develop robust, high-volume, manufacturing technologies and the associated supply chain to fabricate components and subsystems at low cost. The American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (ALMMII) was established as a public-private partnership to accelerate the adoption of these materials. ALMMII will take advantage of opportunities to drive synergies across the various industries serving commercial and defense transportation needs. The goal is to enable commercialization of lightweight subsystems by early integration of the full supply chain, employing systems engineering principles and the latest ICME tools. Advanced manufacturing processes will be developed through projects executed by our industry partners in collaboration with an extensive network of universities and the national and federal laboratories. hotel Reserve your room online at matscitech.org. Westin Convention Center Hotel - ACerS HQ Hotel Omni William Penn Hotel - ASM HQ Hotel Marriott Pittsburgh City Center Hotel - AIST & TMS HQ Hotel Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel Doubletree Hotel & Suites by Hilton Pittsburgh Hampton Inn & Suites Pittsburgh Downtown Organizers: The American Ceramic Society www.ceramics.org AIST ASSOCIATION FOR IRON & STEEL TECHNOLOGY American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org ASM TMS INTERNATIONAL The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society Cosponsor: Q NACE INTERNATIONAL THE CORROSION SOCIETY 39 MS&T14 Materials Science & Technology 2014 October 12-16, 2014 MS&T Activities Friday, Oct. 10 COMMITTEE MEETINGS Legend: CC David L. Lawrence Convention Center OF = Offsite WE = Westin Convention Center ACers activities are highlighted in red. Information subject to change. Time Location Sunday, Oct. 12 (continued) Time Location COMMITTEE MEETINGS ACers Executive Committee Meeting Noon - 5 p.m. WE-Executive Boardroom ACerS President\'s Council of Student Advisors 8-9 a.m. Business Meeting WE-Allegheny 2 Saturday, Oct. 11 ACerS Keramos Convocation and Business Meeting 9-11 a.m. WE-Westmoreland EDUCATIONAL COURSES Fundamentals of Glass Science and Technology Short Course 9 a.m. 4:30 p.m. WE-Washington ACerS Board, Division, and Section Leaders Meeting 9 a.m. - Noon WE-Pennsylvania West ACerS Keramos Career Speaker COMMITTEE MEETINGS ACerS Keramos Board, Student Representative, Noon - 1 p.m. and Chapter Advisors Meeting WE-Westmoreland OF-Restaurant 11 - Noon CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES Registration 2-7 p.m. CC-2nd Floor Concourse ACerS President\'s Council of Student 8 a.m. 6:30 p.m. Advisors Business Meeting ACerS Board of Directors Meeting 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. WE-Westmoreland East & Central WE-Fayette ACerS Publications Committee Meeting 12:30-3 p.m. ACerS Electronics Division Executive Committee Meeting 1-4 p.m. WE-Somerset WE-Fayette ACerS Board of Directors/President\'s Council Noon - 1:30 p.m. of Student Advisors Luncheon Sunday, Oct. 12 WE-Cambria ACerS Glass and Optical Materials Division Pro- 2 - 4:30 p.m. gramming and Executive Committee Meeting WE-Butler East ACerS Basic Science Division Executive Committee Meeting 2:30-4:30 p.m. WE-Crawford West ACerS Nuclear and Environmental Technology 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Division Executive Committee Meeting WE-Crawford East 3-4:30 p.m. WE-Pennsylvania East Programming Support Desk 2- 5:30 p.m. Society Member Lounges 2-7 p.m. CC-SOP Ballroom B Foyer CC-2nd Floor Concourse ACerS Engineering Ceramics Division Executive Committee Meeting ACers Basic Science Division Ceramographic 9- 10:30 a.m. Exhibit and Competition Set up CC-3rd Floor Gallery ACerS Basic Science Division Ceramographic 2-7 p.m. Exhibit and Competition Welcome Reception 6 - 7:30 p.m. CC-3rd Floor Gallery CC-2nd Floor Concourse Monday, Oct. 13 CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES Registration Programming Support Desk Authors\' Coffee Society Member Lounges EDUCATIONAL COURSES 7 a.m.-6 p.m. 7 a.m.-5:30 p.m. 7-8 a.m. 7 a.m. - 5 p.m. BC CC-2nd Floor Concourse CC-2nd Floor Concourse CC-SOP Ballroom B Foyer CC-SOP Ballroom Understanding Why Ceramics Fail and Designing for Safety 8 a.m. 4:30 p.m. WE-Cambria East ACers Basic Science Division Ceramographic 7 a.m. - 6 p.m. Exhibit and Competition CC-3rd Floor Gallery Fundamentals of Glass Science and Technology 9 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. LECTURES WE-Washington LECTURES ACers Frontiers of Science and Society — Rustum Roy Lecture 5-6 p.m. CC-406 MS&T Opening Plenary 8-10 a.m. MATERIAL ADVANTAGE STUDENT FUNCTIONS Chapter Leadership Workshop 10 a.m. - Noon WE-Allegheny 2 ACers Richard M. Fulrath Award Session ACerS Alfred R. Cooper Award Session 2-4:40 p.m. CC-SOP Ballroom BC CC-303 2-5 p.m. CC-302 (Material Advantage Chapters Only) Undergraduate Student Speaking Contest Semifinal 1 1-3 p.m. WE-Allegheny 3 MATERIAL ADVANTAGE STUDENT FUNCTIONS Undergraduate Student Poster Contest Display 7 a.m. - 6 p.m. Undergraduate Student Speaking Contest Semifinal 2 1-3 p.m. WE-Allegheny 1 ACers Student Tour CC-3rd Floor Gallery Noon-5 p.m. CC-1st Floor East Lobby Undergraduate Student Speaking Contest Finals 4-5 p.m. WE-Allegheny 3 SOCIAL FUNCTIONS Frank Lloyd Wright\'s Fallingwater Guest Tour 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Undergraduate Student Poster Contest Display 6-7 p.m. Student Networking Mixer CC-3rd Floor Gallery WE-Allegheny 1&2 CC-1st Floor East Lobby MS&T Women in Materials Science Reception 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. 