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Biobased Materials, Silica and Sol-Gel Chemistry, Green and Sustainable Chemistry
He is an expert in all aspects of silica and sol-gel chemistry. His expertise includes silica films and coatings, silica insulators, fumed silica, spherical silica, silica supports, silica coatings for ceramics, silica in polymer composites and also hybrid silica organic…
Special Effect Pigments and Manufacturing, Metal Oxide Coatings, Surface Coatings, Mica Grinding
Expert has expertise in the product development and manufacturing of special effect inorganic pigments.He has developed the " sparkle" effect used by Colgate and Crest toothpaste and was the first individual to successfully put a metal oxide coating on a…
Coating, Insulation, PFP and TSA, Oil and Gas Industry Worldwide
He has used various types of abrasives for blast cleaning of various substrates. Carbon steel, Stainless steel and Concrete. The abrasives used are copper slag /coal slag / Garnet / Aluminum oxide. He has also used metallic abrasives like chilled…
Mechanics of Composites, Micromechanics, Nanocomposites, Modeling, Probability
For the past 30 years, The Expert proposed and developed a micromechanics methodology to analyze the wide class of statical and dynamical, local and nonlocal, linear and nonlinear micromechanical problems (thermoelasticity, viscoelasticity, plasticity, piezoelectricity, conductivity) of composite materials with deterministic…
Refractories and Ceramics
Expert has had extensive experience in industry as well as academia in the area of advanced ceramics. He was a professor of Ceramic Engineering for 12 years, and has been a Summer Researcher at three national labs. He has been…
Chemistry of Materials
APPLIED INORGANIC CHEMISTRY. Expert has extensive experience in applied inorganic chemistry. Using new sol-gel methods that employ hydrogen peroxide, Expert has made a variety of ceramics and minerals, for example, forsterite, enstatite, and members of the olivine family. Sols (colloidal…
Applied Silica Chemistry
SILICA AND SILICATE CHEMISTRY The primary focus of Expert's technical work since 1974 has been the chemistry of soluble silica and products derived from silica. These include precipitated products, gels, and sols. He is currently studying the interaction of colloidal…