AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY bulletinemerging ceramics & glass technology OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2010 A bright future for glass-ceramics Cost-efficient nanofabrication of high-temperature superconducting ceramic wire • Materials mingle for mini windmill • Rustum Roy remembered • MS&T’10 Final Program • ICACC’11 (Daytona Beach) & Electronic Materials and Applications 2011 meetings previews • contents October – November 2010 • Vol. 89 No. 8 feature articles A bright future for glass–ceramics............................... 19 Edgar Dutra Zanotto The impressive range of properties and exciting potential applications ensure that the prospects for glass–ceramics are very high. Thermochemical nanofabrication of high-temperature superconducting ceramic and multistrand electric wire . 28 Anatol Rokhvarger Researchers demonstrate cost-efficient production of reliable, third-generation superconducting round wire. cover story Small-scale modular windmill................................... 34 Wide horizons remain for Scott Bressers, Dragan Avirovik, Chris Vernieri, Jess Regan, Stephen Chappell, Mark glass–ceramics Hotze, Stephen Luhman, Mickaël Lallart, Daniel Inman and Shashank Priya Spread of applications and new Virginia Tech researchers have created and tested a mini wind turbine capable of recharg- products continues – page 19 ing small electronic devices and powering remote networks. Cover photo: Ceran glass-ceramic cooktop, ACerS Corporate Technical Achievement Awards ................. 41 courtesy of Schott North America Corning’s Gorilla Glass brings King Kong strength to high-tech electronics ..... 41 Novel GE scintillator delivers CT scanning imaging revolution .............. 43 MS&T 2010/ACerS Annual Meeting Final Program................ 45 Plenary session ............................................................46 ACerS lectures ............................................................47 MS&T’10 and ACerS 112th Annual Meeting program overview......................47 ACerS activities............................................................48 Facilities map .............................................................49 MS&T’10 program-at-a-glance................................................50 MS&T’10 exhibitors ........................................................51 Featired ceramic-related exhibitors.............................................52 ACerS early-2011 meetings previews............................ 54 Cost-efficient production Electronic Materials and Applications 2011 of superconducting wire Plenary speakers........................................................54 Nanolithography allows rapid pro- Schedule ..............................................................55 totyping of electronics – page 28 35th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites Plenary speakers........................................................56 Schedule ..............................................................57 Exhibition information ....................................................57 departments News & Trends ................................................ 4 • Missouri S&T gets funding to develop battlefield “smart dust” • Coating that makes glass less lethal to birds gets design award • Band excitation scaning probe microscopy innovation wins accolades ACerS Spotlight ................................................ 7 Mini windmill enabled by • Rustum Roy 1924–2010 materials mashup • “Additives for Monolithics” symposium scheduled Ultra-low-power energy scaveng- • 2011 award nomination deadline approaching ing for electronics – page 34 American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 89, No. 8 1 AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY contents bulletin October–November 2010 • Vol. 89 No. 8 Executive Staff Scott Steen, Executive Director and Publisher departments, continued [email protected] ACerS Spotlight (continued) Editorial and Production • Calling all potential Emeritus members Peter Wray, Editor ph: 614-794-5853 fx: 614-794-4505 • Visit the new ACerS Career Center [email protected] • ACerS 2010 division award winners announced Ann Spence, Assistant Editor ph: 614-794-5825 fx: 614-794-5822 • GOMD 2011 call for papers [email protected] • PACRIM 9 call for papers Michael Greenman, Contributing Editor Tess M . Speakman, Graphic Designer • Upcoming short courses Editorial Advisory Board • In memoriam James C . Marra, Chair, Savannah River National Lab Kristen Brosnan, General Electric People in the Spotlight ......................................... 10 Alexis Clare, Alfred University • Day receives Phoenix Award from glass industry Olivia Graeve, Alfred University Linda E . Jones, Alfred University • Brundage takes new ceramic industry position Venkat Venkataramani, GE Research Ceramics in the Environment.................................... 11 Customer Service/Circulation ph: 866-721-3322 fx: 301-206-9789 • Brazil group sees “hygroelectricity” as a new renewable energy source [email protected] • “Personalized energy systems” predicted after catalytic oxygen leap Address 600 North Cleveland Avenue, Suite 210 • Mars cleaning technology applicable to Earth-bound solar panels Westerville, OH 43082-6920 Advances in Nanomaterials .................................... 14 • Flexible cellulose aerogel overcomes brittleness Advertising Sales • Nanowires boost efficiency of ultra-low-cost, stable solar cells [email protected] • Nanosandwiching method to improve transistors National Sales Patricia A . Janeway, Associate Publisher Ceramics in Energy . 16 [email protected] ph: 614-794-5826 fx: 614-794-5822 • A123 spins off new low-cost flow battery project: “24M” Europe • FuelCell Energy and G3 Power Systems tapping egg-farm waste Richard Rozelaar [email protected] ph: 44-(0)-20-7834-7676 fx: 44-(0)-20-7973-0076 Research Briefs ............................................... 17 • Less platinum, better efficiency for fuel cells • Electron irradiation minimizes loops in graphene • Catalysts for lithium–air batteries, photocatalysts developed resources Classified Advertising . 58 Calendar . 63 Officers Display Advertising Index . 64 Edwin Fuller, President Marina Pascucci, President-elect John Kaniuk, Past President Arun Varshneya, Treasurer American Ceramic Society Bulletin covers news and activities of the Society and its members, includes items of interest to the ceramics Scott Steen, Executive Director community and provides the most current information concerning all aspects of ceramic technology, including R&D, manufacturing, engineering and marketing. 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All feature articles are covered in Current Contents. 2 American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 89, No. 8 See Us at MS&T’10, Booth 312 | See Us at ICACC, Booth 200 news & trends Missouri S&T gets funding to develop battlefield ‘smart dust’ A significant trend in electronics chemicals, electronic technology is the increasing ability to signatures and human provide adaptive features into smaller activity. and smaller electronic devices. An Jagannathan example of this technology trend is Sarangapani, a profes- electronic “motes.” Electronic motes sor of electrical and are devices that can computer engineering • Support the collection and inte- at S&T and principal gration of data from a variety of minia- investigator for the ture sensors; project, says the motes • Analyze the sensor data as speci- are capable of shar- fied by system level controls; and ing information with • Wirelessly communicate the each other and even results of their analyzes to other motes, interacting with exist- system base stations and the Internet as ing Wi-Fi networks to specified by system automation. spread messages. In the Motes are also sometimes referred to battlefield, the motes as smart