Select Publications:

1. B.V. Cockeram, R.W. Smith, K.J. Leonard, T.S. Byun and L.L. Snead, “Irradiation hardening in unalloyed and ODS molybdenum during low dose neutron irradiation at 300 and 600oC”, J. of Nucl. Mater, 382, 1-23 (2008).
2. K.J. Leonard, J.T. Busby, and S.J. Zinkle, “Aging Effects on Microstructural and Mechanical Properties of Select Refractory Metal Alloys for Space Reactor Applications”, J. of Nucl. Materials, 366, 1-2, 336-352 (2007).
3. K.J. Leonard, J.T. Busby, and S.J. Zinkle, “Microstructural and Mechanical Property Changes with Aging of Mo-41Re and Mo-47.5Re Alloys”, J. of Nucl. Materials, 366, 1-2, 369-387 (2007).
4. S. Kang, K.J. Leonard, P.M. Martin, J. Li and A. Goyal, “Strong Enhancement of Flux Pinning in YBa₂Cu₃O_7-δ Multilayers with Columnar Defects Comprised of Self-assembled, BaZrO3 Nanodots”, Superconducting Sci. and Techn., 20, 11-15 (2007).
5. J.T. Busby, K.J. Leonard, and S.J. Zinkle, “Radiation-Damage in Molybdenum-Rhenium Alloys for Space Reactor Applications”, J. of Nucl. Materials, 366, 1-2, 369-387 (2007).
6. T. Aytug, M. Paranthaman, K.J. Leonard, S. Kang, P.M. Martin, L. Heatherly, A. Goyal, A.O. Ijaduola, J.R. Thompson, D.K Christen, R. Meng, I. Rusakova, and C.W. Chu, “Analysis of Flux Pinning in YBa₂Cu₃O_7-δ Films by Nanoparticle-Modified Substrate Surfaces”, Physical Review B, 74, 18, 184505 (2006).
7. A. Goyal , S. Kang, K.J. Leonard, P.M. Martin, A.A. Gapud, M. Varela, M. Paranthaman, A.O. Ijaduola, E.D. Specht, J.R. Thompson, D.K. Christen, S. J. Pennycook and F.A. List, “Irradiation-free, Columnar Defects Comprised of Self-assembled Nanodots and Nanorods Resulting in Strongly Enhanced Flux-pinning in YBa₂Cu₃O_7-δ Films”, Supercond. Sci. Technol., 18, 1533-1538 (2005).
8. K.J. Leonard, S. Sathyamurthy and M.P. Paranthaman, “Characterization of BaZrO3 Nanoparticles Produced by Reverse Micelle Synthesis”, Chem. of Materials, 17, 4010-4017 (2005) .
9. K.J. Leonard, S. Kang, A. Goyal, K.A. Yarborough, and D.M. Kroeger, “Microstructural Characterization of Thick YBa₂Cu₃O_7-δ ilms on Improved Rolling-Assisted Biaxially Textured Substrates”, J. of Mat. Res., 18, 7, 1723 (2003).
10. K.J. Leonard and V.K. Vasudevan, “Phase Equilibria and Transformations in Nb-rich Nb-Ti-Al Intermetallic Alloys, Intermetallics, 8, 1257 (2000) .