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Surfactant Applications, Surfactant Production, Water-soluble Polymers, Detergency, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Cleaning Products, Interfacial Phenomena
Expert worked 30 years for Shell Chemicals and Shell Exploration & Production in the fields of surfactant manufacturing and surfactant applications including detergency, enhanced oil recovery, industrial & institutional, and pulp & paper. For twenty years, expert provided customer technical…
Rheology, Nanotechnology, Particulate/Multiphase Processes, Chemical Engineering.
Expert operates his contract research & development small business incorporated in 1990 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. Expert's professional experience spanning over four decades in chemical engineering has focused around the broad areas of particulate/multiphase processes and rheology. Chemical engineering…
Fluid and Thermal Science, Interfacial Fluid Flow
Expert has over 15 years of experience performing interfacial fluid flow research. The bulk of her work in this area has relied on mathematical modeling and numerical techniques. She has developed computational fluid dynamics algorithms to simulate incompressible, interfacial flows…
Nanotechnology, Biomaterials, Sol-gel Sciences, Optics, Biotechnology, Glass, Ceramics, Spectroscopy
Expert is a specialist of sol-gel chemistry. He developed a new non-aqueous method for sol-gel glass coating to obtain transparent films for integrated optics and photonics using polysiloxane materials. The aim was to obtain low-softening temperature glasses to permit facile…
Structure-Property Relationships of Polymers, Polymer Composites and Polymer Nanocomposites
Expert has published numerous papers on surfactant and polymer adsorption at water-solid interfaces. A great deal of his work involves characterization and properties of amorphous polymers, especially polystyrene and its various derivatives. He earned B.S. and PhD degrees in Chemical…
Textiles, Fluoropolymers, Chemicals
He has been involved in surface modification for 20 years. His main expertise is in fabric modification to make water and oil repellent textiles. He founded a company, Nano-Tex, in 1998 to do this. He is now manufacturing the chemicals…
Environmental and Aquatic Chemistry; Metal-Organic Interactions; Surface Reactions; Kinetics
The field of aquatic chemistry begins with a focus on the speciation of solutes in aqueous solution (i.e. protonation level, complex formation with protons, hydroxide ions, metal ions, and ligands) and with pathways and rates of reaction. It now has…
Chemical Engineering, Process Plant Design, Biofuels, Economic Feasibility
Interests in adsorption go back to his PhD when he studied adsorption of proteins to polymers. He did an extensive surface chemistry course at the time and did a lot of work on zeta potential of particles. Since then he…
Electrochemistry, Coupling of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Kinetics, Electron Transfer
Expert W. Expert is an expert in many aspects of the fundamentals of electrochemistry. A major focus of his work over the past years has been the analysis of electrochemical responses (mostly cyclic voltammetric) for systems involving coupled heterogeneous electron…
Immunoreagents, Clinical Reagents, Surfactant Science
Expert developed, created and adapted immunoassays for flagship auto analyzers. Using a variety of surfactants, he engineered reagents, controls and calibrators for immunoassays of thyroids (T3, FT3, T4 and FT4), reproductive hormones (FSH, LH, hCG and prolactin), anemia (B12 and…