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2021

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- A. Khanolkar, T. Yao, Z. Hua, C.A. Dennett, S.J. Reese, R.S. Schley, L. He, J.R. Kennedy, D.H. Hurley: In situ monitoring of microstructure evolution during thermal processing of uranium-zirconium alloys using laser-generated ultrasound, J. Nucl. Mate​r. in press. Li​nk​

- K. Bawane, X.​ Liu, T. Yao, M. Khafizov, A. French, J.M. Mann, L. Shao, J. Gan, D. Hurley, L. He: TEM Characterization of Dislocation Loops in Proton Irradiated Single Crystal ThO2, J. Nucl. Mater. 552, 152998, (2021). Link​

​- C.A. Dennett, W.R. Deskins, M. Khafizov, Z. Hua, A. Khanolkar, K. Bawane, L. Fu, J.M. Mann, C.A. Marianetti, L. He, D.H. Hurley, A. El-Azab, An Integrated Experimental and Computational Investigation of Defect and Microstructural Effects on Thermal Transport in Thorium Dioxide, Acta Mater. in press. Link​

- T. Yao, ​A. Sen, A. Wagner, F. Teng, M. Bachhav, A. El-Azab, D. Murray, J. Gan, D.H. Hurley, J.P. Wharry, M.T. Benson, and L. He: Understanding Spinodal and Binodal Phase Transformations in U-50Zr Alloy, Materialia, 16, 101092, (2021). Link​

- X. Liu, L. Capriotti, T. Yao, J.M. Harp, M.T. Benson, Y. Wang, F. Teng, L. He, Fuel-cladding chemical interaction of a prototype annular U-10Zr fuel with Fe-12Cr ferritic/martensitic HT-9 cladding, J. Nucl. Mater., ​544, 152588 (2021). Link​

​- A. Sen, M. Bachhav, F. Vurpillot, J.M. Mann, P.K. Morgan, T.A. Prusnick, J.P. Wharry, Influence of Field Conditions on Quantitative Analysis of Single Crystal Thorium Dioxide by Atom Probe Tomography, Ultramicroscopy, 220, 113167 (2021). Link​​

- M. Jin, M. Khafizov, C. Jiang, S. Zhou, C.A. Marianetti, M.S. Bryan, M.E. Manley, D.H. Hurley, Assessment of an Empirical Potential for Actinide Oxides to Predict Thermal Conductivity in UO2 and ThO2, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, in press (2021). Link

- Y. Wang, M. Khafizov, Shear waves generation by mode conversion in picosecond ultrasonics: Impact of grain orientation and material properties, J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 104, 2788 (2021). Link​

​- V.S. Chauhan, J. Pakarinen, T. Yao, L. He, D.H. Hurley, M. Khafizov, Indirect Characterization of Point Defects in Proton Irradiated Ceria, Materialia, 15, 101019,  (2021). Link

- W.R. Deskins, A. Hamed, T. Kumagai, M. Khafizov, C.A. Dennett, D.H. Hurley, A. El-Azab, Thermal conductivity of ThO2: Effect of Point Defect Disorder, J. Appl. Phys., 129 (7), 075102 (2021). Link

- L. He, M. Khafizov, C. Jiang, B. Tyburska-Püschel, B. Jaques, P. Xiu, P. Xu, M. Meyer, K. Sridharan, D. Butt, and J. Gan: Phase and Defect Evolution in Uranium-Nitrogen-Oxygen System under Irradiation, Acta Mater., 208, 116778 (2021). ​Link

- X. Ding, J. Xing, G. Li, L. Balicas, K. Gofryk, H-H. Wen, Crossover from Kondo to Fermi-liquid behavior induced by high magnetic field in 1T-VTe2 single crystals, Phys. Rev. B., 103, 125115 (2021). Lin​k​


2020

- T. Yao, A. R. Wagner, X. Liu, A. El-Azab, J. M. Harp, J. Gan, D. H. Hurley, M. T. Benson, L. He, On Spinodal-like Phase Decomposition in U-50 Zr Alloy, Materialia 9 1000592 (2020). Link

- A. Abdullaev, B. Muminov, V. S. Chauhan, J. O’Connell, V. A. Skuratov, M. Khafizov and Z. N. Utegulov, Thermal transport across nanoscale damage profile in sapphire irradiated by swift heavy ions: picosecond time domain thermoreflectance, J. Appl. Phys. 125, 035108 (2020). Link

- V. S. Chauhan, A. Abdullaev, Z. N. Utegulov, J. O’Connell, V. Skuratov, and M. Khafizov, Simultaneous characterization of cross- and in-plane thermal transport in insulator patterned by directionally aligned nano-channels, AIP Advances 10, 015304 (2020). Link

- Y. Wang, D. H. Hurley, Z. Hua, T. Pezeril, S. Raetz, V. E. Gusev, V. Tournat and M. Khafizov, Imaging grain microstructure in a model ceramic energy material with optically generated coherent acoustic phonons, Nat. Commun. 11, 1597 (2020). Link

- Z. Hua, T. Yao, A. Khanolkar, X. Ding, K. Gofryk, L. He, M. T. Benson, D. H. Hurley, Intragranular thermal transport in U-50Zr, J. Nucl. Mater., 152145 (2020). Link

