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Peter C. Burns

University of Notre Dame

Peter C. Burns is Director of the ND Energy Frontier Research Center, The Henry Massman Professor of Civil Engineering & Geological Sciences and Concurrent Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame. He teaches courses in geology, mineralogy and actinide chemistry. His research emphasizes the mineralogy and solid state chemistry of actinides, with applications in energy and environmental management.

May, 2010 photograph of EFRC leaders and Scientific Advisory Board members. From left: Rodney Ewing, Richard Haire, Ingmar Grenthe, Mark Peters, Lynn Boatner, Peter Burns, Sue Clark, David Clark, Alexandra Navrotsky, Iain May (Bruce Bursten is not pictured)

The Burns group research was featured in a nationally televised TV commercial on November 22. View this by clicking here.

Partial Research Group 2009, with Prof. Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt. Additional group photos are on the Research Group tab

Ball and stick model of fullerene-topology uranyl peroxide nanosphere

Polyhedral representation of U60 - a fullerene topology cluster of uranyl peroxide polyhedra with the same connectivity as C60.

Selected Recent Publications of Peter C. Burns:

Sigmon, G.E., Ling, J., Unruh, D.K., Moore-Shay, L., Ward, M., Weaver, B. & Burns, P.C.: Uranyl-peroxide interactions favor nano-cluster self-assembly. Journal of the American Chemical Society 131, 16648-16649.

Sigmon, G.E., Weaver, B., Kubatko, K.A. & Burns, P.C. (2009): Crown and bowl-shaped clusters of uranyl polyhedra. Inorganic Chemistry 48, 10907-10909.

Gorman-Lewis, D., Shvareva, T., Kubatko, K.A., Burns, P.C., Wellman, D.M., McNamara, B., Szymanowski, J.E.S., Navrotsky, A. & Fein, J.B. (2009): Thermodynamic properties of autunite, uranyl hydrogen phosphate, and uranyl orthophosphate from solubility and calorimetric measurements. Environmental Science and Technology 43, 7416-7422.

Sigmon, G., Unruh, D.K., Ling, J., Weaver, B., Ward, M., Pressprich, L., Simonetti, A. & Burns, P.C. (2009): Symmetry vs. minimal pentagonal adjacencies in uranium-based polyoxometalate fullerene topologies. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 48, 2737-2740.