Graduate Research Assistant - Chemical Engineering
Current‒ Lead research and development on novel project focused on chemical recycling of high value polymers from multilayer plastic waste‒ Understand and utilize various characterization techniques for analyzing material properties (Experience in Melt Rheology, TGA, FTIR, DSC, Raman spectroscopy, NMR, and BET)‒ Developed a time-resolved rheology protocol to better understand the temporal dynamics of various grades of ethylene vinyl alcohol during to thermo-oxidative… Show more ‒ Lead research and development on novel project focused on chemical recycling of high value polymers from multilayer plastic waste‒ Understand and utilize various characterization techniques for analyzing material properties (Experience in Melt Rheology, TGA, FTIR, DSC, Raman spectroscopy, NMR, and BET)‒ Developed a time-resolved rheology protocol to better understand the temporal dynamics of various grades of ethylene vinyl alcohol during to thermo-oxidative degradation‒ Extensively used a HAAKE Minilab extruder to elucidate the effects of melt processing, reprocessing, and compounding effects on common polymer found in multilayer food packaging systems including LDPE, tie layers, and EVOH‒ Experience operating variable volume and fixed volume reactors for supercritical processing of polymers Show less