Ojovan, Michael J, Dr

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

Sir Robert Hadfield Building

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Dr Michael J Ojovan
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
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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

Hyatt NC & Ojovan MI (2019) . Materials, 12(21).
Poluektov PP, Schmidt OV, Kascheev VA & Ojovan MI (2017) . Journal of Nuclear Materials, 484, 357-366.
Rose PB, Woodward DI, Ojovan MI, Hyatt NC & Lee WE (2011) . Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 357(15), 2989-3001.
Rose PB, Woodward DI, Ojovan MI, Hyatt NC & Lee WE (2011) Crystallisation of a simulated borosilicate high-level waste glass produced on a full-scale vitrification line. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids.
McGann OJ & Ojovan MI (2011) . Journal of Nuclear Materials, 413(1), 47-52.
Ojovan MI & Lee WE (2011) . Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science, 42(4), 837-851.
McGann OJ & Ojovan MI (2011) The synthesis of graphite-glass composites intended for the immobilisation of waste irradiated graphite. Journal of Nuclear Materials.
Ojovan MI, Varlackova GA, Golubeva ZI & Burlaka ON (2011) . Journal of Hazardous Materials, 187(1-3), 296-302.
Mobus G, Ojovan M, Cook S, Tsai J & Yang G (2010) . J NUCL MATER, 396(2-3), 264-271.
Ojovan MI & Lee WE (2010) Glassy Wasteforms for Nuclear Waste Immobilization. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science, 1-15.
Ojovan MI & Lee WE (2010) . Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 356(44-49), 2534-2540.
Ojovan MI & Lee WBE (2010) Connectivity and glass transition in disordered oxide systems. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids.
Spasova LM, Ojovan MI, Hayes M & Godfrey H (2009) . Proceedings of the ICEM2007 - 11th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management(PART A), 631-638.
Spasova LM & Ojovan MI (2009) Acoustic emission characterisation of cementitious wasteforms under three-point bending and compression. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 1124, 357-364.
Drace Z & Ojovan MI (2009) . Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 1193, 663-672.
Ojovan M & Mobus G (2009) . Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 1193, 275-282.
Batyukhnova OG & Ojovan MI (2009) Tribochemical treatment for immobilisation of radioactive wastes. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 1124, 421-426.
Varlakova GA, Golubeva ZI, Barinov AS, Sobolev IA & Ojovan MI (2009) Properties and composition of cemented radioactive wastes extracted from the mound-type repository. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 1124, 333-338.
Barinov AS, Varlakova GA, Startceva IV, Stefanovsky SV & Ojovan MI (2009) Infrared spectroscopy structural analysis of corroded nuclear waste glass K-26. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 1124, 167-173.
Spasova LM, Gibb FGF & Ojovan MI (2008) . Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 1107, 75-82.
Ojovan MI, Juoi JM, Boccaccini AR & Lee WE (2008) . Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 1107, 245-252.
Ojovan MI (2008) . Entropy, 10(3), 334-364.
Juoi JM, Ojovan MI & Lee WE (2008) . Journal of Nuclear Materials, 372(2-3), 358-366.
Spasova LM & Ojovan MI (2008) . Journal of Nuclear Materials, 375(3), 347-358.
Spasova LM & Ojovan MI (2007) Frequency characteristics of acoustic emission signals from cementitious wasteforms With encapsulated Al. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 985, 373-378.
Pankov AS, Batyukhnova OG, Ojovan MI & Lee WE (2007) Simulation of self-irradiation of high-sodium content nuclear waste glasses. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 985, 353-358.
Juoi JM & Ojovan MI (2007) The effect of waste loading on the microstructure of glass composite waste forms for the immobilisation of spent clinoptilolite. Glass Technology: European Journal of Glass Science and Technology Part A, 48(3), 124-129.
