Processing, Properties, and Design of Advanced Ceramics and Composites

This proceedings volume contains a collection of 34 papers from the following symposia held during the 2015 Materials Science and Technology (MS&T '15) meeting: Innovative Processing and Synthesis of Ceramics, Glasses and Composites Advances in Ceramic Matrix Composites Advanced Materials for Harsh Environments Advances in Dielectric Materials and Electronic Devices Controlled Synthesis, Processing, and Applications of Structure and Functional Nanomaterials Processing and Performance of Materials Using Microwaves, Electric and Magnetic Fields, Ultrasound, Lasers, and Mechanical Work, Rustum Roy Memorial Symposium Sintering and Related Powder Processing Science and Technologies Surface Protection for Enhanced Materials Performance: Science, Technology, and Application Thermal Protection Materials and Systems Ceramic Optical Materials Alumina at the Forefront of Technology

Table of Contents:
Preface ix CONTROLLED SYNTHESIS, PROCESSING, AND APPLICATIONS OF STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL NANOMATERIALS Assessing the Limits of Accuracy for the Tauc Method for Optical Band Gap Determination 3 Dunbar P. Birnie, III Investigation of Pyroaurite-Type Anionic Clay-Derived Mixed Oxides with Various Compositions 17 Jonathan Gabriel, Aarti Patel, Ewul Ebenezer, Andrei Jitianu, and Mihaela Jitianu Formation and Characterization of Nano-Scale Titanium Carbides in a Titanium Trialuminide Intermetallic 31 Edward A. Laitila and Donald E. Mikkola Growth Kinetics of Lanthanum Phosphate Core/Shell Nanoparticles Doped with Ce-Tb and Eu 45 M. C. Molina Higgins and J. V. Rojas Influence of Synthesis Parameters on Morphology, Crystalline Structure and Colloidal Stability of Core and Core-Shell LaPO4 Nanoparticles 57 Miguel Toro and Jessika Rojas Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles for Space Satellite Solar Panel Protection Layer 71 Phillip Clift, Jordan Wladyka, Tyler Payton, and Dale Henneke DIELECTRONIC MATERIALS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES Synthesis and Characterization of BaTiO3-Based Ceramics Doped in B Site by BaTi1-xNbxO3 81 F. R. Barrientos-Hernández, M. Ortiz-Domínguez, M. Pérez-Labra, E. O. Ávila-Dávila, J. P. Hernández-Lara, and L. A. Cruz-Gutiérrez Influences of the Ceramic Matrix in the Properties of Ferroelectric Composites Based on PYDF Polymers 91 Danilo Umbelino Figueiredo, Evaristo Alexandre Falcão, Eriton Rodrigo Botero, José Antonio Eiras, Fabio Luis Zabotto, and Ducinei Garcia Piezoelectric Response of Sn and Mn Modified Lead Titanate Piezoelectric Ceramics 99 Deepam Maurya, Hyun-Cheol Song, Min-Gyu Kang, Yongke Yan, Robert Bodnar, Ilan Levine, Edward Behnke, Haley Borsodi, Juan I. Collar, and Shashank Priya Comparison of Grain Size Effects on Microstructure and Dielectric Properties of Y2/3Cu3Ti4-X FexO12 (X = 0.00, 0.05 and 0.15) Ceramics Synthesized by Glycine Assisted Semi Wet Route 117 S. Sharma, M.M. Singh, Narsingh B. Singh, and K.D. Mandal Calcium Copper Titanate Based High Dielectric Constant Materials for Energy Storage Applications 131 Disna P. Samarakoon, Nirmal Govindaraju, and Raj N. Singh SINTERING AND RELATED POWDER PROCESSING Synthesis, Characterization and Gibbs Energy of Thermoelectric Mg2Si 143 Mallikharjuna R. Bogala and Ramana G. Reddy Modeling Densification during Fast Firing of Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia 153 Sergio Y. Gómez, Farshad Farzan, Ricardo H. C. Castro, and Dachamir Hotza Mechanistic Studies of Compacted and Sintered Rock Salt 159 Claudia H. Swanson, Susanne Böhme, and Jens Günster Sintering of Nanostructured Zirconia: A Molecular Dynamics Study 173 Yi Zhang and Jing Zhang PROCESSING AND PERFORMANCE OF MATERIALS USING MICROWAVES, ELECTRIC, AND MAGNETIC FIELDS Rapid Synthesis of Nanostructured Titanium Boride (TiB) by Electric Field Activated Reaction Sintering 187 K. S. Ravi Chandran, A P. Sandersand, and J. Du Verification of Effects of Alternative Electromagnetic Treatment on Control of Biofilm and Scale Formation by a New Laboratory Biofilm Reactor 199 Hideyuki Kanematsu, Senshin Umeki, Nobumitsu Hirai, Yoko Miura, Noriyuki Wada, Takeshi Kougo, Kazuyuki Tohji, Hirokazu Otani, Kazuhiko Okita, and Toshifumi Ono Microwave Assisted Sintering of Cold Iso-Statically Pressed Titanium 6-4 Powder Compacts 213 B. Y. Rock, M. A. Imam, and T. F. Zarah Microwave Heating of Ensembles of Spherical Metal Particles Surrounded by Insulating Layers 223 K. I. Rybakov and V. E. Semenov Sintering of Oxide Ceramics under Rapid Microwave Heating 233 Yu. V. Bykov, S. V. Egorov, A. G. Eremeev, V. V. Kholoptsev, I. V. Plotnikov, K. I. Rybakov, and A. A. Sorokin Roles of Electromagnetically-Enhanced Free Energy on Non-Thermal Microwave Effects in Materials Processing—A Review and Discussion 243 Boon Wong Thermal Stability of Electromagnetic Compressed FL-5305 PM Parts 261 Daudi R. Waryoba ADVANCES IN COMPOSITES A New Production Process for Thermal Barrier Coating Material 273 Yunsheng Wang, Wenzhong Tao, Decheng Pan, and Zuxiong Chen Simultaneous Synthesis and Sintering of Dense B4C/CNF Composites using a Pulsed Electric-Current Pressure Sintering and Evaluation of Their Thermal Properties 279 Naoki Goto, Mitsuhiro Shima, Xiaolei Chen, Masaki Kato, Ken Hirota, and Toshiyuki Nishimura INNOVATIVE PROCESSING Advanced Microstructural Study of Nickel-Titanium Rotary Endodontic Instrument Tips 295 Rahnuma Chowdhury, Matthew R. Wheeler, William A. T. Clark, William A. Brantley, and John M. Nusstein Synthesis of TiC-TiB2 Composite Powders from Carbon Coated TiO2 Precursors 301 Zhezhen Fu and Rasit Koc Nickel Nitrate and Molybdenum Oxide as a Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Synergistic Sintering Aid 313 Clay Hunt, David Driscoll, Adam Weisenstein, and Stephen Sofie SURFACE PROTECTION FOR ENHANCED PERFORMANCE Modeling and Prediction of the Effective Thermal Conductivity of Thermal Barrier Coatings using FFT and FE Approaches 327 N. Ferguen, Y. Lahmar, Y. Fizi, and R. Lakhdari Material Design of Ceramic Coating for Jet Engine by Electron Beam PVD 337 Hideaki Matsubara CERAMIC OPTICAL MATERIALS Novel Glass and Glass Scintillators for Gamma-Ray and Neutron Detection 343 Tapan K. Gupta, William Rhodes, Matthew M. Hall, Sean Breed, Urmila Shirwadkar, Michael R. Squillante, and Kanai S. Shah Praseodymium-Doped SiAlON Red Phosphors Prepared by Polymer-Derived Method 351 Hui Yu, Quan Li, Ying Zhang, Xuan Cheng, and Chaoyang Gong ALUMINA MATERIALS Alumina Insulators for High Voltage Automotive Ignition Systems 361 William J. Walker, Jr. THERMAL PROTECTION MATERIALS AND SYSTEMS Photogrammetric Surface Recession Measurements on Ablative Samples of Various Shape 373 Thomas Reimer, Stefan Löhle, and Rainer Öfele Author Index 387