ACerS news

JACerS impact factor increases for third consecutive year

By Eileen De Guire / July 3, 2012

The impact factor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society increases for the third straight year. Credit: ACerS; Wiley. Thomson Reuters has released its annual report on journal impact…

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Latest edition of ACerS–NIST phase equilibria diagrams database loaded with new entries, diagrams

By / July 2, 2012

If you work in ceramic science and engineering, you probably know that phase diagrams are a must-have reference material. That’s why The American Ceramic Society and NIST put so much…

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Video: Shaping the Future of Ceramics—ACerS’ Charlie Spahr on what ICC4 and CLS offer you

By Eileen De Guire / June 27, 2012

[flash http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/charlie_icc4.flv mode=1 f={image=http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/charlie_icc4.jpg}] Why attend the 4th International Congress on Ceramics and 3rd Ceramic Leadership Summit? ACerS executive director, Charlie Spahr, talks about the meeting program and special events…

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Recap and photos from Cements Division meeting in Austin, Texas

By Eileen De Guire / June 22, 2012

Last week’s Cements Division meeting and symposium focused on computational tools applied to cement research and development. Here, David Lange, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, asks Ed Garboczi a question at…

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Chemical & Engineering News reports on GOMD; Saint-Gobain releases life cycle assessments for glass and mirrors

By Eileen De Guire / June 19, 2012

Approaches to studying the dissolution mechanisms of glasses for nuclear waste containment was one of the topics reported on by a Chemical & Engineering News science writer at the May GOMD…

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ACerS and NIST agreement continues 60 year ceramic phase diagrams program

By Eileen De Guire / June 13, 2012

Charlie Spahr, executive director of ACerS, signed a five-year agreement with NIST to continue the ACerS-NIST ceramic phase diagrams program. Terrell Vanderah (left) is NIST’s managing scientist of the program.…

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Making entrepreneurship successful. 3rd Ceramic Leadership Summit track at ICC4

By Eileen De Guire / June 12, 2012

[flash https://ceramics.org/ceramictechtoday/wp-content/video/clstrack.flv mode=1 f={image=https://ceramics.org/ceramictechtoday/wp-content/video/clstrack.jpg}] Kathy Faber, president of the 4th International Congress on Ceramics, talks about the 3rd Ceramic Leadership Summit track, which focuses on the unique issues entrepreneurs face.…

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Previews from the International Journal of Applied Glass Science

By Eileen De Guire / June 11, 2012

Forming or fiberizing is achieved by pulling fibers through tiny orifices in a precious metal bushing. Laboratory bushings can have as few as one hole, whereas high-throughput production bushings typically…

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Previews of the latest articles in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society—special topical issue on sintering

By Eileen De Guire / June 11, 2012

— Image of PiezoMEMS actuated wing design, illustrating PZT stroke and pitch actuators and thin film wing structure (left). Image of suspended platform with individually controllable wings next to a…

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Germany is epicenter of ceramic engineering and manufacturing this week

By Eileen De Guire / May 25, 2012

From Tuesday’s gala dinner at the CMCEE conference this week in Dresden, Germany. In contemporary garb from left are ACerS President George Wicks; ACerS Executive Director Charlie Spahr; CMCEE Cochair…

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