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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…
Mineral Flotation, Mineral Processing, Training, Tails Thickening, Mining Water Treatment
MINING SEGMENTS • Iron ore (10 years as research metallurgist and Research Coordinator, Flotation with Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company). • Uranium (1 ½ years as an operating engineer at a uranium solution mining semi works mine) • Potash, industrial minerals…
Surface Engineering, Diamond like hard coating, material science, Medical device, hard disk
Most of Expert's scientific career has been devoted to the development of surface modification and thin film deposition technologies, including plasma nitriding, plasma carbonization, boriding, chromizing, cathodic arc, filtered cathodic arc, pulsed laser ablation, magnetron sputtering, pulsed mid-frequency dc magnetron…
Aluminum Die Casting Operations, Metal Cleanliness & Die Lube Dillution and Application
Expert has more than 26 years experience working in aluminum die casting. Expert spent 20 years working for Doehlar Jarvis, working in their die cast department, where he manually ran the die cast machines, gaining the skills and knowledge necessary…
Surface Science, Materials Research, Thin Films, Spray Processes, Organic Semiconductors
He has performed a multitude of surface analyses of inorganic materials such as Si, SiC, metals, layered semiconductors. The methods applied were atomic force microscopy, photoemission spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy. He has performed a multitude of analyses on inorganic, organic,…
PET Plastic Molding, Surface Technology, Statistical Analysis, Failure Analysis, Design of Experiment
Expert has designed and developed a dual arc vaporization system with pulsed bias and filtered arc capability. He took a development project and brought it to the state of the art and turns it into a profit center for thin…
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…
Hydrogeology: Modeling, Remediation, 3D Visualization, Geochemistry Litigation
Expert has conducted geochemical and hydrogeological evaluations of natural attenuation at a number of industrial and refining facilities. His expertise as a contaminant hydrogeologist and geochemistry has allows him to evaluate the fate and transport of chemical in groundwater in…
Optical Coatings, Vacuum Engineering, Ion Beam and Sputtering Technologies and Equipment
ExpertChutko has 38 years experience in optical coating, vacuum engineering, ion beam sources and their applications. He managed coating labs in Russia and USA producing a wide range of optical coatings; developed, designed and manufactured technological ion sources for ion…
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…