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Eric O’Quinn

Research Assistant Professor

Biography

CV (Curriculum Vitae)

Eric C. O'Quinn is a researcher in the DISMAT group, specializing in the characterization of heterogeneous disorder in complex oxides and far-from-equilibrium processing of materials under extreme conditions. He received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Tennessee in 2019, where he also completed his postdoctoral research and currently holds a researcher position. Prior to that, he was a Graduate Research Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Eric's research focuses on understanding the behavior of materials under extreme conditions, including high temperatures, radiation, and mechanical stress. He has published articles in high-impact journals on topics such as radiation-induced disorder in complex oxides and the use of advanced characterization techniques to understand material behavior.

Education

PhD, Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA, 2019

BS, Physics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge USA, 2011

 

Publications

g-index = 19, h-index = 10

  1. Gussev, Igor; O'Quinn, Eric, Tucker, Matthew;Ewing, Rodney; Overstreet, Cale; Neuefeind, Joerg; Everett, Michelle; Zhang, Qiang;Sprouster, David; Olds, Daniel; Baldinozzi, Gianguido; Lang, Maik, Systematic study of short- and long-range correlations in RE3TaO7 weberite-type compounds by neutron total scattering and X-ray diffraction (2023) in review with Journal of Materials Chemistry A

 

  1. M. Niu, K. Jayanthi, H. Gao, A.P. Solomon, E.C. O’Quinn, L. Su, Y. Qin, M.E. Toimil-Molares, H. Wang, M. Lang, A. Navrotsky, Structural and thermodynamic evolution of an amorphous SiOC ceramic after swift heavy ion irradiation, Acta Mater. 242 (2023) 118475. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2022.118475.

 

  1. J. Hirtz, E. C. O’Quinn, I. M. Gussev, J. C. Neuefeind, M. Lang, Cation Short-Range Ordering of MgAl2O4 and NiAl2O4 Spinel Oxides at High Temperatures via In Situ Neutron Total Scattering. Inorg. Chem. (2022), doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02766.

 

  1. Donald Z. Chaney, John Hirtz, Evan Williams, Jacob Minnette, William F. Cureton, Eric C. O’Quinn, Xiaodong Zhao, Xiaofeng Guo, Takahiro Matsuoka, Michael Koehler, David Sprouster, and Maik Lang, Grain size dependence of thermally-induced oxidation in ZrC (2022) Journal of Materials Science

 

  1. C. Overstreet, J. Cooper, E. O’Quinn, W. Cureton, R. Palomares, J. Leys, G. Deissmann, S. Neumeier, C.-H. Chen, M. Lang, Structural stability of REE-PO4 (REE = Sm,Tb) under swift heavy ion irradiation. Nucl. Instruments Methods Phys. Res. Sect. B Beam Interact. with Mater. Atoms. 527, 34–39 (2022).

 

  1. D. Drey, Eric C. O’Quinn, S. Finkeldei, J. Neuefeind, M. Lang, Local Ordering in Disordered Nd Zr1-O2-0.5 Pyrochlore as Observed using Neutron Total Scattering, Acta Mater. 225 (2021) 117590.

 

  1. Eric C. O’Quinn, Devon L. Drey, Antonio F. Fuentes, Maik K. Lang, Defining the Structural Stability Field of Disordered Fluorite Oxides. Frontiers in Chemistr (2021)

 

  1. Eric C. O’Quinn, Cameron L. Tracy, William F. Cureton, Ritesh Sachan, Joerg C. Neuefeind, Christina Trautmann, Maik K. Lang, Multi-scale Investigation of Heterogeneous Swift Heavy Ion Tracks in Stannate Pyrochlore. Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2021)

 

  1. Alexandre Solomon, Cameron Tracy, Eric C. O'Quinn, Maik Lang, and Daniel Severin, Transformations to Amorphous and X-type Phases in Swift Heavy Ion-Irradiated Ln2O3and Mn2O3. Journal of Applied Physics (2021)

 

  1. Roman Sherrod, Eric C. O’Quinn, Igor M. Gussev, Cale Overstreet, Joerg Neuefeind, Maik Lang, Comparison of Short-Range Order in Irradiated Dysprosium Titanates. Nature Materials Degredation., (2021)

 

