Dr. Darryl P. Butt joined the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Boise State University in 2005. He also serves as an associate director of the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) in Idaho Falls, ID. He has a Ph.D. in Ceramic Science and a B.S. in Ceramic Science and Engineering with a minor in Technical Writing, from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Butt was at Los Alamos National Laboratory between 1991 and 1999, where he was a Director’s Post Doctoral Fellow, Technical Staff Member, Team Leader, and Lead Project Leader. His research at LANL included modeling and developing materials for extreme environments, environmental effects on materials, surface analysis, carbon dioxide sequestration, and non-proliferation. From 1998-2000, on leave from LANL, Dr. Butt lead an DOE-Industry program at Ceramatec, Inc., in collaboration with Air Products and Chemicals Co. to develop microchannel gas separation membranes for the production syngas from natural gas. From 2000-2005 he was an Associate Professor at University of Florida in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Butt's research group in the Advanced Materials Lab is engaged in a variety of research programs focused on materials processing and materials performance in extreme environments. Much of his current research is focused on advanced materials for energy and aerospace applications. His research programs have been and are supported by the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, Idaho National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Center for Advanced Energy Studies, Batelle Energy Alliance, Pratt and Whitney Aerospace, Emisense, Inc., and Ceramatec, Inc.
Articles & Conference Proceedings
Novel Smart Stannate Based Coatings of Self-Healing Functionality for AZ91D Magnesium Alloy (with Abdel Salam Hamdy), Electrochimica Acta (2013)
Smart stannate based coatings were used for improving the corrosion resistance of AZ91D alloy. The...
An Oxygen Transfer Model for High Purity Graphite Oxidation (with Joshua Kane, Chinnathambi Karthik, Rick Ubic, and William E. Windes), Carbon (2013)
An intrinsic mathematical model is developed for the investigation of the gas-solid reaction kinetics of...
A Preliminary Study on the Development of La2O3-Bearing Nanostructured Ferritic Steels via High Energy Ball Milling (with Somayeh Pasebani, Indrajit Charit, and James I. Cole), Journal of Nuclear Materials (2013)
Elemental powder mixture of Fe-Cr-Ti-Mo and La2O3 were ball milled for different milling times in...
Gamma Ray Induced Structural Effects in Bare and Ag Doped Ge–S Thin Films for Sensor Application (with M. Mitkova; P. Chen; M. Ailavajhala; D. A. Tenne; H. J. Barnaby; and I. S, Esqueda), Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids (2013)
We present data on radiation-induced effects in chalcogenide glasses that also trigger radiation induced structural...
Simulation and Process Flow of Radiation Sensors Based on Chalcogenide Glasses for in situ Measurement Capability (with Mahesh Ailavajhala and Maria Mitkova), physica status solidi (c) (2012)
In this work we present data about electronic devices based on a planar structure; inert...
Books
Research Opportunities in Corrosion Science and Engineering (with David J. Duquette, Robert E. Schafrik, Aziz I. Asphahani, Gordon P. Bierwagen, Gerald S. Frankel, Roger C. Newman, Shari N. Rosenbloom, Lyle H. Schwartz, John R. Scully, Peter F. Tortorelli, David Trejo, Darrel F. Untereker, and Mirna Urquidi-Macdonald), Faculty Authored Books (2011)
"[This book] identifies grand challenges for the corrosion research community, highlights research opportunities in corrosion...
Contributions to Books
Grain Boundary and Triple Junction Chemistry of Silicon Carbide with Aluminum or Aluminum Nitride Additive (with Edgardo Pabit, Samantha Crane, Kerry Seiben, Darin Ray, Marc Finders, and Raymond A. Cutler), Ceramic Armor and Armor Systems II (2012)
A Novel Approach in Designing Environmentally Compliant Sol-Gel Based Ceramic Coatings and Nano-Composite Coatings for Industrial Applications (with Abdel Salam Hamdy and Madiha A. Shoeib), New Nanotechniques (2009)
Presentations
Structural Modifications of Lanthanum Orthoferrite Ion Transport Membranes By Divalent Ion Substitutions (Invited Presentation), Los Alamos National Laboratory (2012)
This research looks at the stability of specific LaxA1-xFeO3-y , perovskite-type, materials that are candidate...
An Investigation of Divalent Cation Substitutions in Lanthanum Orthoferrite Materials (Invited Presentation), Beijing University of Technology, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Nanjing University of Science and Technology (2012)
Comparison of Microstructural Evolution of Nickel during Conventional and Spark Plasma Sintering (with Matthew Luke and Megan Frary), TMS 2010 139th Annual Meeting & Exhibition (2010)
Spark plasma sintering (SPS) is a rapid powder consolidation technique that uses pulsed electric current...
Weldability Characteristics of Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Alloys: An Overview (with Kalyan Chitrada, Ramprashad Prabhakaran, Jiye Wang, Larry Zirker, Mitchell Meyer, James Cole, Korukonda Murty, Rajiv Mishra, Megan Frary, and Indrajit Charit), TMS 2010 139th Annual Meeting & Exhibition (2010)
Oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) alloys are considered an important class of structural materials for various...