Cornelius T. Moynihan

Professor Emeritus

Contact & Personal Information

Phone: (518) 276-6125

Fax: (518) 276-6448

Email: moynic@rpi.edu

Mailing Address:
Materials Research Center
rm: 108
110 8th Street
Troy, New York
12180

Education

Ph.D., Princeton University
Chemistry

M.A., Princeton University
Chemistry

B.S., Santa Clara University
Chemistry

Professional Background

Professor Moynihan received a Ph.D. in chemistry form Princeton University in 1965. He was a faculty member in chemistry at California State University at Los Angeles and in chemistry and in materials science at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., before joining the Rensselaer faculty in 1981. He is author, co-author, or co-editor of over 180 scientific publications.

Research

Mass Transport

Glass Materials

Ceramic Materials

Thermodynamics

Research Bio

Professor Moynihan's current research interests are thermodynamic, transport, electrical and optical properties of glasses and liquids. One of his recent projects has been an investigation of whether many of the characteristics of the glass transition are due to the fact that small regions of varying density in the liquid can rearrange independently and on different time scales (a property frequently referred to as "dynamic heterogeneity"). Other recent projects have been the development of thermodynamic models for amorphous/amorphous phase transitions in liquids and for the excess thermodynamic properties of glass forming liquids relative to those of the cryst

Awards

Member, Tau Beta Pi

Fellow, American Ceramic Society

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