Lynn A. Boatner
Solid State Division
For research leading to the development of new materials and to the solution of a wide range of fundamental and applied problems in solid-state science through the application of modern methods for the synthesis and characterization of ceramics, glasses, and alloys and the growth of single crystals.
L. A. Boatner received B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Texas Tech University in 1960 and 1961, and in 1966, he received his Ph.D. degree in physics from Vanderbilt University. He joined the ORNL Solid State Division in 1977, after a three-year research appointment at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland, and in 1989, he was recognized as a Texas Tech University Distinguished Alumnus in Physics.
Dr. Boatner's research activities have included investigations of the static and dynamic Jahn-Teller effect, electron paramagnetic resonance studies of rare-earth, iron-group, and actinide ions in crystalline materials, the growth and properties of ferroelectric materials, the development and characterization of advanced nuclear waste forms, the application of Rutherford backscattering to glass corrosion, the growth of single crystals, and ion-damage and epitaxial-regrowth studies of insulating oxides. Most recently, Dr. Boatner's research efforts have been associated with the development and characterization of "smart" surfaces, phosphate glasses, the application of resonance techniques to the study of textured ceramics, methods for the development of preferred orientations in ceramic microstructures using faceted nanophase particles, and the application of single crystals of stainless steel to investigations of the physics of solidification and microstructural development in alloys.
Dr. Boatner is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and ASM International. He is the author or coauthor of more than 360 research articles and holds eleven patents. Dr. Boatner has received a number of awards for his research, including R&D 100 Awards in 1996, 1985, and 1982; a U.S. Department of Energy Research Competition Award in 1984; recognition as one of Science Digest's 100 Top Innovators in 1985; a Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer in 1997; The Elegant Work Prize of the Institute of Materials of the United Kingdom in 1997; and the Jacquet-Lucas Award of ASM International and the International Metallographic Society in 1988. In 1998, he was named a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Mexico.
Dr. Boatner is presently the review editor for The Journal of Materials Research and is an associate editor of Optical Materials. He is the co-chair of the Committee on International Scientific Affairs of the American Physical Society. He has served as the organizer, chair, or proceedings editor of numerous international conferences and as an officer, executive committee member, or committee chair of The Materials Research Society, the American Physical Society, and ASM International. Dr. Boatner is currently the section head for Ceramics and Interfaces at ORNL and co-leads the Novel Materials Group. He was appointed an ORNL corporate fellow in 1992.
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