Selected recent publications:

• S.J. Chung, J.P. Leonard, I. Nettleship, J.K. Lee, Y. Soong, D.V. Martello and M.K. Chyu, “Characterization of ZnO Nanoparticle Suspension in Water: Effective Ultrasonic Dispersion,” Powder Technology, 194 75-80 (2009).
• T. Chen, I. Nettleship, R.J. McAfee, T.R. Hinklin and K.G. Ewsuk, “An Experimental Measurement of Effective Diffusion Distance for the Sintering of Ceramics,” J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 92 1481-1486 (2009).
• Pekor CM, Kisa P, Nettleship I.  Effect of polyethylene glycol on the microstructure of freeze-cast alumina.   Journal of the American Ceramic Society.  2008 Oct;91(10):3185-3190.
• Dengiz O, McAfee RJ, Nettleship I, Smith AE.  The application of automated image analysis to dense heterogeneities in partially sintered alumna.  Journal of the European Ceramic Society.  2007;27(4):1927-1933.
• Nettleship I, Chen T, Ewsuk K.  Characterization of heterogeneous microstructure evolution in ZrO2-3mol%Y2O3 during isothermal sintering.  Journal of the American Ceramic Society.  2007 Sep;90(12):3793-3799. 
• Dengiz O, Smith AE, Nettleship I.  Two-stage data mining for flaw identification in ceramic manufacture.  International Journal of Production Research.  2006 Jul;44(14):2839-2851.
• Dengiz O, Chen T, Nettleship I, Smith AE.  The effect of powder forming method on the pull-out flaw populations observed on polished surfaces of alumina ceramics.  Materials Science and Engineering: A.  2006 Jul;427(1-2):160-166.
• Kumar K, McAfee RJ, Nettleship I, Slaughter WS.  A representative volume element for the densification of powders.   Journal of the American Ceramic Society.  2006 Mar;89(7):2311-2313.
• McAfee RJ, Nettleship I.  Effect of slip dispersion on microstructure evolution during isothermal sintering of cast alumina.  Journal of the American Ceramic Society.  2006 Feb;89(4):1273-1279. 
• Dengiz O, Smith AE , Nettleship I.  Grain boundary detection in microstructure images using computational intelligence.  Computers in Industry.  2005 Dec;56(8-9):854-866. 
• McAfee RJ, Nettleship I.  A mesoscale description of microstructure evolution for the sintering of ceramics.  Acta Materialia.  2005 Sep;53(16):4305-4311. 
• McAfee RJ, Nettleship I.  The application of information entropy to the estimation of three-dimensional grain or particle size distributions from materialographic sections.  Scripta Materialia.  2005 Jun;52(12):1281-1285.  
• McAfee RJ, Nettleship I.  A mesoscale description of microstructural evolution for slip cast alumina sintered at 1350OC.  Ceramic Engineering & Science Proceedings.  2004;157:105-115.
• Kisa P, Fisher P, Olszewski A, Nettleship I, Eror NG.  Synthesis of porous ceramics through directional solidification and freeze-drying.  Materials Research Society Proceedings.
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• Schmidt SA, Nettleship I.  The effect of coarse particles on the microstructural evolution of porous alumina sintered at 1375°C.  Journal of the European Ceramic Society.  2004 Aug; 24(9):2741-2747.
• Nettleship I, Patterson BR, Slaughter WS.  The evolution of average microstructural properties in final stage sintering of alumina.  Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 2004 Dec;86(2):252-256.
• McAfee RJ, Nettleship I.  The simulation and selection of shapes for the unfolding of grain size distribution.  Acta Materialia.  2003 Sep;51(15):4603-4610. 
• Konak A, Kulturel-Konak S, Smith AE, Nettleship I.  Estimation of shrinkage for near net-shape using a neural network approach.  Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing.  2003 Apr;14(2):219-228.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Ian Nettleship, PhD
Phone: (412) 624-9735
Email: nettles@pitt.edu