Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites

This collection compiles peer reviewed papers from the presentations into 9 issues of the 2008 Ceramic Engineering & Science Proceedings (CESP); Volume 29, Issues 2-10, 2008 as outlined below:
? Mechanical Properties and Processing of Ceramic Binary, Ternary and Composite Systems, Vol. 29, Is 2 (includes papers from symposium 1)
? Behavior and Reliability of Ceramic Macro and Micro Scale Systems, Vol. 29, Is 3 (includes papers from symposium 1)
? Advanced Ceramic Coatings and Interfaces III, Vol. 29, Is 4 (includes papers from symposium 2)
? Advances in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells IV, Vol. 29, Is 5 (includes papers from symposium 3)
? Advances in Ceramic Armor IV, Vol. 29, Is 6 (includes papers from symposium 4)
? Advances in Bioceramics and Porous Ceramics, Vol. 29, Is 7 (includes papers from symposia 5 and 9)
? Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology II, Vol. 29, Is 8 (includes papers from symposium 7)
? Advanced Processing and Manufacturing Technologies for Structural and Multifunctional Materials II, Vol. 29, Is 9 (includes papers from symposium 8)
? Developments in Strategic Materials, Vol. 29, Is 10 (includes papers from symposia 6, 10, and 11, and focused sessions 1 and 2)

Tatsuki Ohji is a principal research scientist of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. He earned his BS and MS from Nagoya Institute of Technology in mechanical engineering and Ph. D. from Tokyo Institute of Technology in inorganic materials engineering. He was a visiting scientist at University of California, Berkeley during 1991-92. His research interests include mechanical and other characteristics of ceramics, ceramic composites and porous materials. Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and recipient of the Academy Award of the Ceramic Society of Japan, he has authored or coauthored more than 250 papers. He is serving as associate editors of Journal of the American Ceramic Society and International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology. He is recognized as the most highly cited author who has published papers in Journal of the American Ceramic Society from 1999 to 2004.