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AREAS OF EXPERTISE Polymers, Medical Devices, Nutritional Mixtures Nutrition Mixtures: Surfactants and emulsions. Emulsions for parenteral nutrition, dialysis: Glucose, Sugars, Oil-lipid emulsions, Electrolyte, sugars solutions formulation radiation and heat sterilization stability of sugars and glucose solutions (degradation kinetics, products analysis) Exractables, Leachables Impurities analysis. Formulation, Testing, Organic Synthesis: Radiation-resistant polymers. Antimicrobial coatings, protein compatible coatings, photochromic coatings. Radiation curable coatings, adhesives, inks, CD lacquers, DVD adhesives. