{"id":639,"date":"2023-10-16T17:06:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T17:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tickle1stg.wpenginepowered.com\/mse\/?page_id=639"},"modified":"2023-10-16T17:08:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T17:08:11","slug":"kurt-sickafus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/faculty\/emeritus-faculty\/kurt-sickafus\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Sickafus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"profilePageTitle\">Emeritus Faculty<\/p>\n<p><!-- Right Column --><\/p>\n<div class=\"one-third column pull-right\">\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Research Areas<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Electron microscopy, with an emphasis on:\n<ul>\n<li>transmission electron microscopy (TEM),<\/li>\n<li>scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM),<\/li>\n<li>and analytical electron microscopy (AEM) techniques<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Crystallography<\/li>\n<li>Radiation damage effects<\/li>\n<li>Microstructure of materials<\/li>\n<li>Radiation damage behavior of oxides with structures ranging from spinel to ilmenite to pyrochlore to fluorite to perovskite.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- Left Column --><\/p>\n<div class=\"two-thirds column \">\n<p><!-- Biography --><\/p>\n<h2>Biography<\/h2>\n<p>Kurt Sickafus has been an experimental researcher in the field of materials science for about 34 years; investigating structure and properties in metals, polymers, and ceramics, in bulk, thin-film, and composite forms. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1978 (BA in Physics &amp; Mathematics), and he received his PhD degree from Cornell University in 1985 (Materials Science &amp; Engineering). Dr. Sickafus also worked as a postdoctoral research assistant in the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (1985-1987) and as a staff member at I.B.M. (1987-88) before joining Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1989. He worked as a Staff Scientist at Los Alamos for 22 years before moving to the University of Tennessee in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Education --><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Education<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>PhD, Cornell University<br \/>\n<em>Grain Boundary Structural Transformations Induced by Solute Segregation<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- Professional Service --><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Professional Service<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Visiting Professor, Laboratoire SPMS, \u00c9cole Centrale Paris (ECP), Chatenay-Malabry (and Commissariat \u00e1 l\u2019\u00c9nergie Atomique (CEA), CEN Saclay, Gif sur Yvette) France, May, 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Organizer and Chair, International Workshop \u201cRadiation Stability of Complex Microstructures,\u201d Santa Fe, New Mexico, Sept. 2-4, 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Organizer and Co-Chair, International Conference Radiation Effects in Insulators, (REI-2005), Santa Fe, NM, August 28 \u2013 September 2, 2005.<\/li>\n<li>Member, Advisory Editorial Board of the\u00a0<em>Journal of Nuclear Materials<\/em>, 2004 \u2013 present.<\/li>\n<li>Director, \u201cRadiation Effects in Solids\u201d International School held at the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture in Erice, Sicily, Italy, July, 2004.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- Awards & Recognitions --><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Awards &amp; Recognitions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>2008 Fellow, of Los Alamos National Laboratory<\/li>\n<li>Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellows Prize<\/li>\n<li>2003\u00a0Los Alamos National Laboratory Distinguished Mentor Performance Award<\/li>\n<li>1998 Fellow of the American Ceramic Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!-- Research Publications --><\/p>\n<h2>Research Publications<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>C. Jiang, B. P. Uberuaga,\u00a0<strong>K. E. Sickafus<\/strong>, F. M. Nortier, J. J. Kitten, N. A. Marks and C. R. Stanek, \u201cUsing \u2018Radioparagenesis\u2019 to Design Robust Nuclear Waste Forms,\u201d Energy and Environmental Science\u00a0<strong>3<\/strong>\u00a0(2010) 130.<\/li>\n<li>C. Jiang, C. R. Stanek, N. A. Marks,\u00a0<strong>K. E. Sickafus<\/strong>\u00a0and B. P. Uberuaga, \u201cRadioparagenesis: The Formation of Novel Crystalline Structures via Radioactive Decay,\u201d Phil. Mag. Lett.\u00a0<strong>90<\/strong>\u00a0(6) (2010) 435-446.<\/li>\n<li>M. Tang, K. S. Holliday, C. Jiang, J. A. Valdez, B. P. Uberuaga, P. O. Dickerson, R. M. Dickerson, Y. Q. Wang, K. R. Czerwinski,\u00a0<strong>K. E. Sickafus<\/strong>, \u201cOrder-to-disorder Phase Transformation in Ion Irradiated Uranium-Bearing Delta-phase Oxides RE6U1O12 (RE = Y, Gd, Ho, Yb, and Lu).\u201d J. Sol. St. Chem.\u00a0<strong>183<\/strong> (2010) 844.<\/li>\n<li>M. Tang, K. S. Holliday, J. A. Valdez, B. P. Uberuaga, P. O. Dickerson, R. M. Dickerson, Y. Wang, K. R. Czerwinski, and <strong>K. E. Sickafus<\/strong>, \u201cMicrostructural Evolution in Irradiated Uranium-Bearing Delta-phase Oxides A6U1O12 (A = Y, Gd, Ho, Yb, and Lu)\u201d, J. Nucl. Mater.\u00a0<strong>407<\/strong>(2010) 44-47.<\/li>\n<li>J. Zhang, Y. Q. Wang, M. Tang, J. Won, J. A. Valdez, and\u00a0<strong>K. E. Sickafus,<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cOrder-to-disorder transformation in d-phase Sc4Zr3O12 compounds induced by ion irradiation,\u201d J. Mater. Res.<strong>25<\/strong>\u00a0(2010) 248.<\/li>\n<li>I. O. Usov, J. Won, D. J. Devlin, Y.-B. Jiang, J. A. Valdez,\u00a0<strong>K. E. Sickafus,<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cA novel method for incorporating fission gas elements into solids,\u201d J. Nucl. Mater.\u00a0<strong>408<\/strong>\u00a0(2011) 205-208.<\/li>\n<li>C. Jiang, X.-Y. Liu,\u00a0<strong>K. E. Sickafus<\/strong>, \u201cFirst-principles prediction of the thermodynamic stability of xenon in monoclinic, tetragonal, and yttrium stabilized cubic ZrO2,\u201d Phys. Rev. B\u00a0<strong>83<\/strong>(2011) 052103.<\/li>\n<li>T. Hartmann, A. Alaniz, F. Poineau, P. F. Weck, J. A. Valdez, M. Tang, G. D. Jarvinen, K. R. Czerwinski,\u00a0<strong>K. E. Sickafus<\/strong>, \u201cStructure Studies on Lanthanide Technetium Pyrochlores as Prospective Host Phases to Immobilize 99Tc and Fission Lanthanides from Effluents of Reprocessed Used Nuclear Fuels,\u201d J. Nucl. Mater.\u00a0<strong>411<\/strong>\u00a0(2011) 60-71.<\/li>\n<li>X.-Y. Liu, B. P. Uberuaga, A. D. Andersson, C. R. Stanek,\u00a0<strong>K. E. Sickafus,<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cNew mechanism for transient migration of xenon in UO2,\u201d Appl. Phys. Lett.\u00a0<strong>98<\/strong>\u00a0(2011) 151902.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emeritus Faculty Research Areas Electron microscopy, with an emphasis on: transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"parent":635,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-wide.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-639","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kurt Sickafus - Materials Science and Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/faculty\/emeritus-faculty\/kurt-sickafus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kurt Sickafus - 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