23rd RERC

Final Program

Arrival & Reception

Saturday, July, 13, 2002

Freeborn Hall

5:00-7:00 pm

Oral Presentations

Sunday, July 14, 2002

Morning Session (9:30am coffee, 10:00 am start)

Freeborn Hall

9:30 am – 12:00 noon

10:00 am Opening and Introductory Remarks

Welcome

Barry Klein, Vice-Chancellor of Research, UCDavis

Susan M. Kauzlarich, Conference Chair, UCDavis

Peter K. Dorhout, Program Chair

10:30 amTenth Frank H. Spedding Award Presentation

Introduction by Lynda Soderholm, Committee Chair

Lynn A. Boatner, Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831

The Rare Earth Orthophosphates: Properties and Applications

Afternoon Concurrent Session:

OBI-1. Rare Earths in Biology and Medicine

Freeborn Hall

2:00 – 4:20 pm

Chair:Tom Meade, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

2:00-2:30 pmC. Meares, Univ. California - Davis

Antibodies with Infinite Affinity

2:30-3:00pmD. Sherry, University of Texas at Dallas

Lanthanide Complexes with Slow Water Exchange Act as Efficient Magnetization Transfer (MT) Contrast Agents

3:00-3:30 pm Coffee Break – Freeborn Hall

3:30- 4:00 pmJ. Jurcic, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, New York

Metals as Therapy for Leukemia

4:00-4:30 pmT. Meade, Cal Tech.

The State of Rare Earths in Biology

Afternoon Concurrent Session:

OSS-1. Solid State Chemistry

1100 Social Sciences

2:00-4:40 pm

Chair:Peter K. Dorhout, Colorado State University

2:00-2:30 pmA. Mar, Univ. Alberta, Canada

Structures and Properties of Ternary Rare-Earth Antimonides and Bismuthides

2:30-3:00 pmT. Albrecht-Schmitt, Auburn Univ

The Hydrothermal Chemistry, Structures, and Properties of Uranium Fluorides, Selenites, and Iodates.

3:00-3:30 pmCoffee Break – Freeborn Hall

3:30-4:00 pmR. Marchand, Univ. Rennes, Rennes, France

Ternary and Higher Order Rare-Earth -Nitride Materials: Synthesis and Characterization of Ionic-Covalent Oxynitride Powders

4:00-4:20 pmAgnes Dupont,ICMCB-CNRS, Université Bordeaux I, France Nanosynthesis and Characterization of Yttria Powders

4:20-4:40 pmR. Saez-Puche, Univ. Complutense, Madrid, Spain

Interplay Between Rare-Earth and Chromium Sublattices in the Magnetic Properties of RcrO4 Oxides

Monday, July 15, 2002

Plenary Session

Freeborn Hall

8:00-9:00 am

8:00-9:00 am Norman Edelstein, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Lab

Comparison of the Spectroscopic Properties of the Lanthanides and Actinides

9:00-9:30 am coffee break

Morning Concurrent Session:

OEN-1. Environmental Chemistry I

Freeborn Hall

9:30 – 12:00 noon

ChairMary Neu, Los Alamos National Laboratory

9:30 –10:05 amL. Soderholm, Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory

Probing the Local Structure of Actinide Aggregates in Solution

10:05-10:40 amH. Nitsche, Univ. California - Berkeley

Microbes- An Important Piece in the Puzzle of Environmental Actinide Interactions

10;40-11:15 amT. Kimura, Advanced Science Research Center, JAERI, Japan

Spectroscopic Studies to Determine f-element Structural and Thermodynamic Properties.

11:15- 11:35 amV. Brendler, Inst. of Radiochem., Forschungzentrum Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany

RES3T - Rossendorf Expert System for Surface and Sorption Thermodynamics

11:35-11:55 amL. Morss, Argonne National Laboratory

Oxidation of Plutonium Dioxide by Water Vapor: Studies with 239Pu and 242Pu

Morning Concurrent Session:

OMG-1. Magnetism I (local moment magnetism)

Social Sciences

9:30 – 12:00 noon

Chair:Ballou Rafik, CNRS-Grenoble, France

9:30-10:05 amJ. E. Greedan, McMaster Univesity

Magnetism and Magnetic Structure of the Ordered Fluorite Phases Nd3ReO7 and Pr3ReO7

10:05-10:40amJ.-P. Sutter, CNRS Bordeaux , France

Insight Into the Exchange Interaction Involving Lanthanide Ions in Molecular Compounds

10:40-11:15 amV. K. Pecharsky, Ames Laboratory, Ames, IA.

