John Bussey

About

John Bussey is an incoming cotutelle (dual degree) PhD student at Washington State University studying Materials Science and Engineering and at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Paris Cité studying earth science. He researches glasses and glass-ceramics with applications including nuclear waste immobilization, earth science, and archeology. His current projects involve advanced x-ray, GHz, and positron characterization, as well as the behavior of halides, actinides, and transition metals in alumino(boro)silicate glasses and melts. Previous research includes cement-rock interactions, mineralized waste forms, lunar dust mitigation, scientific computing, and developing pedagogical glass compositions. He is currently supported as a 2025 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and is just finishing his tenure as the 9 th Corning Inc. Glass Age Scholar. In his free time he enjoys backpacking, mountaineering, skiing, trail running, disc golf, and pickleball.

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John Bussey

Publications

  • John M. Bussey, Ian A. Wells, Natalie J. Smith-Gray, John S. McCloy, “In-line Detection of Salt Formation during Vitrification with Millimeter Wave Radiometry and Interferometry,” Measurement, 242, 116266 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2024.116266
  • John McCloy, Edward Vicenzi, Thomas Lam, Julia Esakoff, Travis Olds, Lisa Haney, Mostafa Sherif, John Bussey, M. C. Dixon Wilkins, Sam Karcher, “Egyptian Blues: Assessment of Process Variability and Color in Synthesized and Ancient Pigments,” npj Heritage Science, 13(1), 202 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s40494-025-01699-7
  • Nabil Ashraf Shuvo, John Bussey, Arumala Josiah Lere-Adams, Malin C. J. Dixon Wilkins, Sam Karcher, John S. McCloy, “Synthesized and Commercial Iron Sulfide Particles as Contaminant Sorbents,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 61(9), 1-6 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2025.3529313
  • Nabil Shuvo, John Bussey, John McCloy, “Iodine Sorption on Iron Sulfide Particles for Nuclear Waste Treatment: A Raman, UV-Vis and I L2,1 Edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study,” MRS Advances, 10(15), 1874-1880. https://doi.org/10.1557/s43580-025-01313-9
  • John Bussey, Malin C. J. Dixon Wilkins, Gavin McCloy, Rachael Bergman-Underwood, John McCloy, “Uranium and Thorium in simulated Hanford Site direct feed-high level waste aluminoborosilicate glass,” MRS Advances, 10(15), 1852-1860 (2025). http://doi.org/10.1557/s43580-025-01271-2
  • John McCloy, John Bussey, Malin C. J. Dixon Wilkins, “Fluorine K-edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Glasses, Minerals, and Salts Related to Nuclear Science,” MRS Advances, 10(15), 1868-1873. https://doi.org/10.1557/s43580-025-01245-4
  • John Bussey, Natalie Smith-Gray, Nicholas Stone-Weiss, Randall Youngman, Samuel E. Karcher, Malin Dixon Wilkins, Daniel Neuville, John McCloy, “Structure of Cl and F incorporation in aluminoborosilicate glass: sulfate retention, salt formation, and other properties,” Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 129(48), 12529-12550 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.5c05804
  • Raine Antonio, John Bussey, C. Dixon Wilkins, Daniel Neuville, Laurent Cormier, John McCloy, “Effects of Al Substitution for Fe in 5.1.8 Glasses and Glass-Ceramics,” Glass Europe 2:151-164 (2024). https://doi.org/10.52825/glass-europe.v2i.2341
  • Marc H. Weber, Sam Karcher, John Bussey, John McCloy, “Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy to Investigate Nuclear Materials,” MRS Advances, 9(7), 467–472 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43580-024-00794-4
  • John Bussey, Marc Weber, Dan Mihai Cenda, Bertrand Faure, Scott Barton, Liane Moreau, John McCloy, “Laboratory-based correlated X-ray imaging and scattering of inhomogeneous glass-ceramics,” Materials Letters, 369, 136688 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2024.136688
  • John S. McCloy,  Natalie Smith-Gray,  John M. Bussey, Nicholas Stone-Weiss, Randall E. Youngman, “Fluorine in complex alumino-boro-silicate glasses,” Inorganic Chemistry, 63(10), 4669-4680 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c04281
  • John M. Bussey, Marc H. Weber, Natalie J. Smith-Gray, Jessica J. Sly, John S. McCloy, “Examining Phase Separation and Crystallization in Glasses with X-Ray nano-Computed Tomography,” Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 600, 121987, (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2022.121987
  • Natalie Smith-Gray, John Bussey, John McCloy, “Microstructural Examination of Interactions between Chromia-Based Refractory and Nuclear Glass in a Melter,” Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 105(12), 7760-7769 (2022). http://doi.org/10.1111/jace.18706
  • Natalie Smith-Gray, Nicholas Stone-Weiss, Sam Karcher, Jonathan Evarts, Jessica Erickson, John Bussey, John McCloy, “The S Solubility of Cr and Al Containing Simulated Low-Active Waste Glass,” Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 597, 121924 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2022.121924
  • David Bollinger, Jessica Erickson, John Bussey, John McCloy, “Process Optimization of Caustic Scrubber and Iodine-129 Immobilization in Sodalite-based Waste forms,” MRS Advances, 7(5), 110-116 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43580-022-00229-y