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Prof. Evans has taught metallurgy and conducted research on materials production at Berkeley since 1972, serving as department chairman from 1986-1990. He is also a Principal Investigator in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Research Interests

Production of materials, particularly fluid flow; reaction kinetics, mass transport, electrochemical and electromagnetic phenomena governing processes for producing materials, including metals, and for storing energy.

Research Projects

• EXPLOITING THE TEMPERATURE OR CONCENTRATION DEPENDENCE OF MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY TO HALT CONVECTION DURING SOLIDIFICATION

Graduate student: Chris Seybert

• GAS FLUXING OF ALUMINUM: A BUBBLE PROBE FOR OPTIMIZATION OF BUBBLES/BUBBLE DISTRIBUTION AND MINIMIZATION OF SPLASHING/DROPLET FORMATION

Graduate student: Autumn Fjeld

• ON-CHIP MICRO BATTERIES FOR MILLIMETER-SCALE WIRELESS NODES

Graduate student: Dan Steingart
Under-Graduate student: Christine Ho

• IMPROVED POLYMER FOR USE IN Li-POLYMER CELLS

Graduate student: Yongbong Han

• REMOVAL OF DISSOLVED COPPER FROM SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY WASTE STREAMS

Graduate student: Ran Ding

• MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR THE PRODUCTION OF TITANIUM

Graduate student: Pritish Kar
Post-Doc: Dr. Suchitra Edussuriya

• APPLICATION OF WIRELESS SENSING TECHNOLOGY FOR MORE EFFICIENT ALCOA POTLINES

Graduate student: Mike Schneider

Archived Research Projects

• PHYSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF CASTING OF ALUMINUM AND STEEL

• HEAT TRANSPORT/THERMAL MANAGEMENT IN LI BATTERIES

• CHARACTERIZATION OF SEI LAYER ON CARBON ANODES IN LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES USING EQCM AND ELLIPSOMETRY

• EMISSIONS OF CHLORINE AND REACTION KINETICS IN "CHLORINE FLUXING" DURING RECYCLING OF ALUMINUM

• SPOUTED-BED ELECTRODES FOR ELECTRODEPOSITION OF METALS

1. “Development of a Three Dimensional Mathematical Model of the Electromagnetic Casting of Steel” (with R. Kageyama), ISIJ International, vol. 42, pp. 163-170 (2002).
2. “Characterization of the SEI on a Carbon Film Electrode by Combined EQCM and Spectroscopic Ellipsometry” (with K. Kwon, F. Kong and F. McLarnon), J. Electrochem. Soc., vol. 150, pp. A229-233 (2003)
3. “Transient Flows in Gas Stirred Vessels During Initial and and Post Gas Injection Periods” (with D. Mazumdar, C. Seybert and D. Steingart), ISIJ Int., vol. 43, pp. 132-134 (2003)
4. “Effect on Al Corrosion of LiBF4 Addition into Lithium Imide Electrolyte; a Study Using the EQCM” (with S-W. Song, T. J. Richardson, G. V. Zhuang and T. M. Devine), Electrochimica Acta, vol. 49, pp. 1483-1490 (2004).
5. “Measurements of Granular Flows in Two Dimensional Hoppers by Particle Image Velocimetry; Part I: experimental method and results ” (with D. A. Steingart), Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 60, pp. 1043-1051 (2005).
6. “PIV Measurements of Velocity of Water in the Presence of Ice and Comparison with Calculated Values” (with C. D. Seybert), Int. J. of Heat and Mass Transport, vol. 48, pp67-73 (2005).
7. “Macroscopic Models for Gas-Stirred Ladles” (with D. Mazumdar), ISIJ Int., vol. 44, pp. 447-462 (2004)
8. “The Production and Processing of Inorganic Materials” (with L. C. De Jonghe), TMS, Warrendale, PA (2002)
9. “Laboratory and Full-Scale Measurements of Bubble Behavior in Gas Fluxing Units”, (with A.J. Fjeld and D. C. Chesonis), pp. 755-760, ‘Light Metals 2004’, A. T. Tabereaux ed., TMS, Warrendale, PA (2004).
10. “Experiments on Wireless Instrumentation of Potlines”, (with M. H. Schneider, D. Ziegler, P. Wright and D. A. Steingart), pp 407-412, ‘Light Metals 2005’, H. Kvande ed., TMS, Warrendale, PA (2005)

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