  1. Mingyang Zhao, Eric C. O'Quinn, Nancy Birkner, Yun Xu, Maik Lang, Kyle Brinkman, Radiation damage and thermal annealing in tunnel structured hollandite materials. Acta Mater., (2020)

 

  1. Devon L. Drey, Eric C. O’Quinn, Tamilarasan Subramani, Kristina Lilova, Gianguido Baldinozzi, Igor M. Gussev, Antonio F. Fuentes, Joerg Neuefeind, Michelle Everett, David Sprouster, Alexandra Navrotsky, Maik Lang, Disorder in Ho2Ti2-xZrxO7: Pyrochlore to Defect Fluorite Solid Solution Series. RSC Advances, (2020)

 

  1. Igor M. Gussev, Eric C. O’Quinn, Gianguido Baldinozzi, Jörg Neuefeind, Rodney C. Ewing, and Maik Lang, Determination of local orthorhombic order of weberite-type Y3TaO7­ using neutron total scattering and density functional theory calculation techniques. Acta Materialia, (2020)

 

  1. M. Lang, E. C. O’Quinn, J. Neuefeind, and C. Trautmann, Characterization of Radiation Effects and Ion Tracks with Spallation Neutron Probes. Nucl. Phys. News 30, 16 (2020).

 

  1. E. C. O’Quinn, K.E. Sickafus, R.C. Ewing, G. Baldinozzi, J.C. Neuefeind, M.G. Tucker, A.F. Fuentes, D. Drey, and M.K. Lang, Predicting Short-Range Order and Correlated Phenomena in Disordered Crystalline Materials. Science Advances, 6, 1 (2020).

 

  1. Chung, C.-K.; O’Quinn, E. C.; Neuefeind, J. C.; Fuentes, A. F.; Xu, H.; Lang, M.; Navrotsky, A. Thermodynamic and Structural Evolution of Mechanically Milled and Swift Heavy Ion Irradiated Er2Ti2O7 Pyrochlore. Acta Mater. 2019.

 

  1. W.F. Cureton, R.I. Palomares, C.L. Tracy, E. C. O’Quinn, J. Walters, M. Zdorovets, R.C. Ewing, M. Lang, Effects of Irradiation Temperature on the Response of CeO2, ThO2, and UO2 to Highly Ionizing Radiation. Acta Mater. (2019).

 

  1. E. C. O’Quinn, J. L. Bishop, R. Sherrod, J. Neuefeind, M. Sagrario, A. F. Fuentes, M. Lang, Advanced Characterization Technique for Mechanochemically Synthesized Materials: Neutron Total Scattering Analysis. J. Mater. Sci. (2018).

 

  1. Lang, M. O’Quinn, E.C., Shamblin J., Neuefeind, J., Advanced Experimental Technique for Radiation Damage Effects in Nuclear Waste Forms: Neutron Total Scattering Analysis. MRS Advances. (In Press)

 

  1. Park, S.; Rittman, D. R.; Tracy, C. L.; Chapman, K. W.; Zhang, F.; Park, C.; Tkachev, S. N.; O’Quinn, E.; Shamblin, J.; Lang, M.; Mao, W. L.; Ewing, R. C. A2TiO5 (A = Dy, Gd, Er, Yb) at High Pressure. Inorg. Chem. (2018)

 

  1. Shamblin, J., Tracy C., Palomares, R.I., O’Quinn, E.C., Ewing, R.C., Neuefeind, J., Feygenson, M., Behrens, J., Trautmann, C., Lang. M., Similar local order in disordered fluorite and aperiodic pyrochlore structures. Acta Mater. 144, 60–67 (2018).

 

  1. Chung, C.K., Shamblin, J., O’Quinn, E. C., Shelyug, A., Gussev, I., Lang, M., Navrotsky, A., Thermodynamic and Structural Evolution of Dy2Ti2O7 Pyrochlore after Swift Heavy Ion Irradiation. Acta Mater. 145:1–26 (2017)

 

  1. O’Quinn, E. C., Shamblin, J.; Perlov, B.; Ewing, R. C.; Neuefeind, J.; Feygenson, M.; Gussev, I.; Lang, M., Inversion in Mg1–xNixAl2O4 Spinel: New Insight into Local Structure. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139, 10395–10402 (2017).

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