7-9 p.m. CC-Allegheny Overlook COMMITTEE MEETINGS ACerS Keramos National Board and Business 7-9 a.m. Meeting WE-Penn City Grill ACerS Annual Honor and Awards Banquet Reception 6:45-7:30 p.m. WE-Allegheny Foyer ACerS Annual Honor and Awards Banquet 7:30-10 p.m. WE-Allegheny 2-3 ACerS Keramos Student Chapter Business Meeting 8-9 a.m. WE-Westmoreland 40 40 www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 Monday, Oct. 13 (continued) matscitech.org Tuesday, Oct. 14 (continued) SOCIAL FUNCTIONS Time Location Time Location ALUMNI EVENTS Case Western Reserve University Alumni Reception 6-9 p.m. CC-308 ACers Companion Breakfast 8-10 a.m. WE-Butler West Andy Warhol Museum and City Guest Tour 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. CC-1st Floor Lobby East Purdue Materials Engineering Alumni and Friends Reception 6:30-8 p.m. OF-Tonic MS&T Young Professionals Reception 4:30-6 p.m. CC-308 MTU MSE/Alpha Sigma Mu Reception 6:30-8 p.m. CC-309 ALUMNI EVENTS Lehigh University Alumni Reception and Dinner 6:30-9 p.m. OF Pennsylvania State University Alumni Event Alfred University Alumni Event RPI Alumni Social 6-7 p.m. CC-304 6:15 - 7:30 p.m. CC-311 7-9 p.m. CC-309 ANNUAL MEETING ACerS 116th Annual Membership Meeting 1-2 p.m. CC-309 COMMITTEE MEETINGS COMMITTEE MEETINGS BSD General Business Meeting Noon-1 p.m. CC-306 ECD General Business Meeting Noon-1 p.m. CC-307 ED General Business Meeting Noon-1 p.m. CC-305 Material Advantage Committee Meeting ACers Past Presidents Council Meeting ACers Panel of Fellows Meeting ACers Books Subcommittee Meeting 8-9 a.m. CC-337 9-11 a.m. WE-Butler East 3-5 p.m. CC-337 3:30-4:30 p.m. CC-322 EIC Business Meeting Meetings Committee Meeting NICE Business Meeting GOMD General Business Meeting NETD General Business Meeting Tuesday, Oct. 14 2-4 p.m. CC-332 3- 4:30 p.m. CC-337 Wednesday, Oct. 15 4 - 5:30 p.m. CC-332 5:30-6:30 p.m. CC-321 CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES Registration 7 a.m. - 5 p.m. 5:45-6:30 p.m. CC-315 Programming Support Desk 7 a.m. 5:30 p.m. Authors\' Coffee 7-8 a.m. CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES Registration 7 a.m.6 p.m. CC-2nd Floor Concourse Society Member Lounges 7 a.m. - 5 p.m. Programming Support Desk 7 a.m. 5:30 p.m. CC-SOP Ballroom B Foyer ACerS Basic Science Division Ceramographic 7 a.m. - 5 p.m. Exhibit and Competition CC-2nd Floor Concourse CC-SOP Ballroom B Foyer CC-SOP Ballroom BC CC-2nd Floor Concourse CC-3rd Floor Gallery Authors\' Coffee 7-8 a.m. CC-SOP Ballroom BC General Poster Session with Presenters 11 a.m. 1 p.m. CC-Hall A Society Member Lounges 7 a.m. - 6 p.m. ACerS Basic Science Division Ceramographic 7 a.m. - 6 p.m. Exhibit and Competition General Poster Session Installation 11 a.m. 2 p.m. General Poster Viewing 2-6 p.m. CC-2nd Floor Concourse CC-3rd Floor Gallery CC-Hall A CC-Hall A EXHIBITION Exhibitors\' Meeting ASM Materials Camp General Poster Session 8-9 a.m. 9-11 a.m. 9-11 a.m. CC-Hall A CC-Booth 130 CC-Hall A Exhibition Show Hours 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. MS&T Food Court EXHIBITION ASM Materials Camp Noon-2 p.m. Noon - 2 p.m. CC-Hall A CC-Hall A CC-Booth 130 ASM Materials Camp 9-11 a.m. CC-Booth 130 Exhibition Show Hours 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Football Feature 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. CC-Hall A CC-Booth 256 LECTURES ACerS Basic Science Division Robert B. Sosman Lecture 1-2 p.m. CC-316 Professional Recruitment and Career Pavilion 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. MS&T Food Court Noon - 2 p.m. ASM Materials Camp Happy Hour Reception CC-Booth 218 CC-Hall A 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. CC-Booth 130 4-6 p.m. MATERIAL ADVANTAGE STUDENT FUNCTIONS Undergraduate Student Poster Contest Display 7 a.m. - 1 p.m. COMMITTEE MEETINGS CC-3rd Floor Gallery CC-Hall A LECTURES ACerS/NICE Arthur L. Friedberg Ceramic Engineering Tutorial and Lecture 9-10 a.m. CC-303 ACers Edward Orton Jr. Memorial Lecture 1-2 p.m. CC-407 ACers Strategic Planning for Emerging Opportunities Committee Meeting Acers Nominating Committee Meeting ACerS Art, Archaeology & Conservation Science General Business Meeting 7-9 a.m. WE-Fayette 9-10 a.m. Noon-1 p.m. WE-Cambria East CC-338 MATERIAL ADVANTAGE