David Mitlin

Research Interests

Alloy design and microstructure – properties relations in “beyond lithium” energy storage materials, batteries, supercapacitors, hybrid devices. Metallurgy of petroleum – related corrosion and fouling. Applied TEM analysis of battery anodes and cathodes, electrochemical phase transformations, high temperature sulfidic phase transformations, corrosion-related degradation in oil and gas environments.

Bio

Mitlin is a David Allen Cockrell Endowed Professor at the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to that, he was a Professor and General Electric Chair at Clarkson University, and an Assistant, Associate and full Professor at the University of Alberta. Dr. Mitlin has published about 150 peer-reviewed journal articles on various aspects of energy storage and conversion materials. This work is cited at near 2000 times per year. Dr. Mitlin holds 5 granted U.S. patents and 9 more pending full applications, with all of them licensed currently or in the past. He has presented 125 invited, keynote and plenary talks at various international conferences. Dr. Mitlin is an Associate Editor for Sustainable Energy and Fuels, a Royal Society of Chemistry Journal focused on renewables. Dave received a Doctorate in Materials Science from U.C. Berkeley in 2000, M.S. from Penn State in 1996, and B.S. from RPI in 1995. He grew up in upstate NY and in southern CT. 

Educational Qualifications

Ph.D., Materials Science, University of California Berkeley, 2000
M.S., Materials Science, Penn State University, 1996
B.S., Materials Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1995 

Related Websites

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Selected Publications

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