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School of Molecular Sciences
Regents Professor
Faculty, TEMPE Campus, Mailcode 1604
Biography: 

C. Austen Angell is a Regents Professor at Arizona State University. He has worked mostly on liquids and glasses, but has also published on geochemical, biophysical and battery electrolyte problems. He currently has a major effort in the energy storage and conversion disciplines. He has 520 publications, 78 cited >100x, 6 >1000x (H index 88). He has been elected chair of three different Gordon Conferences: four different Societies have given him their internationally contested awards (ACERS Morey 1989, ACS Hildebrand 2004, MRS Turnbull 2006, ECS Bredig 2010, ACERS Cooper Scholar 2015, respectively). He is proud of an “Outstanding reviewer” award, APS 2009. He was recently honored as University College London's Bragg lecturer 2015).

Professor Angell holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and a Ph.D. degree from London University, Imperial College, where he won the Armstrong medal for 1959-61. He taught at Melbourne University 1962-64, then postdoced at Argonne National Laboratory 1964-66 before joining Purdue University where he became full professor in 1971. He joined ASU In 1989. 

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Education: 
  • Ph.D. Chemistry, University of London, Imperial College of Science 1961
  • M.Sc. Chemical Metallurgy, University of Melbourne, Australia 1956
  • B.Sc. Chemical Metallurgy, University of Melbourne, Australia 1954
Research Website: 
http://www.public.asu.edu/~caangell/
Research Interests: 

In this group, a wide range of physical measurements on liquid structure, transport properties and thermodynamic characteristics are carried out, with emphasis on metastable (supercooled, superpressurized) or stretched state behavior. One branch of this program focuses attention on microsample techniques for studying the physical properties of supercooled and stretched (negative pressure) states of common molecular liquids such as H2O, benzene, and CCl4, which normally can only be studied above their melting points. At the other extreme, computer simulation studies using sophisticated multicomponent molecular dynamics programs are used to study liquid silicates and glasses under extreme conditions: also the stability limits of crystalline materials on compression and stretching.

A major component of the group's research at the moment involves synthesis and characterization of new, highly stable, electrolytes and polymers for applications in electrochemical power systems and the study of biophysical phenonena. The group has a number of patents granted or pending in these areas.

Most recently, the group has become involved in polyamorphic phase transitions and the relations between unexpected phase transitions in supercooled liquid water and major structural changes in biopolymers (see article in Science 1995). For information on current research on biopolymers and other activities, please check out titles below and our current abstracts on the lab Website--you will need Adobe Acrobat, or equivalent to read these.

Publications: 
  • S.K. Davidowski, J.L. Yarger, R. Richert, C.A. Angell.  Reorientation Times for Solid-State Electrolyte Solvents and Electrolytes from NMR Spin-Lattice Relaxation Studies.  Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (2020).
  • S. Davidowski, A.R. Young-Gonzales, R. Richert, J. Yarger, C.A. Angell.  Relation of Ionic Conductivity to Solvent Rotation Times in Dinitrile Plastic Crystal Solvents.  Journal of the Electrochemical Society (2020).
  • P. Lucas, S. Wei, C.A. Angell.  Liquid-liquid phase transitions in glass-forming systems and their implications for memory technology.  International Journal of Applied Glass Science (2020).
  • S. Wei, P. Lucas, C. A. Angell.  Phase-change materials: The view from the liquid phase and the metallicity parameter.  MRS Bulletin (2019).
  • C.A. Angell.  Concepts and conflicts in polymer electrolytes: The search for ion mobility.  Electrochimica Acta (2019).
  • M. Hasani, S.A. Amin, J.L. Yarger, S.K. Davidowski, C.A. Angell.  Proton Transfer and lonicity: An N-15 NMR Study of Pyridine Base Protonation.  Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2019).
  • S. Wei, Z. Evensong, M. Stolpe, P. Lucas, C.A. Angell.  Breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein relation above the melting temperature in a liquid phase-change material.  Science Advances (2018).
  • Shuai Wei, Garrett J. Coleman, Pierre Lucas, and C. Austen Angell. Glass transitions, semiconductor-metal (SC-M) transitions and fragilities in Ge-V-Te (V=As, or Sb) liquid alloys: the difference one element can make. Phys. Rev. Applied (revision submitted) (2017).
  • T.G. Tucker, S.K. Davidowski, C.A. Angell. Inorganic vs. Organic Cation Ionic Liquids and Their Solutions with Alkali Metal Containing Ionic Liquids. Electrochemical Society (2017).
  • Yingbo Zhao, Seung-Yul Lee, Omar M. Yaghi, and C. Austen Angell. Nanoporous, transparent MOF glasses with accessible internal surface. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2016). 
  • F. Migliardo, C. A. Angell, S. Magazù. Contrasting dynamics of fragile and non-fragile polyalcohols through the glass, and dynamical, transitions: a comparison of neutron scattering and dielectric relaxation data for sorbitol and glycerol. Biochemica et Biophysica Acta (2017).
