AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY bullemerginge ceramicstin & glass technology DECEMBER 2010 Product Directory • Service Directory • Company Directory • ceramicSOURCE2011 Geographic Index • Also inside: • Materials Science & Technology 2010 Conference & Exhibition report • Electronic Materials and Applications 2011 preview • 35th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites preview contents December 2010 • Vol. 89 No. 9 ACerS Annual Meeting, MS&T’10 in Review...................... 22 ACerS Early-2011 Meetings Previews Electronic Materials and Applications........................... 26 35th Int’l Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites................................................ 28 ceramicSOURCE 2009 PRODUCTS & SERVICES DIRECTORY... 35 Products & Services Directories Product/Service Index ....................................... 35 Raw Materials & Powders.................................... 39 Ceramic & Metallic Powders & Materials ....................... 41 cover story Additives.................................................. 49 The ceramicSource Materials Preparation, Handling & Packaging.................... 51 Buyer’s guide issue Fabricating & Finishing ...................................... 54 also is accesible online at www. ceramicsource.org – page 33 Decorating ................................................ 57 Photo courtesy of: Corning Drying, Firing & Melting ..................................... 61 Refractories ............................................... 71 Testing/Evaluation Instruments & Equipment...................... 81 Laboratory Equipment & Supplies.............................. 83 Consultants & Services....................................... 84 Custom Fabrication & Engineering Services ...................... 86 Education & Resources ...................................... 89 Laboratory Services ......................................... 90 Plant Construction, Design & Engineering........................ 91 Research Organizations Advanced Structural & Technical .......... 92 Artware & Construction ...................................... 96 Annual meeting and Dinnerware & Electronics .................................... 96 MS&T’10 report Glass & Porcelain Enamel .................................... 98 New officers, research, awards, Geographic Index: United States .............................. 76 networking, expo and student Geographic Index: International .............................. 78 activities – page 22 Company Directory......................................... 136 departments News & Trends ................................................ 3 • “Fathers of graphene” awarded Nobel Prize • Saint-Gobain to open new PV facility in Korea • DuPont PV revenue reaches billion one year ahead of schedule ACerS Spotlight ................................................ 6 • Spahr new ACerS executive director • Beth Judson, husband die in plane crash • Call for nominations: The Toldeo Glass and Ceramics Award • January short course offered News & Trends • More than 35 job listings in ACerS’s new Career Center “Fathers of Graphene” awarded Nobel Prize – page 3 American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 89, No. 9 1 AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY contents bulletin December 2010 • Vol. 89 No. 9 Executive Staff Charles G. Spahr, Executive Director and Publisher, [email protected] departments, continued Editorial and Production People in the Spotlight .......................................... 8 Peter Wray, Editor • Fellow Suresh new NSF director ph: 614-794-5853 fx: 614-794-4505 [email protected] • ACerS past president Jantzen awarded Don Orth Award of Merit Ann Spence, Assistant Editor • Goyal named R&D Magazine ‘Innovator of the Year’ ph: 614-794-5825 fx: 614-794-5822 [email protected] Ceramics in the Environment.................................... 11 Michael Greenman, Contributing Editor Tess M. Speakman, Graphic Designer • Google invests in windpower ‘superhighway’ Editorial Advisory Board • Tesla unveils new battery pack James C. Marra, Chair, Savannah River National Lab • Sandia research to forecast solar plant output Kristen Brosnan, General Electric Alexis Clare, Alfred University Ceramics in Energy ............................................ 13 Olivia Graeve, Alfred University • Berkeley Lab nets stewardship for U.S.–China energy-efficient construction Linda E. Jones, Alfred University Venkat Venkataramani, GE Research consortium Customer Service/Circulation • Electrochemical strain microscopy developed to study Li-ion movement ph: 866-721-3322 fx: 301-206-9789 [email protected] • DOE announces $57M in new SBIR/STTR programs Address Advances in Nanomaterials .................................... 15 600 North Cleveland Avenue, Suite 210 • Silicon nanomesh as thermal conductivity barrier improving thermoelectrics Westerville, OH 43082-6920 • Paper-grown ZnO nanorods, nanoneedles • Reversible silicon/silicon-oxide nanowire switch developed for 3D storage Advertising Sales Research Briefs ............................................... 19 [email protected] National Sales • Sintering in a flash? Patricia A. 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All feature articles are covered in Current Contents. 2 American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 89, No. 9 news & trends ‘Fathers of graphene’ awarded Nobel Prize Visit: www.nature.com/nmat/journal/ v6/n3/full/nmat1849.html n Five new research sites to be built with $50M in NIST grants NIST waded through more than 100 proposals during the past few months and has now approved proposals and funding for five new scientific research facilities, including two that will con- centrate on nanotechnologies. The institute will give a total of $50 million for centers that will construct new labs or expand existing ones. Each sponsoring institution is matching the NIST dollars with at least 20 percent of the annual project costs. The research centers’ puposes, loca- tions, funding and timetables are as follows: • Center of Excellence in Nano (Credit: University of Manchester.) Mechanical Science & Engineering Andrei Geim and Konstantin Novoselov were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (nanoscale engineering and science), 2010 for their groundbreaking research in two-dimensional graphene. University of Michigan; $9.5 million of Two University of Manchester Graphene, the one-atom-thick $41.2 million construction budget, to (U.K.) researchers have been awarded mesh of carbon atoms, shows astonish- open summer 2013. this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics for ing electron mobility and may be the • Western Institute of Nanotech- their work on graphene. eventual route to superfast electronics– nology on Green Engineering and A well known story,