Michael F. Toney
Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering • Materials Science and Engineering Program

Office: SEEC N321G

Education

BS, California Institute of Technology, 1979
PhD, University of Washington, 1983

Awards

  • American Physical Society Fellow, 2019
  • Farrell W Lytle Award, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, 2009
  • IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, 1997.
  • IBM Technical Group Award, 1996
  • IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, 1988
  • NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1983

Selected Publications

  • 鈥淪tructural Origins of Light-Induced Phase Segregation in Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskite Photovoltaic Materials鈥, RE Beal, N Zhou Hagstrom, J Barrier, A Gold-Parker, R. Prasanna, K.A. Bush, D. Passarello, L.T. Schelhas, K. Bruning, C.J. Tassone, H-G Steinruck, M.D. McGehee, M.F. Toney, Ana Flavia Nogueira, Matter 2, 207-219 (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2019.11.001

  • "Shedding X-ray Light on the Interfacial Electrochemistry of Silicon Anodes for Li-Ion Batteries鈥, C. Cao, B. Shyam, J. Wang, M.F. Toney, H.-G. Steinr眉ck, Accts Acc. Chem. Res. 31, 1562-1572 (2019). DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.9b00233

  • 鈥淪olid Electrolyte Interphase on Native Oxide-Terminated Silicon Anodes for Li-Ion Batteries鈥, C. Cao, I.I. Abate, E. Sivonxay, B. Shyam, C. Jia, B. Moritz, T.P. Devereaux, K.A. Persson, H.-G. Steinruck, M.F. Toney, Joule 3, 762-781 (2019). DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2018.12.013

  • 鈥淚mpact of Polymer Side Chain Modification on OPV Morphology and Performance鈥, V. Savikhin, M. Babics, M. Neophytou, S. Liu, S.D. Oosterhout, H. Yan, X. Gu, P.M. Beaujuge, M.F. Toney, Chem Mater 30, 7872鈥7884, (2018). DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b03455

  • 鈥淎coustic Phonon Lifetimes Limit Thermal Transport in Methylammonium Lead Iodide鈥, A. Gold-Parker, P.M. Gehring, J.M. Skelton, I.C. Smith, D. Parshall, J.M. Frost, H.I. Karunadasa, A. Walsh, M.F. Toney, Proc Nation Acad Sci, 115, 11905鈥11910 (2018). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1812227115

  • 鈥淭ransformation from crystalline precursor to perovskite in PbCl2-derived MAPbI3鈥, K.H. Stone, A Gold-Parker, V.L. Pool, E.L. Unger, A.R. Bowring, M.D. McGehee, M.F. Toney, C.J. Tassone, Nature Comms. 9,听3458 (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05937-4

  • 鈥淏and Gap Tuning via Lattice Contraction and Octahedral Tilting in Perovskite Materials for Photovoltaics鈥, R Prasanna, A Gold-Parker, T. Leijtens, B. Conings, A. Babayigit, H.-G. Boyen, M.F. Toney, M.D. McGehee, J Amer Chem Soc 139, 11117鈥11124 (2017). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b04981

  • 鈥淢ixing Behavior in Small Molecule:Fullerene Organic Photovoltaics鈥, S.D. Oosterhout, V. Savikhin, J. Zhang, Y. Zhang, M.A. Burgers, S.R. Marder, G.C. Bazan, M.F. Toney, Chem. Mater. 29, 3062鈥3069 (2017). DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b00067

Research Interests

My research group focuses on incisively characterizing and understanding the physics and chemistry that underlie the functioning of materials for sustainable energy as well as synthesis pathways. We focus on energy storage, solar materials, hydrogen storage, and materials and process to address clean water challenges, and use X-ray and neutron scattering, together with X-ray spectroscopy and imaging often operando and in situ. The insight gained enables the rationale design and control of properties, performance and synthesis pathways and can enable the creation of a road map to the development and discovery of next generation materials and processes.

Electrochemical energy storage, including Li-ion and beyond Li-ion batteries. Our research includes;

  • Developing Li-metal anodes. Part of the Battery 500 () consortium.
  • Interfaces for multivalent batteries & ion transport in electrolytes. Part of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), an Energy Hub (),
  • Interfaces in transition metal cathodes,
  • Solid-state electrolytes,
  • Fast charging, part of the eXtreme Fast Charge Cell Evaluation of Lithium-ion Batteries (XCEL) project ().

Foundational and applied materials science of hybrid metal halide perovskite semiconductors. I am part of the Center for Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Semiconductors for Energy (CHOISE) Energy Frontier Research Center."