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Expert's research in fiber spinning focuses on the development of new processes to improve fiber strength and fiber spinning economics. His group has a great interest in solving grand challenges from the polymer/fiber industry. The approaches his group takes involve both chemical and mechanical processing to address various aspects of new fiber products development. The engineering component of their work is supported by deep materials science, advanced characterization, theoretical analysis and modeling. In the past 10 years, Expert's work has primarily focused on:

1) Formulating new spin dopes suitable for gel spinning
2) Improving the economics of the gel spinning process
3) Improving the strength of wet-spun fibers
4) Heat setting of natural and regenerated fibers

Expert's team's fiber research has been funded by federal agencies (including NSF and National Textile Center), the Georgia State, as well as by various industrial supports.

Expert has published extensively on fiber spinning.

As a university professor, Expert has led research in composites processing and manufacturing for over 15 years. He started his academic career as an assistant professor in 2001.

Specifically, Expert has worked on vacuum infusion, resin transfer molding, thermoforming, and composite injection molding. He has authored or co-authored over 20 technical papers in this area.

Expert has a broad background in polymer processing, with ~200 technical papers in this area. Topics include precision and micro-molding, fiber spinning (melt, solution and gel), composites processing (vacuum infusion), processing of single-polymer composites, additive manufacturing, processing of porous polymers with controllable structures, processing of polymer foams, process modeling and simulation, and plastics recycling.

He has published a number of papers related to polymer processing.

Expert has served as a consultant for more than 10 companies in solving their technical problems in fiber and polymer processing. Particularly in the last year, Expert assisted a fiber processing company in establishing a new fiber spinning line for processing regenerated protein fibers. He also assisted a major composite/textile company in a patent application.