STUDENT FUNCTIONS Undergraduate Student Poster Contest Display Mug Drop Contest Disc Golf Contest Student Awards Ceremony 7 a.m. - 6 p.m. 11:15 a.m. 12:15 p.m. CC-Hall A 12:30-1:30 p.m. CC-Hall A 2-3 p.m. CC-3rd Floor Gallery Thursday, Oct. 16 CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES Registration 7 a.m. - Noon CC-Hall A Programming Support Desk 7 a.m. - Noon Authors\' Coffee 7-8 a.m. BC CC-2nd Floor Concourse CC-SOP Ballroom B Foyer CC-SOP Ballroom American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org 41 MS&T14Ⓡ Materials Science & Technology 2014 October 12-16, 2014 program-at-a-glance Tentative schedule, subject to change BIOMATERIALS Bioinspired Materials Engineering Corrosion of Biomaterials Nanomechanics of Biomaterials Next-Generation Biomaterials Surface Properties of Biomaterials V CERAMIC AND GLASS MATERIALS Amorphous Materials: Common Issues within Science and Technology Ceramic-Matrix Composites Computational Design of Ceramic Materials Glass and Optical Materials Innovative Processing and Synthesis of Ceramics, Glasses, and Composites Multifunctional Oxides Phase Transformations in Ceramics: The Present and the Future ELECTRONIC, OPTICAL, AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS Advanced Spintronic Materials Advances in Dielectric Materials and Electronic Devices Dielectric, Magnetic, and Semiconductor Materials for Harsh Environments Pb-Free Solders and Advanced Interconnecting Materials Semiconductor Heterostructures: Theory, Growth, Characterization, and Device Applications ENERGY Energy Storage IV: Materials, Systems, and Applications Symposium Materials Development for Nuclear Applications and Extreme Environments Materials Issues in Nuclear Waste Management in the 21st Century FUNDAMENTALS AND CHARACTERIZATION Boron, Boron Compounds, and Boron Nanomaterials: Structure, Properties, Processing, and Applications Failure Analysis and Prevention Fluctuations and Collective Phenomena in Materials Deformation Interfaces, Grain Boundaries, and Surfaces from Atomistic and Macroscopic Approaches: Fundamental and Engineering Issues International Symposium on Defects, Transport, and Related Phenomena Mechanical Behavior of Technological Coatings and Thin Films Multiscale Modeling of Microstructure Deformation in Material Processing Phase Stability, Diffusion Kinetics, and Their Applications (PSDK-IX) Recent Advances in Electron Microscopy, Spectral Imaging, and Surface Analysis Techniques for Materials Characterization Mon Mon Tue Tue Wed Wed a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. a.m. Thu p.m. a.m. • . • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • : • • • • • • • Role of Solidification Technology for Multifunctional Materials GREEN MANUFACTURING AND SUSTAINABILITY Green Technologies for Materials Manufacturing and Processing VI • • Materials and Processes for CO₂ Capture, Conversion, and Sequestration • IRON AND STEEL (FERROUS ALLOYS) Advanced Steel Metallurgy: Products and Processing Ferrous Metallurgy: From Past to Present Fifth Symposium on Railroad Tank Cars Structural Characteristics for High-Toughness Steels Vanadium Microalloyed Steels: A Symposium in Memory of Michael Korchynsky 42 www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 matscitech.org program-at-a-glance MATERIALS-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS Advanced Materials for Harsh Environments Corrosion Monitoring and Control Corrosion Testing and Modeling Degradation of Nonmetallic Materials Environmentally Assisted Cracking: Nuclear High-Temperature Corrosion Thermal Protection Materials and Systems Third Symposium on Surface Hardening of Corrosion-Resistant Alloys NANOMATERIALS Commercial Production and Applications of Nanomaterials: ECAP and Fullerenes Controlled Synthesis, Processing, and Applications of Structural and Functional Nanomaterials Nanotechnology for Energy, Environment, Electronics, and Industry PROCESSING AND PRODUCT MANUFACTURING Advanced Aluminum Alloys, Composites, and Process Technologies Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Advanced Solution and Colloidal Processing for Ceramics Advances in Metal-Casting Technologies Mon Mon Tue Tue a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. a.m. Wed Wed Thu p.m. a.m. