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.
Peter C. Burns and two happy graduates
Peter C. Burns and office wall painting of the U60 fullerene topology uranium peroxide hydroxide cluster
Partial Research Group 2009, with Prof. Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt
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.
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. & Burns, P.C. (2009): Symmetry vs. minimal pentagonal
adjacencies in uranium-based polyoxometalate fullerene topologies. Angewandte
Chemie International Edition 48,
2737-2740.
