Director of Materials Characterization Laboratory, Materials Science and Engineering
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Director of ReUSE REU, Materials Science and Engineering
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

sparks@eng.utah.edu

Publications

• ENERGY: Akira Nagaoka, Kenji Yoshino, Taizo Masuda, Taylor D. Sparks, Michael A. Scarpulla, and Kensuke Nishioka “Environmentally friendly thermoelectric sulfide Cu2ZnSnS4 single crystals with dimensionless figure of merit achieving 1.6” Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 9, 15595-15604 (2021). [DOI], 06/07/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: (invited) Amber Barron* and Taylor D. Sparks “Commercial Marine-degradable Polymers for Flexible Packaging” iScience, 23, 101353, (2020). [DOI], 08/21/2020
• ENERGY | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: John Fuertez & Gloria Cordoba, John McLennan, D. Jack Adams, and Taylor D. Sparks (2018). Potential application of developed methanogenic microbial consortia for coal biogasification. International Journal of Coal Geology. Vol. 188, 165-180., 02/14/2018

Presentations

• ENERGY: Marcus Parry "In-situ experiments: microstructure, creep, and corrosion" INL Virtual Meeting on Accelerated Irradiation for Reactor Structural Materials, September 14-18, 2020., 09/15/2020
• ENERGY: Steven Kaai Kauwe and Taylor D. Sparks "A Functional Introduction to Property Predictions: Python Based Machine Learning" Workshop on Machine Learning in Materials Science, April 6 2018, Salt Lake City, UT., 04/06/2018
• ENERGY: Jake Graser, Zixiao Liu, and Taylor D. Sparks "Experimental Validation of New Classes of Thermoelectric Oxides Recommended by Machine Learning Algorithms" ICT 2017 July 31-Aug 3 2017, Pasadena, CA., 07/31/2017

External Service

• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Bilingual Spanish/English K-12 Outreach, 07/01/2017