The Ceramographic Exhibit & Competition, is an annual poster exhibit to promote the use of microscopy and microanalysis as tools in the scientific investigation of ceramic materials. This year’s competition was held during the ACerS Annual Meeting in September in Portland, Or., in the Oregon Convention Center. Winners were selected for the scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy categories, Optical/Confocal Microscopy and Undergraduate Studies. The Roland B. Snow award was presented for Best in Show.
Congratulations to:
Roland B. Snow Award for Best in Show:
“Purdue’s ZnO Loops”
Xin Li Phuah and Haiyan Wang
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Scanning/Transmission Electron Microscopy (S/TEM)
1st Place: “Stars and Stripes”
Joshua Smeltzer, Christopher J. Marvel, and Martin P. Harmer
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
2nd Place: “Artistic Artifact”
Yolande Berta, Yong Ding, Salil Joshi, Ning Xia, and Rosario Gerhardt
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
3rd Place: “Porous Nanoscale Y-Ti Oxide Resembling “Lotus Receptacle” Mallikarjun Karadge and Shenyan Huang
GE Research, Niskayuna, NY
Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
1st Place: “Purdue’s ZnO Loops”
Xin Li Phuah and Haiyan Wang
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2nd Place: “Eutectic Microstructures Induced by Flash Sintering”
Yingjie Yang and Martha Mecartney
University of California – Irvine, CA
3rd Place: “Solid State Reaction and Single Crystal Growth Along Interphase Boundaries”
Kevin Anderson, Anit Giri, Richard P. Vinci, Helen Chan
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Optical/Confocal Microscopy
1st Place: “Basket Weave”
Chris McLasky, Shenyan Huang, Scott Weaver, Cole Crawford, Evan Dolley
GE Research, Niskayuna, NY
2nd Place: “Deformation and Cracking in a Ceramic Powder Compact during Dewaxing”
Mayu Kato, Junichi Tatami, Motoyuki Iijima, Takuma Takahashi
Yokohama National University, Japan
Undergraduate Studies
1st Place: “Intermediate Reduction of Cobalt Oxide”
Madison Gianelle, Animesh Kundu, Helen Chan
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
2nd Place: “Microstructure of Electrochromic NiO Film”
Kristen Wong and Khalid Rafique
University of California – Irvine, CA