What is the ACerS-NIST Phase Equilibria Diagrams Program?
Program Origins: For nearly seventy years the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) have collaborated on the publication of evaluated phase diagrams for ceramic systems. The joint Ceramic Phase Diagram program, representing a continuation and expansion of the effort to make ceramic phase diagram information readily and comprehensively available, was initiated in December 1982. The program goal is to support growth and progress in the ceramics industries by providing relevant, critically evaluated phase diagrams. To achieve this, a multiyear program was established to improve currency with the archival literature and to provide critically evaluated phase diagrams for oxides, non-oxides, salts, carbides, nitrides, borides, compound semiconductors, pnictides and chalcogenides. Program Responsibility: To achieve the goals of the expanded program, a multiyear effort was established with support from NIST and other federal agency progr
