Jonathan Stebbins, Stanford University
Professor
Stanford, California
STEBBINS@stanford.edu
Office:
(650) 723-1140
Bio/Research
My research is focused on the measurement of the structure and dynamics in (mostly) inorganic materials, with the goal of understanding and predicting their thermodynamic and transport properties. These in turn fundamentally control a wide range of geological and technological phenomena. My stude...
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Bio/Research
My research is focused on the measurement of the structure and dynamics in (mostly) inorganic materials, with the goal of understanding and predicting their thermodynamic and transport properties. These in turn fundamentally control a wide range of geological and technological phenomena. My students, postdocs, and I work primarily on disordered materials, including minerals, glassy and molten silicates and oxides, and ceramics. Our primary research tool is nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). The materials that we study come from the natural laboratory of the Earth or are synthesized in our own labs. The problems that we address are tied to large-scale processes in geology and geophysics, as well as to those in high-tech industries. Among the former are the mechanisms of viscous flow in magmas and of solid solution in minerals from the crust to the lower mantle; among the latter are the optimization of glasses for flat screen computer displays and optical data transmission and of oxide ceramics for fuel cells.
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