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Tatsuki Ohji is a Prime Senior Research Scientist of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and a Designated Professor in the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Meijo University, Japan. He has authored or coauthored more than 330 peer-reviewed papers and 12 book chapters, edited 30 book volumes, chaired or co-chaired more than 30 international conferences and symposia, and hold more than 40 patents. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Ceramic Society and ASM International, and Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics, he has received numerous awards including ECD Bridge Building Award of the American Ceramic Society, Academic Achievement Award of the Ceramic Society of Japan, IIM Lectureship Award of ASM International, Lee Hsun Lecture Award of IMR Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Distinguished Research Achievement Award of the Japan Society of Powder and Powder Metallurgy.

Preface ix

GREEN TECHNOLOGIES FOR MATERIALS MANUFACTURING AND PROCESSING

Comparison of the Nanosecond Pulse and Direct Current Charging to Develop the Strongly Charged Electret 3
Keishi Awaya, Masaya Mitsuhashi, Tsubasa Sakashita, Hong Byungjin, Tadachika Nakayama, Weihua Jiang, Akira Tokuchi, Tsuneo Suzuki, Hisayuki Suematsu, and Koichi Niihara

Proportioning Controlled Low Strength Materials using Fly Ash and Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag 13
B. C. Udayashankar and T. Raghavendra

Tensile and Fatigue Testing of 304 Stainless Steel after Gaseous Hydrogen Exposure 27
P. Ferro, A. Anderson, M. Beckett, K. Davidson, J. Marciniak, and A. Obenberger

Large Porous Iron Oxide Particles Synthesized from Hydrated Iron Phosphate Particles of Strengite 35
S. Fujieda, K. Shinoda, and S. Suzuki

SiC Crystal Growth at Low Temperatures Derived from Polycarbosilane with Boron Carbide Additive 43
Ken'ichiro Kita, Tatsuki Ohji, and Naoki Kondo

Developing Yttria-Based Ceramics having High Liquid Metal Corrosion Resistance 53
Son Thanh Nguyen, Tadachika Nakayama, Shaifulazuar Bin Rozali, Hisayuki Suematsu, Tsuneo Suzuki, Weihua Jiang, Satoshi Amarume, Lingfeng He, and Koichi Niihara

Normal Sintering of Ca3(V04)2 and Its High-Temperature Dielectric Properties 65
Shun Onzo, Hiroya Nakata, Satoshi Isizawa, Tadachika Nakayama, Masatoshi Takeda, Noboru Yamada, Hisayuki Suematsu, Tsuneo Suzuki, Weihua Jiang, and Koichi Niihara

Injection of BOF Dust into the Blast Furance Through Tuyere 75
Run-Sheng Xu, Jian-Liang Zhang, Zheng-Jian Liu, Teng-Fei Song, and Guang-Wei Wang

Green and Reliable Macro-Porous Ceramic Processing 87
Vania R. Salvini, Diogo O. Vivaldini, Dirceu Spinelli, and Victor C. Pandolfelli

Characterization of Large Scorodite Particles Synthesized from Fe(ll) and As(V) Solution 99
S. Suzuki, S. Fujieda, K. Shinoda, E. Shibata, T. Nakamura, T. Inanaga, and M. Abumiya

MATERIALS ISSUES IN NUCLEAR WASTE MANAGEMENT

Advanced Steels for Accident Tolerant Fuel Cladding in Commercial Nuclear Reactors 111
Raul B. Rebak

Spark Plasma Sintering of Neodymium Titanate Pyrochlore for Advanced Ceramic Waste Forms 127
B. M. Clark, S. K. Sundaram, K. S. Brinkman, K. M. Fox, and J. W. Amoroso

Experimental Investigation and Mathematical Modeling of Cold Cap Behavior in High-Level-Waste Glass Melter 137
Pavel Hrma

The Effects of Glass Doping, Temperature and Time on the Morphology, Composition, and Iron Redox of Spinel Crystals 147
J. Matyas, J. E. Amonette, R. K. Kukkadapu, D. Schreiber, and A. A. Kruger

The UK's Radioactive Waste and Waste Management Program 157
William E. Lee, Michael I. Ojovan, and Geraldine A. Thomas

Corrosion Behavior of Container Alloys in Nuclear Waste Repositories 177
Raul B. Rebak

Evolved Gas Analysis for High-Alumina High Level Waste Feed 195
Carmen Rodriguez, Jaehun Chun, Michael Schweiger, and Pavel Hrma

Melt-Processed Multiphasic Ceramic Waste Forms 205
P. Tumurugoti, S. K. Sundaram, K.S. Brinkman, J. W. Amoroso, and K. M. Fox

MATERIALS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENERGY APPLICATIONS

Ionic Conductivity of Gd-RE (RE = RARE EARTH = Pr, Nd, Eu and Er) Co-Doped Ce02 Electrolytes Prepared by Mechanical Alloying and PECS 215
E.A. Aguilar-Reyes, C.A. Leon-Patino, M.I. Pintor-Monroy, and M. Nanko

Surface Effects in Beta-Alumina Synthesis and Sintering 231
L. B. Caliman and D. Gouvea

Commercial Phase Change Material for Thermal Energy Storage Applications with only PCM and Metal Foam Infiltrated PCM in a Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage System 241
M. Hasan and L. Begum

Phase Change Thermal Energy Storage and Recovery in a Complex-Shaped Double Pipe Heat Exchanger 259
M. Hasan, T. Tabassum, and L. Begum

Encapsulating Battery Components with Melting Gels 279
Lisa C. Klein and Andrei Jitianu

NANOTECHNOLOGY FOR ENERGY, HEALTHCARE AND INDUSTRY

Preparation and Characterization of Zinc Substituted Cobalt Ferrite Nano-Particles by Citrate Gel Method 289
Ch. Vinuthna, R. Madhusudan Raju, and D. Ravinder

Effect of Drying Time and Temperature on the In-Plane and Thru-Plane Electrical Properties of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Films Deposited on Paper Substrates using a Unidirectional Drying

Method 299
Rachel L. Muhlbauer, Ryan J. Gussenhoven, and Rosario A. Gerhardt

The Effect of Additive on NOx Emission during Thermal Decomposition of Nano-Recrystallised Nitrate Salts 307
Michael K. Opoku, Bogdan Z. Dlugogorski, Eric M. Kennedy, and John C. Mackie

Author Index 321