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Fuel Additives, Chemical Process Development, Tech Evaluation and Due Diligence, Recycling of plastics and waste, Circular Economy
Expert is a chemical process engineer with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering, backed by 7 years of R&D and process engineering engagements for NOVA Chemicals, British Petroleum, Lummus (CB&I) and fuel-additive and reactor design firms. He has developed his experience…
Organic Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Photoresists, Photoresist strippers, Sustainability
Expert has over 20 years of experience in developing semi-aqueous strippers/ and cleaners for post-etched wafer substrates. He has developed strippers/cleaners for various metal substrates (such as aluminum, copper, etc.). These strippers were designed to be compatible with the metal…
Plasma Processing
Expert is a recognized expert in plasma etching as encountered in microstructure fabrication (e.g., integrated circuits) and for over 30 years has been teaching a two-day technical training course entitled "Plama Etching and Reactive Ion Etching." He was employed at…
cGMP Coatings, Pharmaceutical, Dietary Supplements, Adhesives, Die Cutting, Security Holograms, Printing, Operations Lean Management Metrics and Strategy, and Materials
Expert has worked in custom manufacturing – polymerization, mixing, coating and converting of cGMP adhesive and laminates - as a process engineering manager. In this role he lead operations and engineering on the corporate Business Strategy Team (BST) asserting direction…
Surface Technology, Coatings, Thin Film Deposition, PVD, Physical Vapour Deposition, Sputtering, PLD
He studied materials science with a focus on thin film materials, focussing in his PhD on process equipment and design of room-temperature deposited coating. As post-doc, he was employed to scale up deposition process from laboratory to industrially useable process…
Medical Polymer Sterilization
MEDICAL POLYMER SELECTION; MEDICAL POLYMER STERILIZATION. With knowledge of material selection for medical devices, Expert has specific expertise in selecting materials based on cost, physical properties, radiation or other forms of sterilization, blood and tissue compatibility, permeability, and aging properties.…
Technology Commercialization, Business Development, Material Science, Photonics, Business Incubation
In 2006 expert was promoted to Director of Business Incubation at Boston University. He was responsible for incubating new technology companies originating from all disciplines at BU and other major research institutions in the region. In a period of four…
Adhesion Bonding, Plastic Surface Treatments, Plastics Decorating, Finishing, Coating, Laser Marking
Expert has extensive experience diagnosing adhesion problems and implementing cost effective solutions for bonding/ joining like and dissimilar materials. He received a US patent for a bonding process which yields superior adhesion strength forces for commercial and military products. His…
Vacuum Processes, Optical Multilayer Thin Films, Ophthalmic Lenses, Photochromic Dyes, Diamond film
THIN FILM, HIGH VACUUM, THIN-FILM DEPOSITION PROCESS. Expert has expertise in many aspects of thin film deposition processes including physical vapor deposition, rf and dc magnetron sputtering, ion beam sputtering, ion-assisted deposition, and chemical vapor deposition (CVD). He developed an…
Life Support and Low-Temperature Plasma
Expert has expertise in life support systems for humans in space. He has extensive experience in physico-chemical approaches to recycling water and oxygen in space, oxygen storage, and processing solid wastes. He is very knowledgeable of water vapor electrolysis for…