Andrew Payzant

Bio

Andrew Payzant is a Distinguished R&D Staff Member in the Neutron Scattering Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He was previously affiliated with ORNL’s High Temperature Materials Laboratory (HTML), the Center for Nanophase Materials Science (CNMS), and the POWGEN instrument team. Since 2013, he has led the Engineering Materials Group in the Neutron Sciences Directorate, with responsibility for the engineering and applied science research program, research staff, and neutron scattering beamlines at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source and High Flux Isotope Reactor. His research at ORNL has been directed to the development and application of neutron and x-ray in-situ diffraction methods for characterization of structure, texture, and residual stress across a broad range of ceramics and alloys, including metal weldments, superconducting ceramics, rare earth permanent magnets, photovoltaic thin films, hydrogen storage materials, gas separation membranes, solid oxide fuel cells, and lithium ion batteries. Characterization under non-equilibrium conditions is a particular specialty. He has coauthored over 200 scientific papers and 3 patents, is a 2006 Fellow of the JCPDS - International Center for Diffraction Data, and a 2021 Fellow of ASM International. He currently serves as Past Chair on the ICDD Board of Directors. 

Awards

ORNL Educational Programs Support Award (2005)

Fellow, International Center for Diffraction Data (2006)

US DOE Office of Science Outstanding Mentor Award (2009)

ORNL Significant Event Award (2013)

American Welding Society, A.F. Davis Silver Medal Award (2019)

Fellow, ASM International (2021)

Education

B.Sc. (Physics); Dalhousie University; 1984

B.Eng. (Engineering Physics); Technical University of Nova Scotia; 1987

M.A.Sc. (Engineering Physics); Technical University of Nova Scotia; 1989

Ph.D. (Engineering Science); University of Western Ontario; 1995

Professional Affiliations

ASM International

International Centre for Diffraction Data

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Neutron Scattering Society of America

Trademarks and Patents

D.J. King, S. Babinec, P.L. Hagans, L.C. Maxey, E.A. Payzant, C. Daniel, A.S. Sabau, R.B. Dinwiddie, B.L. Armstrong, J.Y. Howe, D.L. Wood III, and N.S. Nembhard, Characterization of Dielectric Materials, U.S. Patent # US 9,689,822, June 6, 2017

C.I. Contescu, N.C. Gallego, J.Y. Howe, H.M. Meyer, III, E.A. Payzant, D.L. Wood, III, S.Y. Yoon, and M.R. Denlinger, Forming Gas Treatment of Lithium Ion Battery Anode Graphite Powders, U.S. Patent # US 8,834,829, September 9, 2014

T.R. Armstrong, E.A. Payzant, S.A. Speakman, and M. Greenblatt, Low Temperature Proton Conducting Oxide, U.S. Patent # US 7,413,687, August 19, 2008

Publications