  • C. Austen Angell* and Vitaliy Kapko. Potential tuning in the S-W system. (i) Bringing Tc,2 to ambient pressure, and (ii) colliding Tc,2 with the liquid-vapor spinodal. J. Stat. Mech., Special Issue on Structure in Glassy and Jammed Systems (2016). 
  • Mohammad Hasani, Jeffery L. Yarger and C. Austen Angell. On the Use of a Protic Ionic Liquid with a Novel Cation to Study Anion Basicity. Chem. Euro. J. Chemistry-A European Journal (2016).
  • Iolanda S. Klein, and C. Austen Angell. Excess thermodynamic properties of glassforming liquids: the rational scaling of heat capacities, and the thermodynamic fragility dilemma resolved. J. Non-Cryst. Solids (2016).
  • P. Gallo, K. Amann-Winkel, C.A. Angell, M. Anisimov, F. Caupin, C. Chakravorty, T. Loerting, A. Panagiotopoulos, J. Russo, H. Stanley, H. Tanaka, C. Vega se los Heras, Xu Limei, and L. Pettersen. Water: A Tale of Two Liquids. Chem. Rev. (2016).
  • Liumin Suo,[a] Oleg Borodin,[b] Wei Sun,[a] Xiulin Fan,[a] Fei Wang,[a] Chongyin Yang,[a] Tao Gao,[a] Zhaohui Ma,[a] Marshall Schroeder,[b]  Arthur von Wald Cresce,[b]  Selena M. Russell,[b]Michel Armand,[c] C. Austen Angell,[d]  Kang Xu *[b]  and Chunsheng Wang *[a]. Advanced High Voltage Aqueous Li-ion Battery Enabled by “Water-in-Bisalt” Electrolyte.  Angewandte Chemie Intern. Ed. (2016).
  • Sander Woutersen*, Michiel Hilbers* Zuofeng Zhao, and C. Austen Angell. Spectroscopic evidence for a first order liquid-liquid transition to an LDA water-like phase in the supercooling of water-rich ideal aqueous solutions. Nature (under review)
  • Stephen K. Davidowski, Forrest Thompson, Wei Huang, Mohammad Hasani, Samrat A. Amin, C. Austen Angell, Jeffery L. Yarger. NMR characterization of ionicity and transport properties for a series of diethylmethylamine based protic ionic liquids. J. Phys Chem. (2016).
  • Z. Zhao and C.A. Angell. Apparent First-Order Liquid–Liquid Transition with Pre-transition Density Anomaly, in Water-Rich Ideal Solutions. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (2016).
  • Y. Ansari, T. G. Tucker, W. Huang, I. S. Klein, S.-Y. Lee, J. L Yarger and C.A. Angell. A flexible inorganic fuel cell membrane with conductivity above Nafion, and durable fuel cell operation at 150ºC. J. Power Sources (2016).
  • Shuai, Wei, Pierre Lucas, and C. Austen Angell. Phase change alloy viscosities down to Tg by Adam Gibbs equation fittings to excess entropy data: a fragile-to-strong transition. J. Appl. Phys. (2015).
  • L.-G. Zue, S. Y. Lee, Z.F. Zhao and C.A. Angell. Sulfone-carbonate ternary electrolyte with further increased capacity retention and burn resistance for high voltage lithium ion batteries. J. Power Sources (2015).
  • J Luo, L Xu, CA Angell, HE Stanley, SV Buldyrev. Physics of the Jagla Model as the Liquid-Liquid Coexistence Line Approaches Horizontal. J. Chem. Phys. (2015).
  • Erik Lascaris, Mahin Hemmati, Sergey V. Buldyrev, H. Eugene Stanley, and C. Austen Angell. Diffusivity and short-time dynamics in two models of silica. J. Chem. Phys. (2015).
  • Leigang Xue, Telpriore G. Tucker, and C. Austen Angell. Ionic Liquid redox catholyte for high efficiency, low-cost energy storage. Adv. Energy Materials (2015).
  • C. Austen Angell. Forty years of silica simulations. Which way now? Intern. Journal of Appl. Glass   Science, Special Issue (2015).
  • C. Austen Angell. On the uncertain distinction between fast landscape exploration and second amorphous phase (ideal glass) interpretations of the ultrastable glass phenomenon. J. Non-Crystalline Solids (2015).
  • Ionic Liquids, Superionic glasses, Quasi-Ionic Liquids, Quasi-Liquid Ionics, all with high Conductivities but some with Little Fluidity. Where does the Paradigm End? Electrochem. Transactions ECS Trans. (2014).
  • T.G. Tucker and C.A. Angell. Approaches to, and problems with, ionic liquid electrolytes for alkali metal electrochemical devices: The case of low-melting chloroaluminate binary solutions. J. Electrochem. Soc. ( 2014).
  • Erik Lascaris, Mahin Hemmati, Sergey Buldyrev, H. Eugene Stanley, and C.A. Angell. Search for a liquid-liquid critical point in models of silica. J. Chem. Phys. (2014).