The Super Molecule of the New Millenium - Gd5(SixGe1-x)4

11:15-11:55 amM. Amara, CNRS/UJF, France

Orbital Degrees of Freedom and Ordering Phenomena in Rare-Earth Compounds

Afternoon Concurrent Session:

OEN-2. Environmental Chemistry II

Freeborn Hall

2:00 – 5:00 pm

ChairSue Clark, Washington State Univ.

2:00-2:30 pmA. Felmy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The Aqueous Complexation of Eu(III) with Dissolved Silica Species and Organic Chelating Agents at High Base Concentration: Molecular and Thermodynamic Modeling Results

2:30-3:00 pmS. Wood, University of Idaho

The Behavior of the REE in Geothermal Systems

3:00-3:30 pmCoffee break – Freeborn Hall

3:30-4:00 pmT. Ohnuki, Advanced Science Research Center, JAERI

Sorption of Eu(III) by Fluorapatite, Smectite, and Their Mixture

4:00-4:20 pmJ. Friese, Washington State University

Lanthanide Separations by Capillary Electropheresis Using Organic Ligands

4:20-4:40 pmS. Huebener, Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany

Thermochromatographic Oxidation Studies of Plutonium Dioxide

4:40-5:00 pmThorsten Stumpf, Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany

Inner-Sphere, Outer-Sphere and Ternary Surface Complexes: A TRLFS Study of the Sorption Process of Eu(III) on to Smectite and Kaolinite

Afternoon Concurrent Session:

OMG-2. Magnetism II (correlated electron magnetism)

Social Sciences

2:00-5:00 pm

Co-ChairsAlicia de Andres, ICMM, Madrid, Spain and Jinke Tang, University of New Orleans

2:00-2:35 pmQ. Si, Rice University, Houston, TX

Locally Critical Quantum Phase Transitions and the f-Electron Physics

2:35-3:10 pmS. S. Saxena, University of Cambridge, UK

Superconductivity near a Magnetic Quantum Critical Point

3:10-3:40 pmCoffee break – Freeborn Hall

3:40-4:15 pmM. García-Hernández, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid -CSIC, Spain

La-Ca Manganites Near the Optimal Dopping Concentrations

4:15-4:55 pmJ. L. García-Muñoz, Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona-CSIC, Spain

Charge Modulation Phenomena in Doped and Self-Doped R-(Mn,Ni)-O Oxides: Relevance of the Rare Earth

Tuesday, July, 16, 2002

Plenary Session

Freeborn Hall

8:00-9:00 am

8:00-9:00 am Martha Greenblatt - Rutgers University

Tuning the Properties of Transition Metal Oxide Ruddlesden-Popper Phases

9:00-9:30 am Coffee break

Morning Concurrent Session:

OCC-1. Coordination Chemistry I

Freeborn Hall

9:30-12:00 noon

Chair:John Brennan, Rutgers University

9:30-10:05 amJ.-C. Bunzli, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

Introducing functionalities in lanthanide-containing molecular edifices

10:05-10:40 amK. Raymond, Univ. California – Berkeley

New high relaxivity agents based on gadolinium hydroxypyridonate complexes

10:40-11:15 amM. Ephretikhine, CEA Saclay, France

Selective complexation of trivalent uranium over trivalent lanthanides by polydentate nitrogen ligands

11:15-11:50 amW. Rees, Georgia Tech

Rare Earth Element Compounds With Nitrogen-containing Ligands

Morning Concurrent Session:

OSS-2. Solid State Chemistry

1100 Social Sciences

9:30-12:00 noon

Chair:Thomas Schleid, Univ. Stuttgart

9:30-10:05 amG. Meyer, Univ. Köln, Germany

Action of Alkaline-Earth Metals on Rare-Earth Halides

10:05-10:40 amJ. Ibers, Northwestern University

Syntheses, Characterization, and Properties of Some 3d/4f Chalcogenides and Oxy-chalcogenides

10:40-11:15 am M. Leskela, Univ. Helsinki, Finland

Rare Earth Oxide Thin Films as Gate Oxides in MOSFET Transistors

11:15-11:35 amG. F. de Sá, Cidade Universitária, Recife, Brazil

Photophysical Properties of Lanthanide Complexes Adsorbed on Inorganic-Organic Hybrids

11:35-11:55 amM. Fluss, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

A Possible Structure-Property Mechanism for Delta Plutonium Stabilization

Concurrent Afternoon Session:

OCC-2. Coordination Chemistry II

Freeborn Hall

2:00 – 5:10 pm

Chair:Jean-Claude Bunzli, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

2:00-2:30 pmS. Gambarotta, Univ. Ottowa, Canada

Highly Reactive of Low-Valent Uranium

2:30-3:00 pmG. Choppin, Florida State University

Comparison of Structural Effects on Eu(III) Complexes with Cyclohexyl and Benzyl Polycarboxylate Ligands

3:00-3:30 pmCoffe Break – Freeborn Hall

3:30-4:00 pmM. Mazzanti, Laboratoire de Reconnaissance Ionique, Grenoble, France

The Use of Tripodal Ligands for the Control of the Coordination of Trivalent f-Elements

4:00-4:30 pmZ. Zheng , Univ. Arizona

Serendipity-Stimulated Rational Design and Synthesis of Lanthanide-Oxo/Hydroxo Clusters

4:30-4:50 pmJ. Belot, Univ. Nebraska

Anhydrous Lanthanide Schiff Base Complexes Produced via Triflate-Derived Amides

4:50-5:10 pmA. Demourgues, ICMCB, Bordeaux, France

Relationships Between the Structural Features and Absorption Properties in UV-visible Range of Mixed-Anion Compounds

Concurrent Afternoon Session:

OAP-1. Applied Materials

1100 Social Sciences

2:00- 4:20 pm

Chair:Toshiyuki Masui, Osaka Univ.

2:00-2:30 pmS. Yabe, KOSE Corporation, Japan

Cerium Oxide for Sunscreen Cosmetics

2:30-3:00 pmB. Tissue, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Size-Dependent Structural and Optical Properties of Eu3+:Y2O3

3:00-3:30 pmCoffe Break – Freeborn Hall

3:30-4:00 pmJ. Kaspar, University of Trieste, Italy

Nanostructured Materials for Advanced Automotive De-pollution Catalysts

4:00-4:20 pmO. Guillou, INSA, Rennes, France

Toward Lanthanide Based Molecular Materials Exhibiting Potential Interest Such as Laser Amplifiers for Optical Fibers

4:20-4:40 pmM. Jurczyk, Poznan Univ. Tech., Poznan, Poland

Nanocrystalline LaNi5-type Electrode Materials for Ni-MHx Batteries

Wednesday, July 17, 2002

Plenary Session

Freeborn Hall

8:00-9:00 am

8:00-9:00 am Andries Meijerink, Univ. Utrecht, Netherlands

Lanthanides for Light

9:00-9:30 am Coffee break

Morning Concurrent Session:

OSE-1. Separations

Freeborn Hall

9:30 – 12:05 pm

Chair:Ken Nash, Argonne National Laboratory/ Mark Jensen, co-Chair, Argonne National Laboratory

9:30-10:00 amMark Jensen, Argonne National Laboratory

Selectivity in f-Element Separations

10:00-10:30 amS. Nishihama, Osaka University, Japan

Advanced Liquid-Liquid Extraction Systems for the Separation of Rare Earth Ions by Combination of Conversion of the Metal Species with Chemical Reaction

10:30-11:00 amS. Muralidharan, Western Michigan Univ.

