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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