Jodie Lutkenhaus

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.

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

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;

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]

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  4. "Seven chosen as TEES Select Young Faculty | 07 | 12 | 2012 | News | Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station". tees.tamu.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  5. "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.
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  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.
  14. "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.
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