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Monte Boisen Faculty Member Emeritus

Publications

selected publications

• academic article

  • Silica dissolution catalyzed by NaOH: Reaction kinetics and energy barriers simulated by quantum mechanical strategies.  Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences.  107:87-98. 2012
  • Molecular mimicry of structure and electron density distributions in minerals.  Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings.  73:515-527. 2011
  • Mathematical modeling of the structures and bulk moduli of TX2 quartz and cristobalite structure-types, T = C, Si, Ge and X = O,S.  Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings.  121:155-166. 2011
  • Containment Property For Large Quotient Rings.  Journal fur die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik.  258:55-61. 2009
  • Transforms of Ideals in a Commutative Ring.  Journal fur die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik.  258:186-191. 2009
  • Shared and closed-shell O-O interactions in silicates.  Journal of Physical Chemistry A.  112:3693-3699. 2008
  • Note on a Characterization of Principal Ideal Domain.  Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series A.  51:526-527. 2007
  • Synthesis and absorption spectra of large homogeneous single crystals of forsterite doped with manganese.  Journal of Crystal Growth.  304:492-496. 2007
  • Superstructure of Challis mordenite with doubled monoclinic unit cell.  American Mineralogist.  92:892-897. 2007
  • A physical basis for Pauling's definition of bond strength.  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.  30:317-320. 2003
  • The electron localization function: a tool for locating favorable proton docking sites in the silica polymorphs.  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.  30:305-316. 2003
  • A mapping of the electron localization function for the silica polymorphs: evidence for domains of electron pairs and sites of potential electrophilic attack.  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.  29:307-318. 2002
  • A comparison of procrystal and ab initio model representations of the electron-density distributions of minerals.  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.  29:369-385. 2002
  • Model Structures and Electron Density Distributions For the Silica Polymorph Coesite At Pressure: an Assessment of Oo Bonded Interactions.  Journal of Physical Chemistry B.  104:10534-10542. 2000
  • Model Structures and Properties of the Electron Density Distribution For Low Quartz At Pressure: a Study of the Sio Bond.  Journal of Molecular Structure.  485:13-25. 1999
  • A Generation of Framework Structures For the Tectosilicates Using a Molecular-based Potential Energy Function and Simulated Annealing Strategies.  Microporous and Mesoporous Materials.  29:219-266. 1999
  • Laplacian and Bond Critical Point Properties of the Electron Density Distributions of Sulfide Bonds: a Comparison with Oxide Bonds.  American Mineralogist.  84:435-446. 1999
  • Sio Bonded Interactions in Coesite: a Comparison of Crystalline, Molecular and Experimental Electron Density Distributions.  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.  26:264-272. 1999
  • Power Law Relationships Between Bond Length, Bond Strength and Electron Density Distributions.  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.  25:585-590. 1998
  • A Crystal Chemical Study of Protoanthophyllite: Orthoamphiboles with the Protoamphibole Structure.  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.  25:366-377. 1998
  • A Study of the Bonded Interactions in Nitride Molecules in Terms of Bond Critical Point Properties and Relative Electronegativities.  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.  25:234-241. 1998
  • Sio and Geo Bonded Interactions as Inferred from the Bond Critical Point Properties of Electron Density Distributions.  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.  25:574-584. 1998
  • Tetrahedral Rigid-body Motion in Silicates.  American Mineralogist.  80:680-690. 1997
  • Atomic and Ionic Radii: a Comparison with Radii Derived from Electron Density Distributions.  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.  24:432-439. 1997
  • Critical Point Properties of Electron Density Distributions For Oxide Molecules Containing First and Second Row Cations.  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.  24:582-596. 1997
  • The Sio Bond and Electron Density Distributions.  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.  24:167-178. 1997
  • First-principles Study of Several Hypothetical Silica Framework Structures.  Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.  52:8064-8073. 1995
  • Framework Silica Structures Generated Using Simulated Annealing with a Potential-energy Function-based on an H6si2o7 Molecule.  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.  21:269-284. 1994
  • Bond-length and Radii Variations in Fluoride and Oxide Molecules and Crystals.  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.  20:617-624. 1994
