Additive Manufacturing and Strategic Technologies in Advanced Ceramics

Preface ix ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES Additive Manufacturing of Micro Functional Structures through Diameter Variable Laser Stereolithography and Precursor Sintering Heat Treatments 3 Soshu Kirihara Stereolithographic Additive Manufacturing of Solid Electrolyte Dendrites with Ordered Porous Structures for Fuel Cell Miniaturizations 11 Soshu Kirihara Processing of Thermoplastic Suspensions for Additive Manufacturing of Ceramic- and Metal-Ceramic-Composites by Thermoplastic 3D-Printing (T3DP) 19 U. Scheithauer, E. Schwarzer, A. Haertel, H.J. Richter, T. Moritz, and A. Michaelis Micro-Reactors Made by Lithography-Based Ceramic Manufacturing (LCM) 31 U. Scheithauer, E. Schwarzer, G. Ganzer, A. Kornig, W. Beckert, E. Reichelt, M. Jahn, A. Hartel, H. J. Richter, T. Moritz, and A. Michaelis Functionally Graded Ceramic Based Materials using Additive Manufacturing: Review and Progress 43 Li Yang, Hadi Miyanaji, Durga Janaki Ram, Amir Zandinejad, and Shanshan Zhang ADVANCED MATERIALS, TECHNOLOGIES, AND DEVICES FOR ELECTRO-OPTICAL AND BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS A Neutron Detector Based on Boron-10 Enriched Scintillating Glasses 59 Dat Vu, Makena Dettmann, Victor Herrig, Luiz G. Jacobsohn, Matthew W. Kielty, James Wetzel, Yasar Onel, and Ugur Akgun Engineering Approach to Improve the Solid State Lighting Characteristics with Translucent Poly Crystalline Alumina 69 Keiji Matsuhiro, Keiichiro Watanabe, Tsuneaki Ohashi, and Tomokatsu Hayakawa Single Crystal Fibers of Cladded Doped-YAG for High Power Laser and Amplifier Applications 83 E. Gebremichael, B. Ponting, R. Magana, and G. Maxwell Single Crystal Growth of Ferroelectric LaBGeO5 for Optical Frequency Conversion Devices 97 Shintaro Miyazawa, Mitsuyoshi Sakairi, Junji Hirohashi, Makoto Matsukura, Shunji Takekawa, and Yasunori Furukawa The Growth of Potassium Tantalate Niobate (KTaxNb1-xO3) Single Crystal by Vertical Bridgman Method 105 Toshinori Taishi, Kazuya Hosokawa, Keigo Hoshikawa, Takahiro Kojima, Junya Osada, Masahiro Sasaura, Yasunori Furukawa, and Takayuki Komatsu Growth of Y3Al5O12 Single Crystals via Edge-Defined Film-Fed Growth Technique Using MO Crucibles 113 T. Tokairin, J. Hayashi, G. Villora, and K. Shimamura MULTIFUNCTIONAL COATINGS FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS Nanoparticle Paste Injection into Gas-Flame Thermal Spray for Speedy Ceramic Coating 123 Soshu Kirihara Contribution to Electrochemical Oxidation of a Xanthene Dye onto Cu2O Thin Film Electrode 131 M. El hajji, A. Tara, Ph. Dony, O. Jbara, L. Bazzi, A. Benlhachemi, and N. Kireche Solution Precursor Plasma Sprayed Superhydrophobic Surface 141 Yuxuan Cai, Gisele Azimi, Thomas W. Coyle, and Javad Mostaghimi Improvement of Interfacial Strength for Thermal Barrier Coatings by Formation of Wedge-Like Thermally Grown Oxide 149 Kazuhiro Ogawa, Shun Hatta, and Hiroyuki Yamazaki Experimental Production of Industrial Roller Coated by Hard-Al2O3 Film using Aerosol Deposition Process 159 Naoki Seto, Kazuteru Endo, Noriaki Honda, Nobuo Sakamoto, Shingo Hirose, and Jun Akedo NOVEL, GREEN, AND STRATEGIC PROCESSING AND MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES Stereolithographic Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics Dendrites to Modulate Energy and Material Flows 167 Soshu Kirihara New Lightweight Kiln Furniture-Production Processes and Properties 177 U. Scheithauer, T. Slawik, E. Schwarzer, F. Tscharntke, H.-J. Richter, T. Moritz, and A. Michaelis The Role of CALPHAD Approach in the Sintering of B4C with SiC as a Sintering Aid by Spark Plasma Sintering Technique 185 Mohammad Asadikiya, Christopher Rudolf, Cheng Zhang, Benjamin Boesl, and Yu Zhong POWDER PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY FOR ADVANCED CERAMICS Effective Exfoliation of Laminated h-BN Particles by a Novel Rotating Disk Method 195 Yuichi Tominaga, Daisuke Shimamoto, Kimiyasu Sato, Yusuke Imai, and Yuji Hotta COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN AND MODELING Feasible and Reliable Ab Initio Approach to Computation of Materials Relevant for Nucle