Materials and solid state chemistry. Inorganic materials. Synthesis and characterization of transition metal (TM) compounds including oxides, chalcogenides and pnictides. Preparation of metastable materials for energy applications via chemie douce, or soft chemical, methods. Functional TM compounds with properties such as magnetic, electronic, and mixed conductivity (ionic and electrical). Advanced characterization of compounds including X-ray and neutron diffraction coupled with magnetization and electrical transport measurements

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. Materials, University of California Santa Barbara (with Anthony K. Cheetham, FRS) National Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow, NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology (with Mark A. Green)

Larson, A. M.; Moetakef, P.; Katz, B.; Brown, C.; Gaskell, K.; King, G.; Rodriguez, E. E., "Inducing ferrimagnetism in insulating hollandite Ba1.2Mn8O16", Chem. Mater., article ASAP. [Link, Cite] Phelan, D.; Rodriguez, E. E.; Bing, Y.; Gao, J.; Ye, Z.; Huang, Q.; Wen, J.; Xu, G.; Stock, C.; Matsuura, M.; Gehring, P. M. "Phase diagram of the relaxor ferroelectric (1-x)Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3+xPbTiO3: A neutron powder diffraction study of the relaxor skin effect.", Phase Transit.[Link, Cite] Stock, C.; Rodriguez, E. E.; Sobolev, O.; Rodriguez-Rivera, J. A.; Ewings, R. A.; Taylor, J. W.; Christianson, A. D.; Green, M. A. "Soft striped magnetic fluctuations competing with superconductivity in Fe1+xTe.", Phys. Rev. B 90, 121113(R). [Link, Cite] Moetakef, P.; Larson, A. M.; Hodges, B.; Zavalij, P. J.; Gaskell, K. J.; Piccoli, P.; Rodriguez, E. E., "Synthesis and crystal chemistry of microporous titanates Kx(Ti,M)8O16 where M = Sc-Ni.", J. Sol. State Chem. 220, 45. [Link, Cite] Stacey, T. E.; Borg, C. K. H.; Zavalij, P. J.; Rodriguez, E. E., "Magnetically Stabilized Fe8(μ4-S)6S8 Clusters in Ba6Fe25S27", Dalton Trans. 43, 14612. [Link, Cite] McCabe, E. E.; Stock, C.; Rodriguez, E. E.; Wills, A. S.; Taylor, J. W.; Evans, J. S. O., "Weak spin interactions in Mott insulating La2O2Fe2OSe2", Phys. Rev. B 2014, 89, 100402(R). [Link, Cite] Rondinelli, J. M.; Benedek, N. A.; Freedman, D. E.; Kavner, A.; Rodriguez, E. E.; Toberer, E. S.; Martin, L. W., "Accelerating functional materials discovery", Am. Ceram. Soc. Bull. 2013, 92, 14-2. [Link, Cite] Johnstone, E. V.; Poineau, F.; Starkey, J.; Hartmann, T.; Forster, P.M.; Ma, L.; Hilgar, J.; Rodriguez, E. E.; Farmand, R.; Czerwinski, K. R.; Sattelberger, A. P., "Synthetic and Coordination Chemistry of the Heavier Trivalent Technetium Binary Halides: Uncovering Technetium Triiodide", Inorg. Chem. 2013, ASAP online. [Link, Cite] Rodriguez, E. E.; Sokolov, D. A.; Stock, C.; Green, M. A.; Sobolev, O.; Rodriguez-Rivera, J. A.; Cao, H.; Daoud-Aladine, A., "Magnetic and structural properties near the Lifshitz point in Fe1+xTe", Physical Review B 2013, 88 165110-1-5. Link, Cite] Gaultois, M. W.; Barton, P. T.; Birkel, C. S.; Misch, L. M.; Rodriguez, E. E., Stucky, G. D., Seshadri, R., "Structural disorder, magnetism, and electrical and thermoelectric properties of pyrochlore Nd2Ru2O7", J. Phys: Condens. Matter 2013, 25 186004-1-10. [Link, Cite] Blachowski, A.; Ruebenbauer, K.; Zajdel, P.; Rodriguez, E. E.; Green, M. A., "Mössbauer study of the '11' iron-based superconductors parent compound Fe1+xTe", J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 2012, 24, 386006. [Link, Cite] Stock, C.; Rodriguez, E. E.; Green, M. A., "Spin fluctuations and superconductivity in powders of Fe1+xTe0.7Se0.3", Phys. Rev. B 2012, 85, 094507. [Link, Cite] Bhatia, V.; Rodriguez, E. E.; Butch N. P.; Paglione, J.; Green, M. A., "Phase separation and superconductivity in Fe1+xTe0.5Se0.5", Chem. Comm. 2011, 47, 11297. [Link, Cite] Rodriguez, E. E.; Stock, C.; Hsieh, P.-Y.; Butch, N. P.; Paglione, J; Green, M. A., "Interstitial iron-controlled superconductivity in Fe1+xTe0.7Se0.3", Chem. Sci. 2011, 2, 1782. [Link, Cite] Stock, C.; Rodriguez, E. E.; Green, M. A.; Rodriguez-Rivera, J. A., "Gapped spin fluctuations and interstitial iron in the Fe1+xTe parent compound", Phys. Rev. B 2011, 84, 045124. [Link, Cite] Rodriguez, E. E.; Stock, C.; Zajdel, P.; Krycka, K. L.; Majkrzak, C. F.; Zavalij, P.; Green, M. A., "Magnetic-crystallographic phase diagram of the superconducting parent compound Fe1+xTe", Phys. Rev. B 2011, 84, 064403. [Link, Cite] Rodriguez, E. E.; Stock, C.; Krycka, K. L; Majkrzak, C. F.; Kirshenbaum, K.; Butch, N. P.; Saha, S. R.; Paglione, J.; Green, M. A., "Non-collinear spin-density wave antiferromagnetism in FeAs", Phys. Rev. B 2011, 83, 134438. [Link, Cite] Rodriguez, E. E.; Poineau, F.; Llobet, A.; Kennedy, B. J.; Avdeev, M.; Thorogood, G. J.; Carter, M. L.; Singh, D. J.; Seshadri, R.; Cheetham, A. K, "High temperature magnetic ordering in the 4d perovskite SrTcO3", Phys. Rev. Lett. 2011, 106, 067201. [Link, Cite] Rodriguez, E. E.; Poineau, F.; Llobet, A.; Thompson, J. D.; Seshadri, R.; Cheetham, A. K, "Preparation, magnetism and electronic structures of cadmium technetates", J. Mater. Chem. 2011, 21, 1496. [Link, Cite]

Zajdel, P.; Hsieh, P.-Y.; Rodriguez, E. E.; Butch, N. P.; Magill, J. D.; Paglione, J.; Zavalij, P.; Suchomel, M. R.; Green, M. A., "Phase separation and suppression of the structural and magnetic transitions in superconducting doped iron tellurides Fe1+xTe1-ySy", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 13000. [Link, Cite]