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Jonathan Stebbins

 
Title:Professor
Department(s):Geological & Environmental Sciences, Materials Science and Engineering by courtesy
Location:Green Earth Science 259
Mail Code:2115
Phone:650.723.1140       650.723.0847
Fax:650.725.2199
E-mail: STEBBINS@PANGEA.stanford.edu
URL: http://pangea.stanford.edu/research/NMR/stebbins.html

Research Statement

The focus of our research is on fundamental issues of structure and dynamics in crystalline, glassy, and liquid silicates and oxides, and on glass-forming liquids in general. Our goal is to relate experimental measurements of atomic-scale processes to macroscopic properties of interest to the earth sciences (including mineralogy, igneous and metamorphic petrology, volcanology and geochemistry), materials sciences, and physical chemistry. Much of what we do lies at the interface between geochemistry and materials science. The major research tool in our group at this time is Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy. We have a fully-equipped lab for most sorts of modern solid-state high and low resolution NMR experiments. An unusual fe ature of the lab is our capability to do in-situ, high T studies up to about 1500 deg C. We are also working on a high T, high P system to allow in-situ NMR studies of volatile-containing minerals and melts. In addition, we are interested in and have recently developed new techniques for measuring thermodynamic properties of molten silicates.

Degree Discipline Year School
PhD Geology 1983 UC Berkeley
Publication TitleAuthor(s)/Speaker(s)Open Document
Bonding preferences of non-bridging oxygens in calcium aluminosilicate glass: evidence from 17O MAS and 3QMAS NMR on calcium aluminate and low-silica Ca-aluminosilicate glasses Allwardt, J.R.; Lee, S.K.; Stebbins, J.F.
Solid-state NMR study of metastable immiscibility in alkali borosilicate glasses Du, L.-S.; Stebbins, J.F.
Oxygen sites in natural kaolinite and muscovite: oxygen-17 MAS and 3QMAS NMR study Lee, S.K.; Stebbins, J.F.
The distribution of sodium ions in aluminosilicate glasses: a high field Na-23 MAS and 3QMAS NMR study Lee, S.K.; Stebbins, J.F.
Nature of cation mixing and ordering in Na-Ca silicate glasses and melts Lee, S.K.; Stebbins, J.F.
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Academic Honors & Awards

1995 G.W. Morey Award, Glass and Optical Materials Division of the American Ceramic Society
1992 Mineralogical Society of America Award
1986-1991 Presidential Young Investigator member, American Ceramic Society
American Geophysical Union
Geochemical Society
Materials Research Society
Fellow, Mineralogical Society of America
Member editorial boards, Chemical Geology, Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance