• Associate Department Head, Internal Engagement, Chemical Engineering
  • Professor, Chemical Engineering
  • Axalta Coating Systems Chair
  • Presidential Impact Fellow
  • Dean’s Fellow
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Jodie Lutkenhaus

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology – 2007
  • B.S., University of Texas at Austin – 2002

Research Interests

    • Redox-active polymers
    • Energy storage
    • Polyelectrolytes
    • Nanocomposites
    • Thin films and coatings

Awards & Honors

  • 2023 American Chemical Society Outstanding Global Mentor in Polymer Science and Engineering
  • 2022 The Academy of Medicine, Engineering & Science of Texas (TAMEST) Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award
  • 2021 Arthur K. Doolittle Award, ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Sc. and Eng
  • 2020 Outstanding Early Career Paper Award, Molecular Systems Design & Engineering
  • 2017-2019 World Economic Forum Young Scientist
  • 2017 and 2019 Kavli Fellow, Japanese-American-German Frontiers of Science
  • 2018 Presidential Impact Fellow
  • 2018 Thiele Lectureship, University of Notre Dame
  • 2018 American Chemical Society WCC Rising Star Award
  • 2016 Van Ness Lectureship, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • 2016 The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas, Protégé
  • 2015 Finalist, World Technology Network Awards
  • 2014-2015 Montague CTE Scholar Award
  • 2014-2015 George Armistead, Jr. ’23 Faculty Excellence Teaching Award
  • 2014 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award
  • 2014 Kaneka Junior Faculty Scholarship
  • 2013 AFOSR YIP
  • 2012 TEES Select Young Faculty
  • 2011 NSF CAREER
  • 2011 ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator

Selected Publications

  • Ma, T.; Li, C.-H.; Thakur, R. M.; Tabor, D. P.; Lutkenhaus, J. L., The role of the electrolyte in non-conjugated radical polymers for metal-free aqueous energy storage electrodes. Nature Materials 2023, 22 (4), 495-502
  • Yun, J.; Natu, V.; Echols, I.; Thakur, R. M.; Cao, H.; Tan, Z.; Radovic, M.; Green, M. J.; Barsoum, M. W.; Lutkenhaus, J. L., Anion Identity and Time Scale Affect the Cation Insertion Energy Storage Mechanism in Ti3C2Tx MXene Multilayers. ACS Energy Letters 2022, 7 (5), 1828-1834
  • Parekh, M. H.; Oka, S.; Lutkenhaus, J.; Pol, V. G., Critical-Point-Dried, Porous, and Safer Aramid Nanofiber Separator for High-Performance Durable Lithium-Ion Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2022, 14 (25), 29176-29187
  • Nguyen, T. P.; Easley, A. D.; Kang, N.; Khan, S.; Lim, S.-M.; Rezenom, Y. H.; Wang, S.; Tran, D. K.; Fan, J.; Letteri, R. A.; He, X.; Su, L.; Yu, C.-H.; Lutkenhaus, J. L.; Wooley, K. L., Polypeptide organic radical batteries. Nature 2021, 593 (7857), 61-66
  • Lalwani, S. M.; Batys, P.; Sammalkorpi, M.; Lutkenhaus, J. L., Relaxation Times of Solid-like Polyelectrolyte Complexes of Varying pH and Water Content. Macromolecules 2021, 54 (17), 7765-7776
  • Lalwani, S. M.; Batys, P.; Sammalkorpi, M.; Lutkenhaus, J. L. Relaxation Times of Solid-like Polyelectrolyte Complexes of Varying pH and Water Content. Macromolecules 2021
  • Nguyen, T. P.; Easley, A. D.; Kang, N.; Khan, S.; Lim, S.-M.; Rezenom, Y. H.; Wang, S.; Tran, D. K.; Fan, J.; Letteri, R. A.; He, X.; Su, L.; Yu, C.-H.; Lutkenhaus, J. L.; Karen L. Wooley. Polypeptide Organic Radical Batteries. Nature 2021, 593, 61-66.
  • Wang, S., Li, F., Easley, A.D.,2 & Lutkenhaus, J.L., Real-time insight into the doping mechanism of redox-active organic radical polymers. Nature Materials 18 (1), 69-75 (2019).
  • Flouda, P.; Shah, S. A.; Lagoudas, D. C.; Green, M. J.; Lutkenhaus, J. L., Highly Multifunctional Dopamine-Functionalized Reduced Graphene Oxide Supercapacitors. Matter 2019, 1 (6), 1532-1546.
  • An, H., Habib, T., Shah, S., Gao, H., Radovic, M., Green, M.J., & Lutkenhaus, J.L., Surface-agnostic highly stretchable and bendable conductive MXene multilayers. Science Advances 4 (3) (2018).
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