Dr. Virgil Solomon

Dr. Virgil C. Solomon

Cross Appointed Faculty:

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering

Director Electron Microscopy Facility
WBSH: 5035A (Electron Microscopy Facility)

Moser Hall: 2505
Email:vcsolomon AT ysu DOT edu

Phone: 330-941-1730

Solomon Homepage

B.S.: Mechanical Engineering, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania, 1990

Ph.D.: Materials Science & Engineering, Kumamoto University, Japan, 2002

Research interests

Synthesis and investigation of solid state materials: shape memory alloys, ceramic-metal composites, nanostructures; nano-scale characterization (morphology, chemistry, crystallography) of materials using light and electron microscopy techniques; relationship structure-properties.

Selected publications

1.       C. Li, V. C. Solomon, P. D. Duris, Lidong Wand and  Limin Wang (2011) Synthesis and characterization of ZnO-In₂O₃ junction

structure. Materials Letters  65 pp. 113-115.

2.       V. C. Solomon, K. M. Peters, B. Hetzel and T. R. Wagner (2010) Characterization of structure evolution in aged Al2O3/SiC

composite refractories by electron microscopy. Microscopy and Microanalysis 16(Suppl. 2) pp.946-947.

3.       R. Sharma, G. P. Holland, V. C. Solomon, H. Zimmermann, S. Schiffenhaus, S. A. Amin, D. A. Buttry and J. L. Yarger (2009)

NMR characterization of ligand binding and exchange dynamics in triphenylphospine capped gold nanoparticles. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 113(37) pp. 16387-16393.

4.       J. I. Hong, F. T. Parker, V. C. Solomon, P. Madras, D. J. Smith and A. E. Berkowitz (2008) Fabrication of spherical particles with

mixed amorphous/crystalline nanostructured cores and insulating oxide shells. Journal of Materials Research, 23(6) pp.

1758-1763.

5.       M. H. Bhat, V. Molinero, E. Soignard, V. C. Solomon, S. Sastry, J. L. Yarger and C. A. Angell (2007) Vitrification of a

monoatomic metallic liquid. Nature, 448(16 August) pp. 787-790.

6.       G. P. Holland, R. Sharma, J. O. Agola, S. Amin, V. C. Solomon, Poonam Sigh, D. A. Buttery and J. L. Yarger (2007)  NMR

characterization of phosphonic acid capped SnO₂ nanoparticles. Chemistry of Materials 19(10) pp. 2519-2526.

7.       V. C. Solomon, J. I. Hong, Y. J. Tang, A. E. Berkowitz and D. J. Smith (2007)  Electron microscopy investigation of spark-

eroded Ni-Mn-Ga ferromagnetic shape-memory alloy particles. Scripta Materialia 56(7) pp. 593-596.

8.       V. C. Solomon, Martha R. McCartney, D. J. Smith, Y. J. Tang, A. E. Berkowitz and R. C. O’Handley (2005)  Magnetic domain

configurations in spark-eroded ferromagnetic shape memory Ni-Mn-Ga particles. Applied Physics Letters 86(19) 192503.

9.       V. C. Solomon, D. J. Smith, Y. J. Tang and A. E. Berkowitz (2004)  Microstructural characterization of Ni-Mn-Ga ferromagnetic

shape memory alloy powders. Journal of Applied Physics 95(11) pp. 6954-6956.

10.     V. C. Solomon and M. Nishida (2003)  Morphological and crystallographic aspects of C11_b-type precipitates nucleated in

martensitic and parent phase matrices in Ti-rich Ti-Pd shape memory alloys. Journal de Physique IV 112 pp. 1039-1042.