Education

• PhD in Environmental Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
• MChE, Illinois Institute of Technology
• MS in Environmental Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
• BS in Geoscience and Geochemistry Option, Purdue University

Areas of Research

Lisa Axe’s research interests are in biogeochemical processes in environmental systems. Therefore efforts in her group include studies on contaminant speciation, mobility, bioavailability, transport, and fate. As part of this work in studying natural attenuating processes and developing novel treatment systems, Dr. Axe’s group has produced and investigated nanostructured, microporous iron and manganese oxide coatings on silica, clay, and more recently biofilms. Her group employs a suite of complementary techniques to, for example, fundamentally understand and model molecular mechanisms that can then be included in accurately modeling treatment and/or natural processes. One such method is X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) where speciation, distribution, and sorption mechanisms are being investigated in contaminated systems as well as in potentially stabilized, treated sediments.

Selected Publications

Maeng, S., Axe, L., Tyson, T. A., Gladczuk, L., and Sosnowski, M. 2006, Corrosion Behavior of Magnetron Sputtered α- and β-Ta Coatings on AISI 4340 Steel as a Function of Coating Thickness, Journal of Corrosion Science 48, 2154-2171.

Xu, Y., Axe, L., Yee, N., and Dyer, J. A. 2006, Surface Complexation Modeling of Heavy Metal Adsorption and Competition on Goethite, Environmental Science & Technology 40(7): 2213-2218.

Xu, Y., Boonfueng, T., Axe, L., Maeng, S., and Tyson, T. A. 2006, Surface Complexation of Pb(II) on Amorphous Iron Oxide and Manganese Oxide: Spectroscopic and Time Studies,  Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 299(1): 28-40.

Boonfueng, T., Axe, L., Xu, Y., and Fan, M. 2006, The impact of Mn oxide coatings on Zn distribution, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 298(2): 615-623.

Maeng, S., Axe, L., Tyson, T. A., Gladczuk, L., and Sosnowski, M. 2006, Corrosion Behavior of Magnetron Sputtered α-Ta Coatings on AISI 4340 Steel on Smooth and Rough Steel, Surface and Coatings Technology 200(20-21): 5717-5724.

Maeng, S., Axe, L., and Tyson, T. A. 2006, Corrosion Behavior of Electrodeposited and Sputtered Cr Coatings and Sputtered Ta Coatings with α and β Phases, Surface and Coatings Technology 200(20-21): 5767-5724.

Jiang, A., Tyson, T. A., and Axe, L. 2005, The Structure of Small Ta Clusters, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 17(39): 6111-6121.

Jiang, A., Tyson, T. A., and Axe, L. 2005, The stability of the β phase of tantalum: a molecular dynamics study, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 17(12), 1841-1850. 

Fan, M., Thongsri, T., Axe, L., and Tyson, T. A. 2005, Using a probabilistic approach in an ecological risk assessment simulation tool: test case for depleted uranium (DU), Chemosphere 60, 111-125.

Jiang, A., Tyson, T. A., Axe, L., Gladczuk, L., Sosnowski, M., and Coate, P. 2005, The structure and stability of β-Ta thin films, Thin Solid Films 479(1-2), 166-173.

Maeng, S., Axe, L., Tyson, T., and Jiang, A. 2005, An Investigation of Structures of Thermal and Anodic Tantalum Oxide Films, Journal of the Electrochemical Society 152(2), B60-B64.

Xu, Y., and Axe, L. 2005, Synthesis and Characterization of Iron Oxide-Coated Silica and Its Effect on Metal Adsorption, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 282(1), 11-19.

Boonfueng, T., Axe, L., and Xu, Y. 2005, Properties and structure of manganese oxide-coated clay, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 281(1), 80-92.

Fan, M., Boonfueng, T., Xu, Y., Axe, L., and Tyson, T. A. 2005, Modeling Pb Sorption to Microporous Amorphous Oxides as Discrete Particles and Coatings, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 281(1) 39-48.

Jiang, A., Yohannan, A., Nnolim, N. O., Tyson, T. A., Axe, L., Lee, S. L. and Cote, P. 2003, Investigation of the structure of β-tantalum, Thin Solid Films 437(1-2), 116-122. 

Nnolim, N. O., Tyson, T. A. and Axe, L. 2003, Theory of the structural phases of group 5B-6B metals and their transport properties, Journal of Applied Physics 93(8), 4543-4560. 

Lu, H., Axe, L., and Tyson, T. A. 2003, Development and application of computer simulation tools for ecological risk assessment, Environmental Modeling and Assessment 8, 311-312.

Maeng, S. M., Axe, L. and Tyson, T. A. 2002, Characterization of Gun-barrel Steel Corrosion as a Function of Time, Corrosion 58, 370-380.

Axe, L., and Trivedi, P. 2002, Intraparticle Surface Diffusion of Metal Contaminants and their Attenuation in Amorphous Al, Fe, and Mn Oxides, Feature Paper, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 247, 259-265.

Trivedi, P., and Axe, L. 2001, Ni and Zn Sorption to Amorphous versus Crystalline Iron Oxides: Macroscopic Studies, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 244, 221-229.

Trivedi, P., Axe, L., and Tyson, T. A. 2001, An Analysis of Zinc Sorption to Amorphous versus Crystalline Iron Oxides using XAS, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 244, 230-238.

Trivedi, P., Axe, L., and Tyson, T. A. 2001, XAS Studies of Ni and Zn Sorbed to Hydrous Manganese Oxide, Environmental Science & Technology, 35, 4515-4521.

Trivedi, P., Axe, L., and Dyer, J. A. 2001, Adsorption of Metal Ions onto Goethite: Single-Adsorbate and Competitive Systems, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physiochem. and Eng. Asp., 191(1-2):107-121.

Trivedi, P. and Axe, L. 2001, Predicting Divalent Metal Sorption to Hydrous Al, Fe, and Mn Oxides, Environmental Science & Technology, 35, 1779-1784.