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Responsibilities- Formulate coatings for industrial fiberglass fabrics that are used in the reinforcement of construction products.- Coatings are formulated to improve performance, processability and profitability.- Conduct fundamental research on fiberglass degradation mechanism to provide a solution for enhanced durability.- Carry out pilot and production scale trials to evaluate new formulations or raw materials.- Summarize data in reports and present findings to project team or senior management.- Work closely with manufacturing team to solve production issues that occur.- Assist the quality department to develop testing methods, and the EHS team to ensure materials conform to safety standards.- Lead in the evaluation, capital request submission, and installation of new lab equipment.Achievements- Reengineered successful products through collaboration with engineers and sales team.- Discovered an alternate degradation mechanism in fiberglass, which led to an accelerated aging test and a new approach to coating design.- Conceived a method of selective coating weight reduction in excessively coated fiberglass yarns.http://www.adfors.com/us/

Advisor: Professor Emmanuel GiannelisThe objective of the project was to design responsive tracer particles that can provide information about the environment in an oil well. The main challenge is to create particles with colloidal stability that can withstand the high salinity of the injection fluids, and the high temperature within the oil well. To that end, I developed a miniemulsion polymerization technique that produces uniform fluorescent polystyrene particles (diameter < 100 nm) which exhibit enhanced colloidal stability in high salinity and high temperatures. These particles were characterized by electron microscopy, dynamic light scattering, zeta potential and fluorescence spectroscopy.

Advisor: Professor Harry R. Allcock Dissertation Title: “Ion Conduction Mechanisms in Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries and Fuel Cells, and Crystal Engineering of Cyclophosphazenes.”-Utilized macromolecular nucleophilic substitution on an inorganic polymer to synthesize various solid polymer electrolytes for proton and lithium conduction.-Characterized and elucidated the ion conduction mechanism in polymers by NMR and impedance spectroscopy.-Synthesized novel molecules with chiral groups that exhibit selective inclusion in their crystal lattice.