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Advances in Titanium Manufacturing: Powder Processing, Powder Metallurgy, • • • and Additive/Emerging Manufacturing Techniques Fatigue of Materials III Friction Stir Processing Joining of Advanced and Specialty Materials (JASM XVI) Materials Science of Additive Manufacturing Materials Technology Aspects in Product Remanufacturing Measurement and Modeling of High-Strain-Rate Deformation Multifunctional Materials for Aerospace and Defense: Challenges and Prospects Processes, Applications, and Performance of Materials in Additive Manufacturing Sintering and Related Powder-Processing Science and Technologies Structural Intermetallics: Alloy Design, Processing, and Applications SPECIAL TOPICS Continuous Improvement of Academic Programs (and Satisfying ABET Along the Way): The Elizabeth Judson Memorial Symposium Innovation in Processing of Light Metals for Transportation Industries: A Symposium in Honor of C. Ravi Ravindran Perspectives for Emerging Materials Professionals Robert B. Sosman Award Symposium: Opportunities for Enhancement of Nanomechanical Properties of Materials Rustum Roy Symposium on Processing and Performance of Materials Using Microwaves, Electric and Magnetic Fields, Ultrasound, Lasers, and Mechanical Work Town Hall Meeting on the National and International Materials Data Infrastructure Understanding the Engineering Design of Art Objects and Cultural Heritage SURFACE MODIFICATION Advanced Coatings for Wear and Corrosion Advances in Smart and Functional Coatings and Thin Films Surface Protection for Enhanced Materials Performance: Science, Technology, and Application American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org • • • • • • • • • • • • : • : • • • 43 325 405 532 TT9 211 317 415 502 326 MS&T14 Materials Science & Technology 2014 October 12-16, 2014 MS&T14 exhibitors (As of 9/3/14) Booth# Company Accutek Testing Laboratory AdValue Technology Advanced Abrasives Corp AK Steel Aldrich Materials Science Alfred University (CACT) Allied High Tech American Stress Technologies Angstrom Scientific Inc. exhibit hours Tuesday: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. Wednesday: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Red = Ceramic-related companies 40 MS&T Show Office HOM Exhibitor Lounge MM MATERIALS 90 CAMP \" 238 239 338 339 438 439 538 20 1104 FOOTBALL 236 237 336 337 436 437 536 10 ༤ 10 Seating for 400 50 130 232 233 332 433 532 533 230 231 330 331 430 431 530 414 Applied Test Systems 228 220 328 320 428 420 528 520 628 6:20 TT11 ArcelorMittal 226 227 326 327426 10427526 1527626 627 218 ASM 224 225 324 325 424 425 524 410 Beckman Coulter 10 525 624 HALL A 625 217 Binder Inc. 220 10 221 320 10 321420 421 520 521 620 621 214 Boise State Univ. Materials Science and STUDENT AWARDS CEREMONY 218 219 318 319 418 419 518 519 618 619 NO Engineering 216 217 316 317 416 417 516 517 616 617 509 Buehler 10 214 215 314 315 414 415 514 515 614 615 324 California Nanotechnologies Inc. 10 401 Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC TT13 Carpenter Technology T20 211 310 311 410 411 510 511 610 611 - -9-12.9 209 308 309 408 409 508 509 608 609 10 FREEMAN SERVICE DESK 432 Centorr Vacuum Industries FIRST AID 624 Ceramic Expo - Smarter Shows 425 Clemex Technologies TT6 Commercial Metals Company 433 CM Furnaces 205 304 305 404 406 504 505 604 GOS 303 402 403 502 PROFESSIONAL RECRUITMENT CAREER PAVILION 201 300 301 400 401 500 501 600 601 MUG DROP/DISC GOLF 101 General Poster Session 60 Poster Boards 604 CompuTherm TT15 Danieli Corp. Booth# Company Booth# Company TT8 DTE Energy 221 Microtrac 327 Saudi Aramco 205 EA Fischione Instruments Inc. 420 MTI Corp. 510 Sente Software 319 Ebatco 337 MTS Systems Corp. 437 Spectro Analytical Instruments 614 EDAX Inc. 224 Nanovea 515 Springer 310 Electron Microscopy Sciences 500 Netzsch Instruments TT12 SSAB Americas 209 EMSL Analytical, Inc. 220 Newport Corp. 409 Struers 615 Extrel 429 nGimat LLC 418 TA Instruments 300 FEI 609 NIST 321 TEC (Technology for Energy Group) 533 Football throw 620 NSL Analytical Services Inc. 628 Tekna Plasma Systems 505 Gasbarre Products Inc. (PTX) TT7 Nucor 330 Tekscan 538 Goodfellow Corp. 315 Object Research Systems (ORS) Inc. 516 Tescan 304 Granta Design 524 Ocean Optics 520 Thermcraft 529 GT Advanced Technologies 225 Olympus 525 Thermo Fisher Scientific 602 Harper International 226 Orton Ceramic Foundation 314 Thermo-Calc 318 Hitachi High Tech America 600 Oxford Instruments 332 Tunable Materials Co. Ltd. 428 HORIBA Scientific 603 PANalytical 303 UES Inc. 514 Hysitron 521 Photron USA Inc. TT14 US Steel 616 International Centre for Diffraction Data 626 Pittcon 2015 605 Union Process (ICDD) 427 Powder Processing & Technology 530 United Testing Systems 501 JEOL 618 Pulstec Industrial Co. Ltd 333 UNITRON 232 Kalamazoo Industries 308 Proto Mfg. Ltd. 227 Vacuum Technology Inc. 219 Kerry Actuator 305 Renishaw 309 Verder Scientific, Inc. (Carbolite) 201 Keysight Technologies 625 Rigaku Americas Corporation 215 Westmoreland Mechanical Testing & 408 Kurt J. Lesker Co. 431 RJ Lee Group Research 519 Lab Synergy LLC 316 Robocasting Enterprises LLC 416 Wiley 526 Lapmaster International LLC 426 SAMCO Technologies 527 Zicar Ceramics 400 Leco Corp. 424 Leica Microsystems 621 Maney Publishing 601 Metal Samples 508 Metcut Research Contact Mona Thiel to reserve your booth space at MS&T14. mthiel@ceramics.org or 614-794-5834 301 Micromeritics Instrument 44 www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 matscitech.org short courses Saturday, October 11 Sunday, October 