Paul Joseph Schilling

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering Tel: (504) 280-6187

University of New Orleans FAX: (504) 388-6954

RESEARCH INTERESTS

X-ray applications in materials science using synchrotron radiation

Nanocrystalline alloys

Materials problems in microfabrication

X-ray absorption spectroscopy

EDUCATION

1985 B.S., Petroleum Engineering, Louisiana State University.

1992 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana State University.

Thesis Advisor: Harvill C. Eaton

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

1992 - 1995 - Research Associate, Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices, Louisiana State University

1995 - 1998 - Assistant Professor-Research, Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices, Louisiana State University

1999 - present - Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Orleans

HONOR/PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES, COMMITTEES, ETC.

Tau Beta Pi, ASME, Materials Research Society, American Chemical Society, L.S.U. Faculty Senate

PARTIAL LIST OF RESEARCH COLLABORATORS

Roland Tittsworth, CAMD, Louisiana State University

Evan Ma, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Efstathis Meletis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana State University

Geoffrey Price, Department of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University

Amitava Roy, Department of Civil Engineering, Louisiana State University

John Wiley, Department of Chemistry, University of New Orleans

Josef Hormes, Department of Physics, Bonn University, Bonn, Germany

Helio Tolentino, Laboratorio Nacional de Luz Sincrotron, LNLS, Campinas, Brazil

Maria C.M Alves, Laboratorio Nacional de Luz Sincrotron, LNLS, Campinas, Brazil

Sergio Teixeira, Institute of Physics, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Yu. L. Slovokhotov, Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Acad. Sci., Moscow

Mark Petri, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois

Leonard Leibowitz, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois

Mark Rivers, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Peter Eng, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Volker Saile, IFT, KFK, Karlsruhe, Germany

Joe Wong, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

RESEARCH FUNDING

Title: "Nano-Engineering and Structural Characterization of Thin Films: Surface EXAFS Auxiliary System for Synchrotron-Based Research," P.I.s: Paul Schilling, Philip Sprunger, Phil Adams, E.I. Meletis, E. Poliakoff, Sponsor: BoRSF Enhancement Program, Amount: $149,000, Period 6/99 - 6/00

Title: "Amine Conversions on Cu Zeolites Prepared by Reductive Solid-State Ion Exchange," P.I.s: Geoffrey Price, Paul Schilling, Sponsor: NSF, Amount: $150,000, Period: 8/96-7/99

Title: "Acquisition of a High Vacuum Thin Film Deposition System," P.I.s: Evan Ma and many others (including Paul Schilling), Sponsor: LEQSF, Amount: $89,900, Period: 6/96-6/97

Title: "LNLS/CAMD Collaboration in Synchrotron Radiation Research Applications," P.I.s: Paul Schilling, Volker Saile, Paul Russo, Sponsor: NSF, Amount: $15,000, Period: 4/96-3/98

Title: "Synchrotron Radiation Analysis of Materials Related to the Integral Fast Reactor Program," P.I.s: Volker Saile, John Scott, Paul Schilling, Sponsor: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Amount: $250,000, Period: 1/94-9/94

PATENTS

U.S. Patent Number 5435843, issued 07/25/95, Alkali Activated Class C Fly Ash Cement, Amitava Roy, Paul J. Schilling, Harvill C. Eaton

U.S. Patent Number 5565028, issued 10/15/96, Alkali Activated Class C Fly Ash Cement, Amitava Roy, Paul J. Schilling, Harvill C. Eaton

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS - SUBMITTED:

"Structural Evolution of Cu-Doped Porous Silica Gels Studied by XRD and XAFS Spectroscopy", Edesia M. Barros de Sousa, Nelcy D. S. Mohallem, Arilza O. Porto, Paul J. Schilling, and M.C. Martins Alves, submitted to Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids.

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS - ACCEPTED:

"Understanding the Environmental Leachability of Electric Arc Furnace Dust", J.A. Stegemann, A. Roy, R.J. Caldwell, P.J. Schilling, and R. Tittsworth, accepted for publication in Environmental Science and Technology (1999).

