Ilie Murgulescu Institute of Physical Chemistry, Bucharest, Romania
Maria-Magdalena Zaharescu (born 1938) is a Romanian chemist, specializing in the physical chemistry of oxide systems.[1]
Zaharescu was a Senior Researcher and Head of Department at the Ilie Murgulescu Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest.[2][3][4] In 2001, she was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy and became a full member in June 2015.[5] On December 1, 2017, she was awarded a Knight of the Order of the Star of Romania.[6]
She was one of the 100 women scientists featured in "Successful Women Ceramic and Glass Scientists and Engineers: 100 Inspirational Profiles" [7] by Lynnette Madsen (2016).
Physical chemistry of oxide systems (reactions mechanisms, thermal phase equilibria, structure-properties correlations).
Sol-gel science (sol-gel chemistry, nanostructured oxide films and powders, inorganic-organic hybrids, nanocomposites, oxide nanotubes). She introduced and developed the field of sol-gel research in Romania.[9]
Vitreous oxide systems with special properties (thermally and chemically stable)
Education
She graduated from the Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Chemistry, and received her PhD from the Institute of Chemistry, both in Cluj-Napoca.
In 2016, Zaharescu published 1D Oxide Nanostructures Obtained by Sol-Gel and Hydrothermal Methods,[15] as part of the SpringerBriefs[16] series offered by the Springer Publishing Company.
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