Ceramics for Energy Conversion, Storage, and Distribution Systems

A collection of 25 papers presented at the 11th International Symposium on Ceramic Materials and Components for Energy and Environmental Applications (CMCEE-11), June 14-19, 2015 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Paper in this volume were presented in the below six symposia from Track 1 on the topic of Ceramics for Energy Conversion, Storage, and Distribution Systems: * High-Temperature Fuel Cells and Electrolysis * Ceramic-Related Materials, Devices, and Processing for Heat-to-Electricity Direct Conversion * Material Science and Technologies for Advanced Nuclear Fission and Fusion Energy * Advanced Batteries and Supercapacitors for Energy Storage Applications * Materials for Solar Thermal Energy Conversion and Storage * High Temperature Superconductors: Materials, Technologies, and Systems

// Table of Contents // // Preface ix // // HIGH-TEMPERATURE FUEL CELLS AND ELECTROLYSIS // // Effect of Additives on Self-Healing of Plasma Sprayed Ceramic Coatings 3 // N. Sata, A. Ansar, and K. A. Friedrich // // Development of Ceramic Functional Layers for Solid Oxide Cells 19 // Günter Schiller, Rémi Costa, and K. Andreas Friedrich // // BICU(TI)VOX as a Low/Intermediate Temperature SOFC Electrolyte: Another Look 29 // Paul Fuierer, Kevin Ring, Joerg Exner, and Ralf Moos // // Symbolic Analysis of Multi-Stage Electrochemical Oxidation for Enhancement of Electric Efficiency of SOFCs 41 // Y. Matsuzaki, Y. Tachikawa, T. Hatae, H. Matsumoto, S. Taniguchi, and K. Sasaki // // Low Temperature AC Electric Field-Assisted Sintering of Unitary Anode-Supported Solid Oxide Fuel Cell 47 // R. Muccillo, E. N. S. Muccillo, F. C. Fonseca, and D. Z. de Florio // // SOFC System Development and Field Trials for Commercial Applications 61 // T. Pfeifer, S. Reuber, M. Hartmann, M. Barthel, and J. Baade // // Technology Readiness of SOFC Stacks-A Review 77 // C. Wunderlich // // High-Temperature Direct Fuel Cell Material Experience 89 // Chao-Yi Yuh, A. Hilmi, and R. Venkataraman // // Development of Highly-Efficient Energy Storage System using Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell 101 // Masato Yoshino, Tsuneji Kameda, Hisao Watanabe, and Masahiko Yamada // // CERAMIC-RELATED MATERIALS, DEVICES, AND PROCESSING FOR HEAT-TO-ELECTRICITY DIRECT CONVERSION // // Thermoelectric Properties Higher Manganese Silicide Containing Small Amount of MnSi/Si Nano-Particles 115 // Swapnil Ghodke, A. Yamamoto, H. Ikuta, and T. Takeuchi // // Anomalous Temperature Gradient in Non-Maxwellian Gases 123 // George S. Levy // // Thermophysical Property of Poly-Si Phononic Crystals for Thermoelectrics 135 // Masahiro Nomura and Oliver Paul // // The Potential of Maximal ZT-Value for Thermoelectric Materials of Mn11Si19 HMS Phase by Calculating Electronic Structure 147 // Akio Yamamoto, Koichi Kitahara, Hidetoshi Miyazaki, Manabu Inukai, and Tsunehiro Takeuchi // // MATERIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADVANCED NUCLEAR FISSION AND FUSIONENERGY // // Development of Ga Doped Hollandites BaxCsy(Ga2x+yTi8-2x-y)O16 for Cs Immobilization 159 // Y. Xu, R. Grote, Y. Wen, L. Shuller-Nickles, and K.S. Brinkman // // Atomistic Simulations of Ceramic Materials Relevant for Nuclear Waste Management: Cases of Monazite and Pyrochlore 165 // Y. Li, P. M. Kowalski, G. Beridze, A.Blanca-Romero, Y. Ji, V. L. Vinograd, J. Gale, and D. Bosbach // // Development of Joining Method for Zircaloy and SiC/SiC Composite Tubes by using Fiber Laser 177 // Hisashi Serizawa, Yuuki Asakura, Joon-Soo Park, Hirotatsu Kishimoto, and Akira Kohyama // // ADVANCED BATTERIES AND SUPERCAPACITORS FOR ENERGY STORAGE APPLICATIONS // // An Investigation on the Cycle Performance of LiFePO4 Pouch Cells by a Combination of Synchrotron Based X-Ray Diffraction and Absorption Spectroscopy 187 // G. T. K. Fey, Y. C. Lin, K. P. Huang, P. J. Wu, J. K. Chang, and H. M. Kao // // The Influence of the Synthesis Route on Electrochemical Properties of Spinel Type High-Voltage Cathode Material LiNi0.5Mn15O4 for Lithium Ion Batteries 197 // M. Seidel, K. Nikolowski, M. Wolter, I. Kinski, and A. Michaelis // // MATERIALS FOR SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGE // // High Temperature Solar Receiver with Ceramic Materials 207 // Birgit Gobereit, Daniela Hofmann, Peter Schwarzbözl, and Ralf Uhlig // // Determination of Parameters for Improved Efficiency in Thermal Energy Storage using Encapsulated Phase Change Materials 219 // Laura Solomon, Alparslan Oztekin, Sudhakar Neti, and Himanshu Jain // // Tuning the Spectral Selectivity of SiC-Based Volumetric Solar Receivers with Ultra-High Temperature Ceramic Coatings 227 // Benoit Rousseau, Simon Guevelou, Jérôme Vicente, Cyril Caliot, and Gilles Flamant // // Thermo-Mechanical Analysis of a Silicon Carbide Honeycomb Component Applied as an Absorber for Concentrated Solar Radiation 239 // Thomas Fend, Peter Schwarzboezl, Olena Smirnova, Martin Schmuecker, Ferdinand Flucht, and Sven Dathe // // HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS: MATERIALS,TECHNOLOGIES, AND SYSTEMS // // Anomalous Proximity Effect and More than One Majorana Fermion 253 // S. Ikegaya and Y. Asano // // Atomic-Scale Study of the Superconducting Proximity Effect in Manganite/Cuprate Thin-Film Heterostructures 261 // Hao Zhang, Igor Fridman, Nicolas Gauquelin, Gianluigi Botton, and John Y. T. Wei // // Tunneling and Photoemission Spectra in Cuprate Superconductors: Evidence for Strong Multiple-Phonon Coupling and Polaronic Effects 273 // Guo-meng Zhao // // Author Index 289 //