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University of Maryland’s Eric Wachsman discussed the role of solid oxide fuel cells in a balanced national energy strategy to open the 10th International Symposium on SOFC: Materials, Science, and Technology. Credit: ACerS.

I am wrapping up my photoblogging with coverage of events during days 3 and 4 of the 2013 International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites. Here are some of my photos from the final two days:

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2013 Program Chair Sujanto Widjaja opens the ICACC’13 Plenary Session. Credit: ACerS.

The first “business” day of the ICACC’13 meeting plenary and award speakers (plus the awarding of the best paper and best poster awards from the 2012 session). The photos below come from some of the opening events and awards.

ACerS Engineering Ceramics Division Chair Sanjay Mathur presents the 2013 James I. Mueller Award to Anil V. Virkar (left) and the Bridge Building Award to Tatsuki Ohji (right). Virkar spoke on the unique characteristics of Zirconia and Ohji linked the microstructure and mechanical properties of engineering ceramics. Credit ACerS.

Plenary speaker Bruce Dunn discussed energy storage materials, especially the emergence of pseudocapacitor materials. Credit: ACerS.

KITECH's Sangmok Lee described a four-step route to novel materials development and the concept of "consilience" in his plenary presentation. Credit: ACerS.

Keith Blakely, a serial entrepreneur, who started his first company, Advanced Refractory Technologies at the age of 24, spoke at a luncheon of business leaders about mutual relationship building between small and large businesses. Credit: ACerS.

After the plenary session and luncheon, the symposia quickly got underway, Above, Se-Hee. Lee made a presentation on "All Solid State Batteries for High Energy Applications." Credit: ACerS.

ACerS President Richard Brow and Executive Director Charlie Spahr welcomed participants in the student and young professional mixer. More mixer photos are below. All credit: ACerS.

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Some of the German delegation of participants in the first Global Young Investigators Forum at ICACC. Thomas Fisher (third from left) was the principle organizer of the forum.

The 36th convening of the International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites is in its second day in Daytona Beach, Fla. This year’s meeting attracted over 1,000 engineers and scientists from 41 countries, who will be presenting about 850 papers. According to the organizers, this year, for the first time, the number of foreign attendees has surpassed the number of US attendees.

Two factors are contributing to the strong international participation: the first European Union–USA Ceramics Summit and the first Global Young Investigators Forum. The EU-USA summit is taking place on Monday and Tuesday and attracted about 25 talks with participants from Germany, Italy, Sweden, Czech Republic, Finland, Belgium, Poland and Spain.

The Global Young Investigators Forum starts tomorrow and runs through the end of the week. The GYIF is a new innovation this year, and all indications are that it’s an idea that is long overdue. Thomas Fisher, PhD candidate at the University of Cologne, Germany, organized the Forum, which will have 45 presentations from PhD candidates and post-docs from more than 14 countries. I’ll have more to tell about the Forum later.

I’m told the weather in Daytona Beach in January can be hit or miss, and since Sunday, it’s been all “hit,” with temperatures in the upper 70s and sunshine.

Here is a catalog of some of the things I’ve been seeing.

George Wicks, ACerS president, and Sanjay Mathur, program chair.

ICACC'12 kicked off with a lively reception on Sunday.

Colleagues and friends met at the reception. Pictured from the left, Lise Schioler, George Quinn and Eileen De Guire.

Jay Singh presented the Society with a gift on behalf of the Indian Ceramic Society. Pictured with Jay are Charlie Spahr (ACerS executive director), George Wicks and Megan Bricker (ACerS director of membership).

Monday's plenary session drew a rapt audience.

David Marshall delivered the first plenary talk and was awarded the James I. Mueller Award.

The beach was no distraction for these attendees.

Andrew Portune of Nottingham, Md., is enjoying the meeting.

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Check out three great, new authored books being released in October. ACerS members receive a 20% discount by simply entering “ceram” in the promotion code box at check-out.

Advanced Structural Ceramics
Bikramjit Basu and Kantesh Balani
512 pages
US $149.95

Advanced Structural Ceramics covers the area of advanced ceramic composites broadly, with introductory chapters to fundamentals, processing and applications of advanced ceramic composites and highlighting state-of-the-art research in each of these areas. The book is organized to provide easy use by students as well as professionals.

The sections cover fundamentals of the nature and characteristics of ceramics, processing of ceramics, processing and properties of toughened ceramics, high temperature ceramics, nanoceramics and nanoceramic composites, and bioceramics and biocomposites.

Ceramic Integration and Joining Technologies: From Macro to Nanoscale
Edited by Mrityunjay Singh, Tatsuki Ohji, Rajiv Asthana and Sanjay Mathur
832 pages
US $175.00

This book addresses integration issues in diverse areas such as space power and propulsion, thermoelectric power generation, solar energy, micro-electro-mechanical systems, solid oxide fuel cells, multi-chip modules, prosthetic devices and implanted biosensors and stimulators.

The engineering challenge of designing and manufacturing complex structural, functional and smart components and devices for these applications from smaller, geometrically simpler units requires development of new integration technology and skillful adaptation of existing technology. A major imperative is to extract scientific information on joining, and integration response of real (and model) material systems currently in a developmental stage at multiple length scales (macro, millimeter, micrometer and nanometer ranges).

Tribology of Ceramics and Composites: Materials Science Perspective
Bikramjit Basu and Mitjan Kalin
552 pages
US $149.95

This book helps students and practicing scientists understand the importance of friction and wear properties of advanced materials to the design and development of new materials.

The book opens with chapters on the fundamentals, processing and applications of tribology. It then examines in detail the nature and properties of materials, the friction and wear of structural ceramics, bioceramics, biocomposites, nanoceramics and lightweight composites.

It also covers the friction and wear of ceramics in a cryogenic environment.

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