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Susan M. Kauzlarich
Professor

Email: smkauzlarich@ucdavis.edu
Phone:(530) 752-4756
Fax:(530) 752-8995

B.S., College of William and Mary, 1980.
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1985.
Postdoctoral Associate, Iowa State University, 1985-87.
Appointed to faculty, UC Davis, 1987-.
Maria Goeppert Mayer Distinguished Scholar Award from Argonne National Laboratory 1997.
Visiting Scholar, Argonne National Laboratory, 1997-1998.
Associate Editor, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 2000-2005.
Outstanding Mentor Award from the UCD Consortium for Women and Research, 2001-2002.
Editorial Advisory Board, Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths, 2002-present.
Advisory Review Board, Research Corp, 2004-present.
UC Davis Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award, 2005.
NASA Tech Brief Award NPO 42627: High Efficiency of Yb14MnSb11 For Thermoelectric Power Generation, 2006.
Editor, Chemistry of Materials, 2006-present.

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Principal Research Interests
Solid State and Materials Inorganic Chemistry, Nanomaterials. The design, synthesis and characterization of new materials are vital components of developing new technologies. The search for new materials with novel structures and properties is the primary focus of my research. We have worked in the area of nanomaterials since 1992, starting with porous Si, the synthesis of group IV nanoparticles, and most recently, magnetic nanoparticles. My group maintains a balance of exploratory and directed research projects, spanning both novel structures and nanomaterials. There are many examples of compounds discovered with exciting properties that have had a global impact and will continue to change the state of science and technology in many different fields. This group has several different projects that address the needs of technology and biology and have made advances in new compounds such as the discovery of magnetoresistance in magnetic Zintl phases, high zT in Zintl phases, the size and surface control of group IV nanoparticles, core/shell group IV nanoparticles, and Fe/Au core/shell nanoparticles. My interest is on problems that are at the interface of chemistry and physics, biochemistry, and/or engineering with a focus on the design and synthesis of new materials and compounds.
Representative Publications

Chemistry, Structure and Bonding of Zintl Phases and Ions. S. M. Kauzlarich, Ed. VCH Publishers, New York, 1996.

Bley, R. A.; Kauzlarich, S. M., A Low Temperature Solution Phase Route for the Synthesis of Silicon Nanoclusters. Journal of the American Chemical Society 1996, 118, 12461-12462.

Chan, J. Y.; Kauzlarich, S. M.; Klavins, P.; Shelton, R. N.; Webb, D. J., Colossal Magnetoresistance in the Transition-Metal Zintl Compound Eu14MnSb11. Chemistry of Materials 1997, 9, 3132-3135.

Baldwin, R. K.; Zou, J.; Pettigrew, K. A.; Yeagle, G. J.; Britt, R. D.; Kauzlarich, S. M., The preparation of a phosphorus doped silicon film from phosphorus containing silicon nanoparticles. Chemical Communications 2006, 6, 658-660.

Cho, S. J.; Jarrett, B. R.; Louie, A. Y.; Kauzlarich, S. M., Gold-coated iron nanoparticles: a novel magnetic resonance agent for T-1 and T-2 weighted imaging. Nanotechnology 2006, 17, 640-644.

Brown, S. R.; Kauzlarich, S. M.; Gascoin, F.; Snyder, G. J., Yb14MnSb11: New high efficiency thermoelectric material for power generation. Chemistry of Materials 2006, 18, 1873-1877.

Kauzlarich, S. M.; Brown, S. R.; Snyder, G. J., Zintl phases for thermoelectric devices. Dalton Transactions 2007, 21, 2099-2107.

Zhang, X.; Brynda, M.; Britt, R. D.; Carroll, E. C.; Larsen, D. S.; Louie, A. Y.; Kauzlarich, S. M., Synthesis and Characterization of Manganese-Doped Silicon Nanoparticles: Bifunctional Paramagnetic-Optical Nanomaterial. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2007, 129, 10668-10669.