Abstract
AbstractUnder the sponsorship of the U.S. National Science Foundation, a workshop on emerging research opportunities in ceramic and glass science was held in September 2016. Reported here are proceedings of the workshop. The report details eight challenges identified through workshop discussions: Ceramic processing: Programmable design and assembly; The defect genome: Understanding, characterizing, and predicting defects across time and length scales; Functionalizing defects for unprecedented properties; Ceramic flatlands: Defining structure‐property relations in free‐standing, supported, and confined two‐dimensional ceramics; Ceramics in the extreme: Discovery and design strategies; Ceramics in the extreme: Behavior of multimaterial systems; Understanding and exploiting glasses and melts under extreme conditions; and Rational design of functional glasses guided by predictive modeling. It is anticipated that these challenges, once met, will promote basic understanding and ultimately enable advancements within multiple sectors, including energy, environment, manufacturing, security, and health care.
Highlights
Given the ever-increasing pace of innovation in the 21st century, the U.S National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored a workshop, held in September 2016, to identify emerging research areas in ceramic and glass science
The first assembly, “Future Research Needs in Ceramics,” coorganized by Yet-Ming Chiang and Karl Jakus, was held at NSF headquarters in June 1997.2 More recently, a workshop chaired by Gregory Rohrer and held in March 2012, highlighted eight challenges for the ceramic and glass communities in its report, “Challenges in Ceramic Science: A Report from the Workshop on Emerging Research Areas in Ceramic Science.”[3] less than 5 years elapsed since the previous meeting, it is well established that materials development cycles are shortening
Reported here are eight challenges reached by consensus during workshop discussions, each describing the fundamental science required to forward basic understanding of ceramics and glasses and enable advances in, among others, energy, environment, manufacturing, security, and health care: 1. Ceramic processing: Programmable design and assembly
Summary
Given the ever-increasing pace of innovation in the 21st century, the U.S National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored a workshop, held in September 2016, to identify emerging research areas in ceramic and glass science. In preparation for the meeting, participants suggested topics for consideration From these ideas, the workshop co-organizers, Katherine Faber, Jennifer Lewis, Clive Randall, and Gregory Rohrer, defined five themes for discussion: Ceramic Processing Science, Defect-Enabled Phenomena, Low-Dimensional Phenomena, Ceramics for Extreme Environments, and Glasses and High-Entropy Materials. The first assembly, “Future Research Needs in Ceramics,” coorganized by Yet-Ming Chiang and Karl Jakus, was held at NSF headquarters in June 1997.2 More recently, a workshop chaired by Gregory Rohrer and held in March 2012, highlighted eight challenges for the ceramic and glass communities in its report, “Challenges in Ceramic Science: A Report from the Workshop on Emerging Research Areas in Ceramic Science.”[3] less than 5 years elapsed since the previous meeting, it is well established that materials development cycles are shortening This is frequently described in graphs of accelerating waves of innovation, first noted by economist Joseph Schumpeter. Reported here are eight challenges reached by consensus during workshop discussions, each describing the fundamental science required to forward basic understanding of ceramics and glasses and enable advances in, among others, energy, environment, manufacturing, security, and health care: 1. Ceramic processing: Programmable design and assembly
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