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• Oct. 15, 2015 - Jesse Adamczyk honored by being first undergraduate student to give a presentation on his research work at NMT’s “Tech Talks”
• July 27, 2015 - Graduate student Kevin Ring successfully defends his MS Thesis entitled “Microstructural impacts on the electrical properties of copper and titanium substituted bismuth vanadates”.
• June 14-19, 2015 - Paul Fuierer attends the 11th International Conference on Ceramic Materials and Components for Energy and Environmental Applications in Vancouver, BC, to present results from the MWN project.
• May 13-16, 2015 - Kevin Ring and Joerg Exner attend the 7th International Conference on Electroceramics (ICE2015), in State College, PA, to present their work.
• Feb. 9, 2015 - Max Streibl departs Socorro with completion of his internship at NMT
• Oct. 9th, 2014 - UBT Diploma Engineering student Max Streibl arrives in New Mexico to conduct research at NMT
• Oct. 6th, 2014 - NMT PhD student Idil Ayan and UBT PhD Joerg Exner each win best poster award at the Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials (RGSAM)
• Sept. 2014 - UBT PhD candidate Joerg Exner arrives in New Mexico to conduct research at NMT
• June-Aug. 2014 - NMT graduate student Kevin Ring spends the summer in Bayreuth conducting research at UBT
• June 2014 - Prof. Fuierer has another research visit to the University of Bayreuth
• 2012-2013 - Prof. Fuierer spends research sabbatical at the University of Bayreuth, hosted by Prof. Moos and the Functional Materials Department

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Materials World Network Sponsored Publications

• P. Fuierer, K. Ring, J. Exner, R. Moos, BICU(TI)VOX as a low/intermediate temperature SOFC electrolyte: Another look, Ceramic Transactions Vol 255: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ceramic Materials and Components for Energy and Environmental Applications (accepted).
• I. Ayan, A. Fairbrother, P. Fuierer, “Vertical Orientation of Short Wires Using a Monolayer of Spheres”, Particulate Science & Technology (in press).
• Kevin Ring, “Microstructural impacts on the electrical properties of copper and titanium substituted bismuth vanadates, New Mexico Insititute of Mining and Technology”, MS Thesis, Materials Engineering (2015).
• D. Hanft, J. Exner, M. Schubert, T. Stoecker, P. Fuierer, R. Moos, “An Overview of the Aerosol Deposition Method: Process Fundamentals and New Trends in Materials Applications”, Feature Article in J. Ceram. Sci. Tech., 06 [03] (2015) 147-182.
• Joerg Exner, Paul Fuierer, and Ralf Moos, “Aerosol Co-deposition of Ceramics: Mixtures of Bi2O3-TiO2 and Bi2O3-V2O5”, J. Amer. Ceram. Soc. 98 [3] (2015) 717-723.
• J. Exner, P. Fuierer, R. Moos, “Aerosol deposition of (Cu,Ti) substituted bismuth vanadate films,” Thin Solid Films, 573 (2014) 185-190.
• P. Fuierer, M. Maier, J. Exner, R. Moos, “Anisotropy and thermal stability of hot-forged BICUTIVOX oxygen ion conducting ceramics”, J. Eur. Ceram. Soc. 34 (2014) 943-951.
• M. Tang, P. Fuierer, P. Dickens, E. Fu, “Irradiation study on Srn+1TinO3n+1 Ruddlesden-Popper phases synthesized by hot-forging”, Phys. Status Solidi C, 1-5 (2013)
• Paul Fuierer, Russell Maier, Ulla Roder-Roith and Ralf Moos, “Processing Issues Related to the Bi-dimensional Ionic Conductivity of BIMEVOX Ceramics,” J. Mater. Sci. 46 [16] 5447-5453 (2011).
• Taylor Sparks, Paul A. Fuierer and David R. Clarke, “Anisotropic Thermal Diffusivity and Conductivity of La-Doped Strontium Niobate Sr2Nb2O7”, J. Amer.Ceram. Soc., 93 [4] 1136-1141 (2010). DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2009.03533.x
• Yang Shen, David R. Clarke, and Paul A. Fuierer, “Anisotropic thermal conductivity of the Aurivillus phase, bismuth titanate (Bi4Ti3O12): A natural nanostructured superlattice”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 102907 (2008). DOI: 10.1063/1.2975163. http://link.aip.org/link/?APPLAB/93/102907/1 

Presentations List

Materials World Network Sponsored Presentations

• Jesse Adamczyk* and Paul Fuierer, “Rapid Prototyping for Rapid Protocoating”, Tech Talks, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM (Oct. 2015).
• P. Fuierer*, K. Ring, J. Exner, R. Moos, “BICU(TI)VOX as a low/intermediate temperature SOFC electrolyte: Another look”, 11th International Conference on Ceramic Materials and Components for Energy and Environmental Applications, Vancouver, BC (June, 2015).
• Kevin Ring*, Ralf Moos, Paul Fuierer, Microstructure and Stability of Bi4V2-x-y(CuxTiy)O11-d Ceramics, 7th International Conference on Electroceramics (ICE2015), State College, PA, USA; 05/2015.
• Jörg Exner*, Gaby Albrecht, Paul Fuierer, Ralf Moos, NO2 Detection by Pulsed Polarization of Doped Bismuth Vanadate films prepared by the Aerosol Deposition Method, 7th International Conference on Electroceramics (ICE2015), State College, PA, USA; 05/2015
• J. Exner*, D. Hanft, M. Schubert, M. Bektas, R. Moos, P. Fuierer, “Room Temperature Aerosol Deposition for dense ceramic coatings-functional principle and potential applications”, 26th Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials, Albuquerque, NM, Oct. 6, 2014.
• K. Ring*, R. Reprogle, P. Fuierer, “Hot-forging of copper substituted bismuth vanadate ceramics”, 26th Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials, Albuquerque, NM, Oct. 6, 2014.
• I. Ayan*, P. Fuierer, “Vertical orientation of short wires using a monolayer of spheres”, 26th Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials, Albuquerque, NM, Oct. 6, 2014.
• J. Exner*, P. Fuierer, R. Moos, “Aerosol Co-Deposition of Bi2O3 and TiO2 and in-situ formation of Bi4Ti3O12”, Electroceramics XIV, Bucharest, Romania, June 16-20 (2014).
• J. Exner*, P. Fuierer, R. Moos, “Aerosol Deposition of Oxygen Ion Conducting Bismuth Vanadates”, 19th International Conference on Solid State Ionics, Kyoto, Japan (June 2013).

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