Advances in Energy Materials

Advances in Energy Materials

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 MgH,-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 ShinsukeYamanaka 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 RuO,/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 CulnS, 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