Molecular Organization Towards Achieving High Selectivities in Lanthanide Separations

11:00-11:30 amKen Nash, Argonne National Laboratory

Actinide Partitioning Today: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue

11:30-11:45 amR. Rogers, Univ. Alabama

Room Temperature Ionic Liquids: New Solvents for f-Element Separations and Associated Solution Chemistry

11:45-12:05 pmA. Brooks, Univ. Tennessee

Lanthanide Separations Using Rate-Controlled Solvent Extraction

Morning Concurrent Session:

OSP-1. Spectroscopy I

1100 Social Sciences

9:30 – 12:05 pm

Chair:Jean-Claude Krupa, Inst. Nucl. Orsay, France

9:30-10:00 amU. Happek , Univ. Georgia

Locating the Ionization Threshold of Rare-Earth Ions in Large Bandgap Materials: Photoconductivity and Thermoluminescence

10:00-10:30 amC. Thiel, Montana State University :

Energies of 4fN and 4fN-15d States Relative to Host Bands in Rare-Earth-Activated Optical Materials

10:30-11:00 amJ. Hölsä, Univ. Turku, Finland

Persistent Luminescence Mechanisms and Materials

11:00-11:30 amK. Binnemans , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Influence of the Crystal-field Perturbation on the Room Temperature Magnetic Anisotropy of Lanthanide Compounds

11:30-11:50 amC. Wickleder, Univ. Köln

Spectroscopy of Divalent Samarium in Chloride Host Lattices

11:50-12:10 pmJ. Tobin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Resonant Photoemission in F Electron Systems: Pu and Gd

Evening Banquet – St. Supery Winery, Napa Valley

Buses pick up at Freeborn Hall at 5:00 pm

Thursday, July 18, 2002

Plenary Session

Freeborn Hall

8:00-9:00 am

8:00-9:00 amWilliam J. Evans - Univ. California - Irvine

Recent Advances in f Element Reduction Chemistry

9:00-9:30 am Coffee break

Morning Concurrent Session:

OOM-1. Organometallics

Freeborn Hall

9:30 – 12:00 noon

Chair:Andrea Sella, Univ. College, London

9:30-10:05 amP. L. Arnold, University of Nottingham, UK

Tuning the Symmetry in f-element Complexes of Tridentate Sulfur-Biphenolate Ligands

10:05-10:40 amF. Nief, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

Phosphorus and Arsenic in Organolanthanide Chemistry

10:40-11:15 amH. Aspinall Univ. Liverpool, UK

Defining Effective Chiral Binding Sites at Lanthanide Centers

11:15-11:50 amJ. Gordon, Los Alamos National Laboratory

New Approaches to Stabilizing Lanthanide Main-group Multiple Bonds

11:50-12:00 amSusan M. Kauzlarich & Peter Dorhout

Concluding Remarks

Morning Concurrent Session:

OSP-2. Spectroscopy II

1100 Social Sciences

9:30 – 12:15 pm

Chair:Bernard Jacquier, Univ. Lyon

9:30-10:00 amRufus Cone, Montana State Univ.

Coherent Spectroscopy of Er3+-Doped Crystals for 1.5 m Optical Signal Processing and Laser Frequency Stabilization

10:00-10:30 amA. M. Jurdyc, Université Lyon, France

Rare Earth Doped Optical Fiber Amplifiers: Which Ion for Which Host Matrice?

10:30-11:00 amU. Hommerich, Hampton University

Luminescence Properties of Rare Earth Doped GaN

11:00-11:30 amG. Liu, Argonne National Laboratory

Phonon Confinement on Luminescence Dynamics in Nanophosphors of Er3:Y2O2S

11:30-11:50 amS. Bhushan, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla Univ., Raipur, India

Electro-Optical Studies of Rare Earth Doped (Cd-Pd)S Films

11:50-12:10 pmP. Dorenbos, Delft Univ. of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

The Nephelauxetic Effect in Lanthanides and the Relation with Anion Polarizability, Covalency, and Cation Electronegativity.

12:10-12:15 amSusan M. Kauzlarich & Peter Dorhout

Concluding Remarks