Pyrochlore Ceramics. Properties, Processing, and Applications. Elsevier Series in Advanced Ceramic Materials

Table of Contents

Section 1. Process and structure of pyrochlores 1. Crystal chemistry and phase transitions in pyrochlore and related structures Daniel Atencio, Instituto de Geoci�ncias, Universidade de S�o Paulo, S�o 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 Mar�a Luisa Sanju�n, Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Arag�n, 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 Investigaci�n en Ciencia Aplicada y Tecnolog�a 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 Cioatera, Elena-Adriana Voinea, and Cezar-Ionu? Sp�nu, Chemistry Department, University Of Craiova, Craiova, Romania

Authors

Anirban Chowdhury Associate Professor, MAPS (Materials' Process-Structure Correlations) Laboratory, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Bihta, Bihar, India. Dr. Anirban Chowdhury has mostly worked in the area of ceramics and process-structure relationships in advanced high-temperature materials. He earned his bachelor's 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 (2005-2009). 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 Steel's 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.