Present-day interest in pyrochlore materials is immense. Academic and industrial researchers working with pyrochlore materials need a fundamental understanding of what pyrochlores are and their potential applications. Pyrochlore Ceramics: Properties, Processing, and Applications provides key knowledge and information needed on pyrochlore materials. With an emphasis on recent research developments, the contents review a broad spectrum of pyrochlore systems, focusing on their structures, their successful synthesis, multifaceted properties, and applications. The book brings all aspects together and presents recent research findings on pyrochlore materials. It will be the definitive text for all researchers who aim to venture into the eclectic world of pyrochlores. In addition, the book will be of interest to researchers who are already working on pyrochlore materials, providing them with novel information on the uncommon virtues of pyrochlore systems.
All chapters presented in the book are at the cutting edge of research and have never been assembled in book form before. Any researcher working in related fields will gain not only a historical perspective but also a comprehensive overview of recent developments. The book will be a valuable reference resource for academic and industrial researchers working in ceramics and materials science, mechanical, electronics, and chemical engineering, as well as physical and chemical science.
- Provides an extensive review of novel pyrochlore material systems
- Compares different types of pyrochlore materials, including their structure, properties, and performance
- Describes potential applications
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1. Process and structure of pyrochlores
1. Crystal chemistry and phase transitions in pyrochlore and related
structures
Daniel Atencio, Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São
Paulo, Brazil
2. Crystal growth of magnetic pyrochlore oxides and their structure-property
correlations
Surjeet Singh and Abhisek Bandyopadhyay, Department of Physics, Center for
Energy Science, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune,
Maharashtra, India
3. Raman spectroscopy study of disorder phenomena and size effects in
pyrochlores
María Luisa Sanjuán, Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón,
Csic-Universidad de Zaragoza, Department of Materials for Energy, Zaragoza,
Spain
4. Effect of different fabrication avenues of pyrochlore ceramics toward
order-disorder transitions
Gordon J. Thorogood, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
(ANSTO), Lucas Heights, NSW, Australia; Shirley Chang and Sarah C. Finkeldei,
University of California, Irvine, Department of Chemistry, Irvine, CA, United
States
5. Process-structure correlations in complex A2B2O7 systems: Nanoparticles
and ceramics
Jejitti Aravind Reddy and Anirban Chowdhury, MAPS (Materials
Process-Structure Correlations) Laboratory, Metallurgical and Materials
Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Bihta, Bihar, India
Section
2. Functional properties of pyrochlore systems
6. Electrochemical properties of complex pyrochlores
Maria Koroleva, Aleksei G. Krasnov, and Irina Vadimovna Piir, Institute of
Chemistry, Federal Research Center Komi Science Center, Ural Branch, Russian
Academy Of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russia
7. Ionic conductivity in materials with a pyrochlore structure
Balaji P. Mandal and A.K. Tyagi, Chemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research
Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India
8. Nonferroelectric relaxor dielectric properties of pyrochlore phases
M.V. Talanov, Research Institute of Physics, Southern Federal University,
Rostov-on-Don, Russia
9. Unusual magnetic properties of ternary Bi- and Ln-containing pyrochlores:
From cooperative paramagnetism to canted antiferromagnetism and reentrant
spin glass
Olga G. Ellert and Anna V. Egorysheva, Kurnakov Institute of General and
Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
10. Pyrochlores: Prospects as a photocatalyst for environmental and energy
applications
Nishesh Kumar Gupta, Department of Land, Water, and Environment Research,
Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT), Goyang,
Republic of Korea; Herlys Viltres, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Centro de
Investigación en Ciencia Aplicada y Tecnología Avanzada, CDMX, Mexico; K.
Sandeep Rao and S.N. Achary, Chemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research
Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India
11. Photoluminescence in pyrochlore structures
P. Prabhakar Rao, Athira K.V. Raj, and T.S. Sreena, Materials Science and
Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science
and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Section
3. Diverse applications of pyrochlore materials
12. Transparent ceramics based on pyrochlores
Liqiong An, College of Ocean Science and Engineering, Shanghai Maritime
University, Shanghai, China; Akihiko Ito, Graduate School of Environment and
Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan;
Zhengjuan Wang, Guohong Zhou, and Shiwei Wang, State Key Laboratory of High
Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of
Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China; and Takashi Goto,
Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
13. Pyrochlores as cathodes in solid oxide fuel cells
Nicoleta Cioater, Elena-Adriana Voinea, and Cezar-Ionu Spînu, Chemistry
Department, University Of Craiova, Craiova, Romania
Dr. Anirban Chowdhury has mostly worked in the area of ceramics and process-structure relationships in advanced high-temperature materials. He earned his bachelors degree in Ceramic Technology from the University of Calcutta (College of Ceramic Technology) and M.Tech. in Materials Science from IIT Kanpur, India. He was also the recipient of the prestigious ORS Award and the Tetley & Lupton Scholarship during his PhD at the University of Leeds, UK (20052009). After he completed his PhD, he joined the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM) at Tohoku University, Japan, as a post-doctoral fellow. For a brief time, he also worked as a Research Associate with Prof. Atul H. Chokshi at IISc Bangalore (Dept. of Materials Engineering). In April 2012, he joined TATA Steels R&D division (Jamshedpur, India) and worked on various coating projects. This is also the place where he first started experimental work on pyrochlore systems. At present, he serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at IIT Patna, which he joined in September 2013.