12 Fundamentals of Glass Science and Technology | 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. | 9 a.m. 2:30 p.m. Instructor: Arun K. Varshneya, Alfred University The course covers basic glass science and technology to broaden or improve one\'s foundation in the understanding of glass as a material of choice. This one-and-a-half-day course covers: - Glass science (commercial glass families, glassy state, nucleation and crystallization, phase separation, glass structure) - Glass technology, batch calculations - Glassmelting and glassforming - Glass properties, such as density, hardness, viscosity, thermal expansion coefficient, and chemical durability, and engineering principles, such as annealing, strength, and strengthening – Elementary fracture analysis Sunday, October 12 Understanding Why Ceramics Fail and Designing for Safety 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Instructors: Stephen Freiman, Freiman Consulting Inc., and John J. (Jack) Mecholsky Jr., University of Florida Engineers who use ceramic components, whether in electronic, optical, or structural applications, recognize that their brittleness can result in damage and possible mechanical failure. This course explores the practical fracture mechanics background necessary to understand brittle failure and describe some of the unique characteristics of ceramic materials that must be taken into account in their design and use. Microstructural effects, which have a major influence on fracture toughness and strength, will be explored in some detail. The deleterious effects of external environments, particularly water, on crack growth and the test procedures needed to explore this phenomenon will be discussed. Best practices in the use of fracture mechanics and strength tests will be reviewed. Quantitative fractographic analysis of failed parts will be shown to be a powerful tool in understanding the cause of failure as well as to quantitatively determine failure stresses that occur in-service. Finally, a modern, computer-driven approach to statistically examine strength distributions for ceramics will be demonstrated. It will be shown that this tool can be used to set service stresses that will ensure safe lifetimes to very low probabilities of failure. Young Professional Programming at MS&T14 Monday, Oct. 13 | Noon - 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14 | Noon - 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14 | 4:30 – 6 p.m. Student Plant Tour - Hosted by AIST Young Professional Tutorial Luncheon – Hosted by TMS Young Professional Reception - Hosted by ACerS American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org 45 45 46 300 W Organized by: The American Ceramic Society www.ceramics.org NO Engineering Ceramics Division The Ancor Ce am Society Register by December 23 to save $150! 39TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND EXPOSITION ON ADVANCED CERAMICS AND COMPOSITES January 25-30, 2015 Hilton Daytona Beach Resort and Ocean Center Daytona Beach, Florida, USA ICACC\'15 showcases cutting-edge research and product developments in advanced ceramics, ceramic armor, SOFCs, 3D printing, bioceramics, and more. The technical program includes 13 symposia, six focused sessions, the 4th Global Young Investigators Forum, and the 2nd European UnionUSA Engineering Ceramics Summit. These technical sessions, along with an Industry Exposition, provide an open forum for scientists, researchers, engineers, and manufacturers from around the world to present and exchange recent advances in ceramic science and technology. Soshu Kirihara 2015 ICACC Program Chair Joining and Welding Institute Osaka University, Japan kirihara@jwri.osaka-u.ac.jp TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Sunday - January 25 Welcome Reception Monday - January 26 Opening Awards Ceremony and Plenary Session Concurrent Technical Sessions Tuesday - January 27 Concurrent Technical Sessions Exposition and Reception Poster Session A Wednesday - January 28 Concurrent Technical Sessions Exposition and Reception Poster Session B Thursday - January 29 Concurrent Technical Sessions Friday - January 30 Concurrent Technical Sessions 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. 8:30 a.m.- Noon 1:30 p.m.6 p.m. 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. 5 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. 5 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. 8 a.m. - Noon HILTON DAYTONA BEACH RESORT 100 North Atlantic Avenue Daytona Beach, FL 32118 Phone: 386-254-8200 Fax: 386-253-8841 Rates: One to Four Occupants: Students: $157 $129 U.S. Government Employee: Prevailing Rate Mention The American Ceramic Society to obtain the special rate. Room rates are effective until December 12, 2014, and are based on availability. www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 ceramics.org/icacc2015 AWARD AND PLENARY SPEAKERS EXHIBITION INFORMATION MUELLER AWARD Clarke David R. Clarke, Extended Tarr Family Professor of Materials, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University Title: Materials selection for the next-generation thermal barrier coatings BRIDGE BUILDING AWARD Sanjay Mathur, director, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Cologne, Germany Title: Chemically processed nanostructured ceramics: Opportunities for energy and health applications 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. Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, January 27, 2015, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. Wednesday, January 28, 2015, 5 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Exhibit Location: Ocean Center Arena, 101 North Atlantic Avenue, Daytona Beach, FL Visit ceramics.org/icacc2015 for details or contact Mona Thiel at mthiel@ceramics.org or 614-794-5834 to reserve your booth. Exhibitor Alfred University AVS Inc. Booth No. 315 107 BTU International 307 Mathur C-Therm Technologies Ltd. 222 Carbolite Inc. 206 PLENARY SPEAKER Cato T. Laurencin, professor, The University of Connecticut; CEO, Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science Title: To be announced Centorr Vacuum Industries Inc. 200 CM Furnaces Inc. 311 Dorst America 301 Eirich Machines Inc. 203 ESL ElectroScience 223 Florida Institute of Technology 204 Laurencin H.C. Starck North American Trading LLC 305 Haiku Tech Inc. 313 Harper International 317 Harrop Industries Inc. 201 MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CERAMICS AND GLASS SHORT COURSE Instructors: George D. Quinn, NIST; Richard C. Bradt, University of Alabama Thursday and Friday, January 29 – 30, 2015 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 materials; • And more. Visit ceramics.org/icacc2015 for rates. NIST Oxy-Gon Industries Inc. Powder Processing & Technology PremaTech Advanced Ceramics PTX-Pentronix - Gasbarre Presses R.D. Webb Co. Inc. Heraeus Thick Film Division 212 Imerys Fused Minerals 220 Keith Company 205 Linseis Inc. 202 MEL Chemicals 306 NETZSCH Instruments North America LLC 300 New Lenox Machine Co. Inc. 302 111 320 304 210 207 216 Sonoscan Inc. Swindell Dressler International TevTech Thermal Wave Imaging 221 303 214 321 Zircar Ceramics Inc. 224 American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org 47 January 21-23, 2015 | DoubleTree by Hilton Orlando at Sea World® | Orlando, Florida, USA ceramics.org/ema2015 American Ceramic Society www.ceramics.org ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ELECTRONIC MATERIALS AND APPLICATIONS 2015 EMA 2015 addresses key challenges in the field of electronic materials. The 11 symposia cover advances in basic and applied science of electronic, magnetic, dielectric, and optical components and devices; data and energy storage and conversion systems; and sensing, actuation, power systems, and transduction. DER Haugan Dillon Timothy Haugan, Electronics Division U.S. Air Force Research Lab timothy.haugan@us.af.mil Brennecka Shen Dillon, Basic Science Division University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign sdillon@illinois.edu Geoff Brennecka, Electronics Division Colorado School of Mines gbrennec@mines.edu 2013-2014 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: Timothy Haugan Vice chair: Haiyan Wang Secretary: Geoff Brennecka Secretary-elect: Brady Gibbons PLENARY SPEAKERS • EMA-related technologies and research at a diverse global manufacturer, Kent Budd, 3M, USA . High throughput, data rich experiments and their impact on ceramic science, Greg Rohrer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Domain motion under applied electric filed in Pb(Zr, Ti)O3 films and their contribution to the piezoelectric properties, Hiroshi Funakubo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan CENNENECHC TECHNICAL PROGRAM S1 Advanced Electronic Materials-Processing, Structures, Properties, and Applications S2 Ceramic Composites, Coatings, and Fibers S3 Computational Design of Electronic Materials S4 Functional Thin Films-Processing and Integration Science S5 lon-Conducting Ceramics S6 LEDs and Photovoltaics-Beyond the Light: Common Challenges and Opportunities S7 Multiferroic Materials and Multilayer Ferroic Heterostructures— Properties and Applications S8 Recent Developments in High-temperature Superconductivity S9 Structure of Emerging Perovskite Oxides―Bridging Length Scales and Unifying Experiment and Theory S10 Thermoelectrics—From Nanoscale Fundamental Science to Devices S11 Thin Films and Interfaces-Stability, Stress Relaxation, and Properties HOTEL INFORMATION DoubleTree by Hilton Orlando at Sea WorldⓇ 10100 International Drive Orlando, FL 32821 407-352-1100/800-327-0363 Rate: $149 Cutoff: December 12, 2014 48 48 www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 Register by December 23 to save $150! YOUNG PROFESSIONALS NETWORK The ACers Young Professionals Network encourages