PERSONAL
HISTORY
B.S. 1980, M.S. 1983, Ph.D. 1986, Michigan Technological University; Graduate
Student Research Assistant, Argonne National Laboratory, 1980; Postdoctoral
Research Associate, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1986-88; Ames Laboratory,
1988-present.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Research interests include solid-liquid phase equilibria, solid-solid phase
interaction, kinetics of phase transitions as applied to the processing,
and synthesis of single crystals of intermetallics, martensitic, magneto-responsive
and quasicrystalline alloys.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
S.J. Murray, M. Marioni, S.M. Allen, R.C. O'Handley and T.A. Lograsso
“6% Magnetic-field-induced strain by twin-boundary motion in ferromagnetic Ni-Mn-Ga,” Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 77, 886 (2000).
K.A. Gschneidner, Jr., A.M. Russell, A.O. Pecharsky, J.R. Morris, Z. Zhang, T.A. Lograsso, D. Hsu, C.H.C. Lo, Y. Ye, A. Slager and D. Kesse
“A family of ductile intermetallic compounds,” Nat. Mater., Vol. 2, 587 (2003).
T.A. Lograsso, D.L. Schlagel and A.O. Pecharsky
“Synthesis and characterization of single crystalline Gd5(SixGe1-x)4 by the Bridgman method," J. Alloys Comp., Vol. 393, 141 (2005).
A.E. Clark, K.B. Hathaway, M. Wun-Fogle, J.B. Restorff, T.A. Lograsso V.M. Keppens, G. Petculescu and R.A. Taylor
“Extraordinary magnetoelasticity and lattice softening in b.c.c. Fe-Ga alloys,” J. Appl. Phys., Vol. 93, 8621 (2003).
T.A. Lograsso and E.M Summers
“Detection and quantification of D0 3 chemical order in Fe-Ga alloys using high resolution X-ray diffraction,” Mat. Sci. Eng. A, Vol. 416, 240 (2006).
E.M . Summers, T.A. Lograsso and M. Wun-Fogle
“Magnetostriction of binary and ternary Fe-Ga alloys,” J. Mat. Sci., Vol. 42, 9582 (2007).
M.J. Richard, J. Feuchtwanger, S.M. Allen, R.C. O’Handley, P. Lazpita, J.M. Barandiaran, J. Gutierrez, B. Ouladdiaf, C. Mondelli, T. Lograsso and D. Schlagel
“Chemical ordering in off-stoichiometric Ni-Mn-Ga ferromagnetic shape-memory alloys studied with neutron diffraction,” Phil. Mag., Vol. 87, 3437 (2007).
S. Francoual, K. Shibata, M. Mihalkovick, A. Q.R. Baron, Y. Sidis, T. Ishimasa, D. Wu, T.A. Lograsso, L.P. Regnault, F. Gaehler, S. Tsutui, B. Hennion, P. Bastie, T.J. Sato, H. Takakura, R. Currat, A.P. Tsai, M. de Boissieu
“Lattice dynamics of the Zn-Mg-Sc icosahedral quasicrystal and its periodic approximant, ” Nature Materials (2007).
HONORS, AWARDS
AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment in Materials
Chemistry, J. Anderegg, M. Besser, T. Bloomer, M. Gierer, A.I. Goldman,
C. Jenks, M. Kramer, T. Lograsso, D. Sordelet, P. Thiel, and M. Van
Hove, "Surface Properties of Quasicrystals," Department
of Energy’s Materials Sciences Research Competition, 1998
- Service Provider Impact Award, Iowa Manufacturing
Extension Partnership, 2000
- Best Poster Award, Y. Q. Wu, M. J. Kramer and T. A. Lograsso, " Local Order in Single Grain Cd-Yb Icosahedral Phase," Materials Research Society, Fall Meeting, 2003
