Fatih Dogan & Navin Jose Manjooran 
Advances in Energy Materials [PDF ebook] 

This book documents a special collection of articles from a select group of invited prominent scientists from academia, national laboratories and industry who presented their work at the symposia on Energy Materials and Nanotechnology for Power Generation at the 2008 Materials Science and Technology (MS&T’08) conference held in Pittsburgh, PA. These articles represent a summary of the presentations focusing on both the scientific and technological aspects of energy storage, nuclear materials, nano-based sensors, catalysts and devices for applications in power generation, solar energy materials, superconductors, and more.

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Preface vii

INDUSTRIAL PERSPECTIVE OVERVIEW

The Role of Materials and Manufacturing Technologies as Enablers
in Gas Turbine Cooling for High Performance Engines 3

Ron S. Bunker

ENERGY MATERIALS

Synthesis, Sintering and Dielectric Properties of Nan0
Structured High Purity Titanium Dioxide 23

Sheng Chao and Fatih Dogan

Sorption/Desorption Properties of Mg H, -Oxide Composite Prepared
by Ultra High-Energy Planetary Ball Milling 31

Y. Kodera, N. Yamasaki, J. Miki, M. Ohyanagi, S. Shiozaki, S.
Fukui, J. Yin, and T. Fukui

Ab lnitio Study of the Influence of Pressure on the Hydrogen
Diffusion Behavior in Zirconium Hydrogen Solid Solution 41

Y. Endo, M. Ito, H. Muta, K. Kurosaki, M. Uno, and S.
Yamanaka

EBSP Study of Hydride Precipitation Behavior in Zr-Nb Alloys
51

Shunichiro Nishioka, Masato Ito, Hiroaki Muta, Masayoshi Uno,
and Shinsuke Yamanaka

FEM Study of Delayed Hydride Cracking in Zirconium Alloy Fuel
Cladding 59

Miayoshi Uno, Masato Ito, Hiroaki Muta, Ken Kurosaki, and
Shinsuke Yamanaka

The Effect of Manganese Stoichiometry on the Curie Temperature
of Lao.67Cao, 26Sro, 07Mn, +Ux0s3e d in Magnetic Refrigeration
71

Biering, M. Menon, and N. Pryds

Preparation of Electrocatalytically Active Ru O, /Ti Electrodes by
Pechini Method 77

0. Kahvecioglu and S. Tirnur

The Myriad Structures of Liquid Water: Introduction to the
Essential Materials Science 87

Rusturn Roy and Manju L. Rao

Preparation of Culn S, Films by Electrodeposition: Effect of
Metal Element Addition to Electrolyte Bath 99

Tomoya Honjo, Masayoshi Uno, and Shinsuke Yarnanaka

Preparation of High-Jc MOD-YBCO Films for Fault Current Limiters
109

M. Sohrna, W. Kondo, K. Tsukada, I. Yarnaguchi, T. Kurnagai, T.
Manabe, K. Arai. and H. Yarnasaki

NANOTECHNOLOGY FOR POWER GENERATION

Modeling of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation of Nano-Structured
Fibers for Sensor Applications

117

Neal T. Pfeiffenberger and Gary R. Pickrell

Increased Functionality of Novel Nano-Porous Fiber Optic
Structures through Electroless Copper Deposition and Quantum Dot
Solutions 123

Michael G. Wooddell, Gary Pickrell, and Brian Scott

Thermopower Measurements in 1 -D Semiconductor Systems 135

Sezhian Annarnalai, Jugdersuren Battogtokh, Rudra Bhatta, Ian L.
Pegg and Biprodas Dutta

Structural Changes and Stability of Pore Morphologies of a
Porous Glass at Elevated Temperatures 145

Brian Scott and Gary Pickrell

Author Index 159