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American chemist
Luisa Whittaker-Brooks
BornPanama
Alma materState University of New York at Buffalo
University of Panama
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Utah
Princeton University
ThesisSynthesis, characterization and phase transitions of single-crystalline vanadium(IV) oxide nanostructures (2011)

Luisa Whittaker-Brooks is an American chemist who is an associate professor at the University of Utah. She was named a L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science honouree in 2013 and one of Chemical & Engineering News' Talented 12 in 2017.

Early life and education

Whittaker grew up in Panama. As a child, she became interested in the hydroelectric dams that powered Panama. She started to think about alternative sources of energy. Whittaker earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Panama, where she studied analytical chemistry. She moved to the United States for her graduate studies, where she joined the University at Buffalo as a Fulbright Program fellow. There she completed her master's and doctoral degrees within three and a half years. For her doctoral research Whittaker studied vanadium oxide. Vanadium oxide is opaque when hot and transparent when cold, and Whittaker wondered whether it could be used to coat windows and keep buildings cool. Throughout her doctoral research she worked to lower the transition temperature that this phase change occurs at, and eventually commercialised her technology. Whittaker-Brooks worked as a postdoctoral scholar with Yueh-Lin Loo, where she used low-temperature hydrothermal methods to study zinc oxide nanostructures.

Research and career

Whittaker studies novel photovoltaic and thermoelectric materials for energy generation and storage. She is particularly interested in chalcogenides and perovskites and how their composition and structure impacts their electronic properties. Whittaker has researched how bias stress and sample heterogeneity impact the performance and operational lifetime of organic-inorganic halide perovskites (OIHPs). She has also studied the role of excitons in their operational stability and impact of moisture and oxygen. In 2019 she was elected to the advisory board of ChemNanoMat.

Awards and honours

Select publications

  • Lee, Vincent; Whittaker, Luisa; Jaye, Cherno; Baroudi, Kristen M.; Fischer, Daniel A.; Banerjee, Sarbajit (2009-08-25). "Large-Area Chemically Modified Graphene Films: Electrophoretic Deposition and Characterization by Soft X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy". Chemistry of Materials. 21 (16): 3905–3916. doi:10.1021/cm901554p. ISSN 0897-4756.
  • Whittaker, Luisa; Jaye, Cherno; Fu, Zugen; Fischer, Daniel A.; Banerjee, Sarbajit (2009-07-01). "Depressed Phase Transition in Solution-Grown VO2 Nanostructures". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131 (25): 8884–8894. Bibcode:2009JAChS.131.8884W. doi:10.1021/ja902054w. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 19505072.
  • Whittaker, Luisa; Patridge, Christopher J.; Banerjee, Sarbajit (2011-04-07). "Microscopic and Nanoscale Perspective of the Metal−Insulator Phase Transitions of VO2: Some New Twists to an Old Tale". The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2 (7): 745–758. doi:10.1021/jz101640n.

References

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  2. ^ Whittaker-Brooks, Luisa (2018-11-29). "Fundamentals, State-of-the-Art, & Recent Trends in Nanostructured Materials for Energy & Electronic Applications". Public Lecture Series.
  3. ^ "2018 Stanley Corrsin Award Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
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  10. Cobley, Claire M. (2020). "Introducing our Inaugural Early Career Advisory Board". ChemNanoMat. 6 (1): 4. doi:10.1002/cnma.201900721. ISSN 2199-692X.
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  16. "Dr. Lloyd N. Ferguson Professional Award". www.nobcche.org. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
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  18. "2021 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards". Dreyfus Foundation. 2021-04-30. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
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