Papers from The American Ceramic Society's 31st International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 21-26, 2007. Includes papers on porous ceramics ranging from nanoporous to macroporous systems, including foams, honeycombs, 3D scaffolds, interconnected fibers, sintered hollow spheres, and aerogels; ceramics in medical applications; and geopolymers, a new class of totally inorganic, aluminosilicate-based ceramics that are charge balanced by...
Papers from The American Ceramic Society's 31st International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 21-26, 2007. Includes papers on porous ceramics ranging from nanoporous to macroporous systems, including foams, honeycombs, 3D scaffolds, interconnected fibers, sintered hollow spheres, and aerogels; ceramics in medical applications; and geopolymers, a new class of totally inorganic, aluminosilicate-based ceramics that are charge balanced by group I oxides (i.e., Na, K, and Cs)
Preface ixIntroduction xiPorous CeramicsHierarchical Porosity Ceramic Components from Preceramic Polymers P. Colombo L. Biasetto E. Bernardo S. Costacurta C. Vakifahmetoglu R. Pena-Alonso G.D. Soraru E. Pippel J. Woltersdorf 3Electrophoretic Deposition of Particle-Stabilized Emulsions Bram Neirinck Jan Fransaer Omer Van der Biest Jef Vleugels 13Application of Porous Acicular Mullite for Filtration of Diesel Nano Particulates Cheng G. Li Aleksander J. Pyzik 27Microstructural Development of Porous [superscript beta]-Si[superscript 3]N[subscript 4] Ceramics Prepared by Pressureless-Sintering Compositions in the Si-Re-0-N Quaternary Systems (Re=La, Nd, Sm, Y, Yb) Mervin Quinlan D. Heard Kevin P. Plucknett Liliana Garrido Luis Genova 41Compositional Design of Porous [beta]-Sig[superscript 3]N[subscript 4] Prepared by Pressureless-Sintering Compositions in the Si-Y-Mg-(Ca)-O-N System Marvin Quinlan Kevin P. Plucknett Liliana Garrido Luis Genova 49Aligned Pore Channels in 8mol%Yttria Stabilized Zirconia by Freeze Casting Srinivasa RaoBoddapati Rajendra K. Bordia 57Preparation of a Pore Self-Forming Macro-/Mesoporous Gehlenite Ceramic by the Organic Steric Entrapment (PVA) Technique Dechang Jia DongKyu Kim Waltraud M. Kriven 67Nonlinear Stress-Strain Behavior Evaluation of Porous Ceramics with Distributed-Micro-Crack Model Hidenari Baba Akihiko Suzuki 77Thermal Shock Behavior of NITE-Porous SiC Ceramics Yi-Hyun Park Joon-Soo Park Tatsuya Hinoki Akira Kohyama 89Optimization of the Geometry of Porous SiC Ceramic Filtering Modules Using Numerical Methods S. Alexopoulos G. Breitbach B. Hoffschmidt P. Stobbe 95Weibull Statistics and Scaling Laws for Reticulated Ceramic Foam Filters Mark A. Janney 105Effect of Test Span on Flexural Strength Testing of Cordierite Honeycomb Ceramic Randall J. Stafford Rentong Wang 113BioceramicsBiomaterials Made with the Aid of Enzymes Hidero Unuma 127Use of Vaterite and Calcite in Forming Calcium Phosphate Cement Scaffolds A. Cuneyt Tas 135Deposition of Bone-Like Apatite on Polyglutamic Acid Gels in Biomimetic Solution Toshiki Miyazaki Atsushi Sugino Chikara Ohtsuki 151Surface Structure and Apatite-Forming Ability of Polyethylene Substrates Irradiated by the Simultaneous Use of Oxygen Cluster and Monomer Ion Beams M. Kawashita S. Itoh R. Araki K. Miyamoto G.H. Takaoka 159Conversion of Borate Glass to Biocompatible Phosphates in Aqueous Phosphate Solution Mohamed N. Rahaman Delbert E. Day Wenhai Huang 171Fabrication of Nano-Macro Porous Soda-Lime Phosphosilicate Bioactive Glass by the Melt-Quench Method Hassan M.M. Moawad Himanshu Jain 183Pores Needed for Biological Function Could Paradoxically Boost Fracture Energy in Bioceramic Bone Tissue Scaffolds Melissa J. Baumann I.O. Smith Eldon D. Case 197Novel Routes to Stable Bio-Templated Oxide Replicas Y. Cheng L. Courtney P.A. Sermon 209GeopolymersRole of Alkali in Formation of Structure and Properties of a Ceramic Matrix Pavel Krivenko 221Will Geopolymers Stand the Test of Time? John L. Provis Yolandi Muntingh Redmond R. Lloyd Hua Xu Louise M. Keyte Leon Lorenzen Pavel V. Krivenko Jannie S.J. van Deventer 235New Trends in the Chemistry of Inorganic Polymers for Advanced Applications Kenneth J.D. MacKenzie Suwitcha Komphanchai Ross A. Fletcher 249Influence of Geopolymer Binder Composition on Conversion Reactions at Thermal Treatment A. Buchwald K. Dombrowski M. Weil 257Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopic Analysis of Metakaolin-Based Geopolymers Jonathan L. Bell Waltraud M. Kriven Angus P.R. Johnson Frank Caruso 273Synthesis and Characterization of Inorganic Polymer Cement from Metakaolin and Slag L. Cristina Soare A. Garcia-Luna 283Recent Development of Geopolymer Technique in Relevance to Carbon Dioxide and Waste Management Issues Ko Ikeda 293Aqueous Leachability of Geopolymers Containing Hazardous Species D.S. Perera S. Kiyama J. Davis P. Yee E.R. Vance 309Practical Applications of Geopolymers Chett Boxley Balky Nair P. Balaguru 321Geopolymer-Jute Composite: A Novel Environmentally Friendly Composite with Fire Resistant Properties Amandio Teixeira-Pinto Benjamin Varela Kunal Shrotri Raj S. Pai Panandiker Joseph Lawson 337Design, Properties, and Applications of Low-Calcium Fly Ash-Based Geopolymer Concrete B. Vijaya Rangan 347Rate of Sulphuric Acid Penetration in a Geopolymer Concrete Xiujiang Song Marton Marosszeky Zhen-Tian Chang 363Corrosion Protection Assessment of Concrete Reinforcing Bars with a Geopolymer Coating W.M. Kriven M. Gordon B.L. Ervin H. Reis 373Author Index 383