Developments in Strategic Materials and Computational Design V

This issue contains 31 papers from The American CeramicSociety's 38th International Conference on Advanced Ceramicsand Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 26-31,2014. This issue includes papers presented in the followingSymposia and Focused Sessions: Symposium 2 - Advanced CeramicCoatings for Structural, Environmental, and FunctionalApplications; Symposium 10 - Virtual Materials(Computational) Design and Ceramic Genome; Symposium 11 -Advanced Materials and Innovative Processing Ideas for theIndustrial Root Technology; Symposium 12 - Materials forExtreme Environments: Ultrahigh Temperature Ceramics andNanolaminated Ternary Carbides and Nitrides; Focused Session 1 -Geopolymers and Chemically Bonded Ceramics; Focused Session 2- Advanced Ceramic Materials and Processing for Photonics andEnergy; Focused Session 3 - Rare Earth Oxides for Energy, Optical and Biomedical Applications, Focused Session 4 -Ion-Transport Membranes; 3rd Global Pacific Rim EngineeringCeramics Summit; and the 3rd Annual Global Young InvestigatorForum