Ceramics for Energy Conversion, Storage, and Distribution Systems
Ceramic Transactions Series

• 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

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 FUSION ENERGY

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