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University Faculty with research interests in Thermoplastic Elastomers

Name Organization Title Email Telephone Fax Interest Area
Robert Burford University of New South Wales, Australia Professor r.burford@unsw.edu.au Tel: 61 29385 4308 Fax: 61 2 9385 5966 TEM morphology IPNs, SANS, SAXS, blends
Rong Yeu Chang National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Professor rychang@mx.nthu.edu.tw Tel: 886 3 5715133635 Fax: 886 3 572 7608 MEMS microelement technology, design of color ink jet head and micro lfuid flow prediction sof shrinkage and wariping in injection molding, mold flow of plastics processes, nano rheology of polyer fluids.
Young-wook Chang Dept of Chemical Engineering, HanyangUniv. , South Korea Professor ywchang@hanyang.ac.kr Tel: 82 31 400 5277 clay nanocomposites carbon nanotubes, conductive polymers
Phillip Y. K. Choi University of Alberta, Canada Assistant Professor phillip.choi@ualberta.ca Tel: 780 492 9018 Fax: 780 492 2881 pololefin structure property relationships,polymer blend miscibility, molecular modelling, polyurethane coatings
Charles Dubois Ecolé Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada Professor charles.dubois@polymtl.ca Tel: 514 340 4711 ext 4893 Fax: 514 340 4159 biodegradabe TPEs, chemorheology reactive polymers
Brian P Grady University of Oklahoma, Norman OK USA Professor bpgrady@ou.edu Tel: 405 325 4369 Fax: 405 325 5813 ionomers, multiblock polyurethanes, polymer blends
Krishnamurthy Jayaraman Michigan State University, East Lansing MI USA Professor jayarama@egr.msu.edu Tel: 517 355 5138 Fax: 517 432 1105 extrusion, extensional flow, rheological characterization
Marianna Kontopoulou Queens University, Kingston Ontario Canada Associate Professor kontop@chee.queensu.ca Tel: 613 533 3079 Fax: 613 533 6637 Polyolefin blends and nanocomposites, blends, TPVs
Min-Young Lyu Seoul National University of Technology, Korea Assistant Professor mylyu@snut.ac.kr Tel: 82 2 970 6391 Fax: 82 2 976 5173 computer simulation of screw extrusion, CFD in extrusion dies, die design, mixing and compounding
Antonio S Pouzad University of Minho Guimares Portugal Professor asp@dep.uminho.pt Tel: 351 253510320 Fax: 351 253510339 product and mold design, mechanical design
Denis Rodrigue Laval University, Quebec City Canada Associate Professor denis.rodrigue@gch.ulaval.ca Tel: 418 656 2903 Fax: 418 656 5993 foams, composites, processing, modelling, rheology
Thomas Twardowski Widener University 'Twardowski Scientific Consulting Associate Professor twardowskit@yahoo.com Tel: 267 980 1915 elastomers for biomedical substrates, nanocomposite elastomers
Costas Tzoganakis University Of Waterloo, Waterloo Canada Professor ctzogan@uwaterloo.ca Tel: 519 888 4567 ext 3442 Fax: 519 746 4979 reactive extrusion of polymers, cje,oca; modification, reactive blending, TPVs, TPEs, Rheology, Nmerical simulations

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