Alexandra Navrotsky
· Affiliate Professor and Director of the Center for Materials of the UniverseArizona State University · Earth and Space Exploration
Active 1965–2026
Academic metrics are sourced from OpenAlex and public funding records; values may differ from Google Scholar.
About
Alexandra Navrotsky is a Regents Professor in the School of Molecular Sciences and the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy at Arizona State University. She is also an affiliated faculty member of the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the Director of the Navrotsky Eyring Center for Materials of the Universe. Her research centers on relating microscopic features of structure and bonding to macroscopic thermodynamic behavior in minerals, ceramics, and other complex materials. She has made significant contributions to mineralogy, geochemistry, solid state chemistry, and materials science, particularly in the fields of ceramics, mantle mineralogy, deep earth geophysics, melt and glass science, nanomaterials, and porous materials. Navrotsky has developed unique high-temperature calorimetric techniques and instruments, and her laboratory collaborates with scientists worldwide. Her extensive research and leadership have earned her numerous honors, including election to the National Academy of Sciences, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth Science, and the Roebling Medal, among others.
Research topics
- Chemistry
- Physics
- Thermodynamics
- Materials science
- Metallurgy
- Physical chemistry
- Crystallography
- Statistical physics
- Inorganic chemistry
- Organic chemistry
Selected publications
Thermodynamics of high entropy oxides
Acta Materialia · 2020 · 269 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingJournal of the American Chemical Society · 2021 · 146 citations
= 6) has negative enthalpy of formation as well. Additionally, the analysis of the structural parameters and optical properties between the examined RP and DJ series offers guiding principles for the targeted design and synthesis of 2D perovskites for efficient solar cell fabrication. Although the distortions of the Pb-I-Pb equatorial angles are larger in the DJ series, the significantly smaller I···I interlayer distances lead to overall smaller band gap values, in comparison with the RP series.…
Scripta Materialia · 2021 · 65 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingRSC Advances · 2020 · 46 citations
. However, the extensive short-range ordering determined from the structural analysis strongly suggests that the entropies of mixing must be far less positive than implied by the random mixing of a regular solution. We propose a local disordering scheme involving the pyrochlore 48f to 8a site oxygen Frenkel defect that creates 7-coordinated Zr sites contained within local weberite-type coherent nanodomains. Thus, the solid solution is best described as a mixture of two phases, with the weberite-…
Rare or not so rare? thermodynamic data, trends, and applications of rare earth compounds
Materials Today · 2025-05-26 · 4 citations
articleSenior authorCorresponding
Recent grants
Energetics of Spatially Confined Solids
NSF · $674k · 2006–2011
NSF · $476k · 2018–2020
NSF · $364k · 2020–2022
Frequent coauthors
- 125 shared
Sergey V. Ushakov
- 96 shared
Hongwu Xu
- 91 shared
Xiaofeng Guo
- 88 shared
Brian F. Woodfield
Brigham Young University
- 58 shared
Kristina Lilova
Arizona State University
- 52 shared
Juliana Boerio‐Goates
Brigham Young University
- 51 shared
Di Wu
Washington State University
- 50 shared
Stéphanie Szenknect
Education
- 1963
B.S., Physical Chemistry
The University of Chicago
- 1964
M.S., Physical Chemistry
The University of Chicago
- 1967
Ph.D., Physical Chemistry
The University of Chicago
Awards & honors
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (1973)
- Mineralogical Society of America Award (1981)
- American Geophysical Union Fellow (1988)
- Vice-President, Mineralogical Society of America (1991-1992)
- President, Mineralogical Society of America (1992-1993)
Similar researchers at Arizona State University
- Resume-aware match score
- Save to shortlist
- AI-drafted outreach
See your match with Alexandra Navrotsky
PhdFit ranks faculty by your research interests, methods, and publications — grounded in their actual work, not templates.
- Free to start
- No credit card
- 30-second signup