Jeffrey Elam Explained

Jeffrey Elam
Alma Mater:Cornell University (BA), University of Chicago (PhD)
Distinguished Fellow, Senior Chemist and Group Leader
Workplaces:Argonne National Laboratory
Known For:Atomic layer deposition
Fields:Chemistry, materials science, thin films

Jeffrey Elam is a Distinguished Fellow, Senior Chemist and Group Leader[1] in the Applied Materials Division at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. He leads Argonne's atomic layer deposition (ALD) research program, where he directs research and development and commercialization of thin film coating technologies for energy applications.

Elam is a fellow of the Northwestern-Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering,[2] and staff member at the Center for Molecular Engineering at Argonne.[3] He also manages the Functional Coatings Group in Argonne's Applied Materials Division[4] and is a principal investigator in the US-Israel Collaborative Water-Energy Research Center (CoWERC), and the Advanced Materials for Energy-Water Systems Center,[5] a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center.

Education

Elam graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in chemistry, followed by the University of Chicago with a PhD in physical chemistry in the lab of Donald H. Levy.[6] Elam pursued postdoctoral studies with Steven M. George at the University of Colorado where he developed ALD thin film growth methods.[7] [8]

Research

Oleo Sponge

Elam co-invented (with Seth Darling) the Oleo Sponge,[9] a polyurethane foam engineered to absorb oil from water. Researchers engineered the material to be oleophilic and hydrophobic using sequential infiltration synthesis (SIS),[10] a patented-material synthesis method Elam co-invented that has been cited by multiple companies.[11] [12] [13] SIS was used to coat the interior surfaces of the foam with a thin layer of metal oxide “primer” that acts as a glue for attaching a monolayer of oleophilic molecules. The result is a reusable sponge capable of adsorbing up to 90 times its weight in oil.[14]

Large Area Microchannel Plates

Elam was part of the team that developed the world's largest microchannel plate (MCP),[15] a solid-state, 2-dimensional electron amplifier critical to a variety of imaging and sensing applications. This was achieved by using ALD nanocomposite coatings to create a manufacturing strategy for MCPs that drove down cost, improved performance, and widened applications.[16] The ALD coatings have been implemented by Incom, Inc. to manufacture large area MCPs[17] and are being incorporated into large area photodetectors.[18] The patent for fabricating the technology has been cited by more than a dozen companies, including Samsung, Nova Scientific and Nissan.[19]

Scale-up of Transparent Conducting Oxide Coatings

Elam led a team to create ALD methods for depositing ITO films, a common transparent conducting thin film found in devices such as solar cells, flat panel displays, and touch screens, onto nanoporous supports and over large substrate areas. One patented method,[20] which used two oxygen-sources “synergistically”[21] to allow materials to grow at lower-than-normal temperatures, proved capable of coating nanoporous materials with high precision and uniformity.

Publications

Elam has authored over 300 papers on the subject of ALD, his work has been cited over 34,000 times.[22] His most cited study, published in 2003, demonstrated the low temperature growth of Al2O3 ALD films—which have the potential to coat thermally fragile substrates such as organic, polymeric, or biological materials—at temperatures as low as 33 °C.[23] His research group has amassed over 50 inventions in ALD coating technology and holds numerous patents.[24]

Honors

Elam is a fellow of the American Vacuum Society. In 2017, he received the ALD Innovation Award[25] from the AVS for original work and leadership in ALD. In 2019 he received a lifetime achievement award from Argonne.[26]

