Developments in Strategic Materials and Computational Design II, Volume 32, Issue 10

Waltraud M. Kriven, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, USA. Andrew Gyekenyesi, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland Ohio, USA. Jingyang Wang, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA.

• Preface ix Introduction xiGEOPOLYMERS AND OTHER INORGANIC POLYMERSEffect of External and Internal Calcium in Fly Ash on Geopolymer Formation 3Kiatsuda Somna and Walairat BumrongjaroenSynthesis and Thermal Properties of Fly-Ash Based Geopolymer Pastes and Mortars 17Ch. Panagiotopoulou, A. Asprogerakas, G. Kakali, and S. TsivilisMechanical Response of Discontinuous Filament PVA Fiber Reinforced Geopolymers 29Benjamin Varela and Jeffrey W. RogersMicrowave Enhanced Drying and Firing of Geopolymers 35Tyler A Gubb, Inessa Baranova, Shawn M. Allan, Morgana L. Fall, Holly S. Shulman, and Waltraud M. KrivenGeopolymerization of Red Mud and Rice Husk Ash and Potentials of the Resulting Geopolymeric Products for Civil Infrastructure Applications 45Jian He and Guoping ZhangThe Effect of Addition of Pozzolanic Tuff on Geopolymers 53Hani Khoury, Islam Al Dabsheh, Faten Slaty, Yousef Abu Salha, Hubert Rahier, Muayad Esaifan, and Jan WastielsBottom Ash-Based Geopolymer Materials: Mechanical and Environmental Properties 71R. Onori, J. Will, A. Hoppe, A. Polettini, R. Pomi, and A. R. BoccacciniProduction of Geopolymers from Untreated Kaolinite 83H. Rahier, M. Esaifan, I. Aldabsheh, F. Slatyi, H. Khoury, and J. WastielsPhosphate Geopolymers 91Arun S. WaghTHERMAL MANAGEMENT MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES3-Dimensional Modeling of Graphitic Foam Heat Sink 107Adrian Bradu and Khairul AlamEnhancement of Heat Capacity of Molten Salt Eutectics using Inorganic Nanoparticles for Solar Thermal Energy Applications 119Donghyun Shin and Debjyoti BanerjeeEnhancement of Heat Capacity of Nitrate Salts using Mica Nanoparticles 127Seunghwan Jung and Debjyoti BanerjeeEnhanced Viscosity of Aqueous Silica Nanofluids 139Byeongnam Jo and Debjyoti BanerjeePumping Power of 50/50 Mixtures of Ethylene Glycol/Water Containing SiC Nanoparticles 147Jules L. Routbort, Dileep Singh, Elena V. Timofeeva, Wenhua Yu, David M. France, and Roger K. SmithCOMPUTATIONAL DESIGNCharacterization of Non Uniform Veneer Layer Thickness Distribution on Curved Substrate Zirconia Ceramics using X-Ray Micro-Tomography 155M. Allahkarami, H. A. Bale, and J. C. HananComputational Study of Wave Propagation in Second-Order Nonlinear Piezoelectric Media 165David A. Hopkins and George A. GazonasImpact of Material and Architecture Model Parameters on the Failure of Woven CMCS via the Multiscale Generalized Method of Cells 175Kuang Liu, Aditi Chattopadhyay, and Steven M. ArnoldKinetic Monte Carlo Simulation of Oxygen and Cation Diffusion in Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia 193Brian GoodADVANCED SENSOR TECHNOLOGYNano-Calorimeter Platform for Explosive Sensing 209Seok-Won Kang, Nicholas Niedbalski, Mathew R Lane, and Debjyoti BanerjeePolyaniline-Silica Nanocomposite: Application in Electrocatalysis of Acetylthiocholine 221Prem C. Pandey, Vandana Singh, and S. KumariElectrochemical Sensing of Dopamine over Polyindole-Composite Electrode 235Prem C. Pandey, Dheeraj S. Chauhan, and S. KumariAuthor Index 245

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