Publications from the Group in 2017
A. da Silva, D. Hotza, R.H.R. Castro, Surface energy effects on the stability of anatase and rutile nanocrystals: A predictive diagram for Nb2O5-doped-TiO2, Applied Surface Science, 393, 103-109, 2017.
Publications from the Group in 2016
Castro, R.H.R., Gouvea, D. Sintering and nanostability: The thermodynamic perspective. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 99, 4, 1105-1121, 2016 (Feature Article).
Hasan, M., Dey, S., Nafsin, N., Mardinly, J., Dholadhai, P.P., Uberuaga, B.P., Castro, R.H.R. Improving the Thermodynamic Stability of Aluminate Spinel Nanoparticles with Rare Earths. Chemistry of Materials, 28, 5163-5171, 2016.
S. Dey, J. Mardinly, Y.Q. Wang, J.A. Valdez, T.H. Holesinger, J.W. Drazin, B. Uberuaga, R.H.R.Castro, Irradiation-induced grain growth and defect evolution in nanocrystalline zirconia with doped grain boundaries, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 18, 16921-16929, 2016.
M. Perez-Page, J. Makel, K. Guan, E. Yu, J. Tringe, R.H.R. Castro, R. Faller, P. Stroeve, Gas adsorption properties of ZSM-5 zeolites heated to extreme temperatures, Ceramics International, 42, 15423-15431, 2016.
N. Nafsin, Md. Hasan, S. Dey, R.H.R. Castro, Effect of ammonia on the agglomeration of zirconia nanoparticles during synthesis, and sintering by spark plasma sintering, Materials Letters, 183, 143-146, 2016.
Zhang, S., M. Perez-Page, K. Guan, E. Yu, J. Tringe, R.H.R. Castro, R. Faller, P. Stroeve, Response to Extreme Temperatures of Mesoporous Silica MCM-41: Porous Structure Transformation Simulation and Modification of Gas Adsorption Properties, Langmuir, 32, 11422-11431, 2016.
Camargo, M.T., Jacques, Q., Caliman, L., Miagava, J., Hotza, D., Castro, R.H.R., Gouvea, D. Synthesis of Ca-doped spinel by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis. Materials Letters, 181, 232-235, 2016.
Wu, L., Dey, S., Mardinly, J., Hasan, M., Castro, R.H.R. Thermodynamic Strengthening of Heterointerfaces in Nanoceramics Chemistry of Materials, 28, 2897-2901, 2016.
da Silva, A., Muche, D., Dey, S., Hotza, D., Castro, R.H.R. Photocatalytic Nd2O5-doped TiO2 nanoparticles for glazed ceramic tiles. Ceramics International, 42, 5113-5122, 2016.
Gomez, S.Y., da Silva, A.L., Gouvea, D., Castro, R.H.R., Hotza, D. Nanocrystalline yttria-doped zirconia sintered by fast firing. Materials Letters, 166, 196-200, 2016.
Hotza, D.; Garcia, D.E.; Castro, R.H.R. Obtaining highly dense YSZ nanoceramics by pressureless, unassisted sintering. International Materials Reviews, 60(7): 353-375, 2016
Miagava, J.; Silva, A.; Navrotsky, A.; Castro, R.H.R.; Gouvea, D. The Nanocrystalline SnO2–TiO2 System?Part II: Surface Energies and Thermodynamic Stability. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 99, 638-644, 2016.
Miagaya, J.; Rubbens, A.; Roussel, P.; Navrotsky, A.; Castro, R.H.R.; Gouvea, D. The Nanocrystalline SnO2–TiO2 System—Part I: Structural Features. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 99, 631-367, 2016.
Publications from the Group in 2015
Wu, L., Aguiar, J.A., Dholabhai, P., Holesinger, T., Uberuaga, B., Castro, R.H.R. Interface Energies of Nanocrystalline Doped Ceria: Effects of Manganese Segregation. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119, 27855-27864, 2015.
Dey, S., Chang, C-H., Gong, M., Liu, F., Castro, R.H.R., Grain growth resistant nanocrystalline zirconia by targeting zero grain boundary energies. Journal of Materials Research, 30, 2991-3002, 2015.
Chang, C-H.; Dey, S. Castro, R.H.R. Energetics of Oriented Attachment of Mn-Doped SnO2 Nanoparticles. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119(35): 20662-20672, 2015.
Gong, M.M.; Castro, R.H.R.; Liu, F. Modeling grain growth kinetics of binary substitutional alloys by the thermodynamic extremal principle. Journal of Materials Science, 50(13): 4610-4621, 2015.
Drazin, J.W.; Castro, R.H.R. Phase Stability in Nanocrystals: A Predictive Diagram for Yttria-Zirconia. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 98(4): 1377-1384, 2015.
Chang, C.-H.; Gong, M.M.; Dey, S.; Liu, F.; Castro, R.H.R. Thermodynamic Stability of SnO2 Nanoparticles: The Role of Interface Energies and Dopants. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119(11): 6389-6397, 2015.
