<p>Preface ix</p> <p><b>MATERIALS FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY APPLICATIONS</b></p> <p>Westinghouse Accident Tolerant Fuel Materials 3<br /><i>Frank Boylan, Peng Xu, Javier Romero, and Ed Lahoda</i></p> <p>Investigations of Capacitor Discharge Welding for the Attachment of Endcaps to Molybdenum-Based Nuclear Fuel Rod Cladding 7<br /><i>Jerry E. Gould, Cem Topbasi, and Bo Cheng</i></p> <p>Evaluation of U<sub>3</sub>Si<sub>2</sub> Fuel Pellets Sintered in an Argon vs. Vacuum Environment 21<br /><i>Rita Hoggan, Jason Harp, and Lingfeng He</i></p> <p><b>PROCESSING AND PERFORMANCE OF MATERIALS USING MICROWAVES, ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS, ULTRA-SOUND, LASERS, AND MECHANICAL WORK—RUSTUM ROY SYMPOSIUM</b></p> <p>Microwave-Augmented Crystallization and Decrystallization in Ceramic Processing —A Phenomenology-Based Commentary 29<br /><i>Boon Wong</i></p> <p>Effects of Elastic Waves at Several Frequencies on Biofilm Formation in Circulating Types of Laboratory Biofilm Reactors 43<br /><i>Hideyuki Kanematsu, Shogo Maeda, Dana M. Barry, Senshin Umeki,Kazuyuki Tohji, Nobumitsu Hirai, Akiko Ogawa, Takeshi Kogo, Hajime Ikegai, and Yoshimitsu Mizunoe</i></p> <p>Resilient Graphitic Carbons from Electro-Thermal Fluidized Bed Reactor 53<br /><i>Soeren Koester, Eric Salmon, and Carsten Wehling</i></p> <p>Heavy Clay Body Properties for Hybrid Microwave Firing 59<br /><i>Garth V A Tayler, Mike Anderson, and Mike Hamlyn</i></p> <p>Effective Permittivity and Microwave Heating Characteristics of Electric Conductor and Insulator (Dielectrics) Mixtures 69<br /><i>Noboru Yoshikawa</i></p> <p>Porous Ceramic/Metal Composite Body for DPF (Diesel Particulate Filter) and the Microwave Heating Behavior 79<br /><i>Noboru Yoshikawa, Chang Chuan Lee, Naoki Inoue, Shoji Taniguchi, and Sergey Komarov</i></p> <p><b>CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT</b></p> <p>Study on Preparation of Portland Cement by Using Coal Fly Ash 87<br /><i>Hui Sun, Miaolian Bian, Dongyang Ma, Shichao Chen, Zhicheng Cao, and Daohong Wu</i></p> <p>Corrosion Behaviour of Steel-Reinforcement in C<sub>3</sub>H<sub>7</sub>NO<sub>2</sub> S-Admixed Concrete Immersed in Saline/Marine Simulating-Environment 95<br /><i>Joshua Olusegun Okeniyi and Abimbola Patricia Idowu Popoola</i></p> <p>C<sub>4</sub>H<sub>11</sub>NO Performance on Steel-Rebar Corrosion in Industrial/ Microbial Simulating Environment 109<br /><i>Joshua Olusegun Okeniyi and Abimbola Patricia Idowu Popoola</i></p> <p><b>INNOVATIVE PROCESSING AND SYNTHESIS OF CERAMICS, GLASSES AND COMPOSITES</b></p> <p>Numerical Investigation of Heat Transfer and Reaction Kinetics during the Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis of Silicon Nitride 123<br /><i>Venkata V. K. Doddapaneni and Sidney Lin</i></p> <p>Synthesis of Carbide Ceramics from Activated Carbon Precursors Loaded with Tungstate, Molybdate, and Silicate Anions 137<br /><i>Grant Wallace, Jerome Downey, Jannette Chorney, Katie Schumacher, Trenin Bayless, Alaina Mallard, Auva Speiser, and Elizabeth Raiha</i></p> <p><b>ADVANCES IN DIELECTRIC MATERIALS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES</b></p> <p>Observation of TI-TI Bonding In TI/CU/PT-Supported Rutile TiO<sub>2</sub> (110) Surface: AB Initio Calculations 153<br /><i>Lei Li, Wenshi Li, Han Qin, Jianfeng Yang, Canyan Zhu, and Ling-Feng Mao</i></p> <p>Effect of Processing Conditions on Electric and Dielectric Properties of Polymer-Derived SiC Ceramics 165<br /><i>Chengying Xu</i></p> <p><b>THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GREEN AND SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES FOR MATERIALS MANUFACTURING AND PROCESSING</b></p> <p>Study on Energy Utilization of High Phosphorus Oolitic Hematite by Different Ironmaking Technologies 177<br /><i>Hui Sun, Miaolian Bian, Shichao Chen, Dongyang Ma, Zhicheng Cao, and Daohong Wu</i></p> <p><b>NANOTECHNOLOGY FOR ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT, ELECTRONICS, HEALTHCARE AND INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS</b></p> <p>Nanosensors for Detecting Pollutants in Water 187<br /><i>Shobhan Paul</i></p> <p><b>HYBRID ORGANIC-INORGANIC MATERIALS FOR ALTERNATIVE ENERGY</b></p> <p>Electrodeposition of Hybrid Sol-Gel Glass Coatings on 304 Stainless Steel for Corrosion Protection 205<br /><i>Q. Picard, G. Akalonu, J. Mercado, J. Mosa, M. Aparicio, L. C. Klein, and A. Jitianua</i></p> <p><b>SURFACE PROPERTIES OF BIOMATERIALS</b></p> <p>Biofilm Formation on Titanium Alloy Surfaces in a Laboratory Biofilm Reactor 221<br /><i>Hideyuki Kanematsu, Shun Kanesaki, Hikonaru Kudara, Dana M. Barry,Akiko Ogawa, Takeshi Kougo, Daisuke Kuroda, Nobumitsu Hirai, Hajime Ikegai, and Yoshimitsu Mizunoe</i></p>