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Expert has over 40 years of experience in the Battery Separators, High Temperature Polymers, and Plastic Films. He has published over 50 papers and holds 38 patents (17 of which are US) in various aspects of plastics technology and research. He is currently the President of a consultancy, working with various clients in several different areas of material development, including battery separators, biaxial stretched films, and composite materials. He strives to become an internationally recognized expert in the relation of the properties and processing characteristics of materials to their structure. Expert's primary interest is in developing structure-property-processing relationships for new materials, particularly polymers. The goal is to be able to relate the macroscopic structure and associated physical properties to the molecular feature of the polymers. Through an understanding of these relationships, it is possible to molecularly design structures which possess a desired property profile. This concept has been successfully applied both in the area of polymer blends and also in the design of microwave-absorbing molecules.

Throughout his career, he has held various technical and management positions with a variety of organizations including Celanese, EniChem America, Applied Extrusion Technologies Films among others. During this most recent position, he was a Group Leader in the R&D group, leading a team in the development of new battery separators for use in lithium ion batteries. In all of his work, the main focus has been the development of structure/property/processing relationships as a way to optimize the properties and applications of new materials.

Expert helped a company develop and define a new program in the area of energy storage and batteries. In that consulting role, he developed contacts with both academic and industrial partners to effectively put the company on a fast learning curve in a new technological area for them. Expert acted as a consultant for a company in the food packaging area that was interested in expanding into new areas. As a result of that consulting assignment, the company is presently defining a program in the area of battery separators. Expert traveled to a company in Asia to assess their battery separator technology for possible purchase by a client. After the trip was complete, he provided feedback and recommendations to top management as to additional information that needed to be gathered prior to the acquisition. Expert served as an Expert in the field of High Temperature Polymers for a client who was interested in developing new applications for their polymers. As the Expert for the project, he conducted phone interviews with potential customers and gathered background information which was presented to the client for their new product development efforts. Expert worked with a company in the flexible circuit business defining a new process to use microwave energy in the part production. That interaction lead to a reduction in the processing time of a factor of about 10 and, thus, reduced the company's production costs.