  • Supercooled water: Two phases? Nature Materials (News and Views) (2014).
  • Leigang Xue, Kazuhide Ueno, S.-Y. Lee, C. Austen Angell. Enhanced Performance of sulfone, and sulfone-containing, solvents at lithium ion battery electrodes, including the LiNiMnO high voltage cathode. J. Power Sources (2014).
  • Stacey Meadley and C. Austen Angell. Enrico Fermi summer school on Water.  Water and its relatives: stable, supercooled, and particularly, the stretched states. Nuovo Cimento (2014). (in press)
  • C. Austen Angell, in Fragility of glass forming liquids. The fragility of glassforming liquids: thermal vs athermal systems, and kinetic vs thermodynamic manifestations: problems of conception and quantitation. Editors: A.L. Greer, K.F. Kelton, S. Sastry. Publisher: Hindustan Book Agency, New Delhi, India (2014).
  • C. Austen Angell and Zuofeng Zhao. Fluctuations, clusters, and phase transitions in liquids, solutions, and glasses: from metastable water to phase change memory materials. Faraday Discuss (2013).
  • Vitaliy Kapko, Zuofeng Zhao, Dmitry V. Matyushov and C. Austen Angell. "Ideal glassformers" vs "ideal glasses": Crystal-free routes to the glass by "potential tuning" MD, and laboratory calorimetry. J. Chem.Phys (2013).
  • W. Huang, C. A. Angell, J. L Yarger, and R. Richert. Measurement of conductivity and permittivity on samples sealed in nuclear magnetic resonance tubes. Rev. Sci. Inst (2013).
  • Younes Ansari, Telpriore Tucker, and C. Austen Angell. A novel, easily synthesized, anhydrous derivative of phosphoric acid for use in electrolyte with phosphoric acid-based fuel cells. J. Power Sources (2013).
  • C.A. Angell. Fragile Glassformers: Evidence for a new paradigm and a new relation to strong liquids. John Wiley & Sons, Inc (2012).
  • Kazuhide Ueno and CA Angell. Ionic liquids as oxidic media for electron transfer studies. J. Chem. Phys (2012).
  • Marie Plazanet, Helmut Schober and CA Angell. Anharmonicity of quasilattice modes in glass and superfragile liquid states of decahydroisoqinoline. J. Chem. Phys (2012).
  • Z. Chen, CA Angell, R. Richert. On the activation behavior of supercooled liquid dynamics in their viscous regime. Eur. Phys. J.E (2012).
  • CA Angell. Supercooled liquids: Clearing the water. (2012).
  • H.R. Corti*, F.J. Nores-Pondal, C.A. Angell. The glass transition temperature of the P2O5-H2O system revisited, and support for Mishima’s conjecture on solvent water at low temperature,. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys (2011).
  • K. Ueno and C. A. Angell. On the decoupling of relaxation modes in a molecular liquid caused by isothermal introduction of 2nm structural inhomogeneities. J. Phys. Chem.B (2011).
  • K. Ueno,† Z. Zhao,† M. Watanabe,‡ C.A. Angell. Protic Ionic Liquids Based on Decahydroisoquinoline: Lost Superfragility and Ionicity-Fragility Correlation. Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2011).
  • P. Wen, D. Paraska, R. Baker, P. Harrowell and C.A. Angell. Molecular Engineering of the Glass Transition: Glass Forming Ability across a Homologous Series of Cyclic Stilbenes. J. Phys. Chem. B (2011).
  • P. Wen, P. Harrowell and C.A. Angell. Fast and slow components in the crystallization of a model multicomponent system, NaKCa(NO3): the role of composition fluctuations. J. Phys. Chem. A (2011).
  • Shuai Wei, Isabella Gallino, Ralf Busch & C. Austen Angell. Glass transition with decreasing correlation length during cooling of Fe50Co50 superlattice and strong liquids. Nature Physics (2011).
  • Shuai Wei, Isabella Gallino, Ralf Busch & C. Austen Angell. Glass transition with decreasing correlation length during cooling of Fe50Co50 superlattice and strong liquids. Nature Physics (2011).
  • Z. Zhao, K. Ueno and C.A. Angell. High conductivity, and ‘dry’ proton motion, in guanidinium salt melts and binary solutions. J. Phys. Chem. B (2011).
  • C.A. Angell and I.S. Klein. Prigogine and Defay say Relax. (2011).
  • C. Austen Angell. From Slags to Molten salts to Ionic liquids- a 50 year Joyride. Electrochemical Soc. Transactions (2010).
  • Jaeil Bai†, C. Austen Angell‡, Xiao Cheng Zeng. Guest-free monolayer clathrate and its coexistence with two-dimensional high-density ice. PNAS (2010).
  • N. Byrne, Angell, C. A. The Solubility of Hen Lysozyme in Ethylammonium Nitrate/H2O Mixtures and a Novel Approach to Protein Crystallization. Molecules (2010).
  • Thomas Bauer, Melanie Köhler, Peter Lunkenheimer, Alois Loidl, and C.A. Angell. Relaxation dynamics and ionic conductivity in a fragile plastic crystal. J. Chem. Phys (2010).
