Up Close: Center for Micro-Engineered Ceramics at the University of New Mexico
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and conventional chemical vapor deposition. 2. Polymer processes for non-oxide coatings (BN on A1203 and Si02). 3. Molecular routes to new binary materials (metal silicides, germanides, and stannides). 4. Crystalline-amorphous microcomposites (zeolite/silica) for inorganic membranes. 5. Amorphous thin films with controlled pore structure (oxides of Si, Al, and Zr).
Industrial Involvement The keystone of the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center is the active involvement of industrial members. Industrial members help mold the Center's research agenda and identify research problems of industrial significance for consideration by the This article is part of a series focusing on the research capabilities and goals of Center's researchers. Companies affiliinterdisciplinary laboratories pursuing materials research in universities, industry, ated with the CMEC participate in coland government. laborative basic research, help steer the direction of a major research effort in ceramics, and access the resources and technology bases of the universities and national laboratories. Faculty and stuThe Center for Micro-Engineered Research at CMEC dents along with National Laboratory Ceramics (CMEC) recently established At present, the areas of major interest staff members benefit from exposure to at the University of New Mexico is a are novel powder synthesis and proindustrial applied research. National Science Foundation Industry/ cessing schemes for controlled morUniversity Cooperative Research Cen- phology powder compacts, and coatter. It is supported by the National Sci- ings and porous films. In addition, both Educational Component ence Foundation, Los Alamos and laboratories and universities have proIn addition to performing research, Sandia National Laboratories, New grams on ceramic superconductors. another function of the Center is the Mexico Research and Development education of a new generation of Representative projects within the Institute, and the ceramics industry. ceramic scientists/engineers. In a typical CMEC include the following: year, only 35 PhD graduates are proThe CMEC is unique in that it comPowder Synthesis and Processing duced in ceramics science and engineerbines the resources of two universities (University of New Mexico and New 1. Gas phase production of multicom- ing in the United States, and half of Mexico Institute of Mining and Technolponent ceramic powders, including these are foreign students. This small ogy) and two national laboratories to superconductors (Figure 1), with useful pool of skilled people is a key problem attack ceramics-related basic research magnetic, electronic and optical proper- in our effort to regain leadership in the problems of industrial significance. An ties. ceramics field. The Center attacks this essential part of the effort is the strong 2. Polymeric precursors for non-oxide problem by offering an interdisciplinary interplay between the basic scientific ceramics (A1N, BN) and composites MS/PhD curriculum in ceramic science. disciplines, particularly physic
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