participation of young professionals via a limited number of registration waivers. Individuals in the first 10 years of their career are invited to contact Ed Gorzkowski (edward.gorzkowski@ nrl.navy.mil) for more details. FAILURE—THE GREATEST TEACHER The vast majority of scientific literature and conference talks report positive results, but there is a lot to be learned from negative results and missteps as well. Do not miss this opportunity to hear recognized leaders in the field discuss failure and perhaps recount some of their most spectacular learning experiences during a frank and friendly discussion in a relaxed atmosphere. Speakers and audience alike are encouraged to check their egos at the door for this event that has turned into an EMA highlight. For more details, please contact Geoff Brennecka (gbrennec@mines.edu). 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TENTATIVE SCHEDULE Wednesday - January 21, 2015 Registration Opening Comments Plenary Session I Concurrent Technical Sessions Lunch On Own Poster Session Set-up Concurrent Technical Sessions Poster Session & Reception Basic Science Division Tutorial 7:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. 8:30 a.m. 8:45 a.m. 8:45 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Noon - 2 p.m. Noon - 5 p.m. 2 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7:45 p.m.-9:45 p.m. Thursday - January 22, 2015 Registration Plenary Session II 7:30 a.m.- 5:30 p.m. 8:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Concurrent Technical Sessions 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Lunch On Own 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. Concurrent Technical Sessions 2 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Conference Dinner 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Friday - January 23, 2015 Registration Plenary Session III Concurrent Technical Sessions Lunch On Own Concurrent Technical Sessions Failure The Greatest Teacher 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. 8:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. 2 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. 5:45 p.m. - 6:45 p.m TUTORIAL ON THIN FILM STABILITY This tutorial introduces topics that will be discussed during the Basic Science Division symposium, Thin Films-Stability, Stress Relaxation, and Properties. Researchers and students without extensive background in thin films are encouraged to attend. The tutorial discusses basic concepts, terminology, and results in order to assist with interactions during the symposium. Discussions will include: • Thin film growth, microstructure, and stress - Epitaxial and textured films • Thin film stress relaxation - Dislocation mechanisms in thin films - Diffusion in thin films •Thin film properties ― Size-dependent plasticity - Thermal stresses - Fracture of thin films Pre-symposium Tutorial Speakers Carl Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Gerhard Dehm, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Germany American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 | www.ceramics.org 49 new products R R ROSS Thermal analyzer N |etzsch\'s top-loading STA 449 F5 Jupiter simultaneously performs thermogravimetric analysis and differential scanning calorimetry on a single sample. 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(Millburn, N.J.) www.kason.com 973-467-8140 50 www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 93, No. 8 resources Calendar of events October 2014 5-10 EPD 2014: 5th Int\'l Conference on Electrophoretic Deposition: Fundamentals and Applications - Schloss Hernstein Seminar Hotel, Hernstein, Austria; www.engconf.org 12-16 MS&T14: Materials Science & Technology Conference and Exhibition -Materials 2014 - David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, Pa.; www. matscitech.org 12-16 ACers Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet – David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, Pa.; www. ceramics.org 21-24 Glasstec 2014: Int\'l Trade Fair for Glass Production - Düsseldorf, Germany; www.glasstec-online.com 26-29 ISHA2014: 4th Int\'l Solvothermal and Hydrothermal Conference - Bordeaux, France; www.isha2014.univ-bordeaux.fr November 2014 3-6 75th Conference on Glass Problems Greater Columbus Convention Center, Columbus, Ohio; www. glassproblemsconference.org 26-29 31st Int\'l Korea-Japan Seminar on Ceramics - Changwon Exhibition Convention Center, Changwon, Korea; http://kj-ceramics31.changwon.ac.kr December 2014 4-6 ➡MET-14 (Materials Engineering Technology) with 11th Heat Treat Show The Exhibition Centre, Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India; www.methtexpo.com January 2015 21-23 EMA 2015: Electronic Materials and Applications - DoubleTree by Hilton Orlando, Orlando, Fla.; www. ceramics.org 25-30 ICACC\'15: 39th Int\'l Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites - Daytona Beach, Fla.; www.ceramics.org 