  • Zuofeng Zhao, Ranko Richert and C. Austen Angell. Glass transition and fragility in the simple molecular glassformer CS2 from CS2-S2Cl2 solution studies. J. Chem. Phys (2010).
  • N/A - record moved from Refereed Articles. Heat capacity and entropy functions in strong and fragile glassformers, relative to those of disordering crystalline materials. Hot Topics in Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Ed. Y. Sestak, Springer (2010).
  • C.A. Angell and K. Ueno. Soft is Strong. Nature (2009).
  • J.A. Bautista-Martinez, L. Tang, J.P. Belieres, R. Zeller, C.A. Angell and C. Friesen. Hydrogen Redox in Protic Ionic Liquids and a Direct Measurement of Proton Thermodynamics. J. Chem. Phys (2009).
  • Limei Xu, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Nicolas Giovambattista, C. Austen Angell and H. Eugene Stanley. Model monatomic system with a liquid-liquid critical point and two distinct glassy states. J. Chem. Phys (2009).
  • N Byrne and CA Angell. Formation and dissolution of hen egg white lysozyme amyloid fibrils in protic ionic liquids. Chem. Commun (2009).
  • N Jakse, A Pasturel, S Sastry and CA Angell. Response to Comment on ‘Dynamic aspects of the liquid-liquid phase transformation in silicon. J. Chem. Phys (2009).
  • S Xiaoguang, CA Angell. Doped sulfone electrolytes for high voltage Li-ion cell application. Eletrochemistry Communications (2009).
  • SV Buldyrev, G Malescio, CA Angell, N Giovambattista, S Prestipino, F Saija, HE Stanley and L Xu. Unusual phase behavior of one component systems with two-scale isotropic interactions. J. Chem. Phys (2009).
  • C. A. Angell. Insights into phases of liquid water from study of its unusual glassforming properties. Science (2008).
  • C.A. Angell. Glass formation and glass transition in supercooled liquids, with insights from study of related phenomena in crystals. J. Non-Cryst. Solids (2008).
  • C.A. Angell. Glassformers and viscous liquid slowdown since David Turnbull: Enduring puzzles and new twists. MRS Bulletin (2008).
  • Jeffery Thomson, Patrick Dunn, Lisa Holmes, Jean-Philippe Belieres, Charles A. Angell, and Dominic Gervasio. A Fluorinated Ionic Liquid as a High-Performance Fuel Cell Electrolyte. ECS Trans (2008).
  • N. Byrne and C.A. Angell. Protein unfolding, and the "tuning in" of reversible intermediate states, in protic ionic liquid media. J. Molecular Biology (2008).
  • Vitaliy Kapko, Dmitry Matyushov and C. Austen Angell. Landscape thermodynamics and dynamics of a monatomic glassformer- the modified Stillinger-Weber model. J. Chem. Phys (2008).
  • C. Austen Angell, Nolene Byrne" and Jean-Philippe Belieres. Parallel developments in inorganic, aprotic, and protic ionic liquids: physical chemistry and applications. Accounts of Chemical Research (special issue) (2007).
  • C.A. Angell. Glass transition dynamics in water and other tetrahedral liquids: "order-disorder" transitions vs. "normal" glass transitions. J. Phys. Condens (2007).
  • H. Markusson, J.-P. Belieres, P. Johanson, C. A. Angell and P. Jacobsson. Prediction of macroscopic properties of protic ionic liquids by ab initio calculations. J. Phys. Chem (2007).
  • Limin Wang and C. Austen Angell. An electrospray technique for hyperquenched glass calorimetry studies: propylene glycol and dibutyl-phthallate. J. Non-Cryst. Solids (2007).
  • Mulki Bhat, V Molinero, Emmanuel Soignard, Virgil Solomon, Jeffery Yarger, Charles Angell. Vitrification of a monoatomic metallic liquid. Nature (2007).
  • Valeria Molinero, Srikanth Sastry, Charles Angell. Tuning the tetrahedrality of a silicon potential reveals a series of monatomic (metal-like) glasses of very high fragility. Physical Review Letters (2007).
  • C.A. Angell. Highs and Lows in the density of water. (2007).
  • Charles Angell. Energy Landscapes for cooperative processes: nearly ideal glass transitions, liquid-liquid transitions, and folding transitions. Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc (2005).
  • Dmitry Matyushov, Charles Angell. Two-Gaussian excitations model of the glass transition. J. Chem. Phys. 123, 034506). 2005 (2005).
  • Nicolas Giovambattista, Charles Angell, Fracesco Sciortino, H Stanley. Structural Relaxation in the glass transition region of water. Phys. Rev. E (2005).
  • Xiao-Guang Sun, Charles Angell. New Sulfone Electrolytes for Rechargeable Lithium Batteries. Part I. Oligoether Containing Sulfones. Electrochem. Commun (2005).
  • Y Yue, Charles Angell. Response to Kohl et al. Nature, (Brief Communications Arising) (2005).
