Michael R. Zachariah
Seminar Information
The high temperature reactivity of metal/metal oxides are important in a wide variety of industrial applications including solar-thermal hydrogen generation, CO2 sequestering, chemical-looping combustion, and energetic materials, among others. In this seminar I will discuss probing the reactivity of nanometals and metal oxides, towards developing a conceptual picture of rate limiting and phenomenological processes, in particular for application to energetic materials. This discussion will naturally lead to what makes nanoscale materials attractive for these applications, as well as some of their limitations.
Michael Zachariah Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. He has expertise in synthesis of nanomaterials and characterization of their reactive properties. He has worked extensively on aerosol generated materials and the metrology of nanoparticles in both the liquid and gas phases. This includes the development of new mass-spectrometry and ion-mobility methods to characterize nanoparticles and their reactivity. He has developed new diagnostic tools to evaluate combustion of energetic materials.
He is a recipient of the University of Maryland Outstanding Researcher Award, and the Sinclair Award for Sustained Excellence in Aerosol Research awarded by the American Association for Aerosol Research.