Ongoing
and Current Research, 2009
Professor A. Navrotsky - Peter A. Rock Thermochemistry Laboratory, UC Davis
Michael Aizenshtein (visiting scientist):
Energetics of thorium, lanthanum and uranium oxides
Energetics of rare-earth oxides
Shushu Chen (postdoc):
Interface and surface energy of yittria-stablized-zirconia and
zirconia
Mg2SiO4 nanoparticle energetics
Gustavo Costa (postdoc):
Zirconia based systems
Relaxor ferroelectrics
Tori Forbes (postdoc):
Metal organic frameworks
Carbonates
X-ray diffraction
Ben Hanken (Ph.D. student, joint with Prof. Mark Asta):
UO2 - CeO2 solid solutions
Jim Hughes (Ph.D. student):
Metal organic frameworks
Seyedeh Mahboobeh Hosseini (Ph.D. student):
Apatite-based ionic conductors
Nihan Kemik (Ph.D. student, joint with Prof. Yayoi Takamura):
Bulk and thin film La(Sr)FeO3 and La(Sr)MnO3
Kristina Lilova (postdoc):
Spinels
Iron oxide-containing minerals
Ultra-high T calorimetry
Chengcheng Ma (Ph.D. student):
Co-Zn-O nanomaterials
Hongwei Ma (postdoc):
Manganese and iron oxide nanomaterials
Yuanyuan Ma (Ph.D. student):
SnO2-TiO2 bulk and nanophases
Nissim Navi (visiting scientist):
perovskites and other phases in CaO-SrO-BaO-TiO2-Y2O3
systems
Tae-Jin Park (postdoc):
Cs, Sr, Ba silicotitanates for nuclear waste remedation
Energetics of TiO2 nanostructures with different morphologies
Tatiana Shvareva (postdoc):
Actinide thermochemistry
Melilite oxide ion conductors
Olga Trofymluk (postdoc):
Energetics of mesoporous and zeolite materials
Sergey Ushakov (Senior Research Associate):
development of new high temperature instrumentation
calorimetry above 1500 C
thin films and multilayers
Radha Venkat (postdoc):
Amorphous CaCO3
Lanthanum zirconate
layered double hydroxides
Di Wu (Ph.D. student):
Zeolite-Water-SDA interactions
Fen Xu (postdoc):
Sulfide thermochemistry
Wei Zhou (Ph.D. student):
Energetics of hafnia-based thin films and nanoparticles
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