Jan./Feb. 2012 - Vol 91 No. 1

A. Paul, D.D. Jayaseelan, S. Venugopal, E. Zapata-Solvas, J. Binner, B. Vaidhyanathan, A. Heaton, P. Brown and W.E. Lee
Hypersonic aircraft like DARPA’s Falcon HTV-2 operate under extreme conditions and demand materials that can handle high temperatures and mechanical and shock wave loads.

Vincent S. Smentkowski
Time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometry is a powerful surface characterization tool that can detect all elements and is sensitive in the ppm range. It can reveal a wealth of information about the expected—and unexpected—chemistries of surfaces.

Amy White
A free-access online library being built by the International Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glass has over 250 tutorials, articles, presentations and experiments in its collection.

Interactive Technology Forum . . . . . . . . 39
Keynote and plenary speakers . . . . . . . . 39

Welcome from the program chair and program overview . . . . . . . . 40
Engineering Ceramics Division award winners . . . . . . . . 41
Plenary speakers . . . . . . . . 41
Symposia schedule. . . . . . . . 42
Student shot glass contest . . . . . . . . 44
Hotel information . . . . . . . . 44
Exposition information and floor plan . . . . . . . . 45
ICACC’12 Expo Preview. . . . . . . . 46

Message from organizers . . . . . . . . 50
Symposia schedule . . . . . . . . 51
Plenary speakers . . . . . . . . 52
Program overview. . . . . . . . 53

Message from organizers . . . . . . . . 54
Program overview and schedule . . . . . . . . 55
Technical advisory board and topic champions . . . . . . . . 56
Plenary speakers . . . . . . . . 57
Technical sessions grid . . . . . . . 58

• White House announces recent Materials Genome Initiative developments
• Business news
• With ‘Materials Project,’ DOE and MIT launch new materials properties search engine

• Welcome to our newest Corporate Member

• St. Louis Section & RCD 48th Annual Symposium

• Society award nomination deadline: Jan. 15, 2012

• Engineering Ceramics Division announces best paper, poster awards

• A letter from the president of ACerS/NICE to ACerS members
• Material Advantage contest award winners 2011

• Owens Corning Science and Technology Center celebrates 50 years

• Goyal, Boccaccini and Suresh receive honors

• With low-temp SOFC gains like this … why stop now?

• A call to action: Establishing performance metrics for supercapacitors

• The Solyndra effect—Fruity thinking on federal nuclear startup loan guarantees

• Glass wall condos getting slammed as ‘throw away buildings’ in CBC series

• World Trade Center unveils replacement for flawed glass designs

• Gallium nitride shows promise for biomedical implants

• 3D printing of bonelike scaffolds

• Solid freeform fabrication of one-piece investment casting molds

• New explanation for electrical conductivity at oxide-oxide interface

• Mapping ZnO nanoparticles in human skin

• Ladies and Gentlemen—Start your pyrheliometers!

Will Garrett
Garrett set up a slip-casting lab at Colorado School of Mines for about $800 and shares the details in this how-to article.