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Ceramics and Ceramic Composites: Opportunities and Cooperative Research Modes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

John B. Wachtman Jr.
John B. Wachtman Jr.*
Affiliation:
Director, Center for Ceramics Research, Rutgers University, Box 909, Piscataway, N. J. 08854
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Abstract

Ceramics and ceramic composites are a rapidly evolving category of materials capable of being tailored to have unique combinations of electrical, optical, mechanical, and chemical properties that make them essential and irreplacable in many engineering applications. Conventional ceramics have both enabled and enhanced many important aspects of our modern technological society; the next generation of ceramics will play a further enabling role for still higher performance devices.

A briefing panel of the National Academies of Science and Engineering recently identified four areas into which promising research areas for advanced ceramics can be grouped:

  1. 1. New thin films and layer structures with improved properties.

  2. 2. Exploration of completely new, multicomponent ceramic crystal structures and composites.

  3. 3. The mechanical behavior of ceramics and tough composites.

  4. 4. Ceramic processing of large parts and assemblies.

Three mechanisms for achieving critical mass in ceramics research were recommended:

  1. 1. University/industry programs.

  2. 2. A summer institute.

  3. 3. A large interdisciplinary center.

Type
Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 60: Symposium L – Defect Properties and Processing of High-Technology Nonmetallic Materials , 1985 , 3
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1986

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