  • Angell, Charles Austen (Author) ,Green, J L (Author) . Thermodynamics and dynamics of glass formation. Lyophilization of Biopharma-ceuticals (2005).
  • Ayumi Minoguchi, Ranko Richert, Charles Angell. Dielectric studies deny existence of ultraviscous fragile water. Phys. Rev. Lett (2004).
  • Charles Angell. Amorphous Water. Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem (2004).
  • N Giovambattista, Charles Angell, F Sciortino, H Stanley. The glass transition temperature of water: a simulation study. Phys. Rev. Lett (2004).
  • Y Yue, Charles Angell. Clarifying the glass transition behavior of water by comparison with hyperquenched inorganic glasses. Nature (2004).
  • Charles Angell, Limin Wang. Hyperquenching + cold equilibration strategies for the study of liquid-liquid and protein folding processes. Kauzmannn issue, Biophys. Chem (2003).
  • Charles Angell, Yue Yuanzheng, Limin Wang, John Copley, Steve Borick, J Mossa. Potential Energy, Relaxation, Vibrational Dynamics and the boson peak, of hyperquenched glasses. Phys. Cond Matt (2003).
  • Srikanth Sastry, Charles Angell. Liquid-liquid phase transition in supercooled liquid silicon. Nature Materials (2003).
  • W Xu, Charles Angell. Solvent-free electrolytes with aqueous solution-like conductivities. Science (2003).
  • Wu Xu, E Cooper, Charles Angell. Ionic Liquids: Ion Mobilities, Glass temperatures and fragilities. J. Phys Chem. B (2003).
  • Charles Angell. Liquid Fragility and the Glass Transition in Water and Aqueous solutions. Chem. Rev (2002).
  • Luz-Maria Martinez, Charles Angell. Chemical order lifetimes in liquids and a new fictive temperature for glassformers. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Applications (2002).
  • C Angell, L Martinez, Charles Angell. A thermodynamic connection to the fragility of glassforming liquids. Nature (2001).
  • Charles Angell, K Ngai, G McKenna, P McMillan, S Martin. Relaxation in glassforming liquids and amorphous solids. J. Appl. Phys (2000).
  • C. Austen Angell. The fragility of glassforming liquids: thermal vs athermal systems, and kinetic vs thermodynamic origins. Fragility of glass forming liquids (0).
  • C. Austen Angell.  Concepts and Conflicts in Polymer Electrolytes:  The Search for Ion Mobility.  Electrochimica Acta (special issue) (2018).
  • C. Austen Angell.  Postspace- a Personal Retrospective (Concluding remarks for the Encyclopedia of Glass).  Ed. Pascal Richet (2018).
  • Mohammas Hasani, Samrat A. Amin, Jeffery L. Yarger, Stephen K. Davidowski, C. Austen Angell.  Proton Transfer and Ionicity:  An 15N NMR Study of Pyridine Base Protonation.  J. Phys. Chem (2018).
  • Iolanda S. Klein, Stephen K. Davidowski, Jeffery L. Yarger, C. Austen Angell.  A New Version of the Lithium Ion Conducting Plastic Crystal Solid Electrolyte.  Adv. Energy Matter (2018).
  • Shuai Wei, Zach Evenson, Moritz Stolpe, Pierre Lucas, C. Austen Angell.  Breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein Relation Above the Melting Temperature in a Liquid Phase-Change Material.  Sciences Advances (2018).
  • Sander Woutersen, Bernd Ensing, Michiel Gilberts, Zuofeng Zhao, C. Austen Angell.  A Liquid-Liquid Transition in Supercooled Aqueous Solution Related to the HDA-LDA Phase Transition in Water.  Science (2018).
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Presentations: 
  • Leigang Xue, Telpriore G. Tucker, and C. Austen Angell. Novel uses of protic and aprotic ionic liquids in water science, protein folding studies and battery research. Symposium on Ionic Liquids at Sophia University (Oct 2014).
  • C.A. Angell. IL medium effects on alkali mobility and redox potentials, and their application in enabling medium-temperature, 3.3 V, liquid sodium batteries. Annual Japanese Conference on Ionic Liquids, Yokohama, Japan (Oct 2014).
  • C.A. Angell. Metastable water: the schism (empiricists vs modelers), and a possible resolution. Nordic Countries Institute of Theoretica Physics (NORDITA) International Conference on Water, Sweden (Oct 2014).
  • C.A. Angell. Forty Years of silica simulations. Where are we now? (With a digression on Al Cooper and the Deborah number). Cooper Scholar address for the MS&T meeting in Glass division of Amer. Ceram. Soc. in Pittsburg, PA (Oct 2014).
  • C.A. Angell. Ionic Liquids, quasi-ionic liquids, and quasi-liquid ionics, all with high conductivities but some with little fluidity. Where does the paradigm end?. 19th International Symposium on Ionic Liquids and Molten Salts at the 226th meeting of Electr (Oct 2014).
