Bilge Yıldız
Born
İzmir, Turkey
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Hacettepe University
Known forNuclear engineering
Scientific career
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Argonne National Laboratory

Bilge Yıldız is a Professor of Nuclear Science, Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She develops new materials for energy conversion in harsh environments. These include solid oxide fuel cells and corrosion-resistant materials for nuclear energy regeneration.

Early life and education

Yıldız was born to two teachers in İzmir, Turkey, who made her appreciate education and hard work.[1] She became interested in science and engineering whilst at primary school and chose to attend the science specialist school in her home town.[1] During school Yıldız worked with a local university on a project to clean the waters in İzmir bay.[1] Yıldız was an exchange student with a farming school in Wisconsin and had the opportunity to visit Fermilab.[1] She spent her summer holidays on the Aegean Sea.[1] Eventually Yıldız studied nuclear engineering at the Hacettepe University, where she particularly became interested in the technology of nuclear engineering. At the time there were not clear career paths for her to pursue this in Turkey, and Yıldız decided to move to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Yıldız earned her PhD at MIT in 2003, and remained there as a postdoctoral research associate.

Research and career

Whilst working as a research scientist at Argonne National Laboratory Yıldız became interested in electrochemistry and surface science.[1][2] She returned to MIT as the Norman C. Rasmussen Assistant Professor in 2007.[3] Yıldız leads the Laboratory for Electrochemical Interfaces at MIT.[4] Her research considers how surfaces respond to harsh conditions, including high temperatures, reactive gases, mechanical stress and applied fields.[1] She studies what happens to the electrodes in fuel cells and electrolyzers.[1][5] By studying the reaction and transport kinetics in fuel cells or cells designed for water splitting, Bilgie hopes to suppress the corrosion of these materials.[3] She has developed in situ scanning tunneling microscopy methods to study the atoms at the surface of the electrodes, which often behave differently to those in the bulk.[1] Scanning tunneling microscopes (STMs) can map atomic tomography as well as electronic structure, providing information about the surface morphology and chemical reactivity. The Yıldız modified STM can also create precise dislocations in a material using the STM tip.

Alongside electrochemistry, the Yıldız group develop artificial intelligence and probabilistic methods to try to predict failures in nuclear reactors.[6] In nuclear reactions, metal structures that are critical to safety can degrade due to hydrogen penetration.[7] Hydrogen infiltration can make metals mechanically weak.[7] Yıldız has studied the interaction of hydrogen with the oxides that form on the surfaces of metals.[1][7] She identified that lattice vacancies can act to trap hydrogen. By identifying the mechanism by which hydrogen enters oxide films, she has designed new alloy compositions that can prevent it.[1] Another challenge for the materials that are used inside power plants is that they can suffer from stress corrosion.[8] Most of these materials are polycrystalline, and the grain boundaries between adjacent tiny crystals can impact a material's response to stress.[8] Yıldız has investigated how grain boundaries and dislocations influence the mechanical and chemical properties of materials.[8][9] She has demonstrated that dislocations in an atomic lattice can speed up the transport of oxygen ions, increasing the rate of diffusion in fuel cells and oxygen separation membranes.[10]

Her recent work has considered the mechanisms responsible for oxygen reduction kinetics in perovskite oxides, as well as investigating interface chemistries in high power density solid batteries.[11][12] Yıldız identified that strontium cobaltite can switch between a metallic and semiconducting state using a small voltage, which means that it could be used in non-volatile memory.[13] Yıldız has identified the effects of elastic strain, oxygen pressure and dislocations on the degradation and reactivity of hybrid materials.[12] Her group are contributing to the Mars 2020 Mars OXygen In situ resource utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument, which will attempt to make oxygen out of Martian resources.[14] In 2014, Yıldız was awarded tenure at MIT.[1][15][16]

Awards and honours

Her awards and honours include;

Selected publications

Her publications include;

  • Yildiz, Bilge (2006-01-01). "Efficiency of hydrogen production systems using alternative nuclear energy technologies". International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 31: 77–92. doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2005.02.009.
  • Yildiz, Bilge (2013-05-17). "Cation size mismatch and charge interactions drive dopant segregation at the surfaces of manganite perovskites". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135 (21): 7909–7925. doi:10.1021/ja3125349. PMID 23642000. S2CID 15236168.
  • Yildiz, Bilge (2010). "Oxygen ion diffusivity in strained yttria stabilized zirconia: where is the fastest strain?". Journal of Materials Chemistry. 20 (23): 4809–4819. doi:10.1039/c000259c.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Chandler, David L. "Bilge Yildiz digs deep into surfaces of matter". MIT. Archived from the original on 2015-09-19. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  2. ↑ "MIT NSE: News: 2012: MIT research team wins Somiya Award for International Collaboration". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  3. 1 2 3 "MIT NSE: News: 2011: Prof. Bilge Yıldız wins prestigious NSF CAREER award". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  4. ↑ "Laboratory for Electrochemical Interfaces". web.mit.edu. Archived from the original on 2013-07-19. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  5. ↑ "Unleashing oxygen". MIT News. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  6. ↑ "MIT NSE: Spotlight: Understanding and predicting materials behavior". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  7. 1 2 3 "Keeping hydrogen from cracking metals". MIT News. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  8. 1 2 3 "Stress corrosion cracking". Main. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  9. ↑ "Probing the mysteries of cracks and stresses". MIT News. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  10. ↑ "New analysis shows ion slowdown in fuel cell material". MIT News. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  11. ↑ "When Prof. Bilge Yildiz came to the ICN2 - ICN2". icn2.cat. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  12. 1 2 "Bilge Yildiz | MIT DMSE". dmse.mit.edu. Archived from the original on 2020-01-25. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  13. ↑ "Switchable material could enable new memory chips". MIT News. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  14. ↑ mars.nasa.gov. "Going to the Red Planet". NASA’s Mars Exploration Program. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  15. ↑ "Newly tenured engineers". MIT News. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  16. ↑ Research Thumbnails: Bilge Yildiz, retrieved 2019-09-09
  17. ↑ "MIT NSE: Faculty: Bilge Yildiz". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  18. ↑ "MISTI Global Seed Funds 2011-2012 winners announced". MIT News. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  19. ↑ "Research team wins Somiya Award for International Collaboration". MIT News. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  20. ↑ "Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award". The Electrochemical Society. Archived from the original on 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  21. ↑ "Bilge Yildiz". The American Ceramic Society. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  22. ↑ "MIT NSE: News: 2018: NSE's Yildiz wins 2018 Purdy award". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  23. ↑ "Fellows nominated in 2021 by the Division of Materials Physics". APS Fellows archive. American Physical Society. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
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