Spasova LM & Ojovan MI (2006) . J Hazard Mater, 138(3), 423-432.
Lee WE, Ojovan MI, Stennett MC & Hyatt NC (2006) . ADV APPL CERAM, 105(1), 3-12.
Ojovan MI, Pankov A & Lee WE (2006) . Journal of Nuclear Materials, 358(1), 57-68.
Ojovan MI & Lee WE (2006) . Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, 18(50), 11507-11520.
Ojovan MI, Lee WE, Barinov AS, Startceva IV, Bacon DH, McGrail BP & Vienna JD (2006) Corrosion of low level vitrified radioactive waste in a loamy soil. Glass Technology: European Journal of Glass Science and Technology Part A, 47(2), 48-55.
Sobolev IA, Dmitriev SA, Barinov AS, Varlakova GA, Golubeva ZI, Startceva IV & Ojovan MI (2006) . Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 932, 721-726.
Manykin EA, Ojovan MI & Poluektov PP (2006) . Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 6181.
Ojovan MI, Hand RJ, Ojovan NV & Lee WE (2005) . J NUCL MATER, 340(1), 12-24.
Sobolev IA, Dmitriev SA, Barinov AS, Varlackova GA, Golubeva ZI & Ojovan MI (2005) Reliability of cementation technology proved via long-term field tests. Proceedings - 10th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management, ICEM'05, 2005, 1082-1087.
Pankov AS, Ojovan MI, Lee WE & Scales CR (2005) ION-exchange and diffusion parameters of simulant British (Magnox, 75/25 Blended waste) and Russian (K-26) glasses at 40-60°C. Proceedings - 10th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management, ICEM'05, 2005, 637-643.
Juoi JM, Ojovan MI & Lee WE (2005) Development of glass-composite materials for radioactive waste immobilisation. Proceedings - 10th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management, ICEM'05, 2005, 341-348.
Ojovan MI, Lee WE & Hand RJ (2005) Role of ion exchange in performance of nuclear waste immobilising glasses. Proceedings - 10th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management, ICEM'05, 2005, 357-364.
Karlina OK, Klimov VL, Ojovan MI, Pavlova GY, Dmitriev SA & Yurchenko AY (2005) . Journal of Nuclear Materials, 345(1), 84-85.
Ojovan MI, Batyukhnova OG, Dmitriev SA, Barinov SA & Startceva IV (2005) An assessment of radionuclide release inventory based on long-term field tests of nuclear waste glass K-26. Proceedings - 10th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management, ICEM'05, 2005, 319-325.
Sobolev IA, Dmitriev SA, Lifanov FA, Kobelev AP, Stefanovsky SV & Ojovan MI (2005) Vitrification processes for low, intermediate radioactive and mixed wastes. Glass Technology, 46(1), 28-35.
Ojovan MI & Lee WE (2005) Fragility of oxide melts as a thermodynamic parameter. Physics and Chemistry of Glasses, 46(1), 7-11.
Ojovan MI, Lee WE, Sobolev IA, Dmitriev SA, Karlina OK, Klimov VL, Petrov GA & Semenov CN (2004) . Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering, 218(4), 261-269.
Ojovan MI & Lee WE (2004) . Journal of Nuclear Materials, 335(3), 425-432.
Ojovan MI (2004) . JETP Letters, 79(12), 632-634.
Ojovan MI & Lee WE (2004) . Journal of Applied Physics, 95(7), 3803-3810.
Ojovan MI (2004) . JETP Letters, 79(2), 85-87.
Ojovan MI, Lee WE, Barinov AS, Ojovan NV, Startceva IV, Bacon DH, McGrail BP & Vienna JD (2004) . Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 824, 333-338.
Ojovan NV, Sartceva IV, Barinov AS, Mokhov AV, Ojovan MI & Möbus G (2004) Secondary phases on the surface of real vitrified radioactive waste disposed in a loamy soil. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 807, 139-144.
Ojovan NV, Startceva IV, Barinov AS, Ojovan MI, Bacon DH, McGrail BP & Vienna JD (2004) . Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 824, 339-344.
Ojovan MI, Gibb FGF & Lee WE (2004) In situ sintering of waste forms in an underground disposal environment. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 807, 949-954.
Ojovan MI & Lee WE (2003) . Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 792, 75-80.
