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Controlled Substances, Blood/Breath Alcohol, Urine Drug Screen Issues, Chain of Custody, Chemistry
Expert has been involved in forensic science since 1976. He has testified over 1000 as an expert in drug identification for the prosecution over 1000 times while with the Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement Crime Laboratory. In addition, he was…
Analytical Optical Spectroscopy, Chemometrics, Petroleum, Polymorphs and Diagnostics
Expert has taught courses and performed investigations in many areas of analytical chemistry including analytical spectroscopy, qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis, computer programming methods, algorithm developments and instrument developments. The primary goal of his research is to develop practical analytical instrumentation…
Electroplating; Electroforming: Electroless plating; cleanliness testing; surface engineering;
Expert has a long-term interest in development & application of low-cost methods for surface cleanliness testing & assessment, both in filming & particulate contamination. In particular, use of low-cost and/or consumer electronics products for this purpose and use of Open…
Polymer Science
Expert has worked in the coatings industry for 3 years prior to working at a large petrochemical company for 6 years. After that he spent another year and 3 months working for a large polyolefin company in Austria. During this…
Force Analysis & Dynamics, Accident Reconstruction
Expert is the former Assistant to Dean in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio (a position that he held for eight years), where in addition to his administrative duties, he taught mathematics, science and…
Forensic Engineering, Intellectual Property, Failure Analysis of Plastics, Rubbers, Composites
Expert has 30 years experience in investigating product failure and its consequences. It includes accident analysis following personal injury such as road traffic accidents, industrial accidents, and accidents in the home. He originally became involved in the subject by investigating…
Bionanosciences, Nanomaterial interfacing & targeting, Cell biology & biophysics, Molecular imaging, Microscopy
The expert has been actively designing and developing surface chemistries and coatings that allow a controlled organic/inorganic interfacing of colloidal nanomaterials with biomolecules. Over the past 14 years, projects carried out by the expert have focused on engineering the surface…
Fabric Softener Formulations, Product Development, Manufacturing, Technical Issues, and Markets/Sales
Over the past 20 years, Expert has applied his 3 decades of surface chemistry and surfactant background to the design and technical developments of biodegradable rinse cycle and dryer sheet fabric softener formulations for the global consumer and industrial marketplaces.…
Polymer Chemistry, Optical Polymers, Organic Chemistry
Acrylic resins or "acrylics" as they are more commonly known in the trade, are dominated by a relatively few number of molecules such as butyl acrylate and methyl methacrylate. However by esterifying acrylic or methacrylic acid it is possible to…
Polymer Chemistry, Thermoset Polyimides, Epoxies, Cyanate Esters, BMIs, Ultrahigh Temp Polymers
He has worked on high-temperature resistant aromatic and heteroaromatic polymers, including thermoset polyimides, BMIs, cyanate esters, and other high-temprature polymers. He has designed a series of high-temperature poly(arylene ethers) for the semiconductor manufacturers to be used as interlayer low-k dielectric…