Additive manufacturing and strategic technologies in advanced ceramics: a collection of papers presented at CMCEE-11, June 14-19, 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Content: Preface ix    ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES     Additive Manufacturing of Micro Functional Structures through Diameter Variable Laser Stereolithography and Precursor Sintering Heat Treatments 3 Soshu Kirihara     Stereolithographic Additive Manufacturing of Solid Electrolyte Dendrites with Ordered Porous Structures for Fuel Cell Miniaturizations 11 Soshu Kirihara     Processing of Thermoplastic Suspensions for Additive Manufacturing of Ceramic- and Metal-Ceramic-Composites by Thermoplastic 3D-Printing (T3DP) 19 U. Scheithauer, E. Schwarzer, A. Haertel, H.J. Richter, T. Moritz, and A. Michaelis     Micro-Reactors Made by Lithography-Based Ceramic Manufacturing (LCM) 31 U. Scheithauer, E. Schwarzer, G. Ganzer, A. Kornig, W. Beckert, E. Reichelt, M. Jahn, A. Hartel, H. J. Richter, T. Moritz, and A. Michaelis     Functionally Graded Ceramic Based Materials using Additive Manufacturing: Review and Progress 43 Li Yang, Hadi Miyanaji, Durga Janaki Ram, Amir Zandinejad, and Shanshan Zhang     ADVANCED MATERIALS, TECHNOLOGIES, AND DEVICES FOR ELECTRO-OPTICAL AND BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS     A Neutron Detector Based on Boron-10 Enriched Scintillating Glasses 59 Dat Vu, Makena Dettmann, Victor Herrig, Luiz G. Jacobsohn, Matthew W. Kielty, James Wetzel, Yasar Onel, and Ugur Akgun     Engineering Approach to Improve the Solid State Lighting Characteristics with Translucent Poly Crystalline Alumina 69 Keiji Matsuhiro, Keiichiro Watanabe, Tsuneaki Ohashi, and Tomokatsu Hayakawa     Single Crystal Fibers of Cladded Doped-YAG for High Power Laser and Amplifier Applications 83 E. Gebremichael, B. Ponting, R. Magana, and G. Maxwell     Single Crystal Growth of Ferroelectric LaBGeO5 for Optical Frequency Conversion Devices 97 Shintaro Miyazawa, Mitsuyoshi Sakairi, Junji Hirohashi, Makoto Matsukura, Shunji Takekawa, and Yasunori Furukawa     The Growth of Potassium Tantalate Niobate (KTaxNb1-xO3) Single Crystal by Vertical Bridgman Method 105 Toshinori Taishi, Kazuya Hosokawa, Keigo Hoshikawa, Takahiro Kojima, Junya Osada, Masahiro Sasaura, Yasunori Furukawa, and Takayuki Komatsu     Growth of Y3Al5O12 Single Crystals via Edge-Defined Film-Fed Growth Technique Using MO Crucibles 113 T. Tokairin, J. Hayashi, G. Villora, and K. Shimamura     MULTIFUNCTIONAL COATINGS FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS     Nanoparticle Paste Injection into Gas-Flame Thermal Spray for Speedy Ceramic Coating 123 Soshu Kirihara     Contribution to Electrochemical Oxidation of a Xanthene Dye onto Cu2O Thin Film Electrode 131 M. El hajji, A. Tara, Ph. Dony, O. Jbara, L. Bazzi, A. Benlhachemi, and N. Kireche     Solution Precursor Plasma Sprayed Superhydrophobic Surface 141 Yuxuan Cai, Gisele Azimi, Thomas W. Coyle, and Javad Mostaghimi     Improvement of Interfacial Strength for Thermal Barrier Coatings by Formation of Wedge-Like Thermally Grown Oxide 149 Kazuhiro Ogawa, Shun Hatta, and Hiroyuki Yamazaki     Experimental Production of Industrial Roller Coated by Hard-Al2O3 Film using Aerosol Deposition Process 159 Naoki Seto, Kazuteru Endo, Noriaki Honda, Nobuo Sakamoto, Shingo Hirose, and Jun Akedo     NOVEL, GREEN, AND STRATEGIC PROCESSING AND MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES     Stereolithographic Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics Dendrites to Modulate Energy and Material Flows 167 Soshu Kirihara     New Lightweight Kiln Furniture   Production Processes and Properties 177 U. Scheithauer, T. Slawik, E. Schwarzer, F. Tscharntke, H.-J. Richter, T. Moritz, and A. Michaelis     The Role of CALPHAD Approach in the Sintering of B4C with SiC as a Sintering Aid by Spark Plasma Sintering Technique 185 Mohammad Asadikiya, Christopher Rudolf, Cheng Zhang, Benjamin Boesl, and Yu Zhong     POWDER PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY FOR ADVANCED CERAMICS     Effective Exfoliation of Laminated h   BN Particles by a Novel Rotating Disk Method 195 Yuichi Tominaga, Daisuke Shimamoto, Kimiyasu Sato, Yusuke Imai, and Yuji Hotta     COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN AND MODELING     Feasible and Reliable Ab Initio Approach to Computation of Materials Relevant for Nuclear Waste Management 207 Piotr M. Kowalski, George Beridze, Yan Li, Yaqi Ji, Christoph Friedrich, Ersoy a yo lu, and Stefan Blugel     MATERIALS FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS     Phase Evolution Phenomenon during Hot Pressing of the SHS obtained Ti3AlC2 Precursors Powders 221 L. Chlubny, J. Lis, Cz. Kapusta, D. Zientara, K. Chabior, and P. Chachlowska     Author Index 229