Director of ReUSE REU, Materials Science and Engineering
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

sparks@eng.utah.edu

Publications

• ENERGY: Erick A. Lawrence, Matthew Davenport, Reshma Devi, Zijian Cai, Maxim Avdeev, Jonathan R. Belnap, Husain Alnaser*, Alice Ho, Taylor D. Sparks, Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam, Jared Allred, Huiwen Ji “Reversible Electrochemical Lithium Cycling in a Vanadium(IV) and Niobium(V)-based Wadsley-Roth Phase” Chemistry of Materials, 35 [9], 3470-3483 (2023). [DOI], 04/18/2023
• ENERGY: Pooya Elahi*, Elizabeth Winterholler*, Jude Horsley*, and Taylor D. Sparks “The Influence of Sintering Condition on Microstructure, Phase Composition, and Electrochemical Performance of the Scandia- Ceria- Co- Doped Zirconia for SOFCs,” Science of Sintering, 55, 237-258 (2023). [DOI], 03/01/2023
• ENERGY: Pooya Elahi*, Jude A. Horsley*, and Taylor D. Sparks “Electrochemical and Degradation Studies on One-Dimensional Tunneled Sodium Zirconogallate + Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Composite, Mixed Sodium and Oxygen Ion Conductor” Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 169 [11] 114502 (2022). [DOI], 11/07/2022
• ENERGY: Raju Baral, Jacob Christensen, Parker Hamilton, Feng Ye, Milinda Abeykoon, Karine Chesnel, Taylor D. Sparks, Rosa Ward*, Jiaqiang Yan, Michael E. Manley, Raphael P. Hermann, and Benjamin A. Frandsen “Real-space visualization of short-range antiferromagnetic correlations in MnTe” Matter, 5 [6], 1853-1864 (2022). [DOI], 04/25/2022
• ENERGY | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Maria-Magdalena Titirici, Sterling G. Baird*, Taylor D. Sparks, Shirley M. Yang, Agi Brandt-Talbot, Omid Hosseinaei, David Paul Harper, Richard Parker, Silvia Vignolini, Lars Berglund, Yuanyuan Li, Huai-Ling Gao, Li-Bo Mao, Shuhong Yu, Noel Díez, Guillermo Alvarez.ferrero, Marta Sevilla Solis, Petra Szilagyi, Connor Stubbs, Joshua Worch, Yunping Huang, Christine Luscombe, Koon-yang Lee, Hui Luo, Jim Platts, Devendra Tiwari, Dmitry Kovalevskiy, David Fermin, Heather Au, Hande Alptekin, Maria Crespo Ribadeneyra, Valeska Ting, Tim-Patrick Fellinger, Jesus Barrio-hermida, Olivia Westhead, Claudie Roy, Ifan Stephens, Sabina Alexandra Nicolae, Saurav Sarma, Rose Oates, Chen Gang Wang, Zibiao Li, Xian Jun Loh, Rupert J Myers, Niko Heeren, Alice Grégoire, Clément Périssé, Xiaoying Zhao, Yael Vodovotz, Becky Earley, Goran Finnveden, Anna Björklund, Gavin Harper, Allan Walton, and Paul A Anderson “The sustainable materials roadmap” JPhys Materials, 5, 032001 (2022)., 04/08/2022
• 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

Media

• ENERGY | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: YouTube materials science channel. 560 videos, >2.8M views, >20k subscribers, 01/01/2022 GLOBAL
• ENERGY | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: "Materialism" materials science podcast. 63 episodes, >280k downloads, 01/01/2022 GLOBAL