Coatings as an Enabler of System Performance

Focus: Microstructural design, advanced processing, evaluation in simulated service, mechanical properties and modeling of coating and coating performance.

Topics: Microstructural design; advanced processing; evaluation in simulated service; mechanical properties and modeling of coatings; surface treatments for enabling material designs.

Commonality of Phenomena in Composite Materials

Focus: State-of-the-art advances in metal, ceramic, polymer and nanocomposites.

Topics: Processing; characterization; mechanical behavior; interfaces; modeling; life prediction; product development; environmental effects of properties and performance of all composites and their constituents.

Copper and Copper Alloys for Emerging Technologies

Focus: New developments in copper alloys.

Topics: Shape memory alloys; bend formability; antimicrobial copper alloys; microstructure; mechanical properties; design, forming and synthesis of copper alloys.

Glass and Optical Materials

Focus: Manufacturing, research and/or development of materials in the broad glass and optical materials categories.

Topics: Inorganic glasses; metallic glasses; polymeric glasses; composite glass-ceramics; optical crystals; crystalline fibers; optical fibers; planar wave guides; manufacturing issues of traditional and specialty glasses; Cooper session.

International Symposium on Ceramic Matrix Composites

Focus: Processing, properties and performance of ceramic matrix composites and ultra-high temperature ceramics.

Topics: Fiber-reinforced ceramic matrix composites; oxides and nonoxide composites; borides, nitrides and carbides; mechanical properties; TBC/EBC.

Iron-Based Amorphous Metals: An Important Family of High-Performance, Corrosion-Resistant Materials

Focus: Iron-based amorphous metal design and composition, materials synthesis, thermal stability, corrosion resistance, environmental cracking, mechanical properties, damage tolerance, radiation effects, potential applications.

Topics: Computational design; role of key elements, such as boron, carbon, chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, yttrium; composites and compositionally graded structures; synthesis; process models; economics.

Next Generation Biomaterials: Advanced Processing, Characterization and Modeling of Materials for Medical Devices

Focus: Advanced processing, characterization and modeling of materials for medical devices.

Topics: Bioceramics; biomaterial surfaces; metallic implant materials; nanoparticles for medical diagnosis and treatment; novel materials for drug delivery and biosensing; scaffolds for tissue engineering.

Thermal Shock Resistant Materials

Focus: Ceramic materials resistant to thermal shock.

Topics: Catalytic substrates; NZP materials; electrochemical reactors; biomorphic silicon carbide; particulate filters; functionally graded yttria-nickel alloy; ZrC-Mo cermets; platelet reinforced ceramics.