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Surface Science, Polymers, Textiles, Testing Materials, Plastics, Physical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical
Expert worked for three years as the Director of RD&E for the chemical products division of Waters Inc. In addition to the direction of the research in chromatographic media he was co-inventor of 7 patents for water-wettable extraction media and…
Entrepreneurship, Startup Financing, Business Plan Development, Due Diligence, Cleantech, Energy Technologies, and Nanotechnology
Expert has started two early-stage cleantech companies over the past 10 years in the water treatment and building materials sectors, raising multiple rounds of venture financing and securing numerous government grants for both. He drove IP development, strategic partner identification…
Membranes, Filters, Separations, Validation, Extractables, Leachables
Expert was responsible for building a new manufacturing facility for hollow-fiber thin film composite membranes for industrial gas and liquid. He helped design the equipment, created the plant layout, hired staff, and led the trouble-shooting phase. He led the engineering…
Protein Chemistry & Regulation, Proteomics, Protein Mass Spectrometry, Proteases, Enzymology
Since 1990, Expert and his colleagues have analyzed proteins by electrospray or MALDI mass spectrometry to detect posttranslational modifications such as phosphorylation and fatty acylation. He has also been using it to detect genetic variants and to measure the precise…
Membrane Purification Processes, Separation Processes
Expert has spent the majority of his career in the field of membrane processes. He has expert knowledge in the theory, design, and industrial applications of types of membrane processes for liquid and gas separation. These processes include reverse osmosis,…
Crystallization
CRYSTALLIZATION. Expert has expertise in a wide variety of areas related to crystallization. These include impurity-crystal interactions, solvent inclusion formation, and control of crystal size and crystal shape. He conducts a major academic research group in crystallization, consults for a…
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…
Chemical Reaction Engineering
POROUS MATERIAL; REACTIONS IN POROUS SOLIDS. A major portion of Expert's research has been concerned with reactions of porous solids, the kinetics of which are largely controlled by pore diffusion. In particular, he has worked on coal/char combustion and desulfurization…
Chemical Extraction, diffusion, mass transfer and separation processes.
Expert has skills in the boundary between chemistry and chemical engineering which reflect his adaptation of laboratory chemistry to industrial practice. Expert's primary expertise is in diffusion processes, especially those for chemical separations. His research on membranes, which has produced…