Notable patents

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jeffrey W. Elam Argonne National Laboratory. www.anl.gov. en. 2019-10-27.
  2. Web site: Members – NAISE Institute. www.naise.northwestern.edu. 2019-10-27.
  3. Web site: Staff Directory Argonne National Laboratory. www.anl.gov. en. 2020-04-29.
  4. Web site: Functional Coatings Argonne National Laboratory. www.anl.gov. en. 2020-04-29.
  5. Web site: Advanced Materials for Energy-Water Systems Center Our Team Argonne National Laboratory. www.anl.gov. en. 2020-04-29.
  6. Web site: Jeffrey W. Elam Argonne National Laboratory. www.anl.gov. en. 2019-10-27.
  7. Web site: Jeffrey W. Elam. 2017-08-07. www.aiche.org. en. 2020-04-29.
  8. Web site: UAH College of Engineering welcomes Dr. Jeffrey W. Elam of Argonne National Laboratory. 2016-11-07. The University of Alabama in Huntsville. en. 2020-04-29.
  9. Web site: Argonne invents reusable sponge that soaks up oil, could revolutionize oil spill and diesel cleanup Argonne National Laboratory. www.anl.gov. 6 March 2017 . en. 2019-09-27.
  10. Elam. J. W.. Biswas. M.. Darling. S.. Yanguas-Gil. A.. Emery. J. D.. Martinson. A. B. F.. Nealey. P. F.. Paul Nealey. Segal-Peretz. T.. Peng. Q.. Winterstein. J.. Liddle. J. A.. 2015-10-02. New Insights into Sequential Infiltration Synthesis. ECS Transactions. en. 69. 7. 147–157. 10.1149/06907.0147ecst. 1938-6737. 5424714. 28503252. 2015ECSTr..69g.147E.
  11. Web site: The promise of deep grooves Argonne National Laboratory. www.anl.gov. October 2018 . en. 2020-04-30.
  12. US. 9786511. Sequential infiltration synthesis for advanced lithography. 2017-10-10 . Darling. Seth B.. Elam. Jeffrey W.. Tseng. Yu-Chih. Peng. Qing. UChicago Argonne LLC.
  13. Web site: New Vapor Deposition Method Lets Engineers Build Untraditional Materials. 2018-10-12. Machine Design. en. 2019-09-27.
  14. News: Oleo Sponge Could Make Oil Spill Cleanup More Efficient. March 16, 2017. The Wall Street Journal. September 25, 2019.
  15. Mane. Anil U.. Peng. Qing. Elam. Jeffrey W.. Bennis. Daniel C.. Craven. Christopher A.. Detarando. Michael A.. Escolas. John R.. Frisch. Henry J.. Jokela. Slade J.. McPhate. Jason. Minot. Michael J.. 2012-01-01. An Atomic Layer Deposition Method to Fabricate Economical and Robust Large Area Microchannel Plates for Photodetectors. Physics Procedia. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics (TIPP 2011). 37. 722–732. 10.1016/j.phpro.2012.03.720. 1875-3892. 2012PhPro..37..722M. free.
  16. Web site: Nanocomposite Coatings with Tunable Properties Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition. Sigma-Aldrich. en. 2019-10-27.
  17. Web site: MCP / Microchannel Plate / Photon and Electron Amplification. Incom. en-US. 2019-09-27.
  18. Adams. Bernhard W.. Attenkofer. Klaus. Bogdan. Mircea. Byrum. Karen. Elagin. Andrey. Elam. Jeffrey W.. Frisch. Henry J.. Genat. Jean-Francois. Grabas. Herve. Gregar. Joseph. Hahn. Elaine. 2016-03-06. A Brief Technical History of the Large-Area Picosecond Photodetector (LAPPD) Collaboration. 1603.01843. physics.ins-det.
  19. US. 8969823. Microchannel plate detector and methods for their fabrication. 2015-03-03. UChicago Argonne LLC. Elam. Jeffrey W.. Mane. Anil U.. Peng. Qing.
  20. Method for depositing transparent conducting oxides. 2018-11-20. US. 10131991. UChicago Argonne LLC. Elam. Jeffrey W.. Libera. Joseph A..
  21. Libera. Joseph A.. Hryn. John N.. Elam. Jeffrey W.. 2011-04-26. Indium Oxide Atomic Layer Deposition Facilitated by the Synergy between Oxygen and Water. Chemistry of Materials. 23. 8. 2150–2158. 10.1021/cm103637t. 0897-4756.
  22. Web site: Jeffrey Elam - Google Scholar Citations. scholar.google.com. 2019-10-27.
  23. Groner. M. D.. Fabreguette. F. H.. Elam. J. W.. George. S. M.. 2004-02-01. Low-Temperature Al2O3 Atomic Layer Deposition. Chemistry of Materials. 16. 4. 639–645. 10.1021/cm0304546. 0897-4756.
  24. Web site: Jeffrey W. Elam Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search. patents.justia.com. 2020-02-02.
  25. Web site: Awards. ald2018.avs.org. en-US. 2019-09-27.
  26. Web site: Congratulations to winners of 2019 Argonne Commercialization Excellence Awards. May 21, 2019. Argonne Today. September 25, 2019.
  27. US. 10177365. Metal fluoride passivation coatings prepared by atomic layer deposition for Li-ion batteries. 2019-01-08. Mane. Anil U.. Elam. Jeffrey W.. Park. Joong Sun. Croy. Jason R.. UChicago Argonne LLC.
  28. Sequential infiltration synthesis for advanced lithography. 2015-03-17. US. 8980418. UChicago Argonne LLC. Darling. Seth B.. Elam. Jeffrey W.. Tseng. Yu-Chih. Peng. Qing.
  29. US. 8921799. Tunable resistance coatings. 2014-12-30. Elam. Jeffrey W.. Mane. Anil U.. UChicago Argonne LLC.
  30. US. 8951615. Doping control by ALD surface functionalization. 2015-02-10. Elam. Jeffrey W.. Yanguas-Gil. Angel. UChicago Argonne LLC.
  31. US. 8969823. Microchannel plate detector and methods for their fabrication. 2015-03-03. Elam. Jeffrey W.. Mane. Anil U.. Peng. Qing.

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