Mike Toney is a Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering and a Fellow of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI) at CU Boulder. He received his B.S. from Caltech and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Washington. After a NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship, he joined the IBM Research Division to focus on the use of X-ray scattering methods for structure determination for polymer thin films, and interfaces. After working at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), he joined CU Boulder in 2020. Toney is a pioneer in the use of X-ray diffraction for in-situ investigations of atomic structure at electrified interfaces and in energy storage and of the molecular structure of organic thin films. He is a Fellow of APS and a Thomson Reuters highly cited researcher in Materials Sciences.
Mike's Recent RASEI Related News
Solvent-mediated oxide hydrogenation in layered cathodes
SCIENCE, 2024, 385, 6714, 1230-1236 Read more
Discovery could lead to longer-lasting EV batteries, hasten energy transition
Mike Toney explores how lithium-ion batteries self-discharge to improve future designs Read more
Hydrogen Bonding Analysis of Structural Transition-Induced Symmetry Breaking and Spin Splitting in a Hybrid Perovskite Employing a Synergistic Diffraction-DFT Approach
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2024 Read more
Ligand Steric Profile Tunes the Reactivity of Indium Phosphide Clusters
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2024, 146, 5, 3102-3113 Read more
Probing transference and field-induced polymer velocity in block copolymer electrolytes
CELL REPORTS PHYSICAL SCIENCE, 2024, 5, 1, 101766 Read more
Reducing delamination of an electron-transporting polymer from a metal oxide for electrochemical applications
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS, 2024, 60, 988-991 Read more
Highly stretchable polymer semiconductor thin films with multi-modal energy dissipation and high relative stretchability
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 2023, 8382 Read more
Navigating the Potential Energy Surface of CdSe Magic-Sized Clusters: Synthesis and Interconversion of Atomically Precise Nanocrystal Polymorphs
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2023, 145, 50, 27480-27492 Read more
A new kind of solar cell is coming: is it the future of green energy?
The TEAMUP Consortium, led by RASEI Fellow Mike McGehee, is highlighted in this Nature Feature. Read more
Soft Materials for Photoelectrochemical Fuel Production
ACS ENERGY LETTERS, 2023, 8, 5116-5127 Read more