Papers

Lab publications below; please look at the Google Scholar link above for the most up to date list.

2026

• Accepted: Mirakhory, M.; Ness, S.; McCormack, S. J.; van Duin, A. Development of ReaxFF Reactive Force Field for the Investigation of Thermochemical, Thermophysical and Oxidation Behavior of Titanium Diboride Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2026), accepted.
• Everson, B.; Chuang, S.-Y.; Hung, I.; Gan, Z.; McCormack, S. J.; Sen, S. Binary Rare Earth Silicate Glasses Near Deep Eutectic: The Case for Sc2O3–SiO2 System Journal of the American Ceramic Society (2026).
  https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.70869
• Rosenberg, W.; Yu, P.; Sen, S.; McCormack, S. J. Local Structure and Vacancy Distribution in Transition Metal Carbides: Results from High-Resolution 13C NMR Spectroscopy Journal of the American Ceramic Society (2026).
  https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.70765
• Swanson, R.; Chapman, M.; Zhou, Y.; Hilmas, A.; Rueschhoff, L.; Chic, M.; Fahrenholtz, W.; McCormack, S. J. Quantitative Grain Structure and Texture Analysis of Hot-Pressed ZrB2 via 3D EBSD Materials Characterization (2026).
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2025.115378

2025

• Thorpe, F.; Sobalvarro Converse, E.; Rosenberg, W.; Rivera, J.; McCormack, S. J. Melting Point of Group IV and V Transition Metal Diborides Journal of the American Ceramic Society (2025).
  https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.70299
• Ness, S.; Moore, T.; Kilczawski, S.; Behler, K.; Dunstan, M.; McCormack, S. J. Development of Oxide Melt Solution Calorimetry for Transition Metal Diborides CALPHAD, 90, 102867 (2025).
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.calphad.2025.102867
• Zhou, Y.; He, X.; Fahrenholtz, W.; Hilmas, G.; McCormack, S. J. Densification of Zirconium Diboride with Varying Carbon Additions Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 45(7) (2025).
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2025.117250
• Sridar, S.; Xiong, W.; Babaee, H.; Fahrenholtz, W.; McCormack, S. J. Uncertainty Quantification of Materials Processing for Ultrahigh-Temperature Materials American Ceramic Society Bulletin, 104(2), 28–32 (2025).
• Nguyen, V.-Q.; Lee, H. J.; Kim, J.-S.; Seo, H.; McCormack, S. J.; Lee, S.-H. Synthesis of Highly Pure Ta0.8Hf0.2C Powder and Dense Ceramics Using a Combination of Organic Steric Entrapment, Carbothermal Reduction Methods and Spark Plasma Sintering Process Ceramics International, 51(12, Part A), 15923–15934 (2025).
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2025.01.429
• Rosenberg, W.; Ness, S. C.; Mishra, B.; Segre, C. U.; McCormack, S. J. Excess Thermochemical Properties and Local Structure in the Entropy Stabilized (Hf-Zr)TiO4 System Acta Materialia, 285, 120639 (2025).
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2024.120639
• Chuang, S.-Y.; Yeo, T.-M.; Swanson, R. K.; Cano, C.; Feller, S. A.; McCormack, S. J.; Sen, S. Trends in Calorimetric Fragility of Normal and Invert Borate Glasses Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 650, 123361 (2025).
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2024.123361
• Seymour, K.; Ribero, D.; McCormack, S. J.; Kriven, W. M. Method to Characterize Phase Transformation Kinetics at High Temperature Journal of the American Ceramic Society (2025).
  https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.20276
• Silva, C. M.; Kondrat, K. J.; Childs, B. C.; Ferrier, M. G.; Greenough, M. M.; Holiday, K.; McCormack, S. J. On the Product Phases and the Reaction Kinetics of Carbothermal Reduction of UO2 + C at Relatively Low Temperatures Journal of Nuclear Materials, 604, 155495 (2025).
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2024.155495
• Ye, Z.; Zhao, J.; Kang, K.; McCormack, S. J.; Shao, Y.-T.; Efremov, M.; Schleife, A.; Kriven, W. M.; Zuo, J.-M.; Allen, L. H. In-Plane Anisotropy and Odd/Even Effect in Layered Metal-Organic Chalcogenides Act as Birefringent Color Filter with Dispersive Optical Axes Advanced Optical Materials, 13, 2402159 (2025).
  https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202402159

