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Polymer Selection for Food, Automotive, and Electronic Markets
Expert has an in-depth understanding of the high-pressure synthesis copolymerization of ethylene with combinations of co-monomers such as acrylates, vinyl acetate, (meth)acrylic acid, and carbon monoxide. His knowledge results from the high-pressure pilot plant work performed under his direction to…
Materials Processing and Manufacturing
Recent work in Expert's group has shown that high velocity sheet metal forming can dramatically improve material formability (the amount of stretch available without tearing) and wrinkling can be greatly suppressed. Electromagnetic forming is a very convenient way of flexibly…
Ceramics Industry
Expert has over 49 years of experience in the ceramic whitewares industry, covering dinnerware, wall and floor tile, and sanitary ware. While with The Pfaltzgraff Company, he held company wide responsibility for the functions of ceramic engineering, decorating development, industrial…
Powder Processing/Fabrication
Expert (prefers Expert ) has devoted most of his recent career to developing processing techniques, procedures, equipment, and control systems for preparing powders and forming/shaping components. This work has covered the full range of operation necessary for manufacturing ceramic components.…
Electrical Ceramics, Ceramic Capacitors, Ceramic Processing, Ferroelectrics, Piezoelectrics,
Expert has 50 years of experience in ceramic processing and properties of electrical ceramics, including capacitors,multilayer ceramic capacitors, insulators, dielectrics, inductors, resistors, thermistors, sensors, transducers, varistors, superconductors, and thin-layer capacitors. He has 10 years of industrial experience and 36 years…
Design/Manufacturing & Materials
MATERIAL SCIENCE. Expert (prefers Expert ) has expertise in many aspects of design and manufacturing, in particular, materials selection, processing, forming, shaping, and materials properties, behavior, and performance. He is a well-known expert in mechanics of materials, deformation processing of…
Sol-Gel Processing
The overall focus of Expert's activities is the synthesis and processing of ceramics and glasses using the sol-gel process. She edited the first volume on the applications of this process, which established the technological basis for further developments. She also…
Electronic Ceramics
CERAMIC CAPACITOR; CERAMIC CHIP CAPACITOR. Expert has been working with ceramic chip capacitors for over 25 years. His expertise includes high-voltage caps, surface mount capacitors, switch mode power supply capacitors, and failure analysis. Expert has 25 years of experience with…
Ceramics, Coatings, Processing
Expert's educational background and research has given her experience in the structure-property relationships for ceramic materials. In particular, both her MS and PhD research topics involved the analysis of dielectric properties of ceramics. She is now involved with active research…
Biomedical Metals Technology
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CYCLE TIME. Expert has focused a significant portion of his career on product development manipulation. This has involved reducing the cycle time from concept to product introduction. He has applied this experience to a variety of scientific disciplines.…