Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin go to home page university of texas at austin college of engineering U T direct
C. Buddie Mullins, PhD
Z.D. Bonner Professorship in Chemical Engineering & Associate Chairman


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Office: CPE 4.418 Mailing Address:
Phone: (512) 471-5817 The University of Texas at Austin
Fax: -- Department of Chemical Engineering
Email: mullins@che.utexas.edu 1 University Station C0400
UT Mail: C0400 Austin, TX 78712-0231

Research Group Site

Presentation Made to Prospective Graduate Students 2008

Educational Qualifications and Selected Awards:
Ph. D. California Institute of Technology (1990)
NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991);
Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (1993);
CSGS New Scholar Award (1994);
Texas-Exes Teaching Award (1999);
Union Carbide Corp. Innovation Recognition Award (1999);
Lockheed-Martin College of Engineering Teaching Award (2004)

Focus:
Chemistry of nano-structured surfaces, photoelectrocatalysis, and materials for battery electrodes.

Research:
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.

Selected Publications

  • R. A. Ojifinni, N. S. Froemming, J. Gong, T. S. Kim, M. Pan, T. S. Kim, J. M. White, G. Henkelman, and C. B. Mullins, “Water-enhanced low-temperature CO oxidation and isotope effects on atomic oxygen covered Au(111),” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 6801-6812 (2008). View article here.
  • Jinlong Gong, David W. Flaherty, Ting Yan, and C. Buddie Mullins, “Selective oxidation of propanol on Au(111): Mechanistic insights into aerobic oxidation of alcohols,” ChemPhysChem 9, 2461-2466 (2008). View article here.
  • Jinlong Gong and C. Buddie Mullins, “Selective oxidation of ethanol to acetaldehyde on gold,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 16458-16459 (2008). View article here.
  • Jinlong Gong, Ting Yan, and C. Buddie Mullins, “Selective oxidation of propylamine to propionitrile and propaldehyde on oxygen-covered gold,” Chem. Comm. 761-763 (2009). View article here.
  • David W. Flaherty, Nathan T. Hahn, Todd R. Engstrom, Domingo Ferrer, Paul L. Tanaka, and C. Buddie Mullins, “Growth and characterization of high surface area titanium carbide,” in press J. Phys. Chem. C (2009). View article here.
  • Jinlong Gong and C. Buddie Mullins, “Surface science studies of oxidative chemistry on gold,” in press Acc. Chem. Res. (2009). View article here.

 

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