Ashfia Huq

Dr. Ashfia Huq

Instrument Scientist: POWGEN

Education

PhD in Physics, Stony Brook University, in Stony Brook, New York (May 2003)
AB degree, Magna Cum Laude with majors in Physics and Computer Science, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts (May 1996)

Description of Research

My primary research interest is neutron and X-ray powder diffraction of condensed matter systems and materials for energy storage. Topics include battery materials, solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) materials, hydrogen storage materials, catalysis, and magnetic and structural properties of strongly correlated electron systems such as geometrically frustrated magnets, superconductors, etc.

Selected Publications

  1. Zhonghe Bi, Juan Pena-Martinez, Jung-Hyun Kim, Craig A. Bridges, Ashfia Huq, Jason Hodges and Mariappan Parans Paranthaman, “Effect of Ca Doping on the Electrical Conductivity of the High-Temperature Proton Conductor LaNbO4”; Accepted for publication in J. Hyd. Energy, (2012)

  2. A. Manthiram, Young Nam Kim, Jung-hyun Kim, Ashfia Huq and Mariappan Paranthaman, “(Y0.5In0.5)Ba(Co,Zn)4O7 cathodes with superior high- temperature phase stability for solid oxide fuel cells”, Accepted for publication in J. Power Sources, (2012)

  3. Ana B. Muñoz-García, Daniel E. Bugaris, Qiang Liu, Michele Pavone, Jason P. Hodges, Ashfia Huq, Fanglin Chen, Hans-Conrad zur Loye and Emily A. Carter, “Unveiling structure-property relationships in Sr2Fe1.5M0.5O6-, an electrode material for solid oxide fuel cells” J. Amer.Chem. Soc. 134, 6826 – 6833 (2012)

  4. Andrew C. Malingowski, Peter W. Stephens, Ashfia Huq, Quingzhen Huang, Syed Khalid and Peter G, Khalifah, “ Substitutional mechanism of Ni into the wide band gap semiconductor InTaO4 and its implications for water splitting activity in the wolframite structure type”,Inorganic Chemistry 51, 6096-6103 (2012).

  5. S. Avci, O. Chmaissem, H. Zheng, A. Huq, D. Khalyavin, P.W. Stephens, M. R. Suchomel, P. Manuel and J. F. Mitchell, “Kinetic Control of Structural and Magnetic States in LuBaCo4O7”, Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 85, 094414 (2012).

  6. Rajesh Tripathi, Guerman Popov, Brian Ellis, Ashfia Huq and L. F Nazar, “Lithium Metal Fluorosulfate Polymorphs as Positive Electrodes for Li-Ion Batteries: Synthetic Strategies and Effect of Cation Ordering”, Energy Environ. Sci. 5, 6238 – 6246 (2012)

  7. G. Ehlers, A. Huq, S. O. Diallo, C. Adriano, K.C. Rule, A.L. Cornelius, P. Fouquet, P.G. Pagliuso and J.S. Gardner ., “Low energy spin dynamics in the spin ice Ho2Sn2O7”, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 24, 076005 (2012).

  8. Andrew F. May, Michael A. McGuire, Jie Ma, Olivier Delaire, Ashfia Huq, and Radu Custelcean, “Properties of single crystalline AZn2Sb2 (A=Ca,Eu,Yb) “, Journal of Applied Physics (2012)

  9. Andrew F. May, Michael A. McGuire, Jie Ma, Olivier Delaire, Ashfia Huq, David J. Singh, Wei Cai and Hsin Wang, “Thermoelectric transport properties of CaMg2Bi2, EuMg2Bi2, and YbMg2Bi2”, Phys. Rev. B 85, 035202 (2012)

  10. Eun-Sung Lee, Ashfia Huq, Hong-Young Chang, and Arumugam Manthiram, "High-voltage, High-energy Layered-Spinel Composite Cathodes with Superior Cycle Life for Lithium-ion Batteries”, Chem Mater 24, 600 (2012)

  11. O. Delaire, M.B. Stone, J. Ma, A. Huq, D. Gout, C. Brown, K. Wang, and Z.-F. Ren, “Anharmonic phonons and magnons in BiFeO3, Phys. Rev. B 85, 064405 (2012)”.

