Dr Michael J Ojovan

MSc PhD DSc FRANS MRS SGT

School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering

Associate Reader in Materials Science and Waste Immobilisation

m.ojovan@sheffield.ac.uk

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Dr Michael J Ojovan
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
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Michael Ojovan joined the Department in 2002, having previously spent more than 20 years at The Moscow Scientific and Industrial Association "Radon", the leading radioactive waste research institution of Russian Federation. He is a Fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and a Technical Expert of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

He is noted for his works on metal matrix immobilisation, powder metal fuels, self-sustaining vitrification, glass composite materials, the study of the long-term behaviour of cementitious, bituminous and glassy wasteforms, configuron percolation theory of glass transition and the viscosity of amorphous materials. He has published 340 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 19 IAEA documents, 42 patents and 12 books, including three editions of monograph "An introduction to nuclear waste immobilisation" by Elsevier (2005, 2014 and 2019).

Research interests

Main research activities:
Structure and properties of amorphous materials, Viscosity, Glass-liquid transition. Crystalline and Glassy materials for nuclear waste immobilisation, Corrosion and long term performance of glasses, Waste processing technologies. Vitrification, Cementitious wasteforms.

Earlier works:
Pulsed laser deposition of thin semiconducting films. Coherent echo-spectroscopy of aerosol and bubble systems. Metastable and strongly excited systems and condensed Rydberg matter. Diffusion-driven instability of surfaces, electrical and radiation field instability of solids. Percolation effects in poly-dispersed systems. Microstructure of emulsions with discovery of their fractal microstructure.

Key projects

  • Feasibility study of acoustic emission monitoring of waste immobilising materials;
  • Radiation damage in glass for acoustic emission analysis;
  • Glass composite wasteforms for spent clinoptilolite immobilisation;
  • In situ sintering of glass composite materials in deep geological repositories;
  • Effects of gamma irradiation on nuclear waste glasses;
  • Melting and viscosity of silica soda lime glasses;
  • Defect mediated model for glass: viscosity-temperature relationships;
  • High-temperature viscosity of melt oxides based on Doremus approach;
  • Crystallisation and aqueous durability of nuclear waste glasses;
  • Ceramics for actinide immobilisation;
  • Cement immobilisation of NORM waste;
  • Processing of irradiated graphite.
Publications

Journal articles

Conference proceedings papers

  • Ojovan MI & Lee WE (2011) Glassy and glass composite nuclear wasteforms. Ceramic Transactions, Vol. 227 (pp 203-216) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ojovan M, Mobus G, Tsai J, Cook S & Yang G (2010) ON FLUIDIZATION OF BOROSILICATE GLASSES IN INTENSE RADIATION FIELDS. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION AND RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT 2009, VOL 1 (pp 825-834) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Batyukhnova OG, Arustamov AE, Ojovan M, Dmitriev SA, Drace Z & Arustamova NA (2010) TRAINING ACTIVITIES AND PERSPECTIVES IN THE RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT AREA OF MOSCOW SIA "RADON". PROCEEDINGS OF THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION AND RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT 2009, VOL 2 (pp 663-668) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Burakov B, Gribova V, Kitsay A, Ojovan M, Hyatt NC & Stennett MC (2009) SYNTHESIS OF CRYSTALLINE CERAMICS FOR ACTINIDE IMMOBILISATION. ICEM2007: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION AND RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT, PTS A AND B (pp 255-258) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mobus G, Yang G, Saghi Z, Xu X, Hand RJ, Pankov A & Ojovan MI (2008) Electron irradiation and electron tomography studies of glasses and glass nanocomposites. SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR NUCLEAR WASTE MANAGEMENT XXXI, Vol. 1107 (pp 239-244) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Spasova LM, Ojovan M & Scales CR (2006) Acoustic emission monitoring of Al corrosion in cemented-based wasteforms. Acoustic Emission Testing, Vol. 13-14 (pp 223-229) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ojovan MI, Lee WE & Hand RJ (2006) Role of ion exchange in the corrosion of nuclear waste glasses. Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXIX, Vol. 932 (pp 393-400) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rose PB, Ojovan MI, Hyatt NC & Lee WE (2004) Crystallisation within simulated high level waste borositicate glass. SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR NUCLEAR WASTE MANAGEMENT XXVIII, Vol. 824 (pp 321-326) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hyatt NC, Lee WE, Hand RJ, Ojavan MI, Abraitis PK & Scales CR (2003) Vapour phase hydration of magnox waste glass. SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR NUCLEAR WASTE MANAGEMENT XXVI, Vol. 757 (pp 183-188) RIS download Bibtex download
Professional activities and memberships
  • International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Nuclear Engineer, 2011-2018, Technical Expert, since 1993.
  • The IAEA International Predisposal Network, 2016-2018: IPN PUBLIC.
  • The IAEA International Project on Irradiated Graphite Processing, 2014-2018 GRAPA.
  • The IAEA Benchmarking System for Operational Waste of WWER NPP’s 2014-2018 BMS.
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy: Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshops on Radiation effects in nuclear wasteforms RadDam, Fundamental of Vitrification GlassTransition and International Schools on Actinides Immobilisation ActinideImmo, and Nuclear Waste Vitrification WasteVitrification.
  • Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Fellow, since 1996.
  • Associate Editor of journal Innovations in Corrosion and Materials Science.
  • Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Corrosion,
    Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations,
    European Researcher,
    Journal of Nuclear Materials,
    npj Materials Degradation.
  • International Commission on Glass, Nuclear Waste Vitrification Technical Committee TC 05, Society of Glass Technology, and Materials Research Society.