This proceedings volume contains a collection of 34 papers from the following symposia held during the 2015 Materials Science and Technology (MS&T '15) meeting:
- Innovative Processing and Synthesis of Ceramics, Glasses and Composites
- Advances in Ceramic Matrix Composites
- Advanced Materials for Harsh Environments
- Advances in Dielectric Materials and Electronic Devices
- Controlled Synthesis, Processing, and Applications of Structure and Functional Nanomaterials
- Processing and Performance of Materials Using Microwaves, Electric and Magnetic Fields, Ultrasound, Lasers, and Mechanical Work, Rustum Roy Memorial Symposium
- Sintering and Related Powder Processing Science and Technologies
- Surface Protection for Enhanced Materials Performance: Science, Technology, and Application
- Thermal Protection Materials and Systems
- Ceramic Optical Materials
- Alumina at the Forefront of Technology
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CONTROLLED SYNTHESIS, PROCESSING, AND APPLICATIONS OF STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL NANOMATERIALS
Assessing the Limits of Accuracy for the Tauc Method for Optical Band Gap Determination 3
Dunbar P. Birnie, III
Investigation of Pyroaurite-Type Anionic Clay-Derived Mixed Oxides with Various Compositions 17
Jonathan Gabriel, Aarti Patel, Ewul Ebenezer, Andrei Jitianu, and Mihaela Jitianu
Formation and Characterization of Nano-Scale Titanium Carbides in a Titanium Trialuminide Intermetallic 31
Edward A. Laitila and Donald E. Mikkola
Growth Kinetics of Lanthanum Phosphate Core/Shell Nanoparticles Doped with Ce-Tb and Eu 45