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Owen Patrick Mills

Director Materials Characterization & Fabrication Facilities
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
626 M&M Building

906.369.1875 Cell
906.487.2934 Fax
opmills@mtu.edu
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Community of Science Profile (Resume)

Materials Characterization and Fabrication Facilities

Applied Chemical and Morphological Analysis Laboratory

Current Research

Appointments

Space, Facilities & Computing Committee
Use Charge Committee
TechTracks Committee

Education

B.S., Petroleum Land Management, Louisiana State University, 1985
A.S., Electrical Engineering Technology, Delgado Community College, 1990

Professional Interests

The application of electron beam instrumentation to diverse scientific inquiry. Techniques include; SEM, TEM, FIB, X-ray Microanalysis, sputter and evaporation coatings, ultramicrotomy.

I am also interested in the effective operation and management of multi-user instrumentation facilities. Key to my vision of multi-user instrumentation facility management is the inclusion of maintenance and repair of the equipment, as well as education/ training of the users.

Publications

1. Owen P. Mills, William I. Rose (2010) Shape and surface area measurements using scanning electron microscope stereo-pair images of volcanic ash particles, Geosphere, doi:10.1130/GES00558.1
2. N.Nanninga, C. White, O. Mills, J. Lukowski (2009) Effect of specimen orientation and extrusion welds on the fatigue life of an AA6063 alloy, International Journal of Fatigue, 38, 238-246
3. Owen P. Mills (2007) Comparison of 3D Stereo SEM Shape Data With 2D Projections and BET Surface Area Data for Volcanic Ash: When 3D Might Be Advantageous, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, October 2007, American Geophysical Union
4. Ken Heng See, Michael E. Mullins, Owen P. Mills, Patricia A. Heiden, A Reactive Core-Shell Nanoparticle Approach to Prepare Hybrid Nanocomposites: Effects of Processing Variables, Nanotechnology, 16, 1950-1959, Jul 2005
5. Mills, O.P., New Resin for Repair of Bell Jar Chips, Microscopy Today, 13(2), 46, Mar 2005
6. Mills, O.P., Water Recirculator Maintenance, Microscopy Today, 11(3), 43, 2003
7. Robinson, G.W., Jasczcak, J.A., Wegner,, Manganotantalite From the Alto Do Giz Area, Equador, Rio Grande Do Norte, Brazil, The Mineralogical Record, 33(6), 505-521, 2002
8. Iyer, S.D., Gupta, S.M., Charan, S.N., M, Volcanogenic-hydrothermal Iron-rich Materials From the Southern Part of the Central Indian Ocean Basin, Marine Geology, 158, 15-25, 1999
9. Xu, J., Wu, H, Mills, O.P., Heiden, P.A., A Morphological Investigation of Thermosets Toughened With Novel Thermoplastics. I. Bismaleimide Modified With Hyperbranched Polyester, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 72, 1065-1076, 1999
10. J. Xu, O.P. Mills, P.A. Heiden (1999) A Morphological Investigation of Thermosets Toughened with Novel Theroplatics. I. Bismaleide Modified with Hyperbramched Polyester, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 72, 1065-1076
11. Mills, O.P., Is Your Lab Safe, Scanning, 20, 152-153, 1998
12. Mills, O.P., Reducing Service Contract Costs and Do-It-Yourself EM Maintenance, Microscopy Today, 10, 8-9, 1997
13. atallo, W., Henk, W., Younger, L., Mills, Trace Metal Uptake By Pichia Spartinae, An Endosymbiotic Yeast in the Salt Marsh Cord Grass Spartina Alterniaflora, Chemistry and Ecology, 13, 113-131, 1996
14. Koplitz, L., Urbanik, J., Harris, S., Mi, Determining Lead in Sediments By X-ray Fluorescence and the Method of Standard Additions, Enriron. Sci. Technol., 28, 538-540, 1994
15. Latimer, S., Mills, O., Nielson, A., New Ultra-thin Moxtek Window Improves Light Element Detection, American Environmental Laboratory, 6, 23, 1994
16. Zablotsky, M., Meffert, R., Mills, O., B, The Macroscopic, Microscopic and Spectrometric Effects of Various Chemotherapeutic Agents on the Plasma-sprayed Hydroxyapatite-coated Implant Surface, Clinical Oral Implant Research, 3, 189-198, 1992

Professional Affiliations

Microbeam Analysis Society
Microscopy Society of America

Awards/Honors

2010 Staff Recognition Award: 15 Years of Service
2008 Michigan Tech Staff Making a Difference Award - Innovative Solutions | MSE News Fall 2009 Article
1995-1997, Chairman, Traveling Book Exhibit, Microscopy Society of America
1994 Annual Meeting Treasurer, Microscopy Society of America

Current Research

O. P. Mills, W. I. Rose and A. J. Durant (2007), Comparison of 3D Stereo SEM Shape Data With 2D Projections and BET Surface Area Data for Volcanic Ash: When 3D Might Be Advantageous, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V31A-0298

Poster presented at the 2007 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held 10-14 December 2007 in San Francisco, CA.