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Phil Fraundorf, currently a faculty member in physics and astronomy at the University of Missouri-Saint Louis and an adjunct at Washington University in St. Louis, has enjoyed being a regional scientific observer of extraterrestrial and electronic materials, as well as a wide diversity of other materials for nanoscopic investigation that have "walked in the door.” He has also worked at offering nanoscale exploration tools for industry and university researchers around the Midwest, developing mathematical techniques for exploration of solids on the atomic scale, and observations of correlation-based complexity on multiple scales of time and space that might bridge rather than divide the gap between cultures. Specific interests include dust from around our star and others, oxygen in and on gigascale integrated-circuit silicon, mathematical detective work on direct and reciprocal-space images, Bayesian approaches to the structure of correlation-based complexity and its role in the natural history of invention, and metric-based approaches to motion at any speed. The first three of these interests have helped in developing regional nano-microscopy resources at Washington University, Monsanto, UMSL, and, most recently, across Missouri with the help from the Governor's Research Alliance. An atomic-resolution imaging facility that Phil helped design from the ground up at UMSL has provided collaborators across the state with their only regional access to atomic-resolution (i.e. sub-2-Angstrom point-to-point) imaging for over a decade. Emergent content courses and web resources under development include a popular “how things work” course, and it brings in on the order of a million requests per year for educational links in the university web space.
Contact Information
314-516-5044
Work: 314-516-5933
Fax: 314-516-6152
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Education/Academic qualification
Department of Physics, PhD, Washington University
… → 1981
Department of Physics, MS, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Department of Physics, BS, St. Louis University
External positions
Consultant, Monsanto World Headquarters in St. Louis
Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics, Washington University
Adjunct Senior Research Associate, Washington University
Research Interests
- Nano-Characterization
- Electronic & Extraterrestrial Materials
- Information Physics
- Statistical Inference
- Material Physics
- Electron Microscopy
- Circumstellar Dust
- Silicon Science
- Statistical Methods: Electron Diffraction, Analytical Electron Microscopy, Lattice Imaging
- Statistical Software Application: Mathematica
- Javascript
- HTML5
Disciplines
- Physics
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DFT study of “unlayered graphene solid” formation, in liquid carbon droplets at low pressures
Silva, C., Chrostoski, P. & Fraundorf, P., Feb 18 2021, In: MRS Advances. 6Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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No TitleThe rates of unlayered graphene formation in a supercooled carbon melt at low pressure
Chrostoski, P., Silva, C. & Fraundorf, P., Jun 1 2021, In: MRS Advances. 6Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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No TitleFraction Crystalline from Electron Powder Patterns of Unlayered Graphene in Solidified Carbon Rain
Fraundorf, P., Lipp, M., Hundley, T., Silva, C. & Chrostoski, P., Jul 30 2020, In: Microscopy and Microanalysis. 26Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Log complex color for visual pattern recognition of total sound
Fraundorf, P., Jul 2 2019Research output: Other contribution
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Task-Layer Multiplicity as a Measure of Community Level Health
Fraundorf, P., Jul 1 2019, In: Complexity.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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