9412765 Ballance This grant supports the "Better Ceramics through Chemistry" Conference to be held at San Francisco, CA, April 4-8, 1994. This conference brings together materials scientists, chemists and ceramists to address a wide range of chemical approached to the synthesis of ceramics or ceramics precursors and their associated processing to form films, fibers, powders etc. with precisely controlled compositions & microstructures. The technical program will cover over 250 papers in these areas. The requested funds are $5000 to support graduate student participation. %%% "Better Ceramics through Chemistry" is a vital issue for high quality, reliable and reproducible ceramics & ceramics based electrical and structural components. The conference provides an opportunity to graduate students to get familiarized with this important area of materials science of the future high tech. ceramics. ***
