Elaine Lee is the Group Leader of the Responsive and Active Materials and Manufacturing Group and a member of the Center for Engineered Materials and Manufacturing in the Materials Engineering Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Elaine Lee has a S.B. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. She joined LLNL in 2015 as a Postdoctoral Researcher and was converted to a member of the technical staff in 2017.

Elaine is a Principal Investigator and technical contributor on several multidisciplinary collaborative projects. She has expertise in additive manufacturing processes, flexible optoelectronic technologies, electrophoretic deposition, microencapsulation, colloidal processing, micro- and nanofabrication, and materials characterization with focus on soft materials, polymers, colloids, photonic crystals, and liquid crystals. Current projects include the development of controlled release of microencapsulants, the development of engineered materials for flexible optoelectronic technologies, and additive manufacturing of shape changing materials.

Elaine has extensive leadership experience including mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, post-college appointees, postdocs, and other team members, and a passion for volunteering and participating in professional networking groups and academic societies, particularly for K-12 and underrepresented groups in STEM.

Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

M.S. Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

S.B. Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Xu, X., Cho, E.J., Bekker, L., Talin A.A., Lee, E., Pascall, A.J., Worsley, M.A., Zhou, J., Cook, C.C., Kuntz, J.D., Cho, S., and Orme, C.A. “A Bioinspired Artificial Injury Response System Based on a Robust Polymer Memristor to Mimic a Sense of Pain, Sign of Injury, and Healing.” Advanced Science, 2022, 2200629.

Bukosky, S.C., Hammons, J.A., Giera, B., Lee, E., Han, J., Freyman, M.C., Ivanovskaya, A., Krauter, K.G., Kuntz, J.D., Worsley, M.A., Han, T.Y., Ristenpart, W.D., and Pascall, A.J. “Correlating dynamic microstructure to observed color in electrophoretic displays via in situ small-angle x-ray scattering.” Physical Review Materials, 2020, 4 (7), 075802.

Sio, K.I., Parsons-Davis, T., Lee, E., Wimpenny, J., Pascall, A.J., Kuntz, J.D., Goodell, J.J., Roberts, K.E., Bandong, B.B., and Bennett, N.R. “Additive manufacturing of platinum group element (PGE) standard reference materials with a silica matrix.” Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 2020.

Kim, H., Ge, D., Lee, E., and Yang, S. “Multistate and on-demand smart windows.” Advanced Materials, 2018.

Han, J., Lee, E., Dudoff, J.K., Bagge-Hansen, M., Lee, J.R.I., Pascall, A.J., Kuntz, J.D., Willey, T.M., Worsley, M.A., and Han, T.Y. “Tunable quasi-amorphous photonic materials with pigmentary colloidal nanostructures.” Advanced Optical Materials, 2017. (Cover Article)

Lee, E.,^† Xia, Y.,^† and Ferrier, R. C.,^† Gharbi, M. A., Stebe, K. J., Kamien, R. D., Composto, R. J. and Yang, S. “Fine golden rings: tunable surface plasmon resonance from assembled nanorods in topological defects of liquid crystals.” Advanced Materials, 2016. ^†Equal contribution.

Lee, E., Yang, S. “Bio-inspired responsive polymer pillar arrays.” MRS Communications, 2015. (Invited Review)

Ge, D., Yang, L., Wang, C., Lee, E. and Yang, S. “A multi-functional oil/water separator from a selectively pre-wetted superamphiphobic nanoparticle coated paper,” Chemical Communications, 2015.

Ge, D.^† and Lee, E.,^† Yang, L., Cho, Y., Li, M., Gianola, D.S., and Yang, S. “A robust smart window: reversibly switching from high transparency to angle-independent structural color display.” Advanced Materials, 2015. ^†Equal contribution.

Lee, E., Zhang, M., Cho, Y., Cui, Y., Van der Spiegel, J., Engheta, N. and Yang, S. "Tilted pillars on wrinkled elastomers as a reversibly tunable optical window", Advanced Materials, 2014.

• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, DDS&T Excellence in Publication Award, 2020
• FLC Far West Outstanding Technology Development Award, 2020
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Engineering Directorate Recognition and Awards Program, 2016-2018
• National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes in Republic of Korea, 2012
• National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship in Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Nano-Bio Interface Center, University of Pennsylvania, 2011