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Professor & Jerry and Kay Henry Endowed Professor<\/p>\n

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\"David<\/div>\n
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Contact Information<\/h3>\n

410 Ferris Hall,
\n1508 Middle Drive,
\nKnoxville, TN 37996-2100<\/p>\n

Phone<\/b>
\n865-974-3609<\/p>\n

Email<\/b>
\ndmandrus@utk.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Personal Website<\/a><\/p>\n

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Research Areas<\/h3>\n
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  • Growth, discovery, and materials physics of new electronic and magnetic materials (e.g., superconductors, thermoelectrics, multiferroics, and itinerant magnets).<\/li>\n
  • Oxide electronics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Biography<\/h2>\n

    David Mandrus earned his PhD in physics from Stony Brook University in 1992. His did his postdoctoral work at Los Alamos, and joined ORNL staff in 1995. In 2000 he established a group at ORNL dedicated to the discovery and investigation of quantum materials. In 2010 he became a tenured full professor at UT.\u00a0 He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a recipient of the Gordon Battelle Prize for scientific discovery, and an ISI\/Clarivate Analytics highly cited researcher. He currently serves on the National Research Council’s Condensed Matter and Materials Research Committee. He also served co-chair of the DOE Basic Energy Sciences workshop on Basic Research Needs for Synthesis Science for Energy Relevant Technology.<\/p>\n

    Mandrus leads the Emergent Crystalline Matter (ECM) group at the University of Tennessee (UT) that is focused on the design and discovery of new quantum materials. He and his group members work closely with colleagues at ORNL on the advanced characterization of the ECM group’s materials, with a special emphasis on neutron scattering and nanoelectronics. The Mandrus group is particularly interested in finding new materials in which magnetism and electronic transport properties are coupled in surprising new ways. Examples of some of the materials being created by the ECM group include van der Waals magnets that can be mechanically exfoliated to create “single-layer” magnetic materials, and chiral magnets in which the magnetization can twist into exotic spin textures with novel topological properties.<\/p>\n

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    Education<\/h3>\n
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    • PhD, Stony Brook University
      \nGrowth, discovery, and materials physics of new electronic and magnetic materials (e.g., superconductors, thermoelectrics, multiferroics, and itinerant magnets). Oxide electronics. <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      Professional Service<\/h3>\n
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      • Symposium Co-Organizer,\u00a0Solid-State Chemistry of<\/em>\u00a0Inorganic Materials,<\/em>\u00a0MRS Fall Meeting, 2010<\/li>\n
      • DMP\/GMAG Focus Topic Organizer,\u00a0Complex Oxides<\/em>, APS March Meeting, 2010<\/li>\n
      • Co-organizer,\u00a0International Workshop on Synthesis of Functional Oxide Materials,\u00a0<\/em>University of California, Santa Barbara, August 2007<\/li>\n
      • Co-organizer,\u00a0Correlated Electron Crystals<\/em>, \u00a0session at the International Conference on Crystal Growth, Salt Lake City, Utah, August, 2007<\/li>\n
      • Co-organizer,\u00a0International Conference on Thermoelectrics<\/em>, \u00a0Clemson University, June 2005<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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        Awards & Recognitions<\/h3>\n
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        • Named to Clarivate\u2019s Highly Cited Researchers list, 2025<\/li>\n
        • Fellow, American Physical Society<\/li>\n
        • Moore Foundation Materials Synthesis Investigator<\/li>\n
        • 2009\u00a0UT-Battelle Scientific Research Award<\/li>\n
        • ISI Highly Cited Researcher<\/li>\n
        • Member, Superconductor Science and Technology Advisory Board<\/li>\n
        • Joint Faculty, Materials Science and Technology Division, ORNL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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          Research Publications<\/h2>\n
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          1. Mandrus, D<\/strong>; Sefat, A. S.; McGuire, M. A.; Sales, B. C., \u201cMaterials Chemistry of BaFe2As2\u00a0 : A Model Platform for Unconventional Superconductivity.\u201d Chemistry of Materials\u00a022<\/strong>, 715(2010).<\/li>\n
          2. Lumsden, M. D.; Christianson, A. D.; Goremychkin, E. A.; Nagler, S. E.; Mook, H. A.;<\/u>\u00a0Stone, M. B.; Abernathy, D. L.;\u00a0 MacDougall, G. J.; de la Cruz, C.; Sefat, A. S.; McGuire, M. A.; Sales, B. C.;\u00a0\u00a0Mandrus, D.<\/strong>, \u201cEvolution of spin excitations into the superconducting state in FeTe1-xSex.\u201d NATURE PHYSICS, 2010.\u00a06<\/strong>(3): p. 182.<\/li>\n
          3. Sefat, A.S., R.Y. Jin, M.A. McGuire, B.C. Sales, D.J. Singh, and\u00a0D. Mandrus<\/strong>, \u201cSuperconductivity at 22 K in Co-doped BaFe2As2 crystals,\u201d Physical Review Letters, 2008.\u00a0101<\/strong>(11): p. 117004.<\/li>\n
          4. Angst, M., R.P. Hermann, A.D. Christianson, M.D. Lumsden, C. Lee, M.H. Whangbo, J.W. Kim, P.J. Ryan, S.E. Nagler, W. Tian, R. Jin, B.C. Sales, and\u00a0D. Mandrus<\/strong>, \u201cCharge Order in LuFe2O4: Antiferroelectric Ground State and Coupling to Magnetism\u201d.<\/em>\u00a0Physical Review Letters, 2008.\u00a0101<\/strong>(22): p. 227601.<\/li>\n
          5. Hermann, R.P., V. Keppens, P. Bonville, G.S. Nolas, F. Grandjean, G.J. Long, H.M. Christen, B.C. Chakoumakos, B.C. Sales, and\u00a0D. Mandrus<\/strong>, \u201cDirect experimental evidence for atomic tunneling of europium in crystalline Eu8Ga16Ge30.\u201d Physical Review Letters, 2006.\u00a097<\/strong>(1): p. 017401.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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