RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Processing and Characterization of Advanced Ceramic Materials for Structural and Electronic Applications;
• Synthesizing and Sintering of Submicron (Nanosize) Carbide, Nitride and Boride Powders;
• Self-Propagating High Temperature Synthesis;
  
• Nonstoichiometry and Sintering of Oxide Ceramics;
  
• Methods of Preparing High Purity Oxides from Organo-Metallics;
  
• Perovskites for Use as High Temperature Electrodes in Fuel Cells.

FUNDED RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

• Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Inc./UT-Battelle (ORNL),"New Method for Synthesis of Metal Carbides, Nitrides, & Borides Phase I-V", PI, $340,000, April 1995-Present.
• SIUC-Materials Technology Center, "New Method for Synthesis of Metal Carbides, Nitrides, & Borides", PI, $78,860, matching fund for Lockheed Martin Project, April 1995-Present.
• 3M Ceramic Technology Center, "New Method for Synthesis of Metal Carbides, Nitrides, &Borides-for Phase I", PI, $44,500, in-kind matching fund for Lockheed Martin Project.
• Advanced Photon/Synchrotron Radiation Sources Program, CARS-NU-IBHE, "Application of APS for Characterization of Residual Stress in Silicon Nitride Composites", Co-PI, $100,940, Sept. 1997-Aug. 1998.
• SIUC-Materials Technology Center, "New Method for Synthesis of Metal Carbides, Nitrides and Carbonitrides","PI, $20,000, July 1995-July 1996.
• US-Department of Energy and Coors Ceramics, "Synthesis of Sinterable SiC Powders", Co-PI, $2,700,000, July 1992-August 1994.
• NREL Director's Development Funding, "Solar Furnace Sintering of SiC-Based Ceramics", PI, $40,000, July 1992-August 1994.
• Turkish Defense Department, "Sinter/HIP Processing of Si3N4 Matrix Composites for Ram Jet Engines", Co-PI, $250,000, September 1990-December 1992.
• Turkish Defense Department, "Processing and Characterization of SiC Matrix Composites for Armor Applications", Co-PI, $350,000, September 1990-December 1992.
• NATO-AGARD, "Sintering of SiC and Si3N4 Based Ceramics", PI, $10,000, February 1990-February 1991.