Michael Abrams Email & Phone Number

King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States

Colombes Cedex, Fr

High Performance Polymers R&D, Fluoropolymer Synthesis

Colombes Cedex, Fr

Manager of Crosslinking Group, Organic Peroxides R&DR&D and technical support for Organic Peroxide product portfolio used in polymer initiation (LDPE, EVA, PVC, PS, acrylates) and crosslinking (PE, PP, elastomers)

Colombes Cedex, Fr

Manager of Crosslinking Group, Organic Peroxides R&DR&D and technical support for Organic Peroxide product portfolio used in polymer initiation (LDPE, EVA, PVC, PS, acrylates) and crosslinking (PE, PP, elastomers)

Colombes Cedex, Fr

Conceived and developed proprietary iron- and manganese-carbene-based technology platform to enable improved oxidation with hydrogen peroxide for consumer products applicationsLed multi-disciplinary team to identify TSCA-registered molecules for H2O2 activationInitiated and oversaw development and implementation of rapid screening program for catalyst identificationLed technical efforts in international Joint Development Program with major global consumer products company to incorporate technology into commercial consumer productsWorked with process technology groups to identify commercially viable manufacturing routes and suitable toll manufacturersSpearheaded collaborations with Analytical & Systems Research group to develop Quantitative Structure - Activity Relationships (3-D QSAR) to understand catalyst properties and identify next-generation catalysts

Colombes Cedex, Fr

Stabilization and use of hydrogen peroxide and peracetic acid for cleaning and personal care applications. See Principal Scientist section for additional details.

Colombes Cedex, Fr

R&D on inorganic coatings, organometallic synthesis, applications of block copoylmersDeveloped and executed multidisciplinary project plan (research, patent, HES, manufacturing, marketing) to develop conductive doped metal-oxide coatingsLead contact for Joint Development Program with global flat-glass manufacturer; coordinated research (13+ researchers) at multiple sites in US & EuropeSpearheaded design, lab-synthesis, performance testing of air-sensitive chemical vapor deposition (CVD) precursors, leading to multiple precursors with improved cost-, performance-, and ease-of-handling (safety)Ensured availability of lab- and pilot scale quantities of novel precursors for customer testing; enabled successful transfer of CVD precursor synthesis to pilot plant (100 kg)

Colombes Cedex, Fr

R&D focusing on organic coatings, functional materials (controlled release), polymer synthesis and testing, inorganic catalysisDeveloped and implemented high throughput techniques for parallel radical polymerization and performance testing of silylacrylate copolymers; discovered multiple patentable self-polishing polymer compositionsDesigned high-throughput screening of catalytic dehydrogenative coupling, preliminary results of which led to cost-efficient silylacrylate monomer manufacturing processEstablished structure-activity relationships for terpolymers, leading to discovery of polymers with improved flexibilityLead technical contact for collaboration with informatics company to develop custom software for automated performance testing measurements and data visualization, allowing 10x improvement in analysis throughputSupported pilot plant terpolymer campaigns, generating material for customer sampling

Los Alamos, Nm, Us

Developed cationic phosphorus-based ligands with “tunable” steric and electronic properties for the generation of electrophilic late transition metal complexes for homogeneous catalysisSynthesized first examples of cationic Ni-, Pt-, and Rh-phosphenium complexes [analogues of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands]Investigated structure, solution dynamics, and reactivity of halophosphines, phosphenium cations, phosphenium-phosphine adducts, and metallophosphenium complexes by NMR spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and DFT calculationsInvestigated room temperature molten salt/supercritical carbon dioxide mixtures as environmentally benign reaction media for electrophilic late metal-catalyzed hydrogenation and hydrocarbon activation.

Ph.D., Chemistry

B.S., Chemistry