Nanostructured materials and systems : a collection of papers presented at the 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology, May 31-June 5, 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia / edited by Sanjay Mathur, Hao Shen ; volume editor, Mrityunjay Singh.

Front Matter -- Hydrogen Permeable Membranes from Palladium Coated Anodic Alumina / Ian Brown, Jeremy Wu, Melanie Nelson, Mark Bowden, Tim Kemmitt -- Softening of Rare Earth Orthophosphates by Transformation Plasticity: Possible Applications to Fiber-Matrix Interphases in Ceramic Composites / R S Hay, G Fair, E E Boakye, P Mogilevsky, T A Parthasarathy, J Davis -- Solvothermal Synthesis of Gadolinium Hydroxide and Oxide Powders and Their Potential for Biomedical Applications / Eva Hemmer, Yvonne Kohl, Sanjay Mathur, Hagen Thielecke, Kohei Soga -- CVD Grown Semiconductor Nanowires: Synthesis, Properties and Challenges / J Pan, H Shen, S Mathur -- Nanowires as Building Blocks of New Devices: Present State and Prospects / F Hernandez-Ramirez, J D Prades, R Jimenez-Diaz, S Barth, A Cirera, A Romano-Rodriguez, S Mathur, J R Morante -- Preparation of TiO-Nanoparticles-Thin Films by Electrophoresis Deposition Method / Kazuatsu Ito, Yuuki Sato, Motonari Adachi, Shinzo Yoshikado -- Effect of Nano-Silica on Acid Resistance Properties of Enamel and Its Connection to Energy Saving / Majid Jafari, Javad Sarraf -- Immobilization of Myoglobin with Regenerated Silk Fibroin/MWCNTs on Screen-Printed Electrode: Direct Electrochemistry and Electrocatalysis of H2O2 / Lei Zhang, Lei Shi, Wei Song, Yi-Tao Long -- Liquid Phase Patterning and Morphology Control of Metal Oxides / Yoshitake Masuda -- Role of Nano-Structured Domain Derived from Organically Modified Silicate in Electrocatalysis / P C Pandey, D S Chauhan, V Singh -- Individual Metal Oxide Nanowires in Chemical Sensing: Breakthroughs, Challenges and Prospects / J D Prades, R Jimenez-Diaz, F Hernandez-Ramirez, A Cirera, A Romano-Rodriguez, S Mathur, J R Morante -- Preparation and Their Mechanical Properties of AlO/Ti Composite Materials / Enrique Rocha-Rangel, Elizabeth Refugio-García, José G Miranda-Hernández, Eduardo Torres-Rojas, Sebastian Diaz de la Torre -- Biphasic Nano-Materials and Applications in Life Sciences: 1D Al/Al2O3 Nanostructures for Improved Neuron Cell Culturing / M Veith, O C Aktas, J Lee, M M Mir̤, C K Akkan -- Bioactive Glass-Ceramic/Mesoporous Silica Composite Scaffolds for Bone Grafting and Drug Release / Enrica Verne, Francesco Baino, Marta Miola, Giorgia Novajra, Renato Mortera, Barbara Onida, Chiara Vitale-Brovarone -- Comparison of Oxide and Nitride Thin Films -- Electrochemical Impedance Measurements and Materials Properties / Y Liu, C Qu, RE Miller, DD Edwards, JH Fan, P Li, E Pierce, A Geleil, G Wynick, X W Wang -- Synthesis of PbTe Nanowires with Enhanced Seebeck Coefficient / Wenwen Zhou, Hao Cheng, Aidong Li, Huey Hoon Hng, Jan Ma, Qingyu Yan -- Author Index.

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