Pyrochlore Ceramics

Dr. Anirban Chowdhury has mostly worked in the area of ceramics and process-structure relationships in advanced high-temperature materials. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Ceramic Technology from the University of Calcutta (College of Ceramic Technology) and M.Tech. in Materials Science from IIT Kanpur, India. He was also the recipient of the prestigious ORS Award and the Tetley & Lupton Scholarship during his PhD at the University of Leeds, UK (2005–2009). After he completed his PhD, he joined the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM) at Tohoku University, Japan, as a post-doctoral fellow. For a brief time, he also worked as a Research Associate with Prof. Atul H. Chokshi at IISc Bangalore (Dept. of Materials Engineering). In April 2012, he joined TATA Steel’s R&D division (Jamshedpur, India) and worked on various coating projects. This is also the place where he first started experimental work on pyrochlore systems. At present, he serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at IIT Patna, which he joined in September 2013.

• Section 1. Process and structure of pyrochlores1. Crystal chemistry and phase transitions in pyrochlore and related structuresDaniel Atencio, Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil2. Crystal growth of magnetic pyrochlore oxides and their structure-property correlationsSurjeet Singh and Abhisek Bandyopadhyay, Department of Physics, Center for Energy Science, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, Maharashtra, India3. Raman spectroscopy study of disorder phenomena and size effects in pyrochloresMaría Luisa Sanjuán, Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón, Csic-Universidad de Zaragoza, Department of Materials for Energy, Zaragoza, Spain4. Effect of different fabrication avenues of pyrochlore ceramics toward order-disorder transitionsGordon J. Thorogood, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Lucas Heights, NSW, Australia; Shirley Chang and Sarah C. Finkeldei, University of California, Irvine, Department of Chemistry, Irvine, CA, United States5. Process-structure correlations in complex A2B2O7 systems: Nanoparticles and ceramicsJejitti Aravind Reddy and Anirban Chowdhury, MAPS (Materials’ Process-Structure Correlations) Laboratory, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Bihta, Bihar, IndiaSection 2. Functional properties of pyrochlore systems6. Electrochemical properties of complex pyrochloresMaria Koroleva, Aleksei G. Krasnov, and Irina Vadimovna Piir, Institute of Chemistry, Federal Research Center Komi Science Center, Ural Branch, Russian Academy Of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russia7. Ionic conductivity in materials with a pyrochlore structureBalaji P. Mandal and A.K. Tyagi, Chemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India8. Nonferroelectric relaxor dielectric properties of pyrochlore phasesM.V. Talanov, Research Institute of Physics, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia9. Unusual magnetic properties of ternary Bi- and Ln-containing pyrochlores: From cooperative paramagnetism to canted antiferromagnetism and reentrant spin glassOlga G. Ellert and Anna V. Egorysheva, Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia10. Pyrochlores: Prospects as a photocatalyst for environmental and energy applicationsNishesh Kumar Gupta, Department of Land, Water, and Environment Research, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT), Goyang, Republic of Korea; Herlys Viltres, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Centro de Investigación en Ciencia Aplicada y Tecnología Avanzada, CDMX, Mexico; K. Sandeep Rao and S.N. Achary, Chemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India11. Photoluminescence in pyrochlore structuresP. Prabhakar Rao, Athira K.V. Raj, and T.S. Sreena, Materials Science and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, IndiaSection 3. Diverse applications of pyrochlore materials12. Transparent ceramics based on pyrochloresLiqiong An, College of Ocean Science and Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China; Akihiko Ito, Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan; Zhengjuan Wang, Guohong Zhou, and Shiwei Wang, State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China; and Takashi Goto, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan13. Pyrochlores as cathodes in solid oxide fuel cellsNicoleta Cioateră, Elena-Adriana Voinea, and Cezar-Ionuț Spînu, Chemistry Department, University Of Craiova, Craiova, Romania