Basic Science Division

Technical Topic Areas of Interest to BSD

The Basic Science Division solicits technical topic areas of interest to our members and the future of ceramics. If you have a topic area to add to this list, and want to be a champion for this area, please tell the BSD Program Chairs.

• Materials and Process Modeling:  Veena Tikare

• Measurements and Standards:  Chris Schilling, Ajit Jilla

• Green (Environmentally Friendly) Processing:  Jim Adair, Shin-Ichi Hirano

• Combinatorial Methods in Ceramics Research:  Debbie Kaiser, Lynne Schneemeyer

• Colloids and Interfacial Chemistry Michael Hu, Vince Hackley

• Power Sources – Fuel Cell and Batteries

• MicroPorous Materials

• Ceramics in Nanotechnologies:  Mark Deguire, Michael Hu, Jeff Brinker

• Ceramics and Biology

• BioMedical Materials:  Gary Fischman, Otto Wilson

• Aging and Reliability in Ceramics:  Jill Glass

• Electronic Structure of Ceramics

• Chem-Mechanical Polishing and Tribology:  Said Jahanmir, Rob Sabia

• Materials for Wireless Communication:  Duane Dimos, Mike Lanagan, Steve Freiman

• Ceramics in Optical Communication:  Subhash Shinde

• Light Weight Composites

• Sensors and Actuators (MEMS)

• Electrochemical Ceramics – Sensors and Catalysts:  Greg Rohrer, Xiaoqing Pan

• Solid Free Form Fabrication

• Novel Synthesis and Processing

• Multi-Functional Materials

• Ceramic Coatings:  Nitin Padture, Desiderio Kovar

• Thin Films

• Ceramics Joining:  Ivar Reimanis, Ron Loehman

• Interfaces:  Vinayak Dravid, Xiaoqing Pan, Siu-Wai Chan

• Sintering

• Preceramic Polymers

• Thermal Protection Materials:  Sylvia Johnson

• Ceramic Armor and Window Materials

• Layered Materials

• High Temperature Composites

• Fibers

• Membranes and Filtration

• Photovoltaics

• Functionally Graded Materials

• Photonic Crystals

• Powder Mechanics:  Kevin Ewsuk, John Lannutti

• Texture:  Gary Messing, Keith Bowman, Mark Vaudin