Advanced Materials for Sustainable Developments

Preface. Introduction. Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Based on Anodic Ti02 Nanotubes Produced from Anodization in Fluoride-Free Electrolyte (Narges F. Fahim and Tohru Sekino). Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis of Calcium Cobaltate Thermoelectric Powders (Sidney Lin, Jiri Selig, Dan F. Smith, Hua-Tay Lin, and Hsin Wang). Effect of Rare-Earth Doping on Thermoelectric Properties of Porous SiC Synthesized by Silicon Carbonization Technique (Yusuke Yamamoto, Hiroshi Mabuchi, and Toshiyuki Matsui). Powder Synthesis, Characterization and Sintering Behavior of Lithium Titanate (Srinivasan Ramanathan). Processing of Titania Nanoceramics Via Conventional Sintering, Two-Step Sintering and Two-Step Sintering Assisted by Phase Transformation (Zohreh Razavi Hesabi and Mehdi Mazaheri). Strength of N- and P-Type Skutterudites (A. A. Wereszczak, M. E. Ragan, K. T. Strong, Jr., P. J. Ritt, H. Wang, J. R. Salvador, and J. Yang). Graphite and Ceramic Coated Particles for the HTR (Heinz Nabielek and Mark Mitchell). Development and Characterization of High Conductivity Graphite Foams for Thermal Management Applications (A. L. Gyekenyesi, M. Singh, C. E. Smith, P. G. Stansberry, M. K. Alam, and D. L. Vrable). Integration of Graphite Foams to Titanium for Thermal Management Applications (M. Singh, Rajiv Asthana, C. E. Smith, and A. L. Gyekenyesi). Fabrication of Novel Heat Insulator using Porous Ceramics Materials (Kazuma Kugimiya, Mitsue Ogawa, and Hideaki Matsubara). Detection and Classification of Gaseous Compounds by Solid Electrolyte Cyclic Voltammetry Sensors (Grzegorz Jasinski). Wireless Chemical Sensor for Combustion Species at High Temperatures using 4H-SiC (Geunsik Lim and Aravinda Kar). High Temperature Acoustic Wave Gas Sensor using Langasite Crystal Resonator (Hongbin Cheng, Lifeng Qin, and Qing-Ming Wang). Synthesis of (La,Nd):Y2O3 and (La,Yb):Y2O3 Laser Ceramics and Their Optical Properties (Yihua Huang and Dongliang Jiang). Metal Oxide Nanoelectrodes for Environmental Sensors--ZnO Rods and Particulate Films (Yoshitake Masuda, Dewei Chu, Xiulan Hu, Tatsuki Ohji, Kazumi Kato, Masako Ajimi, Makoto Bekki, and Shuji Sonezaki). Author Index.