Address:
Department of Physics
Arizona State University
PO Box 871504
Tempe, AZ 85287-1504
Phone: (480) 965-
email: Mike.Treacy@asu.edu
Date & Place of Birth: 13th October 1954 Londonderry, N. Ireland
Nationality: US citizen
Cambridge University, St John's College, U.K.
1980: Ph.D. (Cavendish Laboratory). Thesis Title: "Electron Microscopy
of Palladium and Platinum Catalysts". Supervisor, Dr. A. Howie.
1976: B.A. Hons. Natural Sciences (Theoretical and Experimental Physics).
Dissertation: "Dynamics of the Earth-Moon System". Supervisor,
Prof. A. H. Cook.
St. John's College, Southsea, U.K.
1971: 10 'O' levels (six grade 1 passes).
1973: 3 'A' levels (three grade A passes), Distinctions in Physics and Mathematics.
09/2003-present
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe,
AZ, USA
10/1990-08/2003
Senior Research Scientist, NEC Research Institute, Inc., Princeton, N.J.,
USA
9/1984-10/1990
Staff Physicist, Exxon Research & Engineering Co, Corporate Research,
N.J., USA
9/1982-8/1984
Senior Physicist, Exxon Chemical Company, Aromatics Technology Division,
N.J., USA
4/1981-8/1982
Engineer (Grade II), Centre National d'Etudes des Télécommunications,
Bagneux, Paris
1/1980-3/1981
Post-Doctoral Position, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights,
N.Y., USA
Co-Organizer of the Materials Research Society Symposium on "Microstructure
and Properties of Catalysts" Editor MRS Proceedings, Vol. No. 111.
(12/1987)
Meeting chair 1991 MRS Fall meeting, with M. Yoo (Oak Ridge) & J. Phillips
(Bell Labs).
Treasurer, program committee, editor, 9th International Zeolite Conf., Montréal,
6/1992.
Chair of the Structure Commission of the International Zeolite Association.
Retired member of the Steering Committee of the National Center for Electron
Microscopy (1989-1994).
Treasurer, program committee, editor for the 12th International Zeolite
Conference, Baltimore, 6/1998.
Astronomy & astrophotography, jogging, reading, music (tenor in the Masterwork Chorus, taught myself rudimentary fiddle, learning electric guitar), computer programming (competent in Fortran, C and C++).
Wright Award 1974. Awarded by St. John's College Cambridge, for academic
excellence.
Best Biological Poster at the 1995 Microscopy Society of America conference
(out of 160).
Barrer Award 1990. Awarded triennially by the Royal Society of Chemistry
to a young scientist under age 36, for distinguished work in the area of
zeolites.
Donald W. Breck Award 1996. Awarded biennially by the International Zeolite
Association for the most significant contribution to molecular sieve science
and technology - for "Contributions to the Characterization
and Elucidation of Intergrowths in FAU/EMT Zeolites."
Distinguished Teacher Award, Physics Department, 2007.
I have over 90 refereed publications:
M. M. J. Treacy, A. Howie & C. J. Wilson,
Z Contrast of Platinum and Palladium Catalysts,
Philos. Mag. A38 569, (1978).
M. M. J. Treacy, A. Howie & S. J. Pennycook,
Z Contrast of Supported Catalyst Particles in the STEM
Inst. Phys. Conf. Ser. No.52 261, (1980).
M. M. J. Treacy, J. M. Gibson & A. Howie,
On Elastic Relaxation and Long Wavelength Microstructures in Spinodally-decomposed
InGaAsP Epitaxial Layers,
Philos. Mag. A51 389, (1985).
M. M. J. Treacy, J. M. Newsam, D. E. W. Vaughan, R. Beyerlein, S. B. Rice
& C. B. de Gruyter,
On the propagation of twin-fault-induced stress in platelet FAU framework
zeolites,
in Microstructure and Properties of Catalysts, ed by M. M. J. Treacy,
J. M. Thomas and J. M. White, Materials Research Society Symp. Proc.
Vol 111 p177, (1988).
J. M. Newsam, M. M. J. Treacy, W. Koetsier & C. B. deGruyter,
Structural Characterization of Zeolite Beta,
Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A420 374-405 (1988).
M. M. J. Treacy & S. B. Rice,
Catalyst Particle Sizes from Rutherford Scattered Intensities,
J. Microsc. 156 211-234 (1989).
M. M. J. Treacy, J. M. Newsam & M. W. Deem,
A General Recursion Method for Calculating Diffracted Intensities from
Crystals Containing Planar Faults,
Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A433 499-520 (1991).
M. M. J. Treacy, D. E. W. Vaughan, K. G. Strohmaier & J. M. Newsam,
Intergrowth Segregation in FAU-EMT Zeolite Materials,
Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A452 813-840 (1996).
M. M. J. Treacy & J. M. Gibson,
Variable Coherence Microscopy: A Rich Source of Structural Information
from Disordered Materials,
Acta Cryst. A52 212-220 (1995).
M. M. J. Treacy, T. W. Ebbesen & J. M. Gibson,
Exceptionally high Young's modulus observed for individual carbon nanotubes,
Nature 381 678-680 (1996).
M. M. J. Treacy, K. H Randall, S. Rao, J. A. Perry and D. J. Chadi,
Enumeration of Periodic Tetrahedral Frameworks,
Z. Krist. 212 768-791 (1997).
J. M. Newsam & M. M. J. Treacy,
ZeoFile: A Hypercard Stack for Macintosh, an interactive zeolite
structure database with diffraction analysis software.
M. M. J. Treacy, M. W. Deem & J. M. Newsam
DIFFaX: A FORTRAN program for simulating peak broadening in diffraction
patterns from crystals that contain stacking faults.