PERSONAL HISTORY
B.S. 1979, M.S. 1983, University of Rochester; Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1979-80; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 1983-84; Ph.D. 1988, Iowa State University; Ames Laboratory, 1988-present.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Materials properties of glass forming metallic alloys, quasicrystals, high temperature intermetallics, high temperature superconductors, ceramics and silicates with emphasis on electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction. Utilizing new characterization techniques to investigate the dynamics of phase transformations. Computer modeling of physical systems.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
H.L. Zhao, M.J. Kramer, et al.
“Thermal expansion behavior of intermetallic compounds in the Mo-Si-B system,” Intermetallics, Vol. 12 (5), 493 (2004).

M.J. Kramer and D.J. Sordelet
“Polymorphism in the short-range order of Zr70Pd30 metallic glasses,” J. Non-Cryst. Solids, Vol. 351, 1586 (2005).

M.J. Kramer, D.J. Sordelet, A.F. Bastarows, X. Tan, and S.B. Biner
“Absence of crystallization during cylindrical indentation of a Zr-based metallic glass,” J. Non-Cryst. Solids (in press).

M.J. Kramer, T.A. Lograsso, and D.J. Sordelet
“Solid and liquid thermal expansion and structural observations in the quasicrystalline Cd84Yb16 compound,” Philos. Mag. Lett. (in press).

N. Yang, K.W. Dennis, R.W. McCallum, M.J. Kramer, Y. Zhang, and P.L. Lee
“Spontaneous magnetostriction in R2Fe14B (R=Y, Nd, Gd, Tb, Er),” J. Magn. Magn. Mater. (in press).

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