Ceramics for environmental and energy applications II : a collection of papers presented at the 10th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology, June 2-6, 2013, Coronado, California

Content: Recent research activities for future challenges in global energy and environment in Toyota Central R & D Labs, Inc. (TCRDL) / Tomoyoshi Motochiro --
Solid oxide fuel cells and hydrogen technology Structural and electrical characterization of Pr[x]Ce₀.₉₅-[x]Gd₀.₀₅O₂[delta] (0.15 [less than or equal to] x [less than or equal to] 0.40) as cathode materials for low temperature SOFC / Rajalekshmi Chockalingam, Suddhasatwa Basu, and Ashok Kumar Ganguli 
 Solid oxide metal-air batteries for advanced energy storage / Xuan Zhao, Yunhui Gong, Xue Li, Nansheng Xu, and Kevin Huang 
 Fabrication of CeO₂/Al multilayer thin films and the thermal behavior / Shumpei Kurokawa, Takashi Hashizume, Masateru Nose, and Atsushi Saiki --
Direct thermal to electrical energy conversion materials and applications Reduced strontium titanate thermoelectric materials / Lisa A. Moore and Charlene M. Smith --
Photovoltaic materials and technologies Densification and properties of fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) ceramics by spark plasma sintering / Meijuan Li, Kun Xiang, Qiang Shen, and Lianmeng Zhang 
 Interfacial character and electronic passivation in amorphous thin-film alumina for Si photovoltaics / L.R. Hubbard, J.B. Kana-Kana, and B.G. Potter, Jr. --
Ceramics for next generation nuclear energy SiC/SiC fuel cladding by NITE process for innovative LWR pre-composite ribbon design and fabrication / Yuuki Asakura, Daisuke Hayasaka, Joon-Soo Park, Hirotatsu Kishimoto, and Akira Kohyama 
 SiC/SiC fuel cladding by NITE process for innovative light water reactor: compatibility with high temperature pressurized water / C. Kanda, Y. Kanda, H. Kishimoto, and A. Kohyama 
 SiC/SiC fuel cladding by NITE process for innovative LWR: concept and process development of fuel pin assembly technologies / Hirotatsu Kishimoto, Tamaki Shibayama, Yuuki Asakura, Daisuke Hayasaka, Yutaka Kohno, and Akira Kohyama 
 "INSPIRE" project for R & D of SiC/SiC fuel cladding by NITE method / Akira Kohyama 
 SiC/SiC fuel cladding by NITE process for innovative LWR: cladding forming process development / Naofumi Nakazato, Hirotatsu Kishimoto, Yutaka Kohno, and Akira Kohyama --
Advances in photocatalytic materials for energy and environmental applications Preparation of Brookite-type titanium oxide nanocrystal by hydrothermal synthesis / S. Kitahara, T. Hashizume, and A. Saiki 
 Effect of atmosphere on crystallisation kinetics and phase relations in electrospun TiO₂ nanofibres / H. Albetran, H. Haroosh, Y. Dong, B.H. O'Connor, and I.M. Low 
 Electronic and optical properties of nitrogen-doped layered manganese oxides / Giacomo Giorgi and Koichi Yamashita --
Ceramics enabling environmental protection: clean air and water Understanding the effect of dynamic feed conditions on water recovery from IC engine exhaust by capillary condensation with inorganic membranes / Melanie Moses DeBusk, Brian Bischoff, James Hunter, James Klett, Eric Nafziger, and Stuart Daw 
 Reliability of ceramic membranes of BSCF for oxygen separation in a pilot membrane reactor / E.M. Pfaff, M. Oezel, A. Eser, and A. Bezold --
Advanced materials and technologies for electrothermal energy storage systems In situ experimentation with batteries using neutron and synchrotron X-ray diffraction / Neeraj Sharma 
 Electrochemical performance of LiNi₁/₃Co₁/₃Mn₁/₃O₂ lithium polymer battery based on PVDF-HFP/m-SBA15 composite polymer membranes / Chun-Chen Yang and Zuo-Yu Lian --
Glasses and ceramics for nuclear and hazardous waste treatment Borosilicate glass foams from glass packaging residues / R.K. Chinnam, Silvia Molinaro, Enrico Bernardo, and Aldo R. Boccaccini 
 The durability of simulated UK high level waste glass compositions based on recent vitrification campaigns / Mike T. Harrison and Carl J. Steele 
 Scaled melter testing of noble metals behavior with Japanese HLW streams / Keith S. Matlack [and 11 others] 
 Suppression of yellow phase formation during Japanese HLW vitrification / Hao Gan [and 9 others] 
 Cold crucible vitrification of Hanford HLW surrogates in aluminum-iron-phosphate glass / S.V. Stefanovsky [and 8 others] 
 Hafnium and samarium speciation in vitrified radioactive incinerator slag / G.A. Malinina, S.V. Stefanovsky, A.A. Shiryaev, and Y.V. Zubavichus.