Anne C. Dillon - Senior Scientist
Anne Dillon is a Senior Scientist at NREL. Her research interests are focused on fabricating and characterizing novel nanostructured materials. A significant fraction of her research at NREL has revolved around the development of a viable system for onboard vehicular hydrogen storage focusing on single-wall nanotubes and, more recently, organometallic fullerenes. She has extensive experience employing both pulsed-laser vaporization and hot-wire chemical vapor deposition for the production of a variety of novel nanostructured materials including: single- and multi-wall carbon nanotubes, inorganic fullerenes, and metal-oxide nanorods and particles.
Dr. Dillon has employed Raman spectroscopy to characterize the purity, defect density, and/or crystalline phases of these structures. The metal-oxide nanostructures have been shown recently to be promising candidates for improving electrochromic, battery, and proton electrolyte membrane fuel cell technologies. Finally, she and Dr. John Lehman of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, via an ongoing collaboration, have demonstrated that carbon nanotubes may improve on the gold black coatings currently employed in pyroelectric detectors used to accurately measure laser power.
Education
| 1988–1993 | Ph.D., Physical Chemistry (with Prof. Steven M. George), Stanford University, Stanford, California |
| 1984–1988 | B.S., Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| 1984–1988 | B.S., History, Harvard University (cross registration), Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
Selected Publications
- A.H. Mahan, P.A. Parilla, K.M. Jones, and A.C. Dillon, “HWCVD Production of High Density Crystalline WO3 Nanorods,” Chem. Phys, Lett. 413 (2005) 88.
- J.H. Lehman, C. Engtrakul, T. Gennett, A.C. Dillon “Single-wall Carbon Nanotube Coating on a Pyroelectric Detector,” Appl. Opt. 44 (2005) 483.
- A.C. Dillon, P.A. Parilla, T. Gennett, K.M. Jones, and M.J. Heben, “Systematic Inclusion of Defects in Pure Carbon Single-wall Nanotubes and Their Effect on the Raman D-band,” Chem. Phys, Lett. 401 (2005) 522.
- A.C. Dillon, M. Yudasaka, and M.S. Dresselhaus, invited review article “Employing Raman to Qualitatively Evaluate the Purity of Carbon Single-Wall Nanotube Materials,” J. Nanosci. and Nanotech. 407 (2004) 691.
- A.C. Dillon, A.H. Mahan, P.A. Parilla, J.L. Alleman, M.J. Heben, K.M. Jones, and K.E.H. Gilbert, “Continuous Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition of High-density Carbon Multi-wall Nanotubes,” NanoLetters 3 (2003) 1425.
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