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Failure Analysis, Construction, Nondestructive Testing, Corrosion and Structural Evaluation
Expert has over 25 years' forensic experience in accessing a wide variety of civil applications, including building systems, balconies, parking garages, bridge piers and decks, and other civil infrastructures. A national recognized expert in nondestructive testing and evaluation, he worked…
Rubber Chemistry and Technology, Polymer synthesis, Organic synthesis, Nanotechnology, Surface chem.
Summary of R&D work in collaboration with the industry. Michelin Tires: Project Aim: Functionalization of Used Tire Rubber by Hydrosilylation His Contribution: • Characterization of the raw material using various analytical techniques such as ATR-FTIR, X-Ray Photoelectron spectroscopy, SEM/EDXS(for Morphology…
Electronic Material Processing, Chemical-Physical Analysis, Device Modeling, Biomedical Sensors
Expert has over thirty years experience in the design, micro-fabrication, analysis and modeling of electronic devices, transistors, and sensor arrays. He has extensive experience with the advanced processes for device fabrication: depositing the metal electrode and contact layers by sputtering,…
Mineralogy, Metamorphic Petrology, Zeolite Technology, Clays, Enviromental Sciences
Mr. Ríos has developed several research and teaching activities on geology topics. He has participated in several field works on crystalline basement complexes in different areas of Colombia, which have contributed to improved understanding of the geology and tectono-metamorphic evolution…
Biometrics, Nanotechnology, Early Stage Technology Commercialization, Information Technology
Expert founded one of the earliest biometric identification companies focusing on live-scan technology development. The company later interfaced with every major AFIS vendor. Expert has 10 patents on core biometric technologies. He has developed designs for National I.D. programs, evaluated…
Scanning Probe Microscopy (AFM, STM, Kelvin Probe)
Application of Scanning Probe techniques for studying surfaces and interfaces properties at atomic and molecular scale, such as structural, electronic, mechanical properties and chemical composition. Instrument developments: UHV STM, combined UHV AFM/STM based on tuning fork sensor, STM/TEM instruments, Spin-polarized…
Materials Science: Technology Development and Transfer, Coatings and Surface Technologies
Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Devices • Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) • Catalysis for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) • Metal oxide supercapacitors • Rechargeable batteries High Temperature Alloys • High temperature oxidation of alloys • Oxidation protection…
Thin-Film Deposition, Lasers, Optical Spectroscopy, Cryogenics
The last twenty years Expert has worked in France, Japan and US holding positions in the industry, academia and government. He has contributed to the fields of nonlinear optics (bistability), superconductivity, thin-film deposition (in particular pulsed-laser deposition), photoluminescence of low…
Monte Carlo, electron optics, Materials, Surfaces, Software, Matlab, Image Processing
Expert has worked in Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) and Scanning Auger Microscopy (SAM) for over 25 years. He was one of the originators of the application of multispectral techniques to the study of SAM Images. He has used advanced image…
Nanotechnology
Expert has a decade of experience synthesizing, characterizing and applying nanoparticles for various applications. He has used many scientific instruments for characterizing nanomaterials like transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, UV-Vis spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, Thermogravimetric analysis, dynamic light scattering, x-ray…