Ceramic Materials

Ceramic Materials: Science and Engineering is an up-to-date treatment of ceramic science, engineering, and applications in a single, comprehensive text. Building on a foundation of crystal structures, phase equilibria, defects, and the mechanical properties of ceramic materials, students are shown how these materials are processed for a wide diversity of applications in today's society. Concepts such as how and why ions move, how ceramics interact with light and magnetic fields, and how they respond to temperature changes are discussed in the context of their applications. References to the art and history of ceramics are included throughout the text, and a chapter is devoted to ceramics as gemstones. This course-tested text now includes expanded chapters on the role of ceramics in industry and their impact on the environment as well as a chapter devoted to applications of ceramic materials in clean energy technologies. Also new are expanded sets of text-specific homework problems and other resources for instructors. The revised and updated Second Edition is further enhanced with color illustrations throughout the text.

C. Barry Carter joined the Department of Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Connecticut in Storrs in July 2007 and began a 5 year term as the Department Head. Before that he spent 12 years (’79-’91) on the Faculty at Cornell University in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MS&E) and 16 years as the 3M Heltzer Multidisciplinary Endowed Chair in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (CEMS) at the University of Minnesota (’91-’07). He worked as a research assistant to Oxford University Professor H.M. (Tiny) Powell on inclusion compounds before going up to Cambridge in 1967. He obtained his B.A. (1970), M.A. (1974) and Sc.D. (2001) from Cambridge University, his M.Sc. (1971) and D.I.C. from Imperial College, London, and his D.Phil. (1976) from Oxford University. He was Sir Peter Williams’s first student at Imperial College, working with him on the intercalation of layer materials. After a postdoc in Oxford with his D.Phil. thesis advisor, Sir Peter Hirsch, Barry movedto Cornell Universityin 1977,initially as a postdoctoral fellow, then becoming an Assistant Professor (1979), Associate Professor (1983) and Professor (1988) and directing the Electron Microscopy Facility (1987-1991). At Minnesota, he was the founding Director of the High-Resolution Microscopy Center and then the Associate Director of the Center for Interfacial Engineering; he created the Characterization Facility as a unified facility, including many forms of microscopy and diffraction in one physical location. He has held numerous visiting scientist positions: in the US at the Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Xerox PARC; in Sweden at Chalmers University (Gothenburg); in Germany at the Max Planck Institut fur Metallforschung (Stuttgart), the Forschungszentrum Julich, Hannover University, and IFW (Dresden); in France at ONERA (Chatillon); in the UK at Bristol University and at Cambridge University (Peterhouse); and in Japan at the ICYS at NIMS (Tsukuba).Dr. Carter is the co-author of two textbooks (the other is Transmission Electron Microscopy: A Textbook for Materials Science with David Williams), co-editor of six conference proceedings, and has published more than 290 refereed journal papers and more than 400 extended abstracts/conference proceedings papers. Since 1990 he has given more than 120 invited presentations at universities, conferences and research laboratories. Among numerous awards, he has received the Simon Guggenheim Award (1985-6), the Berndt Matthias Scholar Award (1997/8) and the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Award (1997). He organized the 16th International Symposium on the Reactivity of Solids (ISRS-16 in 2007). He was an Editor of the Journal of Microscopy (1995-1999) and of Microscopy and Microanalysis (2000-2004); he continues to serve on the Editorial Board of both journals.He became Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Materials Science in 2004, sharing this task with Rees Rawlings until 2007; the journal’s impact factor rose from 0.826 for 2003 to 1.859 for 2010. Barry is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), theMaterials Research Society (MRS), the Microscopy Society of America (MSA),the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), and the Royal Microscopical Society (RMS). His research group has won the American Ceramics Society’s Roland B. Snow Award 6 times, including the three consecutive years 2000-2002.He was the 1997 President of MSA, and served on the Executive Board of the International Federation of Societies for Electron Microscopy (IFSEM; 1999-2002). He was elected General Secretary of the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy (IFSM) for the period 2003-2010 and was then elected President of IFSM for the period 2011-2014 in 2010.He was elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering in 2010. M. Grant Norton is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in the School o