Joshua Kurzman
Graduate Student: Ram
Seshadri Group
Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry
Materials Research Laboratory:
Rm. 1051
University of California, Santa Barbara 93106-5121
e-mail: jkurzman@chem.ucsb.edu
Link
to CV (updated 6/07)
Background
I began grad school at UCSB
in Fall '07 and started researching with Prof. Seshadri shortly
thereafter. I was raised in Old Town Chicago, though most of my
free time is now reserved for playing in the wonderland that is
Aspen/Snowmass, CO. I received my B.A. in Chemistry from Reed College in Portland, OR, where I
was advised by Prof.
Margret Geselbracht. My work with Maggie mainly concerned
structure-spectra relationships in the Dion-Jacobson layered perovskite
series RbCa(2-x)SrxB3O10 (B = Nb or Ta). My research in the Seshadri
Group involves the synthesis and characterization of mixed-metal oxide
materials for heterogeneous catalysis. One aspect of our work
involves exploring materials that contain catalytically
active ions in interesting or unusual oxidation states.
Additonally, our group has an ongoing interest in perovskite and other
structure-types as hosts for noble (PGM) metals, as a way of reducing
PGM use in oxidative catalysis.
Research
Coming soon[ish]
Collaborators: Susannah
Scott Group
Links
Periodic
Table with ionic radii
ccp14
Spacegroup info
gateway
MMW
Dustygroove
Ubiquity Records
Stonesthrow Records
Renn Fayre!
Created on June 17th 2008
