This volume contains a collection of 22 papers submitted from the below seven symposia held during the 11th International Symposium on Ceramic Materials and Components for Energy and Environmental Applications (CMCEE-11), June 14-19, 2015 in Vancouver, BC, Canada:

• Additive Manufacturing Technologies
• Advanced Materials, Technologies, and Devices for Electro-optical and Biomedical Applications
• Multifunctional Coatings for Energy and Environmental Applications
• Novel, Green, and Strategic Processing and Manufacturing Technologies
• Powder Processing Technology for Advanced Ceramics
• Computational Design and Modeling
• Materials for Extreme Environments: Ultra-high Temperature Ceramics (UHTCs) and Nanolaminated Ternary Carbides and Nitrides (MAX Phases)

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES

Additive Manufacturing of Micro Functional Structures through Diameter Variable Laser Stereolithography and Precursor Sintering Heat Treatments 3
Soshu Kirihara

Stereolithographic Additive Manufacturing of Solid Electrolyte Dendrites with Ordered Porous Structures for Fuel Cell Miniaturizations 11
Soshu Kirihara

Processing of Thermoplastic Suspensions for Additive Manufacturing of Ceramic- and Metal-Ceramic-Composites by Thermoplastic 3D-Printing (T3DP) 19
U. Scheithauer, E. Schwarzer, A. Haertel, H.J. Richter, T. Moritz, and A. Michaelis

Micro-Reactors Made by Lithography-Based Ceramic Manufacturing (LCM) 31
U. Scheithauer, E. Schwarzer, G. Ganzer, A. Kornig, W. Beckert, E. Reichelt, M. Jahn, A. Hartel, H. J. Richter, T. Moritz, and A. Michaelis

Functionally Graded Ceramic Based Materials using Additive Manufacturing: Review and Progress 43
Li Yang, Hadi Miyanaji, Durga Janaki Ram, Amir Zandinejad, and Shanshan Zhang

ADVANCED MATERIALS, TECHNOLOGIES, AND DEVICES FOR ELECTRO-OPTICAL AND BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS

A Neutron Detector Based on Boron-10 Enriched Scintillating Glasses 59
Dat Vu, Makena Dettmann, Victor Herrig, Luiz G. Jacobsohn, Matthew W. Kielty, James Wetzel, Yasar Onel, and Ugur Akgun

Engineering Approach to Improve the Solid State Lighting Characteristics with Translucent Poly Crystalline Alumina 69
Keiji Matsuhiro, Keiichiro Watanabe, Tsuneaki Ohashi, and Tomokatsu Hayakawa

Single Crystal Fibers of Cladded Doped-YAG for High Power Laser and Amplifier Applications 83
E. Gebremichael, B. Ponting, R. Magana, and G. Maxwell

Single Crystal Growth of Ferroelectric LaBGeO5 for Optical Frequency Conversion Devices 97
Shintaro Miyazawa, Mitsuyoshi Sakairi, Junji Hirohashi, Makoto Matsukura, Shunji Takekawa, and Yasunori Furukawa

The Growth of Potassium Tantalate Niobate (KTaxNb1-xO3) Single Crystal by Vertical Bridgman Method 105
Toshinori Taishi, Kazuya Hosokawa, Keigo Hoshikawa, Takahiro Kojima, Junya Osada, Masahiro Sasaura, Yasunori Furukawa, and Takayuki Komatsu

Growth of Y3Al5O12 Single Crystals via Edge-Defined Film-Fed Growth Technique Using MO Crucibles 113
T. Tokairin, J. Hayashi, G. Villora, and K. Shimamura

MULTIFUNCTIONAL COATINGS FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS

Nanoparticle Paste Injection into Gas-Flame Thermal Spray for Speedy Ceramic Coating 123
Soshu Kirihara

Contribution to Electrochemical Oxidation of a Xanthene Dye onto Cu2O Thin Film Electrode 131
M. El hajji, A. Tara, Ph. Dony, O. Jbara, L. Bazzi, A. Benlhachemi, and N. Kireche

Solution Precursor Plasma Sprayed Superhydrophobic Surface 141
Yuxuan Cai, Gisele Azimi, Thomas W. Coyle, and Javad Mostaghimi

Improvement of Interfacial Strength for Thermal Barrier Coatings by Formation of Wedge-Like Thermally Grown Oxide 149
Kazuhiro Ogawa, Shun Hatta, and Hiroyuki Yamazaki

Experimental Production of Industrial Roller Coated by Hard-Al2O3 Film using Aerosol Deposition Process 159
Naoki Seto, Kazuteru Endo, Noriaki Honda, Nobuo Sakamoto, Shingo Hirose, and Jun Akedo

NOVEL, GREEN, AND STRATEGIC PROCESSING AND MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES

Stereolithographic Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics Dendrites to Modulate Energy and Material Flows 167
Soshu Kirihara

New Lightweight Kiln Furniture—Production Processes and Properties 177
U. Scheithauer, T. Slawik, E. Schwarzer, F. Tscharntke, H.-J. Richter, T. Moritz, and A. Michaelis

The Role of CALPHAD Approach in the Sintering of B4C with SiC as a Sintering Aid by Spark Plasma Sintering Technique 185
Mohammad Asadikiya, Christopher Rudolf, Cheng Zhang, Benjamin Boesl, and Yu Zhong

POWDER PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY FOR ADVANCED CERAMICS

Effective Exfoliation of Laminated h–BN Particles by a Novel Rotating Disk Method 195
Yuichi Tominaga, Daisuke Shimamoto, Kimiyasu Sato, Yusuke Imai, and Yuji Hotta

COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN AND MODELING

Feasible and Reliable Ab Initio Approach to Computation of Materials Relevant for Nuclear Waste Management 207
Piotr M. Kowalski, George Beridze, Yan Li, Yaqi Ji, Christoph Friedrich, Ersoy a ýo lu, and Stefan Blügel

MATERIALS FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS

Phase Evolution Phenomenon during Hot Pressing of the SHS obtained Ti3AlC2 Precursors Powders 221
L. Chlubny, J. Lis, Cz. Kapusta, D. Zientara, K. Chabior, and P. Chachlowska

Author Index 229