  • Bond Stretching Force-constants and Compressibilities of Nitride, Oxide, and Sulfide Coordination Polyhedra in Molecules and Crystals.  Structural Chemistry.  5:349-355. 1994
  • The Elusive SiO Bond in SILICA: Physical Behavior, Geochemistry and Materials Applications.  Reviews in Mineralogy.  29:331-368. 1994
  • Promolecule Radii For Nitrides, Oxides, and Sulfides - a Comparison with Effective Ionic and Crystal Radii.  Journal of Physical Chemistry.  97:11445-11450. 1993
  • Power-system Observability with Minimal Phasor Measurement Placement.  IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.  8:707-715. 1993
  • A Modeling of the Structure and Compressibility of Quartz with a Molecular-potential and its Transferability to Cristobalite and Coesite.  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.  20:123-135. 1993
  • Interactive Software For Calculating and Displaying X-ray Or Neutron Powder Diffractometer Patterns of Crystalline Materials.  American Mineralogist.  78:1104-1107. 1993
  • Bond Length Variation in Hydronitride Molecules and Nitride Crystals.  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.  19:127-132. 1992
  • Bonded and Promolecule Radii For Molecules and Crystals.  American Mineralogist.  77:741-750. 1992
  • An Application of Graph-theory to the Estimation of Bond Numbers in Crystals.  Computers and Mathematics with Applications.  23:99-102. 1992
  • Variations of Bond Lengths and Volumes of Silicate Tetrahedra with Temperature.  American Mineralogist.  77:751-757. 1992
  • A Study of the Mean-square Displacement Amplitudes of Si, Al, and O Atoms in Framework Structures - Evidence For Rigid Bonds, Order, Twinning, and Stacking-faults.  American Mineralogist.  75:1253-1267. 1990
  • Derivation of the Normalizers of the Space-groups.  Acta Crystallographica Section A.  46:545-552. 1990
  • The Dependence of the Sio Bond Length on Structural Parameters in Coesite, the Silica Polymorphs, and the Clathrasils.  American Mineralogist.  75:748-754. 1990
  • Inertia-preserving Secant Updates.  Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications.  62:1-16. 1989
  • Bond-length and Bonded-radii Variations in Sulfide Molecules and Crystals Containing Main-group Elements - a Comparison with Oxides.  American Mineralogist.  74:620-626. 1989
  • Matop - an Interactive Fortran-77 Program For Solving Problems in Geometrical Crystallography.  Computers and Geosciences.  14:37-53. 1988
  • Resonance Bond Numbers - a Graph-theoretic Study of Bond Length Variations in Silicate Crystals.  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.  15:409-415. 1988
  • Molecular Mimicry of Bond Length and Angle Variations in Germanate and Thiogermanate Crystals - a Comparison with Variations Calculated For C-containing, Si-containing, and Sn-containing Oxide and Sulfide Molecules.  Journal of Physical Chemistry.  91:5347-5354. 1987
  • Molecular Mimicry of the Bond Length-bond Strength Variations in Oxide Crystals.  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.  14:327-331. 1987
  • A Method For Calculating Fractional S-character For Bonds of Tetrahedral Oxyanions in Crystals.  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.  14:373-376. 1987
  • Molecular Mimicry of the Geometry and Charge Density Distribution of Polyanions in Borate Minerals.  American Mineralogist.  70:1238-1247. 1985
  • Simple going down and going down.  Houston Journal of Mathematics.  7:455-465. 1981
  • Abnormalities in Noetherian Rings.  Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.  73:1-6. 1979
  • A method for constructing and interpreting matrix representations of space group operations.  Canadian Mineralogist.  16:293-300. 1978
  • Strain-tensor Components Expressed in Terms of Lattice-parameters.  Acta Crystallographica Section A.  34:52-54. 1978
  • Adjunction of Anti-identity Operations to Point Groups, Including a Derivation of Magnetic Point Groups.  Zeitschrift Fur Kristallographie.  145:197-215. 1977
  • Cpi-extensions - Overrings of Integral Domains with Special Prime Spectrums.  Canadian Journal of Mathematics.  29:722-737. 1977
  • Derivation of 32 Crystallographic Point Groups Using Elementary Group-theory.  American Mineralogist.  61:145-165. 1976
  • Note on Pre-arithmetical Rings.  Acta Mathematica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae.  28:257-259. 1976
  • Thermal-expansion Coefficients For Monoclinic Crystals - Phenomenological Approach.  American Mineralogist.  60:828-833. 1975
  • Pre-prufer Rings.  Pacific Journal of Mathematics.  58:331-344. 1975
  • Valuation Structure of Homomorphic Images of Prufer Domains.  Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.  46:335-342. 1974
  • Prufer Rings as Images of Prufer Domains.  Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.  40:87-90. 1973
  • Prufer and valuation rings with zero divisors.  Pacific Journal of Mathematics.  40:7-12. 1972
  • Overlays of Pascal's triangle.  Fibonacci Quarterly.  7:131-139. 1969

