Stu Adler
2006 Catalyst Article
2005 was a productive and successful year for the entire Adler group, but special accolades go to Jamie Wilson, Yunxiang Lu, and Xiyong Chen, who recently passed their PhD general exams. Good show! In addition, these three students now have major publications in print or in press, and in some cases their work has nucleated a number of new and exciting collaborations.
For example, Jamie’s work involving nonlinear impedance of fuel cell cathodes has drawn significant international interest and spawned new projects with Scott Barnett’s group at Northwestern, as well as Tatsuya Kawada’s group at Tohoku University in Japan. Likewise, Xiyong’s measurements of chemical expansion in perovskites (recently accepted to Chemistry of Materials) has shown some very interesting trends, which we are now trying to understand with help from diffraction expert Scott Misture at Alfred University.
Master’s student Shawn Huff, who joined the group last year, is making regular trips to Pacific Northwest National Lab, trying to apply some of our techniques in the field. Closer to home, PhD student Dinesh Baskar is getting the first magnetic data (ever) on perovskite materials at high temperature under controlled oxygen atmospheres. Also, undergraduate student Erica Peterson has confirmed the existence of higher harmonic response of use motor oil (a long story, but basically involves automotive sensors!). Bottom line: lots of interesting results, new possibilities and collaborations (and projects), all exciting!
