Session: Ceramics Engineering, Science and Glass Materials and Technology

 • Conservation and traditional ceramics

• Raw materials for advanced and sustainable ceramics

• Processing and assembly of composites combining ceramics and glasses with other classes of materials such as ceramic-metal and ceramic-plastic hybrids.

• New methods, new ways to use traditional methods, and overcoming challenges

• Ceramic Matrix Composites

• Materials and processes for traditional ceramics and glasses

• Thermal and Environmental Barrier Coatings

• Bio-ceramic Applications

• Green Manufacturing

• Ceramics in Environmental Applications

• Increasing the strength of glass for structural integrity

• Luminescence glasses/crystals and photonics materials

• Judd-Ofelt Theory and analysis to Ln3+ in optical materials 

• Interaction of glass within the human body

• Improving manufacturing and quality control of glasses, including furnace flow modeling

• Secondary processing including controlled crystallization, phase transformations, tempering, ion–exchange, coatings, and decoration.

• Factors affecting durability and long-term performance, including chemical and physical corrosion, and fatigue.