Thomas A. Lograsso

Assistant Director, DMSE - Ames Laboratory - USDOE

124 Metals Development
Iowa State University
Ames, IA  50011-3020

Phone:  (515) 294-8425
Fax:  (515) 294-8727
lograsso@ameslab.gov

Education

  • Ph.D. Metallurgical Engineering, Michigan Technological University 1986
  • M.S. Metallurgical Engineering, Michigan Technological University 1983
  • B.S. Metallurgical Engineering, Michigan Technological University 1980

Honors and Awards

  • 2006 Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Best Paper Award in Mechanics and Material Systems, ASME Aerospace Division, Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Technical Committee, 2005
  • Best Poster Award, Materials Research Society, Fall Meeting, 2003
  • Service Provider Impact Award, Iowa Manufacturing Extension Partnership, 2000
  • U.S. Department of Energy Award for Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment in Materials Chemistry (with others), 1998
  • Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer, Federal Laboratory Consortium, 1996
  • U.S. Department of Energy Award for Sustained Outstanding Research - Solid State Physics (with others), 1995.

Professional Appointments

  • 2008 – present Assistant Director of Division of Materials Sciences Programs, Ames Laboratory
  • 2007 – 2008 Program Director, Materials and Engineering Physics Program, Ames Laboratory
  • 1993-2007 Director, Iowa Companies Assistance Program, Iowa State University (2003-Present)
  • 1995 – present Senior Scientist, Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, (Scientist 1992 – 1995; Associate Scientist 1988-1992)
  • 1993 – present Associate Director, Materials Preparation Center, Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, (Assistant to the Director 1992 – 1993)

Professional Society Service/Activities

    The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, Materials Research Society

Research Interests

    Research interest includes solid-liquid phase equilibria, solid-solid phase interaction, kinetics of phase transitions as applied to the processing, and synthesis of single crystals of intermetallics, magneto-responsive alloys and compounds, and quasicrystalline alloys.

Selected Publications

  • "Synthesis of Ternary Nitrides from Intermetallic Precursors: Modes of Nitridation in Model Cr3Pt Alloys to form Cr3PtN," M.P. Brady, S.K. Wrobel, T.A. Lograsso, Eq.A. Payzant, D.T. Hoelzer, J.A. Horton, and L.R. Walker, Chem. Mat., 16, 1984 (2004).
  • "Synthesis and Characterization of Single Crystalline Gd5(SixGe1-x)4 by the Bridgman Method," T.A. Lograsso, D.L. Schlagel, and A.O. Pecharsky, J. Alloys Compd., 393, 141 (2005).
  • "The Magnetic Structure of Gd5Ge4," L. Tan, A. Kreyssig, J.W. Kim, A.I. Goldman, R.J. McQueeney, D. Wermeille, B. Sieve, T.A. Lograsso, D.L. Schlagel, S.L. Budko, V.K. Pecharsky, and K.A. Gschneidner, Jr., Phys. Rev. B, 71, 214408 (2005).
  • "Determination of Stoichiometry and Site Disorder in the Complex Intermetallics," D. Wu, M. Huang, T.A. Lograsso, R.W. McCallum Y. Mozharivski, and A. Hayes, J. Alloys Compd., 441, 206 (2007).
  • "Experimental Investigation and Thermodynamic Modeling of the Gd-Si System," M. Huang, D. L. Schlagel, F.R. Schmidt, and T.A. Lograsso, J. Alloys Compd., 441, 94 (2007).
  • "Magnetic Phase Transition in the Itinerant Helimagnet MnSi: Thermodynamic and Transport Properties," S.M. Stishov, A.E. Petrova, S. Khasanov, G. Kh. Panova, A.A. Shikov, J. C. Lashley, D. Wu, and T.A. Lograsso, Phys. Rev. B., 76, 052405 (2007).
  • "Field-driven Structural Phase Transition and Sign-switching Magnetocaloric Effect in Ni-Mn-Sn," M. Pasquale, C.P. Sasso, L. Giudici, T.A. Lograsso, and D.L. Schlagel, Appl. Phys. Lett., 91, 131904 (2007).
  • "Magnetostriction of Iron-Germanium Single Crystals," D. Wu, Q. Xing and T.A. Lograsso, J. Appl. Phys., 103, 07B307 (2008).
  • "Structural Transition and Anisotropic Properties of Single Crystalline SrFe2As2," J.-Q. Yan, A. Kreyssig, S. Nandi, N. Ni, S.L. Bud'ko, A. Kracher, R.J. McQueeney, R.W. McCallum, T.A. Lograsso, A.I. Goldman, and P.C. Canfield, Phys. Rev. B, 78, 024516 (2008).