Table of Contents: Preface
Expert Commentary
Cementing the Future: A Review of Past, Present and Future Use of Cement and its combination with Piezoelectric PZT Ceramic
(Arnon Chaipanich, Dept. of Physics, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai Univ., Chiang Mai, Thailand) pp. 3-4
Cooperation Instead of Competition May Do the Trick
(Rainer Schmidt, University of Sheffield, Department of Materials Engineering, Sheffield, United Kingdom) pp. 5-7
Research and Review Studies
Chapter 1 - A Review of the Application of Combustion Synthesis in Advanced Ceramic Materials Processing; pp. 11-46
(Douglas E. Burkes, Idaho National Laboratory, Nuclear Fuels and Materials Division, Idaho Falls, ID, John J. Moore, Reaction Synthesis Laboratory, Colorado School of Mines, Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, CO)
Chapter 2 - Magnetoresistance, Magnetoimpedance and Magnetocaloric Phenomena in Ferromagnetic Manganites; pp. 47-80
(Manh-Huong Phan, Advanced Composites Centre for Innovation and Science, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, England)
Chapter 3 - Mechanical Properties of Directionally Solidified Eutectic Al2O3/YAG Composite at Room to Ultrahigh Temperatures;
pp. 81-110
(S. Ochiai, H. Okuda, International Innovation Center, Kyoto Univ., Yoshida, Japan, Y. Waku, Ube Research Laboratory, Corporate Research & Development, UBE Industries Ltd., Yamaguchi, Japan)
Chapter 4 - Advances in Oxynitride Perovskites: Synthesis and Photocatalytic Applications; pp. 111-137
(Rosiana Aguiar, Lehrstuhl fur Festkorperchemie, Institut fur Physik, Univ. Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany, Yungi Lee, Kazunari Domen, The Univ. of Tokyo, Dept. of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, Tokyo, Japan)
Chapter 5 - Modern Status and Future of SOFC; pp. 139-158
(A.S. Lipilin, Institute of Electrophysics, Ural Branch RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russia)
Chapter 6 - Applications of Ceramic Membranes in the Food Industry; pp. 159-179
(Emilia M. Guadix, Antonio Guadix, Emilio J. de la Casa, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Granada, Spain)
Chapter 7 - Beta Zirconium Oxide Phosphate and Related Phases: New Mechanisms of Ultra Low Thermal Expansion; pp. 181-196
(Gilles Wallez, Michel Quarton, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris, Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matiere Condensee de Paris, Paris, France)
Chapter 8 - Introduction of Diopside to improve the Performance of Pressureless Sintered Alumina Matrix Ceramic Materials; pp. 197-208
(Changxia Liu, Jianhua Zhang, Junlong Sun, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong Univ., Shandong Province, P.R. China)
Chapter 9 - Preparation and Performance of Nanoporous Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Ceramic Membranes for use in Non-Aqueous Nanofiltration; pp. 209-225
(B. Van der Bruggen, K.U. Leuven, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Leuven, Belgium, A. Buekenhoudt, B. Verrecht, VITO (Flemish Institute for Technological Research), Environmental and Process Technology, Belgium)
Chapter 10 - Non-ohmic Conduction in Oxide Ceramics: Tin Dioxide and Zinc Oxide Varistors; pp. 227-273
(A.B. Glot, Division de Estudios de Posgrado, Univ. Tecnologica de la Mixteca, Oaxaca, Mexico)
Chapter 11 - Immobilization of Chromium Ion from Ashes generated by Incineration of Tanned Leather Shavings by Means of Vitrified Ceramic Bodies; pp. 275-323
(T. Basegio, A.P.B. Leao, D.L. Villanova, Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Engenharia de Minas, Metalurgica e de Materials, Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Laboratorio de Materiais Ceramicos, RS, Brazil)
Chapter 12 - Impedence Spectroscopy of Electroceramics; pp. 325-355
(Rainer Schmidt, University of Sheffield, Department of Materials Engineering, Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Chapter 13 - Experiments and Simulations of Thin Solid Films Islanding; pp. 357-378
(F. Lallet, N. Olivi-Tan, A. Dauger)
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