The 2nd International Symposium on Ceramic Materials for Energy and Environmental Technologies (CMEET-2012) Held Successfully

The 2nd International Symposium on Ceramic Materials for Energy and Environmental Technologies (CMEET-2012 Shanghai) was successfully held from August 29 to September 3, 2012 in Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SICCAS). This symposium was organized by the State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure and the Structural Ceramics Engineering Research Center of SICCAS.

This symposium focused on four topics: ceramic materials for environmental technologies, ceramic materials for energy technologies, microstructure tailoring of ceramic materials and new ceramic materials. CMEET-2012 is intended to establish a platform for the communication and share of the latest research results, promote mutual relations and realize a win-win situation for ceramic materials researchers in the energy and environmental fields.

In this symposium, Dr. Tatsuki Ohji (AIST, Japan), Dr. Takahiro Kozawa (Tsukuba Univ., Japan), Prof. Hua-Tay Lin (ORNL, USA), Dr. Dileep Singh (ANL, USA), Prof. Yoshio Sakka (NIMS, Japan), Prof. Hasan Mandal (Sabancı Univ., Turkey), Dr. Naoki Kondo (AIST, Japan), Dr. Diletta Sciti (ISTEC-CNR, Italy), Dr. Mrityunjay Singh (OAI, USA), Dr. Sea-Hoon Lee (KIMS, Korea), Wei Pan (Tsinghua Univ., China), Linan An (USF, USA), Prof. Wang Wenzhong (SICCAS, China), Prof. Chen Hangrong (SICCAS, China), Prof. Guo Xiangxin (SICCAS, China) and Prof. Gao Yanfeng (SICCAS, China) gave invited presentations respectively. And Dr. Tohru S. Suzuki (NIMS, Japan), Dr. Laura Pienti (ISTEC-CNR, Italy), some scientists and graduate students in SICCAS also presented their work.

Besides, an Honorary Professor Ceremony was held during the Symposium. Dr. Mrityunjay Singh (OAI, USA) was awarded the honorary professor of SICCAS by Mr. Wang Longgen, Director of SICCAS.

During the closing remarks, Prof. Jiang Dongliang, the academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), expected that there would be more and more communication and cooperation in the future among the scientists.