2024

• Editorial: Rost, C. M.; Mazza, A. R.; McCormack, S. J.; Page, K.; Sarkar, A.; Ward, Z. Era of Entropy: Synthesis, Structure, Properties and Applications of High Entropy Materials Applied Physics Letters, 125, 200401 (2024).
  https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0245693
• Miruszewski, T.; Mielewczyk-Gryn, A.; Jaworski, D.; Rosenberg, W.; McCormack, S. J.; Gazda, M. Charge Transport in the A6B2O17 (A = Zr, Hf; B = Nb, Ta) Superstructure Series Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 171, 034503 (2024).
  https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/ad2d90
• Charalambous, H.; Yang, Q.; Rivera, J.; Crystal, I. R.; Sun, L. Y.; Thorpe, F.; Rosenberg, W.; McCormack, S. J.; King, G. C. S.; Cahill, J. T.; Du Frane, W. L.; Kuntz, J. D.; Sobalvarro Converse, E. Thermostructural Evolution of Boron Carbide Characterized Using In-Situ X-Ray Diffraction Acta Materialia, 265, 119597 (2024).
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2023.119597
• Thorpe, F.; Li, T.; Weber, R.; McCormack, S. J. Environmental Conical Nozzle Levitator Equipped with Dual Wavelength Lasers Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 107, 2010–2023 (2024).
  https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.19542

2023

• Dias, M. R. S.; Gong, T.; Duncan, M. A.; Ness, S. C.; McCormack, S. J.; Leite, M. S.; Munday, J. N. Photonics Roadmap for Ultra-High-Temperature Thermophotovoltaics Joule, 7(10), 2209–2227 (2023).
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2023.08.015
• Silva, C. M.; Kondrat, K. J.; Holiday, K. S.; McCormack, S. J. A Crystallographic Study of Product Phases of Carbothermic Reduction and Nitridation of Hafnium Dioxide Inorganic Chemistry, 62(30), 11910–11919 (2023).
  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c01333
• Zhong, Y.; Otis, R.; McCormack, S. J.; Xiong, W.; Liu, Z.-K. Summary Report of CALPHAD GLOBAL, 2021 CALPHAD, 102527 (2023).
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.calphad.2022.102527
• Hong, Q.-J.; Ushakov, S. V.; Lilova, K.; Navrotsky, A.; McCormack, S. J. Structure and Thermodynamics of Oxides/Carbides/Nitrides/Borides at High Temperatures American Ceramic Society Bulletin, 102(1) (2023).
• Sobalvarro Converse, E.; Thorpe, F.; Rivera, J.; Charalambous, H.; King, G.; Cahill, J.; Du Frane, W.; Kuntz, J.; McCormack, S. J. In-Situ Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction of TiB2 up to ~3050 °C Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 43(8) (2023).
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2023.01.050
• Swanson, R.; Stebbins, J.; Yeo, T.; Xu, Y.; Hung, I.; Gan, Z.; McCormack, S. J.; Sen, S. Structure and Fragility of Normal and Invert Lanthanum Borate Glasses from 11B and 17O NMR Spectroscopy and Calorimetry Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 603, 122119 (2023).
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2022.122119

2022

• Invited Article: Schreiber, D. K.; Schwaiger, R.; Heilmaier, M.; McCormack, S. J. Material Property Characterization in the Most Extreme Environments MRS Bulletin, 47, 1–15 (2022).
  https://doi.org/10.1557/s43577-022-00441-z
• Invited Article: Brahlek, M.; Gazda, M.; Keepers, V.; Mazza, A.; McCormack, S. J.; Mielewczyk-Gryn, A.; Music, B.; Page, K.; Rost, C.; Sinnott, S.; Toher, C.; Ward, T.; Yamamoto, A. What Is in a Name: Defining “High Entropy” Oxides APL Materials, 10, 110902 (2022).
  https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0122727

2021

• Voskanyan, A. A.; Lilova, K.; McCormack, S. J.; Kriven, W. M.; Navrotsky, A. A New Class of Entropy Stabilized Oxides: Commensurately Modulated A6B2O17 (A = Zr, Hf; B = Nb, Ta) Structures Scripta Materialia, 204, 114139 (2021).
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2021.114139
• Hulbert, B. S.; McCormack, S. J.; Tseng, K.-P.; Kriven, W. M. Thermal Expansion and Phase Transformation in the Rare Earth Di-Titanate (R2Ti2O7) System Acta Crystallographica Section B, 77 (2021).
  https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052520621004479
• Invited Feature Article: McCormack, S. J.; Navrotsky, A. Thermodynamics of High Entropy Oxides Acta Materialia, 202, 1–21 (2021).
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.10.043