  12. Stone M. B., Podlesnyak A., Ehlers G., Huq A., Samulon E. C., Shapiro M. C., Fisher I. R., “Persistence of magnons in a site-diluted dimerized frustrated antiferromagnet”, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 23, 416003 (2011).

  13. S E Dutton, E Climent-Pascual, P W Stephens, J P Hodges, A Huq, C L Broholm and R J Cava, “Helical magnetism and structural anomalies in triangular lattice α-SrCr2O4”, J. Phys. Condens. Matter, 23, 246005 (2011).

  14. D.E. Bugaris, J.P. Hodges, A. Huq, H-C zur Loye, "Crystal growth, structures, and optical properties of the cubic double perovskites Ba2MoWO6 and Ba2ZnWO6", article in press, Journal of Solid State Chemistry 184, 2293-2298 (2011).

  15. A. Huq, J.P. Hodges, O. Gourdon, L. Heroux, “Powgen: A third-generation high- resolution high-throughput powder diffraction instrument at the Spallation Neutron Source” , Zeitschrift für Kristallographie Proc., 1, 127,(2011)

  16. Zhonghe Bi, Craig A. Bridges, Jung-Hyun Kim, Ashfia Huq and Mariappan Parans Paranthaman, “Phase Stability and Electrical Conductivity of Ca-doped LaNb1-xTaxO4-d High Temperature Proton Conductors”; J. Power Sources, 196, 15 (2011)

  17. Jung-Hyun Kim, Young Nam Kim, Zhonghe Bi, Arumugam Manthiram, M. Parans Paranthaman and Ashfia Huq, “High temperature phase stabilities and electrochemical properties of InBaCo4-xZnxO7 cathodes for intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells”, Electrochimica Acta., 56, 5740 (2011)

  18. Yu Jiang, Ashfia Huq, Corwin H Booth, Georg Ehlers, John E. Greedan and Jason S. Gardner, “Order and disorder in the local and long-range structure of the spin- glass pyrochlore, Tb2Mo2O7”, J. Phys. Condens. Mater., 23, 164214 (2011)

  19. D.D. Khalyavin, P. Manuel, B. Ouladdiaf, A. Huq, P.W. Stephens, H. Zheng, J.F. Mitchell and L. C. Chapon “Spin-ordering and magnetoelastic coupling in the extended kagome system YBaCo4O7”, Physical Review B, 83, 094412 (2011)

  20. Ashfia Huq, Richard Welberry and Emil Bozin, “Advances in Structural Studies of Materials Using Scattering Probes”, Mat. Res. Bull., 35, 520 (2010)

  21. Pnina Ari-Gur, Giora Kimmel, James W. Richardson and Ashfia Huq, “Application of neutron powder diffraction for the study of non-stoichiometric Ni2MnGa based alloys”, Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie, 277-282, (2009)

  22. E.S. Bozin, P. Juhas, W. Zhou, M.B. Stone, D.L. Abernathy, A. Huq, and S.J.L. Billinge, “Atomic pair distribution function analysis from ARCS chopper spectrometer at the Spallation Neutron Source”, J. of Appl. Crys., 42, 724 (2009)

  23. Pnina Ari-Gur, Giora Kimmel, James W. Richardson, Ashfia Huq and Kapil Sharma, “Effect of Heat-Treatment on the Phases of Ni-Mn-Ga Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys”, Solid State Phenomena, 152-153, 497 (2009)

  24. Athena S. Sefat, Ashfia Huq, Michael A. McGuire, Rongying Jin, Brian C. Sales, David Mandrus, Lachlan M. D. Cranswick, Peter W. Stephens, Kevin H. Stone, “Superconductivity in LaFe1-xCoxAsO”, Physical Review B, 78, 104505 (2008)

  25. Chmaissem O, Zhen H., Huq A., Stephens P.W., Mitchell J.F., “Formation of Co3+ octahedra and tetrahedra in YBaCo4O8.1”, J. of Solid State Chemistry, 181, 664 (2008)

  26. Ashfia Huq, J.W. Richardson, E.R. Maxey, D. Chendra and W. Chien, “Structural studies of deuteration and de-deuteration of Li3N using in situ powder diffraction”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 111, 10712 (2007)

