March 2012 - Vol 91 No. 2

Kevin S. Jones, Nicholas G. Rudawski, Isaiah Oladeji, Roland Pitts and Richard Fox
Solid-state electrolyte batteries are compact, lightweight, reliable, recyclable, safe and appear to be promising candidates for the next generation of battery technology.

Scott Faris
An electroless electrochemical deposition process is used to fabricate solid-state electrolyte battery cells from the liquid phase, vapor phase or from a gel phase.

Charles E. Semler
The Internet has exploded with websites, publications and data for the refractory industry. This mini-guide includes examples of how to use the Internet to track global business trends.

Victor C. Pandolfelli
Recruiting young engineers to careers in the refractory industry requires creative thinking.

Themes, speakers and 3rd Ceramic Leadership Summit track

Sneak preview of selected abstracts from plenary, invited and contributed talks that will be presented at MCARE, Feb. 26–March 1 in Clearwater, Fla.

Welcome from the program chairs . . . . . . . . 48
Hotel information . . . . . . . . 48
Symposia schedule . . . . . . . . 48
Schedule at-a-glance. . . . . . . . 49
Short course . . . . . . . 51

• Bearings company’s birthday brings $20k innovation contest

• Business news
• Corning debuts Gorilla Glass 2 at Consumer Electronics Show
• Final FY12 budget reveals some good news for federally supported R&D

• Welcome to our newest Corporate Member

• ACerS congratulates Indian Ceramic Society on Platinum Jubilee

• Congregating in Florida, PCSA holds annual meeting

• Best student paper and best student poster of EMA’12

• Glass short course offered in May
• Division and Class award nomination deadlines

• C. Barry Carter elected AAAS Fellow

• Narayan receives Acta Materialia Gold Medal

• Pittsburgh Section awards scholarship to Alfred student

• Mechanism offered for how seawater could corrode nuclear fuel

• Toughened, flexible silica aerogel? Japanese–Chinese group shows how to do it

• UIUC group: Can unleashed spores heal concrete cracks?

• 25th anniversary of YBCO superconductor’s discovery marked with dedication of UA-Huntsville plaque

• DOE to push US manufacturing of small modular reactors

• Computational methods shine light on conducting oxide transparency

• NREL interactive atlas shows where to find the renewable energy

• Engineered proppants for hydrofracturing

• DOE launches next season of ‘America’s Next Top Energy Innovator’

• Smile: Nanocrystals in glass-ceramic dentures provide strength, natural appearance

• Giving an order to hybrid materials

• Rendering cotton self-cleaning by coating with titania and silver iodide

• Nanomaterials safety research: National Academies sound alarm and urges cohesive plan; Danes develop own nano EHS labeling system

• Healing glass fibers now available for pet and animal treatments

• Biocompatibility tests for nanoscale Ormosil particles raises hopes for use as for drug delivery agent