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Additive manufacturing techniques for fabricating complex ceramic components from preceramic polymers

Advanced Ceramics

Case Study: Combining expertise and innovation to design advanced combination furnace systems

Glass microspheres hollow out a niche for anticounterfeiting strategies

Ceramic-matrix composites enable revolutionary gains in turbine engine efficiency

High-efficiency, ceramic microchannel heat exchangers

Inside the engine environment—Synchrotrons reveal secrets of high-temperature ceramic coatings

Ceramics in Australia: Raw and advanced materials drive Land Down Under’s global reach

It’s tough to be strong: Advances in bioinspired structural ceramic–based materials

Proppants for shale gas and oil recovery. Engineering ceramics for stimulation of unconventional energy resources

MAX phases: Bridging the gap between metals and ceramics

High-Velocity Impact Resistance of ZrB2-SiC

Creating a Vision for the Future of Advanced Ceramics

Additive manufacturing techniques for fabricating complex ceramic components from preceramic polymers

 

Art & Archaeology

Discovering the material secrets of art: Tools of cultural heritage science

Batteries and Storage

A123 Systems: Eight hard years for an ‘overnight success’

Lithium Lowdown: Will Bolivia’s Evo Morales’ terms for mining block the road to battery innovation?

Bioceramics

Bioactive glasses in soft tissue repair

Nanoceramic sensors for medical applications

‘Cotton candy’ that heals? Borate glass nanofibers look promising

Personal Prototyping: Ceramics-based 3D inkjet and laser printing technology offers customized tissue engineering, body parts and more

Initial In Vitro Interaction Of Human Osteoblasts with Nanostructured Hydroxyapatite (NHA)

Preparation and Bioactive Characteristics of Porous Borate Glass Substrates

Cements

Straight talk with Karen Scrivener on cements, CO2 and sustainable development

Breaking the Reconstruction Logjam

Bound for new frontiers: Cement researchers are bringing new strength, flexibility, self-healing capabilities and a smaller CO2 footprint to industry

Ceramic Armor

Transparent polycrystalline cubic spinels protect and defend

A Review Of Computational Ceramic Armor Modeling

Some Observations on the Strength of Failed Ceramic

Ceramic Coatings

Relation of Thermal Conductivity With Process Induced Anisotropic Void Systems in EB-PVD PYSZ Thermal Barrier Coatings

Electronics

Piezotronics: A new field of strain-engineered functional semiconductor devices

High-temperature oxide thermoelectrics

Energy & Ceramics

Hidden treasures: Turning food waste into glass

Developments in electrohydrodynamic forming: Fabricating nanomaterials from charged liquids via electrospinning and electrospraying

Small-scale Modular Windmill

Getting Renewables to the Marketplace: A Profile of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Energy Harvesting: New materials and systems glean untapped microsources and megasources to power minisensors, electronics, remote surveillance equipment and even soldiers

Microspheres for energy applications

Environmental Ceramics

Clearing the air: Gas grief goes with new Selee filter

Zirconia-Based Gas Sensors Using Oxide Sensing Electrode for Monitoring NOx in Car Exhaust

Characterization of MnO-Doped Lanthanum Hexaluminate (LaMnAl11 O19) in Terms Of Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx fy Addition of Hydrocarbon Reductant (HC-SCR)

Fuel Cells – SOFC

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Commercialization, Research and Challenges

Development of Two Types of Tubular SOFCs at Toto

Worldwide SOFC Technology Overview and Benchmark

Glass Science

Touchscreen surface warfare— Physics and chemistry of antimicrobial behavior of ion-exchanged silver in glass

Molten-core fabrication of novel optical fibers

Usable Glass Strength Coalition: Patience, perseverance and progress

Advanced Feeder Control Using Fast Simulation Models

A Bright Future for Glass-ceramics

Chalcogenide glass microphotonics: Stepping into the spotlight

Nanotechnology

Graphene nanocomposite coatings for protecting low-alloy steels from corrosion

Nanoscale ceramic surface modification of textiles by atomic layer deposition

Nanophase Ceramics for Improved Drug Delivery

Nanoparticle Colloidal Suspension Optimization and Freeze-Cast Forming

Nuclear Energy

Is there room for porosity in nuclear ceramics? What we can learn from dynamic microstructures in extreme conditions

Ensuring longevity: Ancient glasses help predict durability of vitrified nuclear waste

Materials for nuclear energy in the post-Fukushima era, An interview with John Marra

Next Generation Nuclear Power and Requirements for Standards, Codes and Data Bases for Ceramic Matrix Composites

Porcelain Enamel

Six Decades of Porcelain Enameling

Refractory

Refractory Material Selection for Steelmaking 

Innovation at Unifrax: A win–win proposition

Rare Earths: Restricted

Ceramics in South American and Practical Progress in Brazil

Hot matters—Experimental methods for high-temperature property measurement

Traditional Ceramics

India: Crossroads of traditional and advanced ceramics

German ceramics market

Miscellaneous

Global groundbreaker: France innovates and collaborates to serve society

Scaling up—The high potential of additive manufacturing for the ceramics industry

DARPA’s Materials Development for Platforms program seeks to optimize design to accelerate new materials development

Ceramics Expo 2016: Encore in Cleveland, Ohio

Korea’s core competencies

When ceramic powerhouses collaborate—How the 3M–Ceradyne merger drives innovation

Case study—Applying lateral thinking to process development and optimization of specialty kiln furniture

Ceramic and glass manufacturers Ohio bound

Additive manufacturing–Turning manufacturing inside out

Canadian ceramic clout and Modern Mexico: Far-reaching research

PCSA enters fifth year with enthusiasm and ambition

Ceramic advances in Japan: Achieving new breakthroughs, meeting new challenges

Accolades and accomplishments, ACerS 2011 awards

Students solving real-world materials science problems

Business, licensing and intellectual property management

Preeminent Professionals: ACerS 2010 Awards

Student perspectives on ceramic education

Ceramic education: Educators, students and employers discuss changes forced by jobs, enrollment and research

Near net shaping of ceramic components—‘Plant tour’ of a custom manufacturer

Ceramics and glass—Materials for diverse industries (A 2016 industry profile and manufacturing forecast)

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