US-Germany Joint Seminar on Powder-free Processing for Advanced Ceramics; November 19-23, 1990; Schloss Ringberg, Germany

该奖项资助12名美国科学家参加将于1990年11月在德国慕尼黑附近举行的关于先进陶瓷的美德研讨会的旅费。德国的消息来源为会议的所有费用和预计将出席的30至40名专家的生活费提供资金。这次会议是由罗格斯大学的Lisa C.Klein教授和斯图加特Max Planck金属研究所的Richard Brook和Ralf Riedel博士共同组织的。他们在这一领域广为人知，广受尊敬。研讨会的目的是讨论先进陶瓷无粉末加工的最新技术，确定未来的重要研究方向，并促进生产性国际合作的机会。具体的讨论主题是：1)用于制备整体氧化物陶瓷和玻璃的溶胶-凝胶法；2)用于制备整体非氧化物陶瓷的聚合物热解；以及3)用于形成陶瓷的直接金属氧化(Dimox)工艺和生物方法。近年来，人们已经做出了很大的努力，以达到结构可靠性的水平，这将使陶瓷能够在广泛的应用中放心地使用。大部分工作都关注于改进粉末方法，以减少材料中微观缺陷和缺陷的发生。尽管近年来粉末加工科学有了很大的进步，但粉末系统存在缺陷的风险仍然很大。这次会议有一个及时而有价值的目标，那就是研究允许不使用粉末制造陶瓷的替代加工方法。美国和欧洲的参与者是这一领域的领导者，既代表了知名的科学家，也代表了年轻的科学家。被选为重点的主题将确保在前沿领域进行重大互动。

This award supports the travel costs of twelve U.S. scientists to participate in a U.S.-German seminar on advanced ceramics to be held near Munich, Germany, in November, 1990. German sources are financing all costs of the meeting and the subsistence of the 30 to 40 experts expected to attend. The meeting is co-organized by Professor Lisa C. Klein of Rutgers University and Drs. Richard Brook and Ralf Riedel of the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart. They are well known and widely-respected in this field. The purposes of the workshop are to discuss the state-of-the-art in powder free processing for advanced ceramics, to identify important research directions for the future and to promote opportunities for productive international cooperation. Specific themes shaping the discussions are 1) the sol-gel route for the preparation of monolithic oxide ceramics and glasses; 2) polymer pyrolysis for the preparation of monolithic non-oxide ceramics; and 3) the direct metal oxidation (dimox) process and biological methods for the formation of ceramics. Great efforts have been made in recent years to reach the levels of structural reliability which would allow ceramics to be used with confidence in a wide range of applications. Much of the work has been concerned with improving powder-based methods that would reduce the occurrence of microscopic faults and flaws within the materials. Although there has been great progress in powder processing science in recent years, the risk of flaws with powder systems remains considerable. This meeting has the timely and worthwhile objective of examining alternative processing methods that would allow the fabrication of ceramics without the use of powders. The U.S. and European participants are leaders in this field and represent both established and younger scientists. The topics selected as foci will ensure significant interactions in forefront areas.