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Takeshi Egami

UT-ORNL Distinguished Scientist/Professor Director, Joint-Institute for Neutron Sciences

Biography

Dr. Egami received his Bachelor’s degree in Applied Physics from the University of Tokyo in 1968, and his Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971.  After the postdoctoral research at the University of Sussex, U.K. and Max-Planck-Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, he returned to the University of Pennsylvania in 1973 as Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1976, to Professor in 1980, and was the Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering from 1997 to 2002. He moved to the current position in 2003. He had guest appointments at Los Alamos National Laboratory (2002), KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization), Tsukuba, Japan (1998), Inst. for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan (1993), IBM Almaden Research Lab, San Jose (1988), Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (1987), and Max-Planck-Institut fur Metallforschung, Institut fur Physik, Stuttgart, Germany (1979-80). Dr. Egami has authored or co-authored 1 book, about 20 full reviews and over 360 technical papers. He gave over 200 invited technical presentations at national and international conferences.

Research

  • Neutron scattering research
  • X-ray scattering research
  • High-temperature superconductivity
  • Electronic oxides
  • Structure and dynamics of liquids and glasses
  • Superconducting oxides and chalcogenides

Education

Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania: Neutron and X-ray scattering, electronic oxides including superconducting cuprates, metallic glasses, theory of liquids and glasses 

Professional Service

  • Director Emeritus, Shull Wollan Center—Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences
  • Fellow, American Physical Society, Neutron Scattering Society of America
  • Department of Physics and Anatomy 
  • Materials Science and Technology Division 
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory 

 

 

Awards and Recognitions

2010 J. D. Hanawalt Award, International Union of Crystallography, 2010, with S. J. L. Billinge (Special session at 2010 Denver X-Ray Conference, Denver, CO)

2006 Senior Researcher Prize, International Symposium on Metastable and Nano Materials (ISMANAM)

2003 Bertram Eugene Warren Diffraction Physics Award, Amer. Crystallographic Assoc (Festschrift in Z. Krstallogr. No. 3, 117-185 (2004)).

2002 John Wheatley Scholar, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Publications

Book

“Underneath the Bragg Peaks: Structural Analysis of Complex Materials”, T. Egami and S. J. L. Billinge, Pergamon Materials Series Vol. 7, ed. Robert W. Cahn (Pergamon Press, Elsevier Ltd., Oxford, 2003) ISBN: 0-08-042698-0; 2nd edition, Pergamon Materials Series Vol. 16, ed. A. L. Greer (Pergamon Press, Elsevier Ltd., Oxford, 2012) ISBN: 978-0-08-097133-9.

 

Recent publications

  1. “Ripples in the Bottom of the Potential Energy Landscape of Metallic Glass”, Leo Zella, Jaeyun Moon and Takeshi Egami, Nature Commun., 15, 1358 (2024); DOI:1038/s41467-024-45640-1.
  2. “Dynamic Correlations in Disordered Systems: Implications on High-Temperature Superconductivity”, Takeshi Egami, Condemsed Matter, 9, 12 (2024); DOI:10.3390/condmat9010012.
  3. “Nonaffine Atomic Rearrangement of Glasses through Stress-induced Structural Anisotropy”, Jie Dong, Hailong Peng, Hui Wang, Yang Tong, Yutian Wang, Wojciech Dmowski, Takeshi Egami, Baoan Sun, Weihua Wang and Haiyang Bai, Nature Phys. 19, 1896 (2023). DOI:1038/s41567-023-02243-9.
  4. “ K. Alex Müller and Superconductivity”, T. Egami, Physica C, 613, 1354345 (2023). DOI:10.1016/j.physc.2023.1354345.
  5. “Medium Range Ordering in the Ionic Glass Electrolytes LiPON and LiSiPON”, Andrew S. Westover, Mordechai Kornbluth, Takeshi Egami, Jue Liu, Sergiy Kalnaus, Dong Ma, Andrew K. Kercher, Jorge Neuefeind, Michelle Everett, Boris Kozinsky, Nancy J. Dudney, Mater. 35, 2730 (2023), DOI:10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c02380.
  6. “World Beyond the Nearest Neighbors”, T. Egami and C. W. Ryu, Phys: Condens. Matter, 35, 174002 (2023); DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/acbe24.
  7. “Medium-Range Order Resists Deformation in Metallic Liquids and Glasses”, Takeshi Egami, Wojciech Dmowski and Chae Woo Ryu, Metals, 13, 442 (2023); DOI: 10.3390/met13030442.
  8. “Structural Magnetic Glassiness in Spin Ice Dy2Ti2O7”, Anjana M. Samarakoon, Bastian Klemke, Michael Meissner, R. A. Borzi, Ralf Feyerherm, Feng Ye, Qiang Zhang, Zhiling Dun, Haidong Zhou, Takeshi Egami, Ludovic Jaubert, Claudio Castelnovo, Roderich Moessner, S. A. Grigera, and D. Alan Tennant, Physical Review Research, 4, 033159 (2022); DOI:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.033159.
  9. “Real-space Local Dynamics of Molten Inorganic Salts Using Van Hove Correlation Function”, Yuya Shinohara, Alexander S. Ivanov, Dmitry Maltsev, Garrett E. Granroth, Douglas L. Abernathy, Sheng Dai and Takeshi Egami, Phys. Chem. Lett., 13, 5956–5962 (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01230 (Journal cover page).
  10. “Structural Principles in Metallic Liquids and Glasses: Bottom-up or Top-down”, Takeshi Egami and Chae Woo Ryu, Frontiers in Materials, 9, 874191 (2022); DOI:3389/fmats.2022.874191.

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