Advances in nanotechnology offer great new promise in newmultifunctional systems that experts predict to be a major economicforce within the next decade. Ceramic materials enable newdevelopments in such areas as electronics and displays, portablepower systems and personnel protection. This issue will present theresults of current basic and applied research and potentialcommercial applications.This book is comprised of papers from the Proceedings of the 30thInternational Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites,January 22-27, 2006, Cocoa Beach, Florida. Organized and sponsoredby The American Ceramic Society and The American Ceramic Society'sEngineering Ceramics Division in conjunction with the Nuclear andEnvironmental Technology Division.

Preface.Introduction.Nanoparticle Colloidal Suspension Optimization and Freeze-CastForming (Kathy Lu and Chris S. Kessler).Synthesis, Characterization and Measurements of ElectricalProperties of Alumina-Titania Nano-Composites (Vikas Somani andSamar J. Kalita).Synthesis and Characterization of Nanocrystalline BariumStrontium Titanate Ceramics (Vikas Somani and Samar J. Kalita).Nanoparticle Hydroxyapatite Crystallization Control by usingPolyelectrolytes (Mualla dner and dzlem Dogan).Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes and Silicon Carbide Nanofibers asComposite Reinforcing Materials (Hao Li, Abhishek Kothari, andBrian W. Sheldon).3-D Microparticles of BaTiO, and Zn,SiO, via the Chemical(Sol-Gel, Acetate, or Hydrothermal) Conversion of Biological(Diatom) Templates (Ye Cai, Michael R. Weatherspoon, Eric Ernst,Michael S. Haluska, Robert L. Snyder, and Kenneth H. Sandhage)Polymer Fiber Assisted Processing of Ceramic Oxide Nano andSubmicron Fibers (Satyajit Shukla, Erik Brinley, Hyoung J. Cho, andSudipta Seal).Phase Development in the Catalytic System V205/Ti02 underOxidizing Conditions (D. Habel, E. Feike, C. Schroder, H. Schubert,A. Hosch, J.,Stelzer, J. Caro, C. Hess, and A. Knop-Gericke).Synthesis and Characterization of Cubic Silicon Carbide (O-Sic)and Trigonal Silicon Nitride (a-Si,N,) Nanowires (K. Saulig-Wenger,M. Bechelany, D. Cornu, S. Bernard, F. Chassagneux, P. Miele, andT. Epicier).High Energy Milling Behavior of Alpha Silicon Carbide (M.Aparecida Pinheiro dos Santos and C. Albano da.Costa Neto).Synthesis of Boron Nitride Nanotubes for EngineeringApplications (J. Hurst, D. Hull, and D. Gorican).Comparison of Electromagnetic Shielding in GFR-Nano Composites(W.-K. Jung, S.-H. Ahn, and M.-S. Won).Densification Behavior of Zirconia Ceramics Sintered UsingHigh-Frequency Microwaves (M. Wolff, G. Falk, R. Clasen, G.Link, S. Takayama, and M. Thumm).Manufacturing of Doped Glasses Using Reactive ElectrophoreticDeposition (REPD) (D. Jung, J. Tabellion, and R. Clasen).Shaping of Bulk Glasses and Ceramics with Nanosized Particles(J. Tabellion and R. Clasen).Author Index.