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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2016 - V.M. Goldschmidt Award, Geochemical Society
  • 2002 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute
  • 1997 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry
  • 1993 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1988 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 1973 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Alexandra Navrotsky is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States, specializing in materials science and engineering. Their research contributions span multiple subfields including materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, and geophysics.

The scientist has a publication record that includes significant work in several prominent venues such as Chemistry of Materials, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, the Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, and The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Thermodynamics of high entropy oxides, 2020, Acta Materialia
  • Insight on the Stability of Thick Layers in 2D Ruddlesden-Popper and Dion-Jacobson Lead Iodide Perovskites, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Melting temperature prediction using a graph neural network model: From ancient minerals to new materials, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A new class of entropy stabilized oxides: Commensurately modulated A6B2O17 (A = Zr, Hf; B = Nb, Ta) structures, 2021, Scripta Materialia
  • Entropy Stabilization of TiO2-Nb2O5 Wadsley-Roth Shear Phases and Their Prospects for Lithium-Ion Battery Anode Materials, 2020, Chemistry of Materials

Their work covers multiple topics:

  • Nuclear materials and radiation effects
  • Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Thermal and Kinetic Analysis

Frequent collaborators include Kristina Lilova, Tamilarasan Subramani, Brian F. Woodfield, Sergey V. Ushakov, and K. Jayanthi.

In addition to journal publications, Alexandra Navrotsky has contributed to book literature with a publication through Cambridge University Press titled Static and Dynamic High Pressure Mineral Physics (2022).

Among recognitions received are the V.M. Goldschmidt Award from the Geochemical Society in 2016, the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute in 2002, and election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1993. Other distinctions include being a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union since 1988 and Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1973, as well as a Geochemistry Fellow Honor from the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry awarded in 1997.

Best Publications

  • Crystallization by particle attachment in synthetic, biogenic, and geologic environments

    James J. De Yoreo;James J. De Yoreo;Pupa U. P. A. Gilbert;Pupa U. P. A. Gilbert;Nico A. J. M. Sommerdijk;R. Lee Penn

  • Surface Energies and Thermodynamic Phase Stability in Nanocrystalline Aluminas

    J. M. McHale;A. Auroux;A. Auroux;A. Auroux;A. J. Perrotta;A. J. Perrotta;A. J. Perrotta;A. Navrotsky;A. Navrotsky;A. Navrotsky

  • Size-driven structural and thermodynamic complexity in iron oxides.

    Alexandra Navrotsky;Lena Mazeina;Juraj Majzlan

  • Simple spinels; crystallographic parameters, cation radii, lattice energies, and cation distribution

    Hugh St. C. O'Neill;Alexandra Navrotsky

  • The thermodynamics of cation distributions in simple spinels

    A. Navrotsky;O.J. Kleppa

  • Olivine-modified spinel-spinel transitions in the system Mg2SiO4-Fe2SiO4: Calorimetric measurements, thermochemical calculation, and geophysical application

    Masaki Akaogi;Eiji Ito;Alexandra Navrotsky

  • Progress and new directions in high temperature calorimetry revisited

    Alexandra Navrotsky

  • Energetic clues to pathways to biomineralization: Precursors, clusters, and nanoparticles

    Alexandra Navrotsky

  • Energetics of nanocrystalline TiO2

    M. R. Ranade;A. Navrotsky;H. Z. Zhang;J. F. Banfield

  • Progress and new directions in high temperature calorimetry

    Alexandra Navrotsky

  • Nuclear Fuel in a Reactor Accident

    Peter C. Burns;Rodney C. Ewing;Alexandra Navrotsky

  • Radiation effects in glasses used for immobilization of high-level waste and plutonium disposition

    William J. Weber;Rodney C. Ewing;C. Austen Angell;George W. Arnold

  • Transformation and crystallization energetics of synthetic and biogenic amorphous calcium carbonate

    A. V. Radha;Tori Z. Forbes;Christopher E. Killian;P. U. P. A. Gilbert

  • A Raman spectroscopic study of glasses along the joins silica-calcium aluminate, silica-sodium aluminate, and silica-potassium aluminate

    Paul McMillan;Bernard Piriou;Alexandra Navrotsky

  • Direct calorimetric verification of thermodynamic instability of lead halide hybrid perovskites

    G. P. Nagabhushana;Radha Shivaramaiah;Alexandra Navrotsky

  • Thermodynamics of formation of simple spinels

    A. Navrotsky;O.J. Kleppa

  • Materials Science of High-Level Nuclear Waste Immobilization

    William J. Weber;Alexandra Navrotsky;Sergey Stefanovsky;Eric R. Vance

  • Thermodynamics of iron oxides: Part III. Enthalpies of formation and stability of ferrihydrite (∼Fe(OH)3), schwertmannite (∼FeO(OH)3/4(SO4)1/8), and ε-Fe2O3

    J. Majzlan;J. Majzlan;A. Navrotsky;U. Schwertmann

  • Polymer-derived SiCN and SiOC ceramics – structure and energetics at the nanoscale

    Gabriela Mera;Alexandra Navrotsky;Sabyasachi Sen;Hans Joachim Kleebe

  • Energetics of nanoparticle oxides: interplay between surface energy and polymorphism†

    Alexandra Navrotsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian F. Woodfield
Brian F. Woodfield Brigham Young University
May Nyman
May Nyman Oregon State University
Peter C. Burns
Peter C. Burns University of Notre Dame
Nancy L. Ross
Nancy L. Ross Virginia Tech
Tina M. Nenoff
Tina M. Nenoff Sandia National Laboratories
Rodney C. Ewing
Rodney C. Ewing Stanford University
Masaki Akaogi
Masaki Akaogi Gakushuin University
Richard E. Riman
Richard E. Riman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Mark Asta
Mark Asta University of California, Berkeley
Ralf Riedel
Ralf Riedel Technical University of Darmstadt

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