Patricia A. Thiel

Professor of Chemistry, Iowa State University;
Program Director,
Materials Chemistry, Ames Laboratory


Office: 321 Spedding, Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University
Phone: 515-294-8985
Email: thiel@ameslab.gov

PERSONAL HISTORY

B.S. 1975, Macalester College; Ph.D. 1980, California Institute of Technology; Iowa State University 1983-present.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Surfaces of quasicrystals; gas-metal surface reactions relating to tribology and oxidative corrosion; relationship between surface structure and surface reactivity; metal film growth.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Z. Chen, C.J. Jenks, J. Anderegg, D.W. Delaney, T.A. Lograsso, P.A. Thiel, A.I. Goldman
"Structure and stability of the two-fold surface of icosahedral Al-Pd-Mn by LEED and XPS," Physical Review Letters, 78, 1050-1053 (1997).

M. Gierer, M.A. Van Hove, A.I. Goldman, Z. Shen, S.-L. Chang, C.J. Jenks, C.-M. Zhang, P.A. Thiel "The surface structure of a five-fold AlPdMn quasicrystal: dynamical low-energy electron diffraction analysis," Physical Review Letters, 78, 467-470 (1997).

P.J. Pinhero, S.-L. Chang, J.W. Anderegg, P.A. Thiel
"The effect of water on surface oxidation of an AlPdMn quasicrystal," Phil Mag. B., 75, 271-281, (1997).

C.J. Jenks, D.W. Delaney, T.E. Bloomer, S.-L. Chang, T.A. Lograsso, Z. Shen, C.-M, Zhang, P.A. Thiel
"Preparation of well-defined samples of AlPdMn quasicrystals for surface studies," Applied Surface Science, 103, 485-493, (1996).

A.I. Goldman, J.W. Anderegg, M.F. Besser, S.-L. Chang, D.W. Delaney, C.J. Jenks, M.J. Kramer, T.A. Lograsso, D.W. Lynch, R.W. McCallum, J.E. Shield, D.J. Sordelet, P.A. Thiel
"Quasicrystalline materials," American Scientist, 84, 230-241 (1996).

 

 


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