About Us
The Basic Science Division of The American Ceramic Society is dedicated to the development of the ceramic science underlying present and future applications of ceramics. The Basic Science Division fosters the scientific and technological foundations of ceramic science, identifying new areas in, and fields of, ceramic science critical to our current and future members.
Chair: Elizabeth Dickey
dickey@matse.psu.edu
Chair-Elect: Keith Bowman
kbowman@ecn.purdue.edu
Vice Chair: Helen M. Chan
helen.chan@lehigh.edu
Secretary: Scott Misture
misture@alfred.edu
BSD Officer List 2008-2011
The rules of the Basic Science Division have been amended as of April 2000.
Rules of the Basic Science Division
All ACerS meetings
Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) Awards
Roland B Snow Award: Best of Show of the Contest
The Robert B. Sosman Award and Lecture
Technical Topic Areas of Interest to BSD
The Basic Science Division solicits technical topics areas of interest to our members and the future of ceramics. If you have a topic area to add to this, 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
(including Self Assembly)
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, Sui 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