With contributed papers from the 2011 Materials Science and Technology symposia, this is a useful one-stop resource for understanding the most important issues in advances in materials science for environmental and energy technologies. Logically organized and carefully selected, the articles cover the themes of the symposia: Green Technologies for Materials Manufacturing and Processing; Materials Science Challenges for Nuclear Applications; Materials for Nuclear Waste Disposal and Environmental Cleanup; Energy Conversion/Fuel Cells; and Energy Storage: Materials, Systems and Applications.
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Preface ix
GREEN TECHNOLOGIES FOR MATERIALS MANUFACTURING AND
PROCESSING
Mesoporous Materials For Sorption of Actinides 3
Allen W. Apblett and Zeid Al-Othman
Environmentally Friendly Tin Oxide Coating through Aqueous
13
Solution Process
Yoshitake Masuda, Tatsuki Ohji, and Kazumi Kato
Investigation of the Morphological Change into the Fabrication
of 25
Zn O Microtubes and Microrods by a Simple Liquid Process using Zn
Layered Hydroxide Precursor
Seiji Yamashita, M. Fuji, C. Takai, and T. Shirai
Fabrication of Solid Electrolyte Dendrites through Novel Smart
33
Processing
Soshu Kirihara, Satoko Tasaki, Hiroya Abe, Katsuya Noritake, and
Naoki Komori
Microstructural and Mechanical Properties of the Extruded a-p
41
Duplex Phase Brass Cu-40Zn-Ti Alloy
H. Atsumi, H. Imai, S. Li, K. Kondoh, Y. Kousaka, and A. Kojima
The Characteristics of High Strength and Lead-Free Machinable
47
a-p Duplex Phase Brass Cu-40Zn-Cr-Fe-Sn-Bi Alloy
H. Atsumi, H. Imai, S. Li, K. Kondoh, Y. Kousaka, and A. Kojima
Preparation of Biomass Char for Ironmaking and Its Reactivity
55
Hu Zhengwen, Zhang Jianliang, Zhang Xu, Fan Zhengyun, and Li
Jing
Intelligent Energy Saving System in Hot Strip Mill 65
H. Imanari, K. Ohara, K. Kitagoh, Y. Sakiyama, and F. Williams
Hot Gas Cleaning with Gas-Solid Reactions and Related Materials
77
for Advanced Clean Power Generation from Coal
Hiromi Shirai and Hisao Makino
Polyalkylene Carbonate Polymers–A Sustainable Material
Alternative 89
to Traditional Petrochemical Based Plastics
P. Ferraro
MATERIALS FOR NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL
CLEANUP
Characterizing the Defect Population Introduced by Radiation
99
Damage* Paul S. Follansbee
Radiation Shielding Simulation for Wollastonite-Based Chemically
113
Bonded Phosphate Ceramics
J. Pleitt, H. A. Colorado, and C. H. Castano
Empirical Model for Formulation of Crystal-Tolerant HLW Glasses
121
J. Matyas, A. Huckleberry, C. A. Rodriguez, J. D. Vienna, and A. A.
Kruger
ENERGY CONVERSION/FUEL CELLS
Novel SOFC Processing Techniques Employing Printed Materials
129
P. Khatri-Chhetri, A. Datar, and D. Cormier
Manganese Cobalt Spinel Oxide Based Coatings for SOFC 141
Interconnects
Jeffrey W. Fergus, Yingjia Liu, and Yu Zhao
C02 Conversion into C/CO Using ODF Electrodes with SOEC
147
Bruce Kang, Huang Guo, and Gulfam Iqbal
Heterofoam: New Concepts and Tools for Heterogeneous Functional
155
Material Design
K. L. Reifsnider, F. Rabbi, R. Raihan, Q. Liu, P. Majumdar, Y. Du,
and J. M. Adkins
Study on Heteropolyacids/Ti/Zr Mixed Inorganic Composites for
Fuel 165
Cell Electrolytes
Uma Thanganathan
ENERGY STORAGE: MATERIALS, SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
Fatigue Testing of Hydrogen-Exposed Austenitic Stainless Steel
in 175
an Undergraduate Materials Laboratory
Patrick Ferro, John Wallace, Adam Nekimken, Travis Dreyfoos, Tyler
Spilker, and Elliot Marshall
Li Mnx Fe-, _x P04 Glass and Glass-Ceramics for Lithium Ion Battery
187
Tsuyoshi Honma and Takayuki Komatsu
The Absorption of Hydrogen on Low Pressure Hydride Materials
197
Gregg A. Morgan, Jr. and Paul S. Korinko
Polymethylated Phenanthrenes as a Liquid Media for Hydrogen
209
Storage
Mikhail Redko
Author Index 221