C. Buddie Mullins

mullins@che.utexas.edu

Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty
Z. D. Bonner Professorship in Chemical Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering

Research Group

Education

 

BS, University of Texas at Austin, 1975

MS, University of Texas at Austin, 1977

BS, University of Tennessee, 1982

PhD, California Institute of Technology, 1990

PostDoctoral Fellow, IBM Almaden Research Center, 1989-1991

 

Awards

Lockheed-Martin College of Engineering Teaching Award, 2004
Texas-Exes Teaching Award, 1999
Union Carbide Corp. Innovation Recognition Award, 1999
CSGS New Scholar Award, 1994
Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 1993
NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1991

Affiliations

Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology; Texas Materials Institute; Center for Electrochemistry

Materials Chemistry for Energy

The Mullins research group is studying (i) the chemistry of nano-structured surfaces with goals of learning more about catalysis, (ii) the growth and characterization of nanostructured films with applications in photoelectrocatalysis for the production of fuels from sunlight, and (iii) the discovery and characterization of electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

Representative Publications

Nathan T. Hahn, H. Ye, David W. Flaherty, Allen J. Bard, and C. Buddie Mullins, “Reactive Ballistic Deposition of α-Fe2O3 Thin Films for Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation,” ACS Nano 4, 1977-1986 (2010).  http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn100032y

Nathan T. Hahn and C. Buddie Mullins, “Photoelectrochemical Performance of Nanostructured Ti- and Sn-doped α-Fe2O3 Photoanodes,” Chem. Mater. 22, 6474-6482 (2010).  http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cm1026078

Ting Yan, Jinlong Gong, David W. Flaherty, and C. Buddie Mullins, “The effect of adsorbed water in CO oxidation on Au/TiO2(110),” J. Phys. Chem. C 115, 2057–2065 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp109295u

Yong-Mao Lin, Paul R. Abel, David W. Flaherty, J. Wu, Keith J. Stevenson, Adam Heller, and C. Buddie Mullins, “Morphology Dependence of the Lithium Storage Capability and Rate Performance of Amorphous TiO2 Electrodes,” J. Phys. Chem. C 115, 2585–2591 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp110474y

Sean P. Berglund, David W. Flaherty, Nathan T. Hahn, Allen J. Bard, and C. Buddie Mullins, “Photoelectrochemical Oxidation of Water using Nanostructured BiVO4 Films,” J. Phys. Chem. C 115, 3794-3802 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp1109459

Ming Pan, David W. Flaherty, and C. Buddie Mullins, “Low-temperature hydrogenation of acetaldehyde to ethanol on H-precovered Au(111),” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2, 1363-1367 (2011).  http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jz200577n