  • C.A. Angell. From Liquid Silicates, through the Molten Salt Reactor hayday, to the present IL Renaissance: the key role of the complex anion. Gordon Research Conference on Ionic Liquids and Molten Salts in Maine (Aug 2014).
  • C.A. Angell. New light on the supercooled water conundrum. Water-like heat capacity spikes near the glass transition. Gordon Conference on Water and Aqueous Solutions in Holderness, New Hampshire (Jul 2014).
  • C.A. Angell. Water World's weirdest Liquid wants to be two of them: Does it succeed at negative pressure. Amorph 14, Honoring Felix Franks in Cambridge, UK (Jul 2014).
  • C.A. Angell. From Liquid Silicates, through the Molten Salt Reactor hayday, to the present IL Renaissance: the key role of the complex anion. EUCHEM Conference on Ionic Liquids and Molten Salts in Tallinn, ESTONIA (Jul 2014).
  • C.A. Angell. Breaking news on water's second critical point, and a proposed connection to the new "Ultrastable Glasses" phenomenon. Physics Dept. Federal University of Rio Grand du Sol, (UFRGS), Porto Allegre, BRAZIL (Jun 2014).
  • C. Austen Angell. Special seminar to Chemistry faculty and students: "Liquids and Glasses" series: Seminar title "Glass transitions and critical points in orientationally disordered crystals and structural glassformers: ("Strong" liquids are more interesting than we thought)". Pardubice Czech Republic (May 2014).
  • C. Austen Angell. Symposium on Liquid Fragility. JNCASR in Bangalore, India (Jan 2014).
  • C.A. Angell. Structural transitions in metallic and semiconducting glassformers: some phenomenological relationships with connections to phase change switching materials. Soft Matter Workshop, Hyderbad, India (Jan 2014).
  • C.A. Angell. The fragility of glassforming liquids: thermal vs athermal systems, and kinetic vs thermodynamic origins. "Symposium on Liquid Fragility", JNCASR, Bangalore, India (Jan 2014).
  • C. Austen Angell. Structural transitions in metallic and semiconducting glassformers: some phenomenological relationships. MRS Fall Meeting, held in Boston, Massachusetts (Dec 2013).
  • C. Austen Angell. Fluctuations, clusters, and phase transitions in liquids, solutions, and glasses: from metastable water to phase change memory materials. Faraday discussion on Mesostructure and Dynamics in Liquids and Solutions, held in Bristol, UK (Sep 2013).
  • C. Austen Angell. Critical points and phase transitions in orientationally disordered solids and glassforming liquids: (and the plasma catastrophe in optical fibres). 7th International Discussion on Relaxation in complex systems in Barcelona (Jul 2013).
  • S.L. Meadley and C. Austen Angell. Water and its relatives: the stable, supercooled and stretched regimes. Opening Lectures for 2013 Enrico Fermi School on Water in Varenna, Italy (Jul 2013).
  • C. Austen Angell. Anomalies of water and its solutions, and the problem of sudden nucleation in the phenomenology of biopreservation. Cryobiology Symposium, held in Bethesda, Maryland (Jul 2013).
  • C. Austen Angell. A new sort of aluminosilicate: nano porous glasses. Pilson Technical School in Czech Republic (May 2013).
  • C. Austen Angell. Nine Lectures on Glass Science. Lecture Course on Glass Science in Pardubice Czeck Republic (May 2013).
  • C. Austen Angell. Liquids and Glasses" series: Seminar title "Glass transitions and critical points in orientationally disordered crystals and structural glassformers: ("Strong" liquids are more interesting than we thought). University of Gottingen, Germany (Apr 2013).
  • C. Austen Angell. What chance for inorganic ionic liquids?. Coil 5 in Portugal (Mar 2013).
  • CA Angell. Glass Transitions and Critical Points in Orientationally Disordered Crystals and Structural Glassformers: ("Strong" Liquids are More Interesting than we thought.). 4th International Symposium on Slow Dynamics in Complex Systems in Sendai, Japan (Dec 2012).
  • C. Austen Angell. Glass Transitions and Critical Points in Orientationally Disordered Crystals and Structural Glassformers: ("Strong" Liquids are More Interesting Than We Thought). Conference on Slow Dynamics in Sendai (Dec 2012).
  • CA Angell. Battery concepts for high density energy storage: Principles and practice. PNNL Seminar in WA (Nov 2012).
  • C.A. Angell. Battery concepts for high density energy storage: Principles and practice. Dept. of Chemistry, University of Buenos Aires (Oct 2012).
  • C.A. Angell. Some Fundamental Aspects of Glass Formation and the Glass Transition. Advanced School on Materials for Photonic Applications in Araraquara - SP - Brazil (Oct 2012).
  • C.A. Angell. Low temperature termination of the fragile liquid state by first order transition - a new paradigm, with some experimental support. Seminar at the Argentinian Atomic Energy Commission, Buenos Aires (Oct 2012).
  • CA Angell. Gordon Conference - Water & Aqueous Solutions, Holderness, NH. Gordon Conference - Water & Aqueous Solutions, Holderness, NH (Aug 2012).