• book

  • Brief Calculus with applications 1990
  • Calculus with applications 1990
  • Mathematical Crystallography, Reviews in Mineralogy Vol. 15 (Revised Edition) 1990
  • Mathematical Crystallography, Reviews in Mineralogy Vol. 15 1985
  • Understanding Basic Calculus: with applications from the managerial, social and life sciences 1978

• chapter

  • Molecules as a basis for modeling the force field of silica.  Structure and imperfections in amorphous and crystalline silicon dioxide. 153-165. 2000
  • Search for a connection among bond strength, bond length, and electron density distribution.  Physics meets mineralogy-Condensed matter Physics in Geosciences. 83-94. 2000
  • A modeling of the bonded interactions of crystalline silica.  The Chemistry of Organic Silicon Compounds. 103-118. 1998

presentations

• invited talk

  • An analysis of the OO interactions in coesite: to bond or not to bond, Speaker 2000
  • Electron Density Distributions and Bonded Interactions Calculated for Earth Materials, Speaker, 1999 Meeting of the American Geophysical Union 1999
  • On the Nature of Bonding in Silicates: Why do Ionic Models Work so Well?, Speaker, 1999 Meeting of the American Geophysical Union 1999
  • Annealing and Minimization Techniques with applications to power systems, Speaker 1993
  • The generation of silica structures using simulated annealing, Speaker, Gordon Research Conference on Zeolitic and Layered Materials 1993
  • Ab initio based models of the structural and volume compressibility properties of silica polymorphs such as quartz, cristobalite and coesite, Speaker, V.M. Goldschmidt Conference 1992
  • Bond length, bond strength variations for nitride, oxide, ouride and sullfide molecules and crystals, Speaker, V.M. Goldschmidt Conference 1992
  • Systematic Variations in bonded radii and promolecules radii for crystals and molecules, Speaker, Seventeenth Meeting of the Society of Crystallographers 1991
  • LasagaMathematical modeling of the structure and equation of state of a quartz crystal, Speaker, Better Ceramics Through Chemistry Symposium III 1988
  • SiO bond length variations:SiO2 polymorphs and Clathrasils, Speaker, V.M. Goldschmidt Conference 1988
  • Molecular mimicry of structure and electron density distributions of minerals, Speaker, 1986 International Mineralogical Association's International Meeting 1986
  • Molecular mimicry of structure and electron density distributions in minerals, Speaker, Better Ceramics Through Chemistry Symposium II 1985

Research

co-principal investigator on

• A Study of Bonded Interactions, Crystal Chemistry, Transformation of Chemical Reactivity of Earth Materials Based on Electron Density Distributions  awarded by National Science Foundation 2000 - 2003
• The generation of structures and properties of stable and metastable phases for geologically important chemical systems  awarded by National Science Foundation 1996 - 2000
• Strategies using mathematical models to generate silica and AlPO4{ zeolite structure types and to identify features in the electron density distribution that relate to the forces acting within the silica polymorphs  awarded by National Science Foundation 1993 - 1995
• Mathematical modeling of silicates and sulfides: a study of structural principles, equation of state and reactions  awarded by National Science Foundation 1988 - 1993

Contact

full name

• Monte Boisen