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 and Conference Proceedings
An Oxygen Transfer Model for High Purity Graphite Oxidation (with Joshua Kane, Chinnathambi Karthik, William E. Windes, and Darryl P. Butt), Carbon (2013)
An intrinsic mathematical model is developed for the investigation of the gas-solid reaction kinetics of...
Suppression of FeLi Antisite Defects in Fluorine-Doped LiFePO4 (with A. V. Radhamani, Chinnathambi Karthik, M.S. Ramachandra Rao, and C. Sudakar), Scripta Materialia (2013)
We report on the suppression of FeLi antisite defects in LiFe(PO4)1−xF3x with 0 ⩽ x...
Characterization of Mineral Ores from Northern and Northwest Pakistan (with Yaseen Iqbal, Lii-Cherng Leu, and Muhammad Fahad), JOM (2013)
Pakistan is home to many varieties of minerals, some of which make it prominent in...
Transmission Electron Microscopic Study of Pyrochlore to Defect-Fluorite Transition in Rare-Earth Pyrohafnates (with Chinnathambi Karthik, Thomas Anderson, and Delphine Gout), Journal of Solid State Chemistry (2012)
A structural transition in rare earth pyrohafnates, Ln2Hf2O7 (Ln=Y, La, Pr, Nd, Tb, Dy, Yb...
Oxidation Investigation of NBG-18 Nuclear-Grade Graphite (with Joshua Kane, Chinnathambi Karthik, William E. Windes, and Darryl P. Butt), Transactions of the American Nuclear Society (2012)
The oxidation kinetics of NBG-18 nuclear graphite was investigated between 500 and 775°C with oxygen...