  • CA Angell. Invited Talk at symposium for Fall ACS meeting "Glassy dynamics" in Boston. Fall ACS meeting "Glassy dynamics" in Boston (Aug 2012).
  • C.A. Angell. Plenary Lecture for the 18th International Symposium on Non-Oxide and New Optical Glasses ISNOG in St. Malo, France. 18th International Symposium on Non-Oxide and New Optical Glasses ISNOG (Jul 2012).
  • CA Angell. Invited Talk at the Research Conference "Energy Landscapes", which will be held at Universitätszentrum Obergurgl (Ötz Valley, near Innsbruck), Austria. Research Conference "Energy Landscapes" (Jul 2012).
  • C.A. Angell. Proton Transfer Electron Transfer and Proton Assisted electron transfer, in Ionic Liquids. Materials Research Society Spring meeting in San Francisco, CA (Apr 2012).
  • C.A. Angell. Plenary Lecture for the Electromaterials Science Symposium 2012 in Geelong Australia. Electromaterials Science Symposium 2012 in Geelong Australia (Feb 2012).
  • CA Angell, W Xu, Y Ansari, K Ueno, and SY Lee. Ionic Liquid electrolytes for batteries and fuel cells: Common problems and contrasting possibilities. Annual Japanese ionic liquids meeting (Dec 2011).
  • CA Angell. Ionic Liquids Past, Present and Future. Faraday Dissions on Ionic Liquids (Nov 2011).
  • CA Angell. Supercooled Water as the Rosetta stone for the "strong" vs "fragile" glassformer problem. International Conference on "Dynamics of Phase Transformations," in Bangalore India (Nov 2011).
  • CA Angell, Y. Ansari and K. Ueno. Separating Acidity from Ionicity in Protic Ionic Liquids: Superacidic and Superprotonic Ionic Liquids. 62nd annual meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry, Niigata, Japan (Sep 2011).
  • CA Angell, V. Kapko and DV Matyushov. Crystal-free routes to the glassy state, and a "big picture" of glassformer phenomenology. Keynote talk at the Pacific Rim Ceramic Societies Meeting (Jul 2011).
  • Y. Ansari, K. Ueno and CA Angell. Independent control of acidity and ionicity in protic ionic liquids: superacidic and superprotonic ionic liquids. Plenary Lecture at the 4th International Congress on Ionic Liquids, Arlington VA (Jun 2011).
  • CA Angell. "Behavior of water as the Rosetta stone for the "strong/fragile" glassforming liquids problem". Rutgers Statistical Mechanics Conference (May 2011).
  • CA Angell. Glass transition and Relaxation. Spring meeting of the American Ceramic Society, Glass Division (May 2011).
  • V. Kapko, D. Matyushov and CA Angell. Dynamics of viscous liquids. Invited Presentation at the workshop in Rome (Apr 2011).
  • CA Angell. A "big picture" of glassforming liquids with the non-glassformer, water, as the Rosetta stone for the "strong/fragile" conundrum. Physics Dept. Spring Seminar series, University of New York at Buffalo (Mar 2011).
  • C. Austen Angell. A "big picture" of glassforming liquids with the non-glassformer, water, as the Rosetta stone for the "strong/fragile" conundrum. Physics Dept. Spring Seminar series, University of New York at Buffalo (Mar 2011).
  • Vitaly Kapko, Dmitry V. Matyushov and C. Austen Angell. An evaluation of the "ideal glassformer" concept, using van der Waals ellipsoids in the Gay-Berne model. Invited Presentation at the workshop on "Dynamics of viscous liquids" in Rome (Mar 2011).
  • CA Angell. Water: a liquid with two critical points , and a Rosetta stone for understanding the glass problem. Harvey Mudd Conf 2011 (Feb 2011).
  • C.A. Angell. Lectures on electrolytes. Honeywell Corporation (Nov 2010).
  • C.A. Angell. Water and its analogs: phase transitions and pre-critical phenomena in the stable and metastable liquids states. New York University (Oct 2010).
  • C.A. Angell. From Slags to Molten Salts to Ionic Liquids: a 50 year joyride. Bredig award lecture at the Spring meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Las Vegas, USA (Oct 2010).
  • C.A. Angell. Electrolytes and Ionic Liquids. Materials for Large Scale Energy Storage Workshop, Session 2 (Sep 2010).
  • C.A. Angell. "Thermodynamic aspects of disordering processes in network and molecular glassformers, as distinct from the glass transition". Plenary opening talk in the ICCT conference, Tsukuba, Japan (Aug 2010).
  • C.A. Angell. Superacidic Ionic liquids: properties and applications. University of Tokyo Seminar 27th (Jul 2010).
  • C.A. Angell. Strong" liquids are more interesting than people have realized, and perhaps hold the key to understanding the "glassy state problem. University of Tokyo Seminar 28th (Jul 2010).
  • C.A. Angell. Superacidic Ionic liquids: properties and applications. University of Yokohama Seminar 29th (Jul 2010).