"Characterization of plasma nitrided pure titanium by X-ray absorption spectroscopy", V.G. Palshin, E.I. Meletis, P. J. Schilling, R.C. Tittsworth, and V.M. Andeev, accepted for publication in Journal of Materials Science (1999).

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS - PUBLISHED:

"Two-Phase Coexistence Region in Mechanically Alloyed FeCu: An X-ray Absorption Near-Edge Structure Study", P.J. Schilling, R.C. Tittsworth, J.H. He, and E. Ma, Acta Materialia 47 2525 - 2537 (1999).

"Linearly Polarized Cu K-edge Absorption Spectroscopy of CuGeO3: Orbital Population, Band Dispersion, and Exchange Interactions", D.Z. Cruz, M. Abbate, H. Tolentino, P.J. Schilling, E. Morikawa, A. Fujimori, J. Akimitsu, Physical Review B 59 12450-12456 (1999).

"Extraction of phase fractions and compositions for bcc/fcc two-phase binary alloys from XANES data", Paul J. Schilling and Roland C. Tittsworth, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 6, 497-499 (1999).

"Radiation-induced degradation of polydiene sulfones as obtained by sulfur K-edge XANES", Hartwig Modrow, Gina Calderon, William H. Daly, G.G.B de Souza, Roland C. Tittsworth, Nicholas Moelders, and Paul J. Schilling, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 6, 588-590 (1999).

"Structural Evolution and Magnetic Behavior of Co/Ag Multilayers Submitted to Thermal Annealing", W.H. Flores, S.R. Teixeira, J. Geshev, J.B.M. daCunha, P.J. Schilling, A. Traverse, and M.C. Martins Alves, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 188 17-29 (1998).

"X-ray absorption fine structure study of the atomic and electronic structure of molybdenum disulfide intercalation compounds with transition metals", Yan V. Zubavichus, Yurii L. Slovokhotov, Paul J. Schilling, Roland C. Tittsworth, Alexandre S. Golub, Galina A. Protzenko, and Yurii N. Novikov, Inorganica Chimica Acta 280 211-218 (1998).

"Mechanical alloying of immiscible elements: Ag-Fe contrasted with Cu-Fe", E. Ma, J.-H. He, and P.J. Schilling, Phys. Rev. B 55 5542-5545 (1997).

"EXAFS Study of Ball-Milled Elemental Nanocrystalline Powders", P.J. Schilling, J.-H. He, and E. Ma, Journal de Physique IV France 7 C2-1221-22 (1997).

"XAFS, XRD AND XPS Study of MoS2 Itercalation Compounds", Ya.V. Zubavichus, I.O. Volkov, P.J. Schilling, R.C. Tittsworth, A.S. Golub, Yu.N. Novikov, Yu.L.Slovokhotov, Journal de Physique IV France 7 C2-1057-59 (1997).

"The Crystal Structure of a Macrocycle Containing Pyridine and Piperazine Subunits, and of a Cu(I) Complex of its Diprotonated Cation", F.R. Fronczek, P.J. Schilling, S.F. Watkins, V.K. Majestic, and G.R. Newkome, Inorganica Chimica Acta, 246 119-123 (1996).

"Synchrotron Radiation Analysis of Microstructures", N. Moelders, H.O. Moser, W. Menz, P.J. Schilling, and V. Saile, Microsystem Technologies, 2 56-62 (1996).

"Extended X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure of bcc and fcc Phases in Mechanically Alloyed Fe-Cu", P.J. Schilling, J.-H. He, J. Cheng, and E. Ma, Appl. Phys. Lett. 68 [6] 767-769 (1996)

"Installation and Operation of the LNLS Double-Crystal Monochromator at CAMD", P.J. Schilling, E. Morikawa, H. Tolentino, E. Tamura, and R.L. Kurtz, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 66 [2] 2214-2216 (1995).