Dmitriev SA, Karlina OK, Klimov VL, Ojovan MI, Pavlova GY & Yurchenko AY (2003) . Proceedings of the International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation, ICEM, 2, 1293-1296.
Karlina OK, Varlakova GA, Dmitriev SA, Ojovan MI & Poluektov VV (2003) . Proceedings of the International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation, ICEM, 1, 543-546.
Bacon DH, Ojovan MI, McGrail BP, Ojovan NV & Startsceva IV (2003) . Proceedings of the International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation, ICEM, 2, 803-809.
Ojovan MI, Karlina OK, Petrov GA, Sobolev IA, Dmitriev SA & Lee WE (2003) . Proceedings of the International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation, ICEM, 3, 1801-1806.
Ojovan MI & Lee WE (2003) Self sustaining vitrification for immobilisation of radioactive and toxic waste. Glass Technology, 44(6), 218-224.
Ojovan MI (2003) Effect of gas generation in matrices containing Ra-226 sources. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 757, 609-614.
Lifanov FA, Ojovan MI, Stefanovsky SV & Burcl R (2003) Cold crucible vitrification of NPP operational waste. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 757, 201-206.
Ojovan MI, Karlina OK, Klimoy VL, Bergman GA, Pavlova GY, Yurchenko AY & Dmitriev SA (2003) Investigation of reactor graphite processing with the carbon-14 retention. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 757, 615-620.
McGrail BP, Bacon DH, Meyer PD, Ojovan MI, Strachan DM, Ojovan NV & Startceva IV (2003) New Developments in Field Studies of Low Activity Waste Glass Corrosion and Contaminant Transport. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 757, 83-95.
Ojovan MI, Ojovan NV, Golubeva ZI, Startceva IV & Barinov AS (2002) . Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 713, 713-718.
Bergman GA, Navrotsky A, Ojovan MI, Klimov VL, Karlina OK & Pavlova GY (2002) . Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 713, 365-371.
Ojovan MI, Ojóvan NV, Startceva IV, Golubeva ZI & Barinov AS (2002) Modelling of the waste form behaviour in a wet near-surface repository site over extended time periods. Proceedings of the International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation, ICEM, 3, 1647-1650.
Puzanov YV, Ojovan MI & Sobolev IA (2001) Requirements for the radiation monitoring systems in highly populated areas. Proceedings of the International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation, ICEM, 1, 589-591.
Ojovan MI, Karlina OK, Klimov VL, Trusov BG, Pavlova GY & Sobolev IA (2001) Self-sustaining reactions for the processing technologies of chemically stable matrices incorporating carbon and zirconium wastes. Proceedings of the International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation, ICEM, 2, 1035-1039.
Sobolev IA, Ojovan MI & Karlina OK (2001) Management of spent sealed radioactive sources at regional facilities "Radon" in Russia. Proceedings of the International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation, ICEM, 1, 81-86.
Ojovan MI, Ojovan NV, Startceva IV, Chuikova GN & Barinov AS (2001) Simulation of the waste glass behavior in a loamy soil of the wet repository site. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 663, 837-842.
Ojovan MI, Klimov VI, Petrov GA, Dmitriev SA, Laurson AV & Semenov KN (2001) Thermochemical approach on treating spent ion exchange resins. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 663, 19-26.
Karlina OK, Varlackova GA, Ojovan MI, Tivansky VM, Klimov VL, Pavlova GY & Dmitriev SA (2001) Ash and soil conditioning using exothermic metallic compositions. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 663, 65-70.
Ojovan MI, Ojovan NV, Startceva IV, Tchuikova GN, Golubeva ZI & Barinov AS (2001) . Journal of Nuclear Materials, 298(1-2), 174-179.
Ojovan MI & Poluectov PP (2001) Surface self-diffusion instability in electric fields. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 648.
