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Linn W. Hobbs

Linn W. Hobbs

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Materials Science

D-Index
44
Citations
8664
World Ranking
11970
National Ranking
2779

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America For pioneering work on TEM of beam-sensitive materials, microscopy of glass and amorphous materials, and combining these studies for understanding the role of glass in the immobilization of high-level waste.

Overview

Linn W. Hobbs is affiliated with MIT in the United States and specializes in interdisciplinary research spanning social sciences and materials science. Their work integrates both theoretical and applied approaches across several specific subfields and topics.

The main fields of study in which Hobbs is active include Social Sciences and Materials Science. Within these, their research addresses subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Education, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ceramics and Composites, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's research topics reflect this interdisciplinary stance, covering:

  • Children's Rights and Participation
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Participatory Visual Research Methods
  • Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies
  • Advanced Ceramic Materials Synthesis
  • Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence

Hobbs has contributed to publications in venues including Children's Geographies and Microscopy and Microanalysis. Their recent papers are:

  • "Voices in a pandemic: using deep mapping to explore children's sense of place during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK," published in 2024 in Children's Geographies
  • "EELS Evidence for Nascent Polymerization of Carbon and Silicon in Amorphization of SiC," published in 2020 in Microscopy and Microanalysis

Frequent collaborators include Amanda D. Webber, Verity Jones, Lindsey McEwen, Toity Deave, and Luci Gorell Barnes.

In 2018, Linn W. Hobbs was recognized as a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America for contributions related to transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of beam-sensitive materials, microscopy of glass and amorphous materials, and studies on the role of glass in the immobilization of high-level waste.

Best Publications

  • Radiation effects in crystalline ceramics for the immobilization of high-level nuclear waste and plutonium

    W. J. Weber;R. C. Ewing;C. R. A. Catlow;T. Diaz de la Rubia

  • 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

  • Radiation effects in ceramics

    Linn W. Hobbs;Frank W. Clinard;Steven J. Zinkle;Rodney C. Ewing

  • Neutron irradiation damage in MgO, Al2O3 and MgAl2O4 ceramics☆

    F.W. Clinard;G.F. Hurley;L.W. Hobbs

  • 18O/SIMS characterization of the growth mechanism of doped and undoped α-Al2O3

    B. A. Pint;J. R. Martin;L. W. Hobbs

  • The oxidation mechanism of θ-Al2O3 scales

    B.A. Pint;J.R. Martin;L.W. Hobbs

  • Early bone apposition in vivo on plasma-sprayed and electrochemically deposited hydroxyapatite coatings on titanium alloy

    Hao Wang;Noam Eliaz;Zhou Xiang;Zhou Xiang;Hu-Ping Hsu;Hu-Ping Hsu

  • Asymmetries in dislocation densities, surface morphology, and strain of GaInAs/GaAs single heterolayers

    K. L. Kavanagh;M. A. Capano;L. W. Hobbs;J. C. Barbour

  • The reactive element effect in commercial ODS FeCrAI alloys

    B. A. Pint;A. J. Garratt-Reed;L. W. Hobbs

  • The effect of various oxide dispersions on the phase composition and morphology of Al2O3 scales grown on β-NiAl

    B. A. Pint;M. Treska;L. W. Hobbs

  • The ultrastructure of anorganic bovine bone and selected synthetic hyroxyapatites used as bone graft substitute materials.

    V. Benezra Rosen;L.W. Hobbs;M. Spector

  • The ultrastructure of the plasma-sprayed hydroxyapatite-bone interface predisposing to bone bonding

    A.E. Porter;L.W. Hobbs;V.Benezra Rosen;M. Spector

  • Structural freedom, topological disorder, and the irradiation-induced amorphization of ceramic structures

    L.W. Hobbs;A.N. Sreeram;C.E. Jesurum;B.A. Berger

  • Photostimulated luminescence in Eu-doped fluorochlorozirconate glass ceramics

    Stefan Schweizer;Linn W. Hobbs;Mihail Secu;Johann-Martin Spaeth

  • Network properties of crystalline polymorphs of silica

    Carol S. Marians;Linn W. Hobbs

  • Oxidation Microstructures and Interfaces in the Oxidized Zirconium Knee

    Linn W. Hobbs;Valarie Benezra Rosen;Stephan P. Mangin;Meri Treska

  • Topology and geometry in the irradiation-induced amorphization of insulators

    Linn W. Hobbs

  • Self-irradiation effects in 238Pu-substituted zirconolite: I. Temperature dependence of damage

    F.W. Clinard;D.E. Peterson;D.L. Rohr;L.W. Hobbs

  • Radiation effects in non-metals

    Frank W. Clinard;Linn W. Hobbs

  • Photostimulated luminescence from fluorochlorozirconate glass ceramics and the effect of crystallite size

    Stefan Schweizer;Linn W. Hobbs;Mihail Secu;Johann-Martin Spaeth

  • The metamict transformation in alpha-quartz

    M. R. Pascucci;J. L. Hutchison;L. W. Hobbs

Frequent Co-Authors

Myron Spector
Myron Spector Brigham and Women's Hospital
Bruce A Pint
Bruce A Pint Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Lu Chang Qin
Lu Chang Qin University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rodney C. Ewing
Rodney C. Ewing Stanford University
Jeffrey T. Borenstein
Jeffrey T. Borenstein Draper Laboratory
John L. Hutchison
John L. Hutchison University of Oxford
Lynn A. Boatner
Lynn A. Boatner Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Steven J. Zinkle
Steven J. Zinkle University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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