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Ceramics for Sustainable Energy Technologies with a Focus on Polymer-Derived Ceramics

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Novel Combustion Concepts for Sustainable Energy Development

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Due to their high hardness, high temperature stability, and high chemical stability, ceramic materials have significant uses and potential in existing and emerging sustainable technologies . In this paper, we provide a thorough overview of ceramics in a variety of sustainable applications. This is followed by a detailed discussion of an emerging process to make ceramics called polymer (or precursor)-derived ceramics . It is shown that due to the versatility of this process in making a wide range of shapes—fibers, coatings , and porous ceramics, this is an attractive route to make ceramics that will be a critical element in the next generation of sustainable technologies.

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T.K. gratefully acknowledges funding through an Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), grant J3422. T.F. and P.G. gratefully acknowledge the Cluster of Excellence “Engineering of Advanced Materials” funded by DFG for financial support. F.S. and M.S. acknowledge the DFG and the AvH for financial support. RKB acknowledges support from the US Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy (DoE-NEUP) Grant through Idaho National Laboratory (Grant # 10-918) and US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Grant FA9550-09-1-0633).

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University, 161 Sirrine Hall, Clemson, SC, 29634, USA

    Thomas Konegger & Rajendra K. Bordia

  2. Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, Vienna University of Technology, Getreidemarkt 9/164-CT, 1060, Vienna, Austria

    Thomas Konegger

  3. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver Federal Center Box 25007, Denver, CO, 80225, USA

    Jessica Torrey

  4. Ceramic Materials Engineering, University of Bayreuth, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany

    Octavio Flores & Günter Motz

  5. Department Material Science, Glass and Ceramics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Martensstr. 5, 91058, Erlangen, Germany

    Tobias Fey, Bruno Ceron-Nicolat & Peter Greil

  6. Institute for Chemistry, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Universitaetsplatz 2, 39106, Magdeburg, Germany

    Franziska Scheffler

  7. Institute of Materials and Joining Technology, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Universitaetsplatz 2, 39106, Magdeburg, Germany

    Michael Scheffler

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Konegger, T. et al. (2014). Ceramics for Sustainable Energy Technologies with a Focus on Polymer-Derived Ceramics. In: Agarwal, A., Pandey, A., Gupta, A., Aggarwal, S., Kushari, A. (eds) Novel Combustion Concepts for Sustainable Energy Development. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2211-8_22

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