Peter C. Burns
University of Notre Dame
Peter C. Burns is Director of the ND Energy Frontier Research Center, The Henry Massman Professor of Civil Engineering & Geological Sciences and Concurrent Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame. He teaches courses in geology, mineralogy and actinide chemistry. His research emphasizes the mineralogy and solid state chemistry of actinides, with applications in energy and environmental management.
Free downloads of "Nuclear Fuel in a Reactor Accident", published in Science on March 9, are available here.
Free downloads of "Nuclear Fuel in a Reactor Accident", published in Science on March 9, are available here.
Actinide research group meets with Milton Levenson following his lecture concerning the history of the Manhattan Project.
Ball and stick model of fullerene-topology uranyl peroxide nanosphere
Polyhedral representation of U60 - a fullerene topology cluster of uranyl peroxide polyhedra with the same connectivity as C60.
Polyhedral representation of U60 - a fullerene topology cluster of uranyl peroxide polyhedra with the same connectivity as C60.
Selected Recent Publications of Peter C. Burns:
Sigmon, G.E. & Burns, P.C. (2011): Rapid self-assembly of uranyl polyhedra into crown clusters. Journal of the American Chemical Society 133, 9137-9139.
Shvareva, T., Mazeina,
L., Gorman-Lewis, D., Burns, P.C., Szymanowski, J.E.S., Fein, J.B. &
Navrotsky, A. (2011): Thermodynamic characterization of boltwoodite and
uranophane: Enthalpy of formation and aqueous solubility study. Geochemical
Cosmochimica Acta 75, 5269-5282.
Vlaisavljevich, B., Gagliardi, L. & Burns, P.C.
(2010): Understanding the structure and formation of uranyl peroxide
nanoclusters by quantum chemical calculations.
Journal of the American Chemical Society 132, 14503-14508.
Ling, J., Qiu, J., Sigmon, G.E., Ward, M., Szymanowski, J.E.S. & Burns, P.C. (2010): Uranium pyrophosphate / methylenediphosphonate polyoxometalate cage clusters. Journal of the American Chemical Society 38, 13395-13402.
Ling, J., Wallace, C.M., Szymanowski, J.E.S. & Burns, P.C. (2010): Hybrid uranium-oxalate fullerene topology cage clusters. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 49, 7271-7273.
