Jonathon Foreman

Introduction to “Toughness and mechanical properties” for Glass: Then and Now

By Jonathon Foreman / February 11, 2022

As part of the IYoG celebrations, ACerS’ “Glass: Then and Now” series is highlighting ACerS journal articles each month that support advancement in glass science and technology. The focus this month is toughness and mechanical properties.

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Journal author information: Sharing is caring

By Jonathon Foreman / January 21, 2022

Journal articles must be found to be cited. While writing your papers so that they can be categorized properly by search engines is useful, authors can be even more proactive in getting their manuscripts in front of colleagues, potential collaborators, grant administrators, and search committees through sharing.

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Interdisciplinary is so 2021; Ceramics are interplanetary

By Jonathon Foreman / January 14, 2022

In a recent open-access ACerS journal article, ACerS Distinguished Life Member Alex Navrotsky and Arizona State graduate research assistant Megan Householder discuss how the study of planets shares many of the same analytical and computational frameworks as materials science.

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Advanced energy gets cracking and stops the cracking—Jonathon’s top 5 favorite Ceramic Tech Today posts from 2021

By Jonathon Foreman / January 7, 2022

MAX phases, carbon nanotubes, and journal TOC alerts make Jonathon’s list of top five favorite CTT posts from 2021.

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Introduction to “Optical fibers and photonics” for Glass: Then and Now

By Jonathon Foreman / January 5, 2022

As part of the IYoG celebrations, ACerS’ new “Glass: Then and Now” series will highlight ACerS journal articles each month that support advancement in glass science and technology. The focus this month is optical fibers and photonics.

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Journal of the American Ceramic Society announces best papers of 2021

By Jonathon Foreman / January 4, 2022

The editors of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society selected 12 articles from among the more than 600 articles published in 2021 that exemplify excellence for the science of advanced ceramics.

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Carbon nanotubes improve toughness and functionality of oxide ceramic composites

By Jonathon Foreman / October 19, 2021

Recent articles on carbon nanotube-containing ceramic composites showed improved properties compared to the original ceramic composite. Two recent articles in ACerS journals demonstrate these improvements.

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Disorders of protection—high-entropy oxides for environmental barrier coatings

By Jonathon Foreman / October 1, 2021

Many researchers are working to uncover alternatives to yttria stabilized zirconia for use as environmental barrier coatings. High-entropy oxides are among the classes of materials being explored, and two papers in Journal of the American Ceramic Society explore different high-entropy oxide systems.

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ACerS Rapid Communication: Getting the word out quickly and scientifically

By Jonathon Foreman / September 24, 2021

Sometimes researchers present discoveries so new and important that they merit short review times. ACerS journals offer the article type “Rapid Communication” to enable rapid decisions and priority of publication while retaining rigorous review.

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Making glass research more Fun: The Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass

By Jonathon Foreman / September 14, 2021

The Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass) is an international center for basic and applied research and training in glass science and engineering. A special issue of the International Journal of Applied Glass Science details some of the research performed at FunGlass.

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