The Bulletin of the American Ceramic Society

 

June-July 2012 - Vol. 91 No. 5

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FEATURES


Student and education special issue


PCSA enters fifth year with enthusiasm and ambition

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Chair’s report on programming, outreach, fundraising and growth
Troy Ansell

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Applied education


Laboratory safety perspectives and best practices
Seth Berbano

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Quality education: Teaching students to optimize experiments
Ashley Durrbeck

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Travel scholarship enables international research collaboration
Amy White

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Is the textbook right? Supporting a truck on coffee mugs
John Mayo

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Getting to work


Conquering the conference
Samara Levine

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Industry desires more than an engineer
John Solomon

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Sampling the work world
Eleanor A. Gamble

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Government sector; Private sector
Charles Forman; Patrick D. Slinko

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Beyond the books

Keramos and Material Advantage
Ellen Sitzmann and Laura Van Steenhuyse

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Managing information flow in the current age of science
Taylor Shoulders

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Art, science and engineering—Lessons given, lessons received
Maxwell Marple

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Ceramics: The intersection of art and engineering
Samuel Miller

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Good science comes from good policy
Tricia L. Freshour

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The Wreckers
Michael McLeod and George Edgert

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Issues in sustainability in cements and concrete

Straight talk with Karen Scrivener on cements, CO2 and sustainable development
In this interview, the Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Federale (Lausanne) professor and cement and concrete expert talks about the importance of concrete, pathways to reducing CO2 and improving sustainable development.

 

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Cement technology in sub-Saharan Africa—Practical and scientific experiences
Wolfram Schmidt, Naomi N.M. Hirya, Dubravka Bjegovic, Herbert C. Uzoegbo, Senthil G. Kumaran
Cement and concrete are critical to the modernization of the subcontinent. Low cement concretes may be a cost-effective sustainable solution, but developing a local expert workforce will be equally important.

 

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MEETINGS
4th International Congress on Ceramics: Shaping the Future of Ceramics 57

Keynote and plenary speakers . . . . . . . . 57
Preliminary program schedule . . . . . . . . 58

Invited speakers and 3rd Ceramic Leadership Summit Track . . . . . . . . 59

Interactive technology forum and Exhibit . . . . . . . . 60

Short course: Sintering of Ceramics . . . . . . . . 61

 

Innovations in Biomedical Materials 2012 62

Program overview and call for abstracts . . . . . . . . 62
Tentative schedule . . . . . . . . 62
Hotel information . . . . . . . . 62

 

Materials Science & Technology 2012 program review 63

ACerS lectures and special events . . . . . . . . 63
Short courses . . . . . . . . 64
Student activities . . . . . . . . 65

Exhibitors . . . . . . . . 65

 

DEPARTMENTS
News & Trends 4

The Economist looks at intersection of materials, innovation and manufacturing

• Bloom Energy opens new East Coast SOFC plant and secures big Delaware deal

• BBC’s ‘Ceramics—How they work’

• Business news

• Large deposit of rare earth neodymium discovered in Brazil

• Germany stops energy subsidies, forcing First Solar to scale back

• Supply chain issues drive rare earth economics

 

People in the Spotlight 11

• Lawn elected to Australian Academy of Science

• NIST awards cements paper

• Goyal receives DOE award

• Kyocera Professors Technical Meeting held in March

 

ACerS Spotlight 12

• Society leadership elections: Candidate statements and ballot

Ceramics in Energy 17

• Alfred to lend ceramic electrolyte and glass expertise to GE Global Research battery project

• NexTech’s SOFC interconnect coating surpasses one-year mark

• PowerPots demonstrate practical side of thermoelectrics

 

Research Briefs 19

• DARPA says hypersonic vehicles need better high-temp materials data; UCSB team shows how to measure strain at high-temps

• Hot stuff: Measuring thermophysical properties at very high temperatures

• Rutgers grad students demonstrate rapid ceramic product inspection technique

 

Ceramics in Biomedicine
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• Reactive fillers to produce wollastonite bioceramics

• International team finds help from boron nitride nanotubes in cancer treatment

• ICG reports on progress for pharmaceutical glass roadmap

 

Ceramics in the Environment 24

• Solar cement—Solar-driven electrolysis for making lime and no CO2 emission

• Honda announces large rare earth recycling effort

• Greenroads groups award first LEEDs-type certification to ‘Poticrete’ project

 

COLUMNS


Deciphering the discipline

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Jason Nikkel
Undergrad research provides direction

 

RESOURCES
Calendar 67
Classified Advertising 68
Display Advertising Index
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