M. Grant Norton - Professor

The School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

M. Grant Norton - Professor

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Contact Information:

office Dana 145
telephone 509 335 8730
e-mail norton@mme.wsu.edu
Postal mail M. Grant Norton
School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Washington State University
PO BOX 642920
Pullman, WA 99164-2920
M. Grant Norton

Joined MME in 1991
Ph.D. in Materials from Imperial College, London in 1989.

Research Interests:

  • Ceramic Materials
  • Nanotechnology
  • Alternative Energy

Significant Publications:

  • T.D. Pounds, M.G. Norton, D.N. McIlroy and L. Wang, ‘One-Dimensional Ceramic Nanostructures for Catalysts and Sensors’, to be published in: ‘Handbook of Nanoceramics and Their Based Nanodevices’, American Science Publishers (2008)
  • C.B. Cater and M.G. Norton, ‘Ceramic Materials: Science and Engineering’ Springer, New York (2007)
  • C. Suryanarayana and M.G. Norton, ‘X-Ray Diffraction: A Practical Approach’ Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York (1998) Korean edition, Hong Reung Science Publishers (2006)
  • D.N. McIlroy, A. Alkhateeb, D. Zhang, D.E. Aston, A.C. Marcy, and M.G. Norton, ‘Nanospring Formation—Unexpected Catalyst Mediated Growth’ Journal of Physics—Condensed Matter 16, R1 (2004)

Recent Publications:

  • Y. Chen, I. Stevenson, R. Pouy, L. Wang, D.N. McIlroy, T. Pounds, M.G. Norton, and D.E. Aston, “Mechanical Elasticity of Vapor-Liquid-Solid Grown GaN Nanowires,” Nanotechnology 18, (2007)
  • U. Sahaym and M.G. Norton, ‘Advances in the Application of Nanotechnology in Enabling a “Hydrogen Economy”’ Journal of Materials Science (in press 2008)
  • I.S. Bayer, A. Biswas, J.B. Szczech, E. Suhir, and M.G. Norton, “Radio Frequency Functional Capacitors Made of All-Organic Composites of Thiourea in Field-Responsive Polymers for Embedded Application,” Applied Physics Letters 92, 083303 (2008)
  • C. Ye, J-C Xiao, B. Twamley, A.D. LaLonde, M.G. Norton, and J.M. Shreeve, “Basic Ionic Liquids: Facile Solvents for Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation Reactions and Ready Access to Palladium Nanoparticles,” European Journal of Organic Chemistry 30, 5095 (2007)
  • J. Huso, J.L. Morrison, H. Hoeck, E. Casey, L. Bergman, T.D. Pounds, and M.G. Norton, “Low Temperature LO-Phonon Dynamics of MgZnO Nanoalloys,” Applied Physics Letters 91, 111906 (2007)
  • Y. Chen, I. Stevenson, R. Pouy, L. Wang, D.N. McIlroy, T. Pounds, M.G. Norton, and D.E. Aston, “Mechanical Elasticity of Vapor-Liquid-Solid Grown GaN Nanowires,” Nanotechnology 18, (2007)

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