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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.

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Officers

Chair: Martha L. Mecartney
Chair-Elect: Elizabeth Dickey
Vice Chair: Keith Bowman
Secretary: Helen M. Chan

2008 BSD Secretary Nominees:

SCOTT T. MISTURE and PAUL SALVADOR

Misture Photo

Scott Misture Candidate Statement and Background:

Scott T. Misture
Inamori Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Alfred University
Alfred, NY 14802 USA

Candidate statement:
If elected as the BSD secretary, my primary goal will be to attract the next generation of ACerS members to the Division. As ceramic science and engineering becomes more interdisciplinary, the division has the opportunity to capture a broader range of participants while maintaining its focus on fundamentals. As a division officer, I would make every effort to maintain the overall quality of the technical programs while expanding the division activities to include new and emerging areas.

While I have not yet held any positions in ACerS, I have extensive experience in scientific organizations and have attended at least three ACerS meetings each year – including the Annual Meeting, Cocoa Beach, and the GOMD meetings. I have served as an organizer of the Denver X-ray Conference for the past 6 years, as well as serving as a director of the ICDD for the past 3 years. Both activities provide the background needed to take a leadership role in the division.

Education:
Alfred University, Ceramic Engineering, BS, 1990
Alfred University, Ceramic Science, Ph.D., 1994

Employment:
(10/96 - ) Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in 2002, named Inamori Professor in 2007

(11/94 to 10/96) Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the High Temperature Materials
Laboratory User Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

(8/93 to 7/94) Fellowship at Siemens Corporate Research, Munich, Germany

Accomplishments:
~100 publications in peer-reviewed journals
Associate Editor, X-Ray Optics and Instrumentation Journal, 2007-present
Board of Directors, International Centre for Diffraction Data, 2006-present
Denver X-Ray Conference Organizing Committee, 2002-present

Research centers on materials for energy conversion, with an emphasis on the structural chemistry of ionic and mixed conductors, photocatalysts, and gas separation materials.

ACerS History: Member since 1989, primary involvement with Basic Science and Glass & Optical Divisions.

Rules

The rules of the Basic Science Division have been amended as of April 2000.

Rules of the Basic Science Division

Meetings

All ACerS meetings

Awards

Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) Awards

Roland B Snow Award: Best of Show of the Contest

The Robert B. Sosman Award and Lecture

Research

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