2020

• McCormack, S. J.; Wheeler, W. A.; Hulbert, B. S.; Kriven, W. M. Directions of Zero Thermal Expansion and the Peritectic Transformation in HfTiO4 Acta Materialia, 200, 187–199 (2020).
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.08.060
• Tseng, K.-P.; Yang, Q.; McCormack, S. J.; Kriven, W. M. High-Entropy, Phase Constrained, Lanthanide Sesquioxide Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 103, 569–576 (2020).
  https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.16689

2019

• McCormack, S. J.; Kriven, W. M. Crystal Structure Solution for the A6B2O17 (A = Zr, Hf; B = Nb, Ta) Superstructure Acta Crystallographica Section B, 75, 227–234 (2019).
  https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052520619001963
• Reply to comments: McCormack, S. J.; Tseng, K.-P.; Weber, R. J. K.; Kapush, D.; Ushakov, S.; Navrotsky, A.; Kriven, W. M. Reply to Comments: In-Situ Determination of the HfO2-Ta2O5-Temperature Phase Diagram up to 3000 °C Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 102, 7028–7030 (2019).
  https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.16529
• Editor's Pick: McCormack, S. J.; Tamalonis, A.; Weber, R. J. K.; Kriven, W. M. Temperature Gradients for Thermophysical and Thermochemical Property Measurements to 3000 °C for an Aerodynamically Levitated Spheroid Review of Scientific Instruments, 90, 015109 (2019).
  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5055738
• McCormack, S. J.; Tseng, K.-P.; Weber, R. J. K.; Kapush, D.; Ushakov, S.; Navrotsky, A.; Kriven, W. M. In-Situ Determination of the HfO2-Ta2O5-Temperature Phase Diagram up to 3000 °C Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 102, 4848–4861 (2019).
  https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.16271
• Saleh, A. A.; Wen, W.; Pereloma, E. V.; McCormack, S. J.; Tomé, C. N.; Gazder, A. A. Experimental and Self-Consistent Modelling Study of De-Twinning in a Twinning-Induced Plasticity Steel JOM (2019).
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-019-03374-2
• Professional update: McCormack, S. J. Chair's Update on PCSA Activities and Welcome to the Student ACerS Bulletin Issue American Ceramic Society Bulletin, 98, 26 (2019).

2018

• McCormack, S. J.; Weber, R. J.; Kriven, W. M. In-Situ Investigation of Hf6Ta2O17 Anisotropic Thermal Expansion and Topotactic Peritectic Transformation Acta Materialia, 161, 127–137 (2018).
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2018.08.029
• McCormack, S. J.; Wen, W.; Pereloma, E. V.; Tomé, C. N.; Gazder, A. A.; Saleh, A. A. On the First Direct Observation of De-Twinning in a Twinning-Induced Plasticity Steel Acta Materialia, 156, 172–183 (2018).
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2018.06.029
• Kok, D.; Sortino, E.; Yadav, D.; McCormack, S. J.; Tseng, K.-P.; Kriven, W. M.; Raj, R.; Mecartney, M. L. Alpha-Alumina and Spinel React into Single Phase High-Alumina Spinel in Less Than 3 Seconds during Flash Sintering Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 102, 644–653 (2018).
  https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.15927

2016

• Seymour, K. C.; Ribero, D.; McCormack, S. J.; Kriven, W. M. Relationships Between the Orthorhombic and Hexagonal Phases in Dy2TiO5 Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 99, 3739–3744 (2016).
  https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.14354
• Lebrun, J.-M.; Jha, S. K.; McCormack, S. J.; Kriven, W. M.; Raj, R. Broadening of Diffraction Peak Widths and Temperature Nonuniformity During Flash Experiments Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 99, 3429–3434 (2016).
  https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.14326
• Professional article: McCormack, S. J. Deciphering the Discipline: How to Decide Where to Study Your Ph.D. American Ceramic Society Bulletin, 95, 50 (2016).

2015

• Tolman, K. R.; Ubic, R.; Papac, M.; Seymour, K. C.; McCormack, S. J.; Kriven, W. M.; Kungl, H. Investigation of Vacancies in Lead Lanthanum Zirconate Titanate Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 225, 359–367 (2015).
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2014.12.024