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Jodie Lutkenhaus

Jodie L. Lutkenhaus is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University who 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. Lutkenhaus is a World Economic Forum Young Scientist.

Jodie Lutkennhaus
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forEnergy materials
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
Yale University
Texas A&M University
Doctoral advisorPaula T. Hammond

Early life and education edit

Lutkenhaus was inspired to study engineering by her mother and father, who studied chemistry and physics respectively.[1] She studied chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and graduated in 2002.[1] She moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After obtaining her doctoral degree there in 2007[2] under the supervision of Paula T. Hammond, Lutkenhaus moved to the University of Massachusetts Amherst,[2][3] and then in 2008 joined the faculty of Yale University.[2]

Research and career edit

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 aspires 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 they are typically poor 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] She 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 deposited in confined spaces. She is developing two-dimensional transition metal-carbon nanosheets (MXenes), sheet-like structures made from layered ceramics that can include a range of different composites and functional groups.[5] She is also investigating how chemical structure and molecular packing influence these materials' electronic properties.[5] She has shown that MXene-polyelectrolyte devices 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 edit

Publications edit

  • Lutkenhaus, Jodie L.; Hammond, 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. S2CID 18095566.
  • 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.

Lutkenhaus serves on the editorial board of ACS Macro Letters, Macromolecules and Scientific Reports.[2]

Personal life edit

Lutkenhaus is married to chemical engineer Ben Wilhite, also a professor at TAMU. They have two sons.[1] Her older sister, Jessica Winter, is also a scientist.[25]

References edit

 
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  2. ^ a b c d "Jodie Lutkenhaus". www.aiche.org. 2018-07-31. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  3. ^ Bohannon, John (2014). "The Paula T. Hammond Lab". Science. doi:10.1126/science.caredit.a1400299.
  4. ^ a b "Seven chosen as TEES Select Young Faculty". tees.tamu.edu. July 12, 2002. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  5. ^ a b c "NSF Award Search: Award#1760859 - Tailoring the Composition, Morphology and Assembly of MXene Nanosheets". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  6. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1840453 - Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Soft Energy and Power". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  7. ^ "The energy implications of organic radical polymers". phys.org. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ How nanotech can build a better battery: Jodie Lutkenhaus (Nano Nugget), retrieved 2019-09-11
  10. ^ "Researchers demonstrate highest reported conductivity for organic radical polymer". phys.org. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  11. ^ "Organic Radical Polymers Could Unlock Faster Charging". www.engineering.com. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  12. ^ Clemens, Kevin (2019-02-05). "Batteries From Organic Radical Polymers". Design News. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  13. ^ 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. S2CID 53757403.
  14. ^ a b "How can batteries become more sustainable? This young scientist might have the answer". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  15. ^ "Protein Batteries for Environmentally Friendly and Safer Energy Storage". AZoCleantech.com. 2019-08-27. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  16. ^ Krämer, Katrina (2019-08-29). "Biodegradable batteries could be made from modified proteins". Chemistry World. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  17. ^ a b "Thiele Lecture – Jodie L. Lutkenhaus: Polyelectrolyte Assemblies: Fundamentals and Applications — Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering". cbe.nd.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-11.[permanent dead link]
  18. ^ "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.
  19. ^ "Lutkenhaus receives AFOSR Young Investigator Award". tees.tamu.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  20. ^ "Lutkenhaus, Jodie". engineering.tamu.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  21. ^ "Jodie Lutkenhaus". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  22. ^ "Deputy Editor". pubs.acs.org. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  23. ^ "Two engineering faculty members named 2018 Texas A&M Presidential Impact Fellows". engineering.tamu.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  24. ^ Thompson, Drew. "Lutkenhaus selected as Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow and named ACS Rising Star". engineering.tamu.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  25. ^ "2018 WCC Rising Star - Dr. Jodie Lutkenhaus". communities.acs.org. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
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