• Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
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Don Lipkin

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University

Research Interests

    • Synthesis of high-temperature structural materials and coatings
    • Harsh-environment testing
    • Sustainability in materials design and life cycles
    • Fundamentals of adhesion and fracture

Awards & Honors

  • 2020 GE Katherine Blodgett Award (outstanding technical impact on GE’s businesses)
  • 2019 TMS Application to Practice Award
  • 2013 GE Dushman Award (commercial impact of CMC technology transition into LEAP engines
  • 2011 GE Research Technical Career Path (TCP) Excellence Award
  • 2008 GE Healthcare Imaging Subsystems Innovation Award (refractory-metal anode research)
  • 1991-1994 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship

Selected Publications

  • K.T. Faber et al, “The role of ceramic and glass science research in meeting societal challenges: Report form an NSF-sponsored workshop,” J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 100[5] 1777-1803 (2017).
  • D.J. Jorgensen, A. Suzuki, D.M. Lipkin, T.M. Pollock, “Competition of failure mechanisms in high strength bond coats during furnace cycling at 1163°C,” in preparation.
  • D.J. Jorgensen, A. Suzuki, D.M. Lipkin, T.M. Pollock, “Sulfur and Minor Element Effects on the Oxidation of Bilayer ’+ Bond Coats for Thermal Barrier Coatings on Rene N5,” Superalloys 2016: Proceedings of the 13th Symposium of Superalloys (2016).
  • D.J. Jorgensen, A. Suzuki, D.M. Lipkin, T.M. Pollock, “Bond Coatings with High Rumpling Resistance: Design and Characterization,” Surface and Coatings Technology 300 25-34(2016).
  • J.A. Krogstad, Y. Gao, J. Bai, J. Wang, D.M. Lipkin, C.G. Levi, “In Situ Diffraction Study of the High-Temperature Decomposition of t’-Zirconia,” in press, J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 98[1] 247-54 (2015).
  • A.Y. Ku, C. Dosch, T.R. Grossman, J.L. Herzog, A.F. Maricocchi, D. Polli, D.M. Lipkin, “Addressing Rare-Earth Element Criticality: An Example from the Aviation Industry,” JOM, 66[11] 2355-59 (2014).
  • A. Suzuki, Y. Gao, D. Lipkin, A. Singhal, M. Krug, D. Konitzer, J. Almer, T. Pollock, B. Bewlay, “Oxide-Assisted Crack Growth in Hold-Time Low-Cycle-Fatigue of Single-Crystal Superalloys,” Proceedings of EuroSuperalloys 2014, MATEC Web of Conferences, 14[04004] 1-5 (2014).
  • T. Ozkan, D. Shaddock, D.M. Lipkin, I. Chasiotis, "Mechanical strengthening, stiffening, and oxidation behaviour of pentatwinned Cu nanowires at near ambient temperatures," Materials Research Express, 1[3] 035020 1-18 (2014).
  • R.W. Jackson, D.M. Lipkin, T.M. Pollock, “Thermal Barrier Coating Adherence to Hf-Modified B2-NiAl Coatings,” Acta Mater., 80 39-47 (2014).
  • R.R. Adharapurapu, J. Zhu, V.S. Dheeradhada, D.M. Lipkin, T.M. Pollock, “A combinatorial investigation of palladium and platinum additions to β-NiAl overlay coatings,” Acta mater., 77 379-93 (2014).
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