Nanostructured Ceramics: Characterization and Analysis

✍ Scribed by Debasish Sarkar (Author)

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2018
• Leaves: 291
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book discusses fundamentals of nanostructured ceramics involving functional, structural and high temperature materials. It provides both solved numerical problems and unsolved problems to enable the reader to envisage the correlation between synthesis process and properties in the perspective of new material development. It serves as a concise text to answer the basics and achieve research goals for academia and industry.

Key Features

• Deals with basic strategy on data interpretation for nanostructured ceramics
• Proposes to bridge the gap between the nano and bulk properties of nanostructured ceramics
• Discusses brief schematics and equations to understand the different properties of nano to bulk ceramics
• Presents mode of data acquisition and interpretation through statistical module and solved numerical
• Includes unsolved numericals based on properties, data acquisition and interpretation

✦ Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Nanoscale Ceramics

1. Introduction
2. Confinement and Functional Change in Nanoscale
3. Classification of Ceramics
4. Rationale of Ceramics for energy, environment and health materials
5. Handling and Ethical importance
6. Concluding Remarks
7. References

Chapter 2: Material Characterizations

1. Introduction
2. Thermal Analysis
3. X-Ray Diffraction Analysis
4. Transmission Electron Microscopic Analysis
5. Particle Size and Surface Area
6. Spectroscopy Analysis
7. Concluding Remarks
8. References

Chapter 3: Surface and Suspension Phenomena

1. Introduction
2. Surface Wetting
3. Surface Tension
4. Colloidal Suspension
5. Viscosity of Suspension
6. Concluding Remarks
7. References

Chapter 4: Photocatalytic Phenomena

1. Introduction
2. Photocatalyst for Photodegradation
3. Photocatalyst for Photoelectrochemical Cell (PEC)
4. Concluding Remarks
5. References

Chapter 5: Magnetics and Piezoelectrics

1. Introduction
2. Magnetic Phenomena
3. Piezoelectric Phenomena
4. References

Chapter 6: Mechanical Properties

1. Introduction
2. Elastic Moduli
3. Strength
4. Weibull modulus
5. Fracture Toughness
6. Hardness
7. Fatigue of ceramics
8. Superplasticity
9. Friction and Wear
10. Concluding remarks
11. References

Chapter 7: Nanostructured Ceramics for Renewable Energy

1. Introduction
2. Nanostructured TiO₂ for Solar to Electrical Energy (DSSC)
3. Nanostructured WO₃/TiO₂ for H₂ gas through H₂O splitting (Tandem Cell)
4. Nanostructured WO₃/TiO₂ for solar to electrical energy and harvesting (PSB)
5. Nanostructured ZrO₂ for gaseous fuel to Electric energy (SOFC)
6. Nanostructured BaTiO₃ for Mechanical to Electrical Energy (NEMS)
7. Concluding Remarks
8. References

Chapter 8: Nanostructured Ceramics for Environment

1. Introduction
2. Nanostructured WO₃ for Electrochromic Smart Glass
3. Nanostructured WO₃-ZnO for pollutant Dye Degradation
4. Mechanically induced Waste water treatment
5. Purification of high salinity waste water
6. Self-cleaning Coating
7. Concluding Remarks
8. References

Chapter 9: Nanostructured Ceramics for Health

1. Introduction
2. Nanostructured ZrO₂ for Dental Ceramic Blank
3. Nanostructured ZTA Femoral Ball Head
4. Nano HA-Gelatin Porous Bone Scaffold
5. NanostrcutureZnO for Cancer Therapy
6. Nanoscale Core-Shell Ferrite for Hyperthermia
7. Concluding Remarks
8. References

Chapter 10: Problems and Answers

✦ Subjects

Engineering & Technology;Materials Science;Physical Sciences;Materials Science;Ceramics & Glasses