Materials Challenges and Testing for Supply of Energy and Resources

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Examination of dust particles from present-day controlled fusion devices....Pages 3-11
Quantitative microstructural investigation of neutron-irradiated RAFM steel for nuclear fusion applications....Pages 13-22
Controlling Welding Residual Stresses by means of Alloy Design....Pages 23-33
Degradation Mechanism of Creep Strength Enhanced Ferritic Steels for Power Plants....Pages 35-43
Electrochemical studies on pitting corrosion on Cr13 steel exposed to CO 2 and artificial brine with high chloride concentration....Pages 45-53
Development of 10 B 2 O 3 processing for use as a neutron conversion material....Pages 55-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Water overlayers on Cu(110) studied by van der Waals density functionals....Pages 67-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Employment of high Resolution RBS to characterize ultrathin transparent electrode in high efficiency GaN based Light Emitting Diode....Pages 79-93
A possible route to the quantification of piezoresponse force microscopy through correlation with electron backscatter diffraction....Pages 95-105
High resolution analysis of tungsten doped amorphous carbon thin films....Pages 107-115
Electron Microscopy Studies on Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Steels....Pages 117-128
Fabrication of Probes for In-situ Mapping of Electrocatalytic Activity at the Nanoscale....Pages 129-141
Electrochemical Synthesis of Nanostructured Pd-based Catalyst and Its Application to On-Chip Fuel Cells....Pages 143-152
Characterization and Synthesis of PtRu/C Catalysts for Possible use in Fuel Cells....Pages 153-162
Synthesis and investigation of silver-peptide bioconjugates and investigation in their antimicrobial activity....Pages 163-171
Characterization of Stabilized Zero Valent Iron Nanoparticles....Pages 173-188
Combustion Synthesis of Nanoparticles CeO 2 and Ce 0 . 9 Gd 0 . 1 O 1 . 95 ....Pages 189-202
Understandings of Solid Particle Impact and Bonding Behaviors in Warm Spray Deposition....Pages 203-212
Mechanical properties of innovative metal/ceramic composites based on freeze-cast ceramic preforms....Pages 213-220
Mini-samples technique in tensile and fracture toughness tests of nano-structured materials....Pages 221-234
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
The use of Focused Ion Beam to Build Nanodevices with Graphitic Structures....Pages 235-243
Development of compact continuous-wave terahertz (THz) sources by photoconductive mixing....Pages 245-250
Electrical Impedance Characterization of Cement-Based Materials....Pages 251-260
On the use of indentation technique as an effective method for characterising starch-based food gels....Pages 261-271
Photothermal Radiometry applied in nanoliter melted tellurium alloys....Pages 273-283
Front Matter....Pages 285-285
Biological treatment of solid waste materials from copper and steel industry....Pages 287-296