"29Si and 27Al MAS-NMR of Alkali Activated Blastfurnace Slag", P.J. Schilling, L.G. Butler, A. Roy, and H.C. Eaton, J. Am. Cer. Soc. 77 [9] 2363-68 (1994).

"Microstructure, Strength, and Reaction Products of Ground Granulated Blast-Furnace Slag Activated by Highly Concentrated NaOH Solution", P.J. Schilling, A. Roy, H.C. Eaton, P.G. Malone, and W.N. Brabston, Journal of Materials Research, 9 [1] 188-197 (1994).

"Structure of a Cyclotetradecadiene," M.S. Erickson, P.J. Schilling, F.R. Fronczek, and S.F. Watkins, Acta Cryst. C49 165-167 (1993).

"Activation of Ground Blastfurnace Slag by Mono- and Di-Valent Alkali and Alkaline Metal Hydroxides", A. Roy, H.C. Eaton, P.J. Schilling, P.G. Malone, W.N. Brabston, and L.D. Wakely, (1992), J. Am. Cer. Soc., 75 [12] 3233-40 (1992).

PUBLICATIONS IN SIGNIFICANT CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

"X-Ray Absorption Analysis of Electroplated Permalloys Used in Microfabrication", N. Molders, P.J. Schilling, J.-H. He, V. Saile, H.O. Moser, and W. Menz, in Applications of Synchrotron Radiation to Materials Science III, MRS Vol. 437, (1996).

"New Optics for the hard x-ray microprove at CAMD", A. Moewes, P. Schilling, N. Molders, and Y. Vladimirsky, to appear in XRM96, Proceedings of the International Conference on X-Ray Microscopy, Wurzburg, 1996.

"Development of a Hard X-Ray Microprobe at CAMD", Nicholas Molders, Paul Schilling, Alexander Moewes, Mark C. Petri, Leonard Leibowitz, and Herbert O.Moser, to appear in XRM96, Proceedings of the International Conference on X-Ray Microscopy, Wurzburg, 1996.

"Hard X-Ray Microanalytical Beamline at the CAMD Synchrotron", M. C. Petri, L. Leibowitz, P. Schilling, in Ed. W. Yun, X-Ray Microbeam Technology and Applications, SPIE Vol. 2516, 180-184 (1995).

"Alkali Activation of Class C Fly Ash", A. Roy, P.J. Schilling, H.C. Eaton, and R.K. Seals, Civil Engineering Construction Session Proceedings/ASCE National Convention, New York, 1992.

"Use of Alkali-Activation of Alumino-Silicates to Form Binders from Lunar Soil," P.J. Schilling, H.C. Eaton, A. Roy, P.G. Malone, W.N. Brabston, in Eds. Johnson, S.W. and J.P. Wetzel, Engineering Construction and Operations in Space, Am. Soc. Civil Engineers, NY, 123-145 (1988).

CONFERENCE AND MEETING PRESENTATIONS

"Extraction of phase fractions and compositions for bcc/fcc two-phase binary alloys from XANES data", Paul J. Schilling and Roland C. Tittsworth, Tenth International Conference on X-ray Absorption Fine Structure, Chicago, Aug. 10-14, 1998.

"Radiation-induced degradation of polydiene sulfones as obtained by sulfur K-edge XANES", Hartwig Modrow, Gina Calderon, William H. Daly, G.G.B de Souza, Roland C. Tittsworth, Nicholas Moelders, and Paul J. Schilling, Tenth International Conference on X-ray Absorption Fine Structure, Chicago, Aug. 10-14, 1998.

"Structural Evolution and Magnetic Behavior of Co/Ag Multilayers Submitted to Thermal Annealing", W.H. Flores, S.R. Teixeira, J. Geshev, J.B.M. da Cunha, P.J. Schilling, A. Traverse, and M.C. Martins Alves, VIII Annual Users’ Meeting of LNLS, Campinas, Brazil, Nov. 10-14, 1997.

