With our colleagues at Rutgers, we have completed a new paper on Pb-V-I apatites.

Charles Cao, Saehwa Chong, Lynn Thirion, John C. Mauro, John S. McCloy, and Ashutosh Goel, “One pot synthesis of apatite waste forms for immobilization of radioactive iodine at ambient temperature,” Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 5, 14331-14342, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7TA00230K

Chong, S., J. Peterson, J. Nam, B. Riley, and J. McCloy, “Synthesis and characterization of iodosodalite,” Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 100(5), 2273-2284 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jace.14772

Joelle T. Reiser, John S. McCloy, Marc H. Weber, Benjamin P. Parruzot, Joseph V. Ryan, Nathalie A. Wall, “The Use of Positrons to Survey Alteration Layers on Synthetic Nuclear Waste Glasses,” Journal of Nuclear Materials, 490, 75-84 (2017), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2017.03.007

The research group has been busy, and can count 5 new publications now online.  Congratulations team!

1. Jamie Weaver, Chuck Soderquist, Nancy Washton, Andrew S. Lipton, Paul Gassman, Wayne Lukens, Albert A. Kruger, Nathalie Wall, and John S. McCloy, “Chemical Trends in Solid Alkali Pertechnetates,” Inorganic Chemistry, in press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b02694
2. Weaver,# C. Soderquist, P. Gassman, E. Walter, W. Lukens, and J.S. McCloy, “Synthesis and Characterization of 5- and 6- Coordinated Alkali Pertechnetates,” MRS Advances, in press, (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/adv.2017.18
3. Marcial, M. Ahmadzadeh, J.S. McCloy, “Effect of Li, Fe, and B Addition on the Crystallization Behavior of Sodium Aluminosilicate Glasses as Analogues for Hanford High Level Waste Glasses,” MRS Advances, in press, (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/adv.2016.628
4. Ke Xu, Daniel K. Schreiber, Bradley R. Johnson, John McCloy, “Effect of defects, magnetocrystalline anisotropy, and shape anisotropy on magnetic structure of iron thin films by magnetic force microscopy,” AIP Advances, 7(5), 056806 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4976580
5. Md Taibur Rahman, Kathryn Mireles, Pui Ching Wo, José Marcial, M. R. Kessler, John McCloy, C.V. Ramana, Rahul Panat, “High Temperature Oxidation Behavior of Nichrome (NiCr) Nanoparticles,” Journal of Physical Chemistry C, in press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b11560

The first paper reporting our project looking at the Swedish hillfort vitrified material has been published online.

http://www.witpress.com/elibrary/sdp-volumes/11/6/1388

Sjöblom, R., J. Weaver, D. Peeler, J. McCloy, A.A. Kruger, E. Ogenhall, and E. Hjärthner-Holdar, “Vitrified Hillforts As Anthropogenic Analogues For Nuclear Waste Glasses – Project Planning And Initiation,” International Journal of Sustainable Development, 11(6), 897-906 (2016).

From the 2016 MMM/Intermag conference.

Saleh, M., Y. Cao, D.J. Edwards, P. Ramuhalli, B.R. Johnson, and J.S. McCloy, “Effects of aging time and temperature of Fe-1wt.%Cu on magnetic Barkhausen noise and FORC,” AIP Advances, 6(5), 055935 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4944767

José Marcial just published a paper on his research on aluminosilicate crystallization from glass.

J. Marcial, J. Crum, O. Neill, and J. McCloy, “Nepheline structural and chemical dependence on melt composition,” American Mineralogist, 101(2), 266-276 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.2138/am-2016-5370.

http://ammin.geoscienceworld.org/content/101/2/266.full?ijkey=8JyIKTxWA2yZ6&keytype=ref&siteid=gsammin

The group recently had 2 papers published on work by Yue Cao and Ke Xu.  Congratulations!

• Y. Cao, K. Xu, W. Jiang, T. Droubay, P. Ramuhalli, D. Edwards, B. Johnson, J. McCloy, “Hysteresis in single and polycrystalline iron thin films: major and minor loops, first order reversal curves, and Preisach modeling,” Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 395, 361-375 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2015.06.072
• Y. Li, K. Xu, S. Hu, J. Suter, D. Schreiber, P. Ramuhalli, B. Johnson, J. McCloy, “Computational and Experimental Investigations of Magnetic Domain Structures in Patterned Magnetic Thin Films,” Journal of Physics D, 48 305001 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/48/30/305001

Prof. McCloy has been appointed as an Editorial Advisory Board member for the Bulletin of the American Ceramic Society, serving for 2014-17.  He has also just accepted a position as Review Editor for Frontiers in Materials – Glass Science, an open access journal.