Ojovan MI, Guskov AV, Prozorov LB, Arustamov AE, Poluektov PP & Serebryakov BB (2000) . Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 608, 141-146.
Sobolev IA, Barinov AS, Ojovan MI, Ojovan NV, Startceva IV & Golubeva ZI (2000) . Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 608, 571-576.
Manykin EA, Ojovan MI & Plouektov PP (2000) . Journal De Physique. IV : JP, 10(5).
Ojovan MI, Karlina OK, Klimov VL & Pavlova GY (2000) Graphite processing with carbon retention in a waste form. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 608, 565-570.
Manykin EA, Ojovan MI & Poluektov PP (2000) Optically induced condensation of impurity excitations in transparent solids. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 588, 303-308.
Manykin EA, Ojovan MI & Poluektov PP (2000) Condensed states and their decay in a system of excited cesium atoms. Chemical Physics Reports, 18(7), 1353-1380.
Ojovan MI, Petrov OA, Stefanovsky SV & Nikonov BS (1999) . Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 556, 239-245.
Arustamov AE, Ojovan MI & Kachalov MB (1999) . Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 556, 961-966.
Barinov AS, Ojovan MI, Ojovan NV & Startceva IV (1999) Open site tests on corrosion of carbon steel containers for radioactive waste forms. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 556, 903-909.
Karlina OK, Varlackova GA, Ojovan MI, Tivansky VM & Dmitriev SA (1999) . Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 556, 143-146.
Barinov AS, Ojovan MI & Ojovan NV (1997) . Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 506, 971-972.
Karlina OK, Petrov GA, Ojovan MI, Varlackova GA & Dmitriev SA (1997) . Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 506.
Sobolev IA, Ojovan MI, Karlina OK, Stefanovsky SV & Galtsev VE (1997) Processing and characterization of glass composites for ash immobilization. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 465.
Sobolev IA, Timofeev EM, Ojovan MI, Shiryaev VV, Arustamov AE & Kachalov MB (1997) . Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 506.
Karlina OK, Ojovan MI, Stefanovsky SV & Varlakova GA (1997) . Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 506.
Sobolev IA, Ojovan MI, Batyukhnova OG, Ojovan NV & Scherbatova TD (1997) Waste glass leaching and alteration under conditions of open site tests. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 465.
Ojovan MI, Karlina OK & Kachalov MB (1996) Anomalous diffusion in radwaste glasses. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 412.
Barinov AS, Ojovan MI & Ojovan NV (1996) 7-years leaching tests of NPP vitrified radioactive waste. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings, 412.
Mashanov AA, Ojovan MI, Darmaev MV & Razumovskaya IV () . Applied Sciences, 14(10), 4319-4319.
Ojovan MI & Louzguine-Luzgin DV () . Materials, 17(8), 1822-1822.
Malkovsky V, Yudintsev S & Ojovan M () . Sustainability, 15(20), 15134-15134.
Ojovan MI () . International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(15), 12120-12120.
Nabakhtiani G, Giorgadze I & Ojovan MI () . Processes, 9(9), 1679-1679.

Conference proceedings papers

Ojovan MI & Lee WE (2011) Glassy and glass composite nuclear wasteforms. Ceramic Transactions, Vol. 227 (pp 203-216)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)

Professional activities and memberships

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Nuclear Engineer, 2011-2018, Technical Expert, since 1993.
The IAEA International Predisposal Network, 2016-2018: .
The IAEA International Project on Irradiated Graphite Processing, 2014-2018 .
The IAEA Benchmarking System for Operational Waste of WWER NPP’s 2014-2018 .
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy: Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshops on Radiation effects in nuclear wasteforms , Fundamental of Vitrification and International Schools on Actinides Immobilisation , and Nuclear Waste Vitrification .
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.