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Overview

Peter C. Burns is affiliated with the University of Notre Dame in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and chemistry, with an emphasis on materials chemistry and inorganic chemistry. The work spans specialized subfields including industrial and manufacturing engineering, geophysics, and global and planetary change.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, and the chemistry and processing of radioactive elements. Additional areas of interest include nuclear materials and properties, nuclear materials and radiation effects, chemical synthesis and characterization, and lanthanide and transition metal complexes.

Peter C. Burns has published a significant number of papers in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • American Mineralogist
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Chemistry - A European Journal

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Burns include:

  • Challenges to Human Drivers in Increasingly Automated Vehicles, 2020, Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
  • Unprecedented Radiation Resistant Thorium-Binaphthol Metal-Organic Framework, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Role of Metal Selection in the Radiation Stability of Isostructural M-UiO-66 Metal-Organic Frameworks, 2022, Chemistry of Materials
  • The crystal and coordination chemistry of neptunium in all its oxidation states: An expanded structural hierarchy of neptunium compounds, 2021, Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • Reactivity, Formation, and Solubility of Polyoxometalates Probed by Calorimetry, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Co-authors who frequently collaborate with Peter C. Burns include Jennifer E. S. Szymanowski, Samuel N. Perry, Allen G. Oliver, Tsuyoshi A. Kohlgruber, and Daniel E. Felton.

Best Publications

  • The crystal chemistry of hexavalent uranium; polyhedron geometries, bond-valence parameters, and polymerization of polyhedra

    Peter C. Burns;Rodney C. Ewing;Frank C. Hawthorne

  • U6+ MINERALS AND INORGANIC COMPOUNDS: INSIGHTS INTO AN EXPANDED STRUCTURAL HIERARCHY OF CRYSTAL STRUCTURES

    Peter C. Burns

  • Nuclear Fuel in a Reactor Accident

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

  • Depositional Facies and Aqueous-Solid Geochemistry of Travertine-Depositing Hot Springs (Angel Terrace, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, U.S.A.)

    Bruce W. Fouke;Jack D. Farmer;David J. Des Marais;Lisa Pratt

  • U (super 6+) minerals and inorganic phases; a comparison and hierarchy of crystal structures

    P. C. Burns;M. L. Miller;R. C. Ewing

  • The crystal chemistry of uranium

    Peter C. Burns

  • Borate minerals; I, Polyhedral clusters and fundamental building blocks

    Peter C. Burns;Joel D. Grice;Frank C. Hawthorne

  • The Crystal Chemistry of Sulfate Minerals

    Frank C. Hawthorne;Sergey V. Krivovichev;Peter C. Burns

  • BORATE MINERALS. II. A HIERARCHY OF STRUCTURES BASED UPON THE BORATE FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCK

    J. D. Grice;P. C. Burns;F. C. Hawthorne

  • Clusters of Actinides with Oxide, Peroxide, or Hydroxide Bridges

    Jie Qiu;Peter C. Burns

  • A comprehensive comparison of transition-metal and actinyl polyoxometalates

    May Nyman;Peter C. Burns

  • Actinyl Peroxide Nanospheres

    Peter C. Burns;Karrie-Ann Kubatko;Ginger Sigmon;Brian J. Fryer

  • Incorporation mechanisms of actinide elements into the structures of U6+ phases formed during the oxidation of spent nuclear fuel

    Peter C. Burns;Rodney C. Ewing;Mark L. Miller

  • Review of uranyl mineral solubility measurements

    Drew Gorman-Lewis;Peter C. Burns;Jeremy B. Fein

  • Stability of peroxide-containing uranyl minerals.

    Karrie Ann Hughes Kubatko;Katheryn B. Helean;Alexandra Navrotsky;Peter C. Burns

  • Uranium : mineralogy, geochemistry and the environment

    Peter C. Burns;Robert Finch

  • Studtite, [(UO2)(O2)(H2O)2](H2O)2: The first structure of a peroxide mineral

    Peter C. Burns;Karrie-Ann Hughes

  • The Structure of the Plutonium Oxide Nanocluster [Pu38O56Cl54(H2O)8]14−

    L. Soderholm;Philip M. Almond;Philip M. Almond;S. Skanthakumar;Richard E. Wilson

  • The crystal chemistry of boron

    Frank C. Hawthorne;Peter C. Burns;Joel D. Grice

  • XPS spectra of uranyl minerals and synthetic uranyl compounds. I: The U 4f spectrum

    M. Schindler;F.C. Hawthorne;M.S. Freund;P.C. Burns

  • Structural chemistry of inorganic actinide compounds

    Sergey V. Krivovichev;Peter C. Burns;Ivan G. Tananaev

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergey V. Krivovichev
Sergey V. Krivovichev Russian Academy of Sciences
Frank C. Hawthorne
Frank C. Hawthorne University of Manitoba
Antonio Simonetti
Antonio Simonetti University of Notre Dame
Rodney C. Ewing
Rodney C. Ewing Stanford University
Christopher L. Cahill
Christopher L. Cahill George Washington University
Alexandra Navrotsky
Alexandra Navrotsky Arizona State University
Laura Gagliardi
Laura Gagliardi University of Chicago
Jeremy B. Fein
Jeremy B. Fein University of Notre Dame
May Nyman
May Nyman Oregon State University
Tianbo Liu
Tianbo Liu University of Akron

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