Berkeley Nanogeoscience Center



Jill Banfield




Position:

Jill Banfield, PhD,
Scientist,
Geochemistry Department,
Earth Sciences Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Professor, UC Berkeley
Address:

J. Banfield
369 McCone Hall Berkeley,
California, 94720
Office: 336 Hilgard Hall
Contacts:

Email: jbanfield@berkeley.edu

Office:  (510) 643 2155
Lab:     (510) 642 9690




Curriculum Vitae

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Research Group

Research Group

Selected Publications

Gilbert B., Huang, F., Zhang, H., and Banfield, J.F. (2004) Nanoparticles: strained and stiff. Science, 305, 651-654

Gribb, A.A. and Banfield, J.F. (1997) Particle size effects on transformation kinetics and phase stability in nanocrystalline TiO2. American Mineralogist, 82, 717-729

Zhang, H. and Banfield, J.F. (1998) Phase stability in the nanocrystalline TiO2 system Phase Transformations and Systems Driven Far From Equilibrium, Eds. E. Ma, P. Bellon, M. Atzmon, R. Trivedi, MRS, 619-624

Zhang, H. and Banfield, J.F. (1998) Thermodynamic analysis of phase stability in nanocrystalline titania. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 8, 2073-2076.

Zhang, H. and Banfield, J.F. (2000) Understanding polymorphic phase transformation behavior during growth of nanocrystalline aggregates: insights from TiO2. Journal of Physical Chemistry B., 104, 34813487

Finnegan, M.P., Zhang, H., and Banfield J.F. (2007) Phase stability and transformation in titania nanoparticles in aqueous solutions dominated by surface energy. J. Phys. Chem. C., 111, 1962-1968.

Zhang, H., Gilbert, B., Huang, F., and Banfield, J.F. (2003) Water-driven transformation of nanoparticle structure. Nature, 424, 1025-1029.

Huang, F., Zhang, H., Gilbert, B. and Banfield, J.F. (2004) Reversible, surface-controlled structure transformation in nanoparticles induced by aggregation-disaggregation. Physical Review Letters, 92, (15) electronic identifier 155501.

Goodell, C.; Gilbert, B., Weigand, S.,Banfield, J.F.(2008) Kinetics of water adsorption driven structural transformation of ZnS nanoparticles. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112, 4791-4796

Penn, R.L. and Banfield, J.F. (1998) Oriented attachment and growth, twinning, polytypism, and formation of metastable phases: insights from nanocrystalline TiO2. American Mineralogist, 83, 1077-1082.

Penn, R.L. and Banfield, J.F. (1998) Imperfect oriented attachment: a mechanism for dislocation generation in defect-free nanocrystals. Science, 281, 969-971.

Penn, R.L. and Banfield, J.F. (1999) Morphology development and crystal growth in nanocrystalline aggregates under hydrothermal conditions: insights from titania. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 63, 1549-1557.

Banfield, J.F., Welch, S.A., Zhang, H., Ebert, T.T., and Penn, R.L. (2000) Aggregation-based crystal growth and microstructure in natural iron oxyhydroxide biomineralization products. Science, 289, 751-754.

Moreau, J.W., Webb, R.I., and Banfield, J.F. (2004) Ultrastructure, aggregation-state, and crystal growth of biogenic nanocrystalline sphalerite and wurtzite. American Mineralogist, 89, 950-960

Chen, B., Zhang, H., Gilbert, B., and Banfield, J.F. (2007) Mechanism of inhibition of nanoparticle growth and phase transformation by surface impurities. Physical Review Letters, 98, 106103-1 4.

Suzuki, Y., Kelly, S. Kemner, K., and Banfield, J.F. (2002) Nanometer-scale UO2 bioremediation products. Nature, 419, 134.

Chan, C.S., De Stasio, G., Nesterova, M., Welch, S.A., Girasole, M., Frazer,B., Banfield., J.F. (2004) The role of microbial polymers in templated mineral growth. Science, 303, 1656-2658.

Moreau J.W., Weber, P.K., Martin, M.C., Gilbert, B., Hutcheon, I.D., and Banfield, J.F. (2007) Extracellular proteins limit the dispersal of biogenic nanoparticles. Science, 316, 1600-1603.

Banfield, J. F., Veblen, D. R., and Smith, D. J. (1991) The identification of naturally occurring TiO2 (B) by structure determination using high 1401-1407