The future of ceramics-challenges and pathways
This is the only global roadmap that identifies the technical and manufacturing challenges associated with the development and expansion of commercial markets for ceramics and glass. Featuring presentations by industry leaders at the 1st International Congress on Ceramics (ICC) held in 2006, it suggests positive, proactive ways to address these challenges.
The ICC Global Roadmap features:
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Leading-edge thinking on issues in ten primary topic areas: International Trends and Business Perspectives; Innovation and Invention; Biology and Medicine; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Environment; Glass and Transparent Ceramics; Multiple Applications and Processing; and Transportation
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Coverage of both conventional and next-generation applications
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Sixty-nine papers by the invited speakers
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A summary account and future recommendations for the industry on each of the ten topic areas written by Global Roadmap editors who are acknowledged experts in their fields
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A summary paper, "A Global Roadmap for Ceramics," by the president of the meeting, Dr. Stephen Freiman
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A companion CD-ROM with all of the above as well as fifty-three additional papers and presentations