Hasan, Md.; Drazin, J.; Dey, S.; Castro, R.H.R. Synthesis of stoichiometric nickel aluminate spinel nanoparticles. American Mineralogist, 100(2-3): 652-657, 2015.
Dey, S.; Drazin, J.W.; Wang, Y.Q.; Valdez, J.A.; Holesinger, T.G.; Uberuaga, B.P.; Castro, R.H.R. Radiation Tolerance of Nanocrystalline Ceramics: Insights from Yttria Stabilized Zirconia. Scientific Reports, 5: 7746-1, 7746-9, 2015
Dholabhai, P.P.; Aguiar, J.A.; Wu, L.J.; Holesinger, T.G.; Aoki, T.; Castro, R.H.R.; Uberuaga, B.P. Structure and segregation of dopant-defect complexes at grain boundaries in nanocrystalline doped ceria. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17(23): 15375-15385, 2015
Publications from the Group in 2014
Ku-Herrera, J. J., Pinto, B., La Saponara, V., Castro, R.H.R., Avilés, F. Tailored self-sensing of failure mechanisms in glass fiber/carbon nanotube/vinyl ester multiscale hierarchical composites loaded in tension. Journal of Multifunctional Composites, 2, 2014.
Wu, L.J.; Dey, S.; Gong, M.M.; Liu, F.; Castro, R.H.R. Surface Segregation on Manganese Doped Ceria Nanoparticles and Relationship with Nanostability. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(51): 30187-30196, 2014.
Drazin, J.W.; Castro, R.H.R., Water Adsorption Microcalorimetry Model: Deciphering Surface Energies and Water Chemical Potentials of Nanocrystalline Oxides, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(19): 10131-10142, 2014.
Rufner, J.F.; Castro, R.H.R.; Holland, T.B.; van Benthem, K. Mechanical properties of individual MgAl2O4 agglomerates and their effects on densification. Acta Materialia, 69: 187-195, 2014
Chang, C-H.; Castro, R.H.R., Surface and grain boundary energies of tin dioxide at low and high temperatures and effects on densification behavior, Journal of Materials Research, 29, 1034-1046, 2014.
9. Rufner, J., Flitz, C., Mukherjee, A., Holland, T., Castro, R.H.R., van Benthem, K., Local current-activated growth of individual nanostructures with high aspect ratios, Materials Research Letter, 2, 10-15, 2014.
Publications from the Group in 2013
Castro, R.H.R., On the Thermodynamic Stability of Nanocrystalline Ceramics, Materials Letters, 96, 45-56, 2013 (Invited Feature Article).
Publications from the Group in 2012
Title: Transparent Nanocrystalline Pure and Ca-Doped MgO by Spark Plasma Sintering of Anhydrous Nanoparticles
Author(s): Tran, Tien B.; Hayun, Shmuel; Navrotsky, Alexandra; et al.
Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY Volume: 95 Issue: 4 Pages: 1185-1188 DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2012.05103.x Published: APR 2012
Title: Surface Segregation in Chromium-Doped Nanocrystalline Tin Dioxide Pigments
Author(s): Castro Ricardo H. R.; Rufner J.; Hidalgo P.; Gouvea D.; Coaquira J.; van Benthem K.
Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY Volume: 95 Issue: 1 Pages: 170-176 DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2011.04868.x Published: JAN 2012
Publications from the Group in 2011
Title: Surface enthalpy and enthalpy of water adsorption of nanocrystalline tin dioxide: Thermodynamic insight on the sensing activity
Author(s): Ma Yuanyuan; Castro Ricardo H. R.; Zhou Wei; et al.
Source: JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH Volume: 26 Issue: 7 Pages: 848-853 DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2010.97 Published: APR 2011
Title: The Hidden Effect of Interface Energies in the Polymorphic Stability of Nanocrystalline Titanium Dioxide
Author(s): Castro Ricardo H. R.; Wang Beibei
Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY Volume: 94 Issue: 3 Pages: 918-924 DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2010.04164.x Published: MAR 2011
Title: Quantification of MgO surface excess on the SnO(2) nanoparticles and relationship with nanostability and growth
Author(s): Gouvea Douglas; Pereira Gilberto J.; Gengembre Leon; et al.
Source: APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE Volume: 257 Issue: 9 Pages: 4219-4226 DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2010.12.023 Published: FEB 15 2011
Title: Surface Segregation in Chromium-Doped Nanocrystalline Tin Dioxide Pigments
Author(s): Castro Ricardo H. R.; Rufner J.; Hidalgo P.; Gouvea D.; Coaquira J.; van Benthem K.
Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2011.04868.x Published: OCT 04 2011
Title: Experimental Methodologies for Assessing the Surface Energy of Highly Hygroscopic Materials: The Case of Nanocrystalline Magnesia
Author(s): Hayun S.; Tran T.; Ushakov S.; Thron A.; van Benthem; Navrotsky A.; Castro R. H. R.
Source: JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C Volue: 115 Issue: 48 Pages:23929–23935 DOI: 10.1021/jp2087434 Published: OCT 28 2011
