Jodie Lutkenhaus

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Jodie Lutkennhaus
Alma mater University of Texas at Austin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forEnergy 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 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.

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Early life and education

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

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

Publications

Lutkenhaus 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 a professor at TAMU. They have two sons. [1] Her older sister, Jessica Winter, is also a scientist. [25]

Related Research Articles

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