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The search for alternative nuclear fuels, materials suitable for nuclear waste repositories, and new superconducting materials has been underway for decades. We have explored metal flux and mixed-metal flux synthesis and supercritical...
A recent drive to explore the fundamental properties of later actinide elements is culminated by this research which targets the structural chemistry and electronic behavior of berkelium in the solid-state. Experimental evidence...
Two heavy Fermion superconducting compounds, URu₂Si₂ and PuRhIn₅, were investigated by the techniques of chemical substitution and application of high magnetic fields. These materials are particularity interesting for their unique...
Although 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of Nb3Sn as the first high field superconductor and Nb3Sn is the presently most widely used high field superconductor, there is no detailed quantitative understanding of how its properties, ...
Global demand for clean sustainable energy is growing with the planet's population. While fossil fuels are the current standard, many are looking to the nearly endless energy supplied by the Sun. Because of the potential cost benefit...
In this work, various transition and main group metals were heated in a low temperature molten sulfur/iodine flux to produce metal sulfides and metal sulfide iodides, in a one-pot synthesis method that eliminates the use of toxic or...
Flux synthesis of new complex compounds uses an excess of molten metals or salts as a reaction medium. This solution-based method is a valuable tool in materials synthesis, enabling the solid-state chemist to achieve reactivity at...
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), susceptibility, and magnetic torque measurements were used to investigate the field-dependent properties of the localized magnetic moment in the two chain organic conductor Per2Pt[mnt]2. At 8 K, the...
Crystalline materials that include 4f- and 5f-electron elements frequently exhibit a variety of intriguing phenomena including spin and charge orderings, spin and valence fluctuations, heavy fermion behavior, breakdown of Fermi liquid...
The chemical compositions of basaltic melts from diverse tectonic settings on Earth are interpreted in terms of mantle sources that are either a single lithology (peridotite) or composed of two mixed lithologies (peridotite + pyroxenite)...
Metal flux synthesis is a useful technique for the discovery of novel intermetallic phases. The molten state enhances diffusion rates which improves rates of reaction. Reactions can proceed at lower temperatures, allowing for the...
Flux synthesis is a useful method for the exploration and development of new tetrelide Zintl phases. Reactions of heavy divalent metals (A = Ca, Sr, Ba, Eu, Yb) with tetrels (Tt = Si, Ge, Sn) in Mg/Al flux mixtures produce charge...
Magnetic materials are used in many applications such as credit cards, hard drives, electric motors, sensors, etc. Although a vast range of magnetic solids is available for these purposes, our ability to improve their efficiency and...
The understanding of the electronic systems of materials has not been only the essential, but the driving force, behind the progress of technology for over 100 years. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the revolutionary Bardeen...
In recent years, high-resolution seismological studies have documented anomalously low shear wave velocity in the middle of the lithosphere, referred to as mid-lithospheric discontinuity (MLD). In contrast to the low seismic velocity, ...
Ionizing radiation detection including X-rays and Gamma rays have widely applications on clinic diagnostic, security check, industrial inspection, and cosmic exploration. The core idea of sensing these "invisible" photons is transferring...
Strongly correlated insulators (SCIs) are proposed as a promising material for photovoltaics because the strongly correlated \textit{d} electrons can facilitate the creation of multiple electron-hole pairs per incoming photon through a...
Crystalline intermetallic phases grown by metal flux synthesis are discussed in terms of structure-property relationships. Flux growth is employed as the primary synthesis methods across different systems from single element fluxes like...
Observation of Gap-like Features in Superconductors and Heavy Fermions via Quasiparticle Scattering and Tunneling Spectroscopies, and Electronic Transport
Electron spectroscopies are powerful tools to reveal Fermi surface gapping in intermetallic systems. In particular, planar tunneling spectroscopy (PTS) and quasiparticle scattering spectroscopy (QPS, also known as point-contact...
This PhD thesis is a comprehensive investigation of selected 1:2:2 inorganic layered intermetallics as potentially useful magnetic and catalytic materials, to help develop green energy alternatives to the current devices and technologies...
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