"Estrutura de Filmes Finos Eletrocromicos de NiOx", F.F. Ferreira, M.C.A. Fantini, A. Gorenstein, M.C.M. Alves, e P. Schilling, VIII Annual Users’ Meeting of LNLS, Campinas, Brazil, Nov. 10-14, 1997.

"Structural evolution of Cu-doped porous silica gels studied by XRD and EXAFS techniques", Nelcy D.S. Mohallme, Edesia M. Barros de Sousa, Arilza O. Porto, Maria C.M. Alves, Paul J. Schilling, VII Annual Users’ Meeting of LNLS, Campinas, Brazil, Nov.13-14, 1996.

"EXAFS studies of PtHfn:MCl2 and PtHf/POEn: MCl2 complexes", Clascidia A. Furtado, Glaura Goulart Silva, Arilza O. Porto, Maria C.M. Alves, Paul J. Schilling, and Roland Tittsworth, VIII Annual Users’ Meeting of LNLS, Campinas, Brazil, Nov. 10-14, 1997.

"The structure of electrochromic nickel oxide thin films", Marcia C.A. Fantini, Annette Gorenstein, Maria do Carmo M. Alves, Paul Schilling, VIII Annual Users’ Meeting of LNLS, Campinas, Brazil, Nov. 10-14, 1997.

"Estudo da ordem local em ligas granulares e multicamadas magneticas do tipo CoxFe1-x/Ag" M.C. Martins Alves, S.R. Teixeira, J.B. Cunha, W. Flores, A. Traverse, P. Schilling, VIII Annual Users’ Meeting of LNLS, Campinas, Brazil, Nov. 10-14, 1997.

"XAFS, XRD, and XPS Study of MoS2 Intercalation Compounds", Ya. V. Zubavichus, I.O. Volkov, P.J. Schilling, R.C. Tittsworth, A.S. Golub, Yu. N. Novikov, Yu. L. Slovokhotov, 9th International Conference on X-ray Absorption Fine Structure, Grenoble, France, Aug. 26-30, 1996.

"Local order in CoxFe1-x/Ag Magnetic Granular Alloys", S.R. Teixeira, J. Cunha, L. Amaral, M.C. Martins Alves, A. Traverse, P.J. Schilling, 9th International Conference on X-ray Absorption Fine Structure, Grenoble, France, Aug. 26-30, 1996.

"EXAFS Study of Ball-Milled Elemental Metals and Mixtures of Immiscible Elements", J.-H. He, P.J. Schilling, E. Ma, 9th International Conference on X-ray Absorption Fine Structure, Grenoble, France, Aug. 26-30, 1996.

"XAFS Study of Metal Clusters in Polymer Matrices", O.A. Belyakova, Ya. V. Zubavichus, I.V. Moskaleva, L.M. Bronshtein, P.M. Valetsky, P.J. Schilling, R.C. Tittsworth, Yu. L. Slovokhotov, 9th International Conference on X-ray Absorption Fine Structure, Grenoble, France, Aug. 26-30, 1996.

"New Optics for the hard x-ray microprobe at CAMD", A. Moewes, P. Schilling, N. Molders, and Y. Vladimirsky, XRM ‘96, International Conference on X-Ray Microscopy and Spectromicroscopy, Wurzburg, Germany, Aug. 19-23, 1996.

"Development of a Hard X-Ray Microprobe at CAMD", Nicholas Molders, Paul Schilling, Alexander Moewes, Mark C. Petri, Leonard Leibowitz, and Herbert O.Moser, XRM ‘96, International Conference on X-Ray Microscopy and Spectromicroscopy, Wurzburg, Germany, Aug. 19-23, 1996.

"Activities utilizing the LNLS DCM at CAMD", VI Annual Users’ Meeting of LNLS, Campinas, Brazil, Nov. 16-17, 1995.

"Installation and Operation of the LNLS Double-Crystal Monochromator at CAMD", P.J. Schilling, E. Morikawa, H. Tolentino, E. Tamura, and R.L. Kurtz, 5th International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation, Stony Brook, NY, July 18-22, 1994.