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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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Materials Characterization and Fabrication Facilities

Applied Chemical and Morphological Analysis Laboratory

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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

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

Mills, O.P., New Resin for Repair of Bell Jar Chips, Microscopy Today, 13(2), 46, Mar 2005

Mills, O.P., Water Recirculator Maintenance, Microscopy Today, 11(3), 43, 2003 Robinson, G.W., Jaszczak, J.A., Wegner,, Manganotantalite From the Alto Do Giz Area, Equador, Rio Grande Do Norte, Brazil, The Mineralogical Record, 33(6), 505-521, 2002

Professional Affiliations

Microbeam Analysis Society
Microscopy Society of America

Awards/Honors

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.