Dr. Rick Ubic is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Prior to coming to Boise State, he served as a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at Queen Mary, University of London. In 2007 Dr. Ubic moved to Boise to help lead teaching and research involving the newly acquired JEOL JEM-2100 HR Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM). Dr. Ubic has received several awards, including the American Ceramic Society's (ACerS) 2004 Robert L. Coble Award for Young Scholars for his "contributions relating crystallography to the behavior of dielectric properties in complex compounds," and the 2006 Edgar Andrews Best Journal Article Prize for his work on the structure of a perovskite superlattice. Dr. Ubic's research interests are in structure-property relationships in mirowave dielectric materials, ceramic ionic conductors for fuel cells, and nano-technology as it relates to solar energy generation. Recently, Dr. Ubic was awarded research funding from the National Academy of Sciences, Batelle Energy Alliance, and the Department of Energy. As a result of his work, Dr. Ubic has been invited to present various aspects of his research at international forums in six countries on three continents.
Articles
Microstructural Characterization of Next Generation Nuclear Graphites (with Chinnathambi Karthik, Joshua Kane, Darryl P. Butt, and William E. Windes), Microscopy and Microanalysis (2012)
This article reports the microstructural characteristics of various petroleum and pitch based nuclear graphites (IG-110,...
Order-Disorder Transition in the (1−x)Li2TiO3–xMgO System (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.5) (with Lii-Cherng Leu, Jianjiang Bian, Delphine Gout, and Steve Letourneau), RSC Advances (2012)
The order–disorder phase transition of magnesium lithium titanate solid–solution (1−x)Li2TiO3–xMgO (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.5)...
Re-Examination of the Structure of Sr2(MgTe)O6 Double Perovskite (with Steven Letourneau, S. Thomas, G. Subodh, and M. T. Sebastian), Journal of the Australian Ceramic Society (2011)
Sr(2)MgTeO(6) powders and pellets were prepared by a solid-state ceramic route. The structure and microstructure...
Crystal Structure of Apatite Type Rare-Earth Silicate (Sr2RE2)(RE6)(SiO4)6O2 (RE=La, Pr, Tb, Tm, and Y) (with Lii-Cherng Leu, Sherin Thomas, Mailadil Thomas Sebastian, and Swavek Zdzieszynski), Journal of the American Ceramic Society (2011)
The crystal structures of apatite-type (Sr2RE2)(RE6)(SiO4)6O2 (RE=La, Pr, Tb, Tm, and Y) ceramics prepared by...
Microstructural Characterization and Pore Structure Analysis of Nuclear Graphite (with J. Kane, C. Karthik, Darryl P. Butt, and W. E. Windes), Journal of Nuclear Materials (2011)
Graphite will be used as a structural and moderator material in next-generation nuclear reactors. While...