Dr Vanessa Peterson

Instrument Scientist

Bragg Institute

Phone - +61 2 9717 9401

Staff Profile

Role at ANSTO

Her expertise includes structure and dynamics in chemistry and their relationship to properties in condensed matter materials including cement, porous coordination framework materials, and hydrogen storage materials. Her expertise in analyses techniques include Synchrotron/Laboratory X-Ray and Neutron Powder Diffraction, Rietveld analysis, Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering, Inelastic Neutron Scattering, and Single-Crystal X-Ray Diffraction.

Qualifications and achievements

Brunauer award from the Cements Division of the American Ceramic Society for best cement publication (2005)
Young Scientist's Award at the International Conference on Neutron Scattering in Munich, Germany (2001).
Post-doctoral positions at the University of Sydney (2005-2006) and the National Institute for Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research (2003-2005).
Ph.D. in solid state chemistry and powder diffraction (2003) and B. App. Sc. (Chemistry, Hons. 1, 1999) from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Publications

N. Sharma, X. W. Guo, G. D. Du, Z. P. Guo, J. Z. Wang, Z. X. Wang and V. K. Peterson, Direct Evidence of Concurrent Solid-Solution and Two-Phase Reactions and the Nonequilibrium Structural Evolution of LiFePO4, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134(18), 7867-7873 (2012).

V. K. Peterson, G. J. Kearley, Y. Wu, A. J. Ramirez-Cuesta, E. Kemner, and C. J. Kepert, Local Vibrational Mechanism for Negative Thermal Expansion: A Combined Neutron Scattering and First-Principles Study, Angew. Chem.-Int. Edit., 49(3), 585-588 (2010).

V. K. Peterson, and A. E. Whitten, Hydration Processes in Tricalcium Silicate: Application of the Boundary Nucleation Model to Quasielastic Neutron Scattering Data, J. Phys. Chem. C, 113(6), 2347-2351 (2009).

G. J. Thorogood, B. J. Kennedy, V. K. Peterson, M. M. Elcombe, G. J. Kearley, J. V. Hanna, and V. Luca, Anomalous lattice parameter increase in alkali earth aluminium substituted tungsten defect pyrochlores, J. Solid State Chem. 182, 457-464 (2009). (1st paper from WOMBAT)

I. E. Grey, I. C. Madsen, S. J. Mills, F. Hatert, V. K. Peterson and T. J. Bastow, A new type of cubic-stacked layer structure in anthoinite, AlWO3(OH)3 American Mineralogist 95, 639-645 (2010). (from ECHIDNA)

W. K. Pang, I. M. Low, B. H. O'Connor, A. J. Studer, V. K. Peterson, Z. M. Sun and J. -P. Palmquist, Comparison of thermal stability in MAX 211 and 312 phases, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, in press (2009). (from WOMBAT)

W. K. Pang, I. M. Low, B. H. O Connor, A. J. Studer, V. K. Peterson and J.-P. Palmquist, Effect of vacuum annealing on the thermal stability of Ti3SiC2/TiC/TiSi2 composites, J. Aust. Ceram. Soc. 45, 72-77 (2009). (from WOMBAT)

V. Peterson, Y. Liu, C. M. Brown, and C. J. Kepert, Structural Characterization of D2 in Cu3(1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate)2 Using Neutron Powder Diffraction, Mat. Sci. For., 561-565, 1601-1604 (2007).

Y. Liu, C. M. Brown, D. A. Neumann, V. K. Peterson, and C. J. Kepert, Inelastic neutron scattering of H2 adsorbed in HKUST-1, J. Alloy. Compd., 446-447, 385-388 (2007).

V. K. Peterson, Y. Liu, C. M. Brown, C. J. Kepert, 'Neutron powder diffraction study of D2 sorption in Cu3(1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate)2', Journal of the American Chemical Society. 128, 15578-15579, (2006).

V. K. Peterson and M. Juenger, 'Quasielastic neutron scattering study of the effects of CaCl2 and sucrose on the hydration of tricalcium silicate' Chem. Mater. 18, 5798-5804, 2006.

V. K. Peterson, C. M. Brown, and R. A. Livingston, 'Quasielastic and inelastic neutron scattering study of the hydration of monoclinic and triclinic tricalcium silicate' Chem. Phys. 326, 381-389, (2006).

V. K. Peterson, D. A. Neumann, and R. A. Livingston, 'Investigation of hydrating tricalcium and dicalcium silicate mixture pastes: strength and Ca(OH)2 formation' J. Mat. Res. 21, 1836-1842, (2006).

V. K. Peterson, D. A. Neumann, and R. A. Livingston, 'Quasielastic neutron scattering study of the effect of NaOH on the hydration of tricalcium and dicalcium silicate'. Chem. Phys. Letters, 419, 16-20, (2006).

M. Hartman, V. K. Peterson, D.A. Neumann, Y. Liu, S. Kaye, J. Long, 'Neutron diffraction and neutron vibrational spectroscopy studies of hydrogen adsorption in the Prussian blue analogue Cu3[Co(CN)6]2' Chem. Mater. 18, 3221-3224, (2006).

V. K. Peterson and M. Juenger, 'Time-resolved quasielastic neutron scattering study of the hydration of tricalcium silicate: effects of CaCl2 and sucrose.' Physica B. 385-386, 222-224, (2006).

V. K. Peterson, R. A. Livingston, and D. A. Neumann, 'Hydration of cement: The application of quasielastic and inelastic neutron scattering' Physica B. 385-386, 481-486, (2006).

V. K. Peterson, B. Hunter, and A. Ray, 'A comparative study of Rietveld phase analysis of cement clinker using neutron, laboratory X-ray, and synchrotron data', Powder Diffraction. 21, 12-18, (2005).

V. K. Peterson, D. A. Neumann, and R. A. Livingston, 'Hydration of tricalcium and dicalcium silicate mixtures studied using quasielastic neutron scattering' Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 109, 14449-14453, (2005).