- S. Knight, R. Korlacki, C. Dugan, J. C. Petrosky, A. Mock, P. A. Dowben, J. M. Mann, M. M. Kimani, and M. Schubert, Infrared-active phonon modes in single-crystal thorium dioxide and uranium dioxide, J. Appl. Phys. 127(12), 125103 (2020). Link

- M. Khafizov, M. F. Riyad, Y. Wang, J. Pakarinen, L. He, T. Yao, A. El-Azab, D. H. Hurley, Combining mesoscale thermal transport and x-ray diffraction measurements to characterize early-stage evolution of irradiation-induced defects in ceramics, Acta Materialia 193, 61-70 (2020). Link

- M. Jin, C. Jiang, J. Gan, D. H. Hurley, Systematic analysis on the primary radiation damage in Th1−xUxO2 fluorite systems, J. Nucl. Mater., 536, 152144 (2020). Link

- M. M. Hosen, G. Dhakal, K. Dimitri, H. Choi, F. Kabir, C. Sims, O. Pavlosiuk, P. Wiśniewski​, T. Durakiewicz, J.-X. Zhu, D. Kaczorowski, M. Neupane, Observation of Dirac state in half-Heusler material YPtBi, Scientific Reports., 10, 12343 (2020). Link​

- M. M. Hosen, G. Dhakal, B. Wang, N. Poudel, B. Singh, K. Dimitri, F. Kabir, C. Sims, S. Regmi, W. Neff, A. B. Sarkar, A. Agarwal, D. Murray, F. Weickert, K. Gofryk, O. Pavlosiuk, P. Wiśniewski​, D. Kaczorowski, A. Bansil, M. Neupane, Observation of gapped state in rare-earth monopnictide HoSb​, Scientific Reports., 10, 12961 (2020). Link

- T. Yao, L. Capriotti, J.M. Harp, X. Liu, ​​​Y. Wang, F. Teng, D.J. Murray, A.J. Winston, J. Gan, M.T. Benson, L. He, α-U and ⍵-UZr2 in Neutron Irradiated U-10Zr Annular Metallic Fuel​​, J. Nucl. Mater.​​, 542​​, 152536 (2020). Link

- C.A. Dennett, Z. Hua, A. Khanolkar, T. Yao, P.K. Morgan, T.A. Prusnick, N. Poudel, A. French, K. Gofryk, L. He, L. Shao, M. Khafizov, D.B. Turner, J.M. Mann, D.H. Hurley, The influence of lattice defects and recombination on thermal transport in single crystal thorium dioxide, APL Materials, 8, 111103 (2020). Link​ AIP Scilight​

- M.S. Bryan, L. Fu, L. Rickert, D. Turner, T.A. Prusnick, J.M. Mann, D.L. Abernathy, C.A. Marianetti, M.E. Manley, Nonlinear Vibrations Beyond the Phonons in Fluirite-Structured Crystals, Nat. Comm. Phys., 3(1), 1-7 (2020). Link

- X. Ding, T. Yao, L. Fu, Z. Hua, J. Harp, C.A. Marianetti, M. Neupane, M.E. Manley, D.H. Hurley, K. Gofryk, Magnetic, transport and thermal properties of δ-phase UZr2, ​​Phil. Mag. Lett., 101(1), 1-11 (2020). Link​​​

 

2019

- D. H. Hurley, Characterization of Material Nano/Microstructure using Pump-Probe Laser Ultrasonics, June 2019, IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine. Link


- K. Rickert, T.A. Prusnick, E. Hunt, M.M. Kimani, S. Chastang, D.L. Brooks, E.A. Moore, J.C. Petrosky, J.M. Mann, Inhibiting Laser Oxidation of UO2 via Th Substitution, Journal Nuclear Materials, 517, 254 (2019). Link

- Yuzhou Wang, David H Hurley, Zilong Hua, Gaofeng Sha, Samuel Raetz, Vitalyi E Gusev, Marat Khafizov, Nondestructive characterization of polycrystalline 3D microstructure with time-domain Brillouin scattering, Script Materailia, 166, 34 (2019). Link

- M. Khafizov, Janne Pakarinen, Lingfeng He, D. H. Hurley, Impact of irradiation induced dislocation loops on thermal conductivity in ceramics, J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 102 (12), 7533-7542 (2019). Link

- A. Mock, C. Dugan, S. Knight, R. Korlacki, J. Matthew Mann, M. M. Kimani, J. C. Petrosky, P. A. Dowben, M. Schubert, Band-to-band transitions and critical points in the near-infrared to vacuum ultraviolet dielectric functions of single crystal urania and thoria, Appl. Phys. Lett., 114, 211901 (2019). Link 

- M. S. Bryan, J. W. L. Pang, B. C. Larson, A. Chernatynskiy, D. L. Abernathy, K. Gofryk, M. E. Manley, Impact of Anharmonicity on The Vibrational Entropy and Specific Heat of UO2, Physical Review Materials, 3, 065405, June 2019. Link

- Z. E. Brubaker, S. Ran, A. H. Said, M. E. Manley, P. Söderlind, D. Rosas, J. S. Idell, R. J. Zieve, N. P. Butch, J. R. Jeffries, Phonon dispersion of Mo-stabilized g-U using inelastic x-ray scattering, Phys. Rev. B, 100, 094311, September (2019).Link