26-28 Piezo 2015: 8th Int\'l Biannual Conference on Electroceramics for EndUsers - Maribor, Slovenia; www.piezoinstitute.com February 2015 24-27 MCARE 2015: Materials Challenge in Alternative and Renewable Energy - DoubleTree by Hilton Orlando, Orlando, Fla.; www.ceramics.org March 2015 25-26 ACers St. Louis Section and Refractory Ceramics Division Joint Meeting - St. Louis, Mo.; www.ceramics.org April 2015 20-24 42nd Int\'l Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films San Diego, Calif.; www2.avs.org/conferences/icmctf 28-30 Ceramics Expo 2015 - I-X Center, Cleveland, Ohio; www. ceramicsexpousa.com May 2015 17-21 ACerS GOMD-DGG Joint Annual Meeting - Miami, Fla.; www. ceramics.org June 2015 14-19 CMCEE: 11th Int\'l Symposium on Ceramic Materials and Components for Energy and Environmental Applications - Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; www.ceramics.org July 2015 7-10 ICCCI2015: 5th Int\'l HighQuality Advanced Materials Conference - Fujiyoshida City, Japan; http:// ceramics.ynu.ac.jp/iccci2015/index.html August 2015 23-26 COM 2015: 54th Annual Conference of Metallurgists – Toronto, Ontario, Canada; www.metsoc.org 30-September 4 PACRIM 11: 11th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology - Jeju Island, Korea; www.ceramics.org September 2015 7-10 Int\'l Commission on Glass Annual Meeting - Bangkok, Thailand; www. icglass.org 15-18 UNITECR 2015 - Hofburg Congress Center, Vienna, Austria; www.unitecr2015.org 19-25 The XIV Int\'l Conference on the Physics of Non-Crystalline SolidsNiagara Falls, N.Y.; PNCS-XIV.com October 2015 4-8 MS&T15, combined with ACerS 117th Annual Meeting - Greater Columbus Convention Center, Columbus, Ohio; www.matscitech.org 20-23 CERAMITEC 2015 - Messe Munich, Munich, Germany; www. ceramitec.de Dates in RED denote new entry in this issue. 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I was not part of any research group at the time, so I searched the faculty directory at Northwestern for topics I found interesting. Because I recently had completed my first internship with GE Aviation, I thought that I might have enough background knowledge in composites to help me transition from industry to research. Early in the fall, I began work on environmental barrier coatings for gas turbine engines with Katherine Faber. I did not fully comprehend or appreciate graduate research in materials science until this point in my career—I read more scientific articles in my first week in the lab than I previously had in my entire life. To my surprise, however, I enjoyed reading the mounds of papers required to understand the topic. This experience was unlike other research projects I had completed in my undergraduate courses: I became conversational about barrier coatings. I could contribute to discussions with my graduate student mentor and other ceramists in the group, providBarrier coatings protect turbine engines from thermal stresses. ing a fulfilling feeling that I did not get elsewhere in industry. Attending group meetings taught me more about presenting technical work than all of my work experience combined. The atmosphere was highly collaborative and encouraging, which was against my previous notions. Every presented slide was discussed and improved upon in technical and presentational aspects. Each person truly was concerned about helping other members of the group, including myself. Each time I presented, the group critiqued my work and offered advice on how to improve. The older students and my mentor initially intimidated me, but they were consistently encouraging and went out of their way to help me with presentations and equipment. I was held to the same high standards as graduate students, which allowed me to excel very quickly in my technical skills. Being an undergraduate researcher has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my scientific career thus far. If you are a younger student, and if you are willing to ask for help, most people are willing to grant your request. Undergraduate research also is an enormously beneficial way to network with scientists. Credit: Michael; Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 After finishing my thesis, I continued to research the same topic at an internship with the NASA Glenn Research Center this past summer with an advisor who also had graduated from the Faber research group. The work at NASA was research-focused and very rewarding, solidifying my decision to enter a Ph.D. program in materials science next fall. I never imagined that I would be applying to graduate school and giving up a secure, lucrative job to instead pursue a thirst for research that I did not know I possessed. Ryan DeBlock is a senior undergraduate student at Northwestern University. He is president of the Northwestern chapter of Material Advantage and an executive member in the Material Science Club. 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