Jodie Lutkenhaus
Jodie Lutkennhaus | |
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Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Known for | Energy materials |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Massachusetts Amherst Yale University Texas A&M University |
Doctoral advisor | Paula T. Hammond |
Jodie L. Lutkenhaus is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. She develops redox active polymers for energy storage and smart coatings. In 2019 Lutkenhaus and Karen L. Wooley demonstrated the world's first biodegradable peptide battery. She is a World Economic Forum Young Scientist.
Early life and education
Lutkenhaus was inspired to study engineering by her family. Her mother studied chemistry and her father studied physics.[1] She studied chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and graduated in 2002.[1] She moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her doctoral degree, which she finished in 2007.[2] After earning her doctorate under the supervision of Paula T. Hammond Lutkenhaus moved to the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[2][3] In 2008 Lutkenhaus joined the faculty at Yale University.[2]
Research and career
Lutkenhaus joined the faculty at Texas A&M University in 2010, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015.[4] She develops new materials for energy storage and smart coatings, including polyelectrolytes and redox active polymers.[5] She looks to develop soft and flexible power supplies for wearable electronics that are durable, sustainable and efficient.[6][7]
A challenge with using polymers in batteries is that typically polymers are not good at storing and exchanging electrons.[8] Lutkenhaus has demonstrated that organic radical polymers are electrochemically active; allowing for fast charge transfer during redox reactions.[8][9][10] If used in portable electronic devices, organic radical polymers could enable fast charging.[11][12] Lutkenhaus has characterised the speed of charge transfer in these systems using an electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance.[8][13] Lutkenhaus hopes that future batteries will be metal-free, organic and recyclable.[14] At present, only 5% of lithium-ion batteries are recycled. Lutkenhaus and Wooley demonstrated that glutamic acid could be used to make batteries – the first fully biodegradable protein battery.[15] The peptides contain redox-active compounds, the stable radical Tempo on the cathode and bipyridine viologen on the anodes.[16]
Lutkenhaus has studied how polymer films behave when they deposited in confined spaces. She is developing two-dimensional transition metal-carbon nanosheets (MXenes), which are sheet-like structures made from layered ceramics. They can include a range of different composites and functional groups.[5] Lutkenhaus is investigating how chemical structure and molecular packing influence the electronic properties of these materials.[5] She has shown that a MXene – polyelectrolyte device can be used to sense humidity and pressure, as water facilitates the relaxation of charged molecular assemblies by reducing Coulombic attraction.[17]
Awards and honours
Her awards and honours include;
- 2011 National Science Foundation CAREER Award[18]
- 2012 Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Young Faculty[4]
- 2013 Air Force Research Laboratory Young Investigator Prize[19]
- 2014 Kaneka Corporation Faculty Scholarship[20]
- 2014 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award[21]
- 2016 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Van Ness Lectureship
- 2018 American Chemical Society WCC Rising Star Award[22]
- 2018 University of Notre Dame Thiele Lectureship[17]
- 2018 Texas A&M University Presidential Impact Fellow[23]
- 2019 Japanese-American-German Frontiers of Science Kavli Foundation Fellow[24]
- 2019 World Economic Forum Young Scientist[14]
Publications
Her publications include;
- Lutkenhaus, Jodie L.; Hammonnd, Paula (2007). "Electrochemically enabled polyelectrolyte multilayer devices: from fuel cells to sensors". Soft Matter. 3 (7): 804. Bibcode:2007SMat....3..804L. doi:10.1039/B701203A.
- Lutkenhaus, Jodie L.; Hammonnd, Paula (2005). "Elastomeric Flexible Free-Standing Hydrogen-Bonded Nanoscale Assemblies". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127 (49): 17228–17234. doi:10.1021/ja053472s. PMID 16332070.
- Mike, Jared F.; Lutkenhaus, Jodie L. (2013). "Recent advances in conjugated polymer energy storage". Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics. 51 (7): 468–480. Bibcode:2013JPoSB..51..468M. doi:10.1002/polb.23256.
She serves on the editorial board of ACS Macro Letters, Macromolecules and Scientific Reports.[2]
Personal life
Lutkenhaus is married to chemical engineer Ben Wilhite (also professor at TAMU) and they have two sons.[1] Her older sister, Jessica Winter, is also a scientist.[25]
References
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- ^ Bohannon, John (2014). "The Paula T. Hammond Lab". Science. doi:10.1126/science.caredit.a1400299.
- ^ a b "Seven chosen as TEES Select Young Faculty | 07 | 12 | 2012 | News | Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station". tees.tamu.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ a b c "NSF Award Search: Award#1760859 - Tailoring the Composition, Morphology and Assembly of MXene Nanosheets". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1840453 - Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Soft Energy and Power". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ "The energy implications of organic radical polymers". phys.org. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ a b c "Better batteries: The energy implications of organic radical polymers: New technology could change the way we charge everything from phones to electric vehicles". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ How nanotech can build a better battery: Jodie Lutkenhaus (Nano Nugget), retrieved 2019-09-11
- ^ "Researchers demonstrate highest reported conductivity for organic radical polymer". phys.org. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ "Organic Radical Polymers Could Unlock Faster Charging". www.engineering.com. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ Clemens, Kevin (2019-02-05). "Batteries From Organic Radical Polymers". Design News. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ Wang, Shaoyang; Li, Fei; Easley, Alexandra D.; Lutkenhaus, Jodie L. (2018-11-26). "Real-time insight into the doping mechanism of redox-active organic radical polymers". Nature Materials. 18 (1): 69–75. doi:10.1038/s41563-018-0215-1. ISSN 1476-1122. PMID 30478451.
- ^ a b "How can batteries become more sustainable? This young scientist might have the answer". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ "Protein Batteries for Environmentally Friendly and Safer Energy Storage". AZoCleantech.com. 2019-08-27. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ Krämer, Katrina (2019-08-29). "Biodegradable batteries could be made from modified proteins". Chemistry World. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
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- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1049706 - CAREER: Internal Structure and Properties of Confined Layer-by-Layer Films and Nanotubes". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ "Lutkenhaus receives AFOSR Young Investigator Award | 25 | 01 | 2013 | News | Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station". tees.tamu.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ A, Texas; Engineering, M. University College of; Tamu, 3127; Station, College; Tx 77843-3127. "Lutkenhaus, Jodie". engineering.tamu.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
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- ^ A, Texas; Engineering, M. "Two engineering faculty members named 2018 Texas A&M Presidential Impact Fellows". engineering.tamu.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ Thompson, Drew. "Lutkenhaus selected as Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow and named ACS Rising Star". engineering.tamu.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ "2018 WCC Rising Star - Dr. Jodie Lutkenhaus | ACS Network". communities.acs.org. Retrieved 2019-09-11.