  27. W. Chien, J.Lamb, D. Chandra, A. Huq, J. Richardson, E. Maxey, “Phase evolution of Li2ND, LiD and LiND2 in hydriding/dehydriding of Li3N”, J. of Alloys and Compounds, 446, 363 (2007)

  28. Y.D. Wang, Y. Ren, Z.H. Nie, D.M. Liu, L.Zuo, H. Choo, H. Li, P.K. Liaw, J.Q. Yan, R.J. McQueeney, J.W. Richardson, A. Huq, “Structural transition of ferromagnetic Ni2MnGa nanoparticles”, J. of Appl. Phys., 101, 063530 (2007)

  29. Ashfia Huq, J.W. Richardson, E.R. Maxey, D. Chendra and W. Chien, “Structural investigation of Li3N using Neutron Powder Diffraction”, J. of Alloys and Compounds, 436, 256 (2007)

  30. Ashfia Huq and P.W. Stephens, “Structural phase transition of Rb4C60 under Pressure”, Phys. Rev. B., 74, 075424 (2006).

  31. K.C. Hester, T.A. Strobel, A. Huq, A.J. Schultz, E.D. Sloan and C.A. Koh, “Molecular Hydrogen Occupancy in a Novel Binary THF-H2 Clathrate Hydrate by High Resolution Neutron Diffraction”, J. Phys. Chem. B(letter), 110(29), 14024 (2006).

  32. Ashfia Huq, John F. Mitchell, Hong Zheng, Laurent C. Chapon, Paolo G. Radaelli, Kevin S. Knight and P.W. Stephens, “Structural and magnetic properties of the Kagome antiferromagnet YbBaCo4O7”, J. Solid State Chem., 179(4), 1136 (2006).

  33. Ashfia Huq, P.W. Stephens, Naceur Ayed, Housam Binous, Lucia Burgio, Robin J.H. Clark and Manolis Pantos “Combined technique analysis of the composition of Punic make-up materials”, Appl. Phys. A., 83, (2006).

  34. Ashfia Huq and P.W. Stephens “Transition temperatures and vacancies in superconducting Rb3C60”, Phys. Rev. B., 72(9), 092511 (2005).

  35. Y.-H. Kiang, Ashfia Huq, Peter W. Stephens, Wei Xu, “Structure Determination of Enalapril Maleate Form II from High-Resolution X-ray Powder Diffraction Data”, J. of Pharm. Sci., 92(9), 1844-1853 (2003).

  36. Ashfia Huq and P.W. Stephens, "Subtleties in Crystal Structure solution from powder diffraction data using Simulated Annealing: Ranitidine hydrochloride", J. of Pharm. Sci., 92(2), 244-249 (2003).

  37. Peter W. Stephens and Ashfia Huq, "PSSP: An Open Source Powder Structure Solution Program for Direct Space Simulated Annealing, " Transactions of the American Crystallographic Association, 37, 127-144 (2002)

  38. Manju Rajeswaran, Thomas N. Blanton, Nicholas Zumbulyadis, David J. Giesen, Carlota Conesa-Moratilla, Scott T. Misture, Peter W.Stephens, and Ashfia Huq, "Three-Dimensional Structure Determination of N-(p-Tolyl)-dodecylsulfonamide from Powder Diffraction Data and Validation of Structure Using Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy", J.Am. Chem. Soc., 124 (48), 14450-14459, (2002).

  39. Robert.E. Dinnebier, Olle Gunnarsson, Holger Brumm, Erik Koch, Peter.W. Stephens, Ashfia Huq and Martin Jansen, “Structure of haloform intercalated C60 and its influence on superconductive properties”, Science, 296, 109(2002).

  40. Ashfia Huq, P.W. Stephens, Goetz M. Bendele, R.M. Ibberson, “Polymeric Fullerene Chains in RbC60 and KC60”, Chem. Phys. Lett., 347, 13-22 (2001).

  41. Certification of NIST Standard Reference Material 676, “Alumina Internal Standard for Quantitative Analysis by X-ray Powder Diffraction”, This SRM was prepared and certified by J.P. Cline of the NIST Ceramics Division, Ryan Winburn of Minot State University, Minot, ND, R.B. Von Dreele, A. Huq both of Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, and P.W. Stephens, of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY.