The Journal of the American Ceramic Society contains records of original research that provide insight into or describe the science of ceramic and glass materials and composites based on ceramics and glasses.  These papers include reports on discovery, characterization, and analysis of new inorganic, non-metallic materials; synthesis methods; phase relationships; processing approaches; microstructure-property relationships; and functionalities. Of great interest are works that support understanding founded on fundamental principles using experimental, theoretical, or computational methods or combinations of those approaches. All the published papers must be of enduring value and relevant to the science of ceramics and glasses or composites based on those materials.

Papers on fundamental ceramic and glass science are welcome including those in the following areas:

Enabling materials for grand challenges
Advanced energy generation, harvesting, and storage
Environmental protection and remediation 
Extreme operating environments 
Biomedical applications including tissue replacement, wound healing, and drug delivery
Efficient transportation and green infrastructure
Information transmission, storage, display, and processing
Materials design, selection, synthesis and processing methods
Rational design of functional ceramics and glasses guided by predictive modeling 
Functionalizing defects and/or interfaces for unprecedented properties
Creating free-standing, low-dimensional materials
Reducing time and processing steps, including net-shape and self-assembly methods
Reducing temperature, energy, and environmental footprint
Characterization of compositions, structures, defects, and properties along with new methods 
Multiple length scales from atoms to nanoparticles to microstructure to macrostructure
Behavior in 0, 1, 2, and 3-dimensional materials and at material interfaces
Temperature extremes
Pressure, electrical fields, and other driving forces
Radiation exposure and damage responses
Time evolution 
Combinations of length, dimension, driving forces, properties, and/or time
Advanced in-situ and/or in-operando measurement capabilities
Archeometry and Analysis of Art and Materials of Cultural Heritage
Mechanisms, Theory, Modeling, and Simulation
Understanding the driving forces for synthesis and change, including defect dynamics
Developing, testing, and validating models based on first principles 
Simulating and predicting behavior over multiple length and time scales
Materials genomes for design of advanced ceramics and glasses
JACerS accepts submissions of full-length Articles reporting original research, in-depth Feature Articles, Reviews of the state-of-the-art with compelling analysis, and Rapid Communications which are short papers with sufficient novelty or impact to justify swift publication.