Global Roadmap for Ceramic and Glass Technology - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470104910 ISBN 13: 9780470104910

Publisher: Wiley-American Ceramic Society, 2007

Synopsis

This is the only global roadmap that identifies the technical and manufacturing challenges associated with the development and expansion of commercial markets for ceramics and glass. Featuring presentations by industry leaders at the 1st International Congress on Ceramics (ICC) held in 2006, it suggests positive, proactive ways to address these challenges.

The ICC Global Roadmap contains the following content:
1) Summary papers prepared by the invited speakers before the meeting
2) A detailed account of the presentation of each invited speaker written by an editor who attends the presentation
3) A summary account and future recommendations for the industry on each topic covered written by the board and the president of this meeting, Dr. Stephen Freiman (National Institutes of Standards and Technology)
4) The CDRom accompanying the book contains all of the above as well as pdfs of the presentations for non-invited speakers, including posters presented and discussed.

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From the Back Cover

The future of ceramics—challenges and pathways

This is the only global roadmap that identifies the technical and manufacturing challenges associated with the development and expansion of commercial markets for ceramics and glass. Featuring presentations by industry leaders at the 1st International Congress on Ceramics (ICC) held in 2006, it suggests positive, proactive ways to address these challenges.

The ICC Global Roadmap features:

• Leading-edge thinking on issues in ten primary topic areas: International Trends and Business Perspectives; Innovation and Invention; Biology and Medicine; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Environment; Glass and Transparent Ceramics; Multiple Applications and Processing; and Transportation

• Coverage of both conventional and next-generation applications

• Sixty-nine papers by the invited speakers

• A summary account and future recommendations for the industry on each of the ten topic areas written by Global Roadmap editors who are acknowledged experts in their fields

• A summary paper, "A Global Roadmap for Ceramics," by the president of the meeting, Dr. Stephen Freiman

• A companion CD-ROM with all of the above as well as fifty-three additional papers and presentations

About the Author

Stephen Freiman, PhD, served as president of the 1st International Congress on Ceramics. Dr. Freiman left the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2006 and began a consulting business. In his twenty-eight years at NIST, he served as chief of the Ceramics Division and as deputy director of the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory. Dr. Freiman has published over 150 papers focusing on the mechanical properties of brittle materials. He is a Fellow and a past president of the American Ceramic Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-American Ceramic Society
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0470104910
• ISBN 13: 9780470104910
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 968
• Editor: Freiman Stephen W., Singh Mrityunjay, Fischman Gary S., Hellmann John, Logan Kathryn, Coyle Tom, Hobbs Linn, Smith Jeffrey D., Sideridis Costa, Green Marty, Cook Robert D.