12th INTERNATIONAL CERAMICS CONGRESS PART B

Review from Ringgold Inc., ProtoView: The symposium identified in the title covered soft solution processing, spark plasma and microwave synthesis and sintering, hybrid materials, and porous ceramics. The volume also documents two focused sessions<-->on the self-propagating high-temperature synthesis of ceramics, and layered and functionally graded materials. The topics include tailored silica-based xerogels and aerogels for insulation in space environments, producing and characterizing boron carbide-titanium diboride ceramics by spark plasma sintering, lightweight hybrid foam with dimensional stability, fabricating porous silicon nitride by the sacrificing template method, the carbon combustion synthesis of ceramic oxide nanopowders, layered alumina ceramics with porosity steps, and lithium disilicate glass-ceramic obtained from silica in rice husks. This is the second of 10 volumes of proceedings.