Innovative Processing and Synthesis of Ceramics, Glasses and Composites IX

This proceedings includes papers presented at the Innovative Processing and Synthesis of Ceramics, Glasses and Composites symposium. Topics include powders, films, coatings, fibers, composites, and functionally graded materials; sol-gel, polymer precursor, and soft chemistry techniques; novel processing and microstructure-property relationships; reaction forming, combustion synthesis, and CVD; oxidation of metals and mechanical alloying; electrophoresis and plasma processing; and mechanism and kinetics of processes.

Novel Processing and Microstructure-Property Relationships. Effect of Aluminon Aqueous Solution Chemistry on the Homogeneity of Compacts by Colloidal Filtration of α-Al2 O3 Dispersions (K. Shqau, M.L. Mottern, D. Yu and H. Verweij). HfC Structural Foams Synthesizing from Polymer Precursors (H. Fan, N.K. Ravala, H.C. Wikle III and B.A. Chin). Adhesion-Non Adhesion Behavior of Non-Polar Solvent Based SiC Slurries for Electro-Photographic Solid Freeform Fabrication Applications (N.J. Manjooran, G.R. Pickrell and W.M. Sigmund). Advanced Robot Assisted Process for the Series Production of Optimized Oxide Ceramic Coatings on Texile Surfaces (R. Gadow, K. von Niessen and A. Candel). Electrophoresis. Engineering the Composition Profile in Functionally Graded Materials Processed by Electrophoretic Deposition (G. Anné, J. Vleugels and O. Van der Biest). Fabrication of Colored Glasses by Incorporation of a Secondary Nanosized Phase into a Silica Green Body by Means of Reactive Electrophoretic Deposition (REPD) (J. Zeiner and R. Clasen). Mechanisms and Kinetics of Processes. Microstructural Evolution and Creep Properties of Plasma Sprayed Nanocomposite Zirconia-Alumina Materials (A. Petersson, H. Keshavan and W.R. Cannon). Densification of Single-Grain vs. Multi-Grain Zirconia Powders (C. Auechalitanukul and W.R. Cannon). Measurement of the Internal Pressure in Green Multilayer Ceramic Bodies During Binder Removal (Z.C. Feng, S.W. Ha, S.J. Lombardo, J.W. Yun, D.S. Krueger and P.J. Scheuer). Reaction Forming. Infiltration and Reaction-Formation Mechanism and Microstructural Evolution of Biomorphic SiC Fabricated by Si-Melt Infiltration (F.M. Varela-Feria, J. Ramírez-Rico, J. Martínez-Fernández, A.R. de Arellano-López and M. Singh). Chemical Reactivity: In Search of Better Processing of HfB2/SiC UHTC Composites (Y.D. Blum, S. Young and D. Hui). Low Cost Preparation of High Quality Aluminum Nitride Powders and Whiskers (H. Wang and D.O. Northwood). In-Situ and Porous Composites. In-Situ Synthesis and Characterization of SiC-Al2 O3 Composites (L.N. Satapathy, P.D. Ramesh, D. Agrawal and R. Roy). A New Family of Uniformly Porous Composites with 3-D Network Structure (UPC-3D): Progress and Perspective (Y. Suzuki, P.E.D. Morgan and S. Yoshikawa).