  • C.A. Angell. Electrolytes. Harvard F.O.R.E.S.T. Workshop (Jun 2010).
  • C.A. Angell. Non-oxide glassformers hold the key to understanding the "glassy state problem". Opening lecture for the 17th ISNOG Conference in Ningbo, China (Jun 2010).
  • C. Austen Angell. Ideal glassformers might exist, and "strong" liquids might be where the light is. Opening Talk at the Symposium at the Spring meeting of the ACS, Savannah, GA (May 2010).
  • C.A. Angell. Correlation lengths, contrasts between strong and fragile glassformers, and intrinsic light scattering in glass. Yale University Dept of Engineering Sciences Seminar (Apr 2010).
  • C.A. Angell. Independent tuning of acidity and ionicity in protic ionic liquids and their Polymers Comparing Li+ to H+ transport. APS March meeting symposium on ionic polymers (Mar 2010).
  • C.A. Angell. Battery concepts for high density energy storage: Principles and practice. ACS March meeting Presidential symposium on Sustainable Energy (Mar 2010).
  • C.A. Angell, J.P. Belieres, J. Blanchard, B. R. Cherry, G. P. Holland, J. L. Yarger. Superacidic Ionic liquids: properties and applications. Opening Session of Monash University 5th Workshop on Ionic Liquids (Feb 2010).
  • C.A. Angell. Broader aspects and grand challenges of the slow dynamics and glass transition problem. Opening Talk at International School on Glass Science Bangalore India (Jan 2010).
  • C. Austen Angell. Ideal Glassformers. French Atomic Energy Commission laboratories, Saclay, France (Oct 2009).
  • C. Austen Angell. On the phase behavior of stretched, supercooled and glassy water, its dependence on confinement, and its relation to that of other network and molecular systems. International Symposium ISSP-11 in Chiba, Japan (Oct 2009).
  • C. Austen Angell. The role of heat capacity in arguments for a new glassformer paradigm. Invited talk in Rome for the International Discussion of Relaxation Processes (Sep 2009).
  • C. Austen Angell. "Ideal glassformers": seeking non-polymer liquids that are stable at their glass temperatures. Invited talk at conference in Iguazu Falls, Brazil, Physics of non-crystalline Solids (Sep 2009).
  • C. Austen Angell. Protein gymnastics in the protic ionic liquid "pIL" milieu, and what it all might mean. Invited talk at an Arizona Status University Workshop on Proteins and Water (May 2009).
  • C. Austen Angell. The low temperature end of the fragile liquid state: experimental evidence for a new paradigm. Invited talk in Aberystwyth, Wales (Apr 2009).
  • C. Austen Angell. Metallic glassformers with liquid-liquid transitions, and a second fictive temperature. Fall meeting of the MRS (Dec 2008).
  • Nolene Byrne and C. Austen Angell. Normal-to-Amyloid-protein transition, and reversible pre-fibril fold/unfold process, in lysozyme and lactalbumin. ACS Conference (Dec 2008).
  • C. Austen Angell. "Control of protein folding and misfolding in ionic liquid media, and a conjecture on early earth biology". Boston University Physics Dept (Nov 2008).
  • C. Austen Angell. "Fragility of glassforming liquids". Copenhagen special workshop (Oct 2008).
  • C. Austen Angell. "Protein folding and misfolding studies in novel stabilizing solvents of high ionic strength, low water activity, and glassforming ability.". Department of Materials and Polymer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Talk (Sep 2008).
  • C. Austen Angell and Vesselin Velikov. Experimental studies of the solute effect in systems with single component liquid-liquid transitions. Philadelphia Chemical Society Meeting (Aug 2008).
  • N. Byrne, L.-M. Wang, J.-P. Belieres, C.A. Angell. "Primitive PIL solvents for biomolecules, and a conjecture on early earth biology.". 2008 EUCHEM conference (Apr 2008).
  • C.A. Angell. Keynote lecture for session on "Power and energy from molten salts". PAC RIM (Apr 2008).
  • N. Byrne, T. Tang, J.-P. Belieres, J. Battista, C. Friesen, C. A. Angell. "Pinning down the proton activities of protic ionic liquids and using them to study directed protein misfoldings, fibrillizations, and polypeptide fiber biosyntheses". MRS Spring Conference 2008 (Mar 2008).
Service: 
  • ACS Hildebrand Award, Research Award (2012 - Present)
  • Humboldt Award, Research Award (2012 - Present)
  • Ignaz Lieben Award, Research Award (2012 - Present)
  • ACS Hildebrand Award, Research Award (2008 - Present)
  • ACS Hildebrand Award, Research Award (2006 - Present)
  • Solid State Ionics, Member Editorial board (2002 - Present)
  • 27 Reviews for Nature, Nature Material, PNAS, PRL, JPC, JCP, and Chem. Phys. Letters, etc., Reviewer (2013 - 2013)
  • Physica, Memeber Editorial Board (1995 - 2001)
Expertise Areas: 
Inorganic Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
Energy
Materials Science