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Materials Engineering, Polymers, Metallurgy, Chemistry, Corrosion, and Adhesion Science
Expertise in chemistry, materials science, metals, polymers, corrosion, coatings and packaging. Expert has over 20 years of experience working as a technical consultant in materials engineering, polymers, metallurgy, chemistry, corrosion and adhesion science. She has been an advisor to companies…
Glass Technology, Geology and Raw Waterials, Glass Melting Furnaces, Glass Quality
Expert has more than 20 years of experience in glass technology. The first 13 years (1987 – 2001), he was a glass technologist at Verlipack, the (only) Belgian container glass manufacturer at that time (with 3 plants). In 2001 (due…
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…
Viscometry, Instrumentation Design and Applications, Polymer Characterization and Processes
Expert has extensive experience in characterization of materials and property measurements, especially those related to molecular weight, molecular architecture, and material composition. He has several patents in related areas (viscometers, HPLC detectors, Clinical analysis of Blood and vital fluids) and…
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…
Polymer Processing; Pilot Plant Design; Process Development
After 20 years working for chemical companies expert changed his career to work full-time on chemical plant design. He has worked 15 years for engineering and construction companies doing chemical plant design (chemicals, polymers, pharmaceutical and related fields). He continued…
Polymer Synthesis and Properties, Catalysis, Physical-Organic Chemistry, and Molecular Modeling
Expert R. Expert has over 30 years R&D experience with major chemical companies in designing new organic polymers, developing and improving polymerization processes, and inventing new polymerization catalysts. His primary focus has been on exploratory research for new product and…
Process Engineering, Inorganic Chemicals: Chloralkali, Sulfuric Acid, SO2, and Fertilizers
Expert’s graduate work (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) was in adsorption of gases in molecular sieve zeolites. The work included exhaustive experimentation on equilibrium and kinetics of adsorption and included calculation of adsorption energy from electrostatic and van der Waals forces acting…
Web Coating Technology
Expert has spent over 28 years in the web coating industry. He has experience in wax coating, hot melt, solvent coating, solventless coating, and emulsion coating on a wide variety of webs, from light weight films and foils to SBS…
Polymer Rheology and Plastics Processing
Expert is currently working on constitutive modeling of the extensional behavior of molten plastics. He has developed models that allow the behavior in extension to be inferred from measurements in exponential shear. The material behavior in exponential shear is measured…