LaRico Treadwell

Dr. LaRico Treadwell is a Senior Member of Technical staff at the Advanced Materials Laboratories of Sandia National Laboratories. Dr. Treadwell earned his B.S. in Chemistry (2010) from the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). In 2014, He earned a Ph. D. in Inorganic Chemistry (2014, J. Y. Chan) from Louisiana State University on the topic of “Substitution and Disorder Effects in Ternary Intermetallics”. After graduation, Dr. Treadwell was granted a postdoctoral position at Sandia National Laboratories (2015) with T. J. Boyle. As a post-doc, his research focuses on developing novel precursors for the production of high-quality nanomaterials to be utilize in the development of nanoinks for applications ranging from thermoelectric, circuitry, capacitors, and flywheels. Subsequently afterwards, Dr. Treadwell became senior member of technical staff. Currently, Dr. Treadwell’s research group has delivered invaluable contributions to Sandia Mission in research through development of new materials as well as evaluating the reliability and corrosion of materials for a variety of applications. This work has been documented through journal publications, reports, memos, and classified documentation. As far as materials development, his research focuses on understanding nanomaterial structure-property relationships and composites for applications ranging from power generation-magnetism-homeland security, as well as developing microwave sintering and synthetic techniques for metallic and ceramic materials. In the corrosion reliability sector, LaRico has evaluated corrosion in a variety of pollutants (H2S…etc) as well as in high temperature and humidity environment for components and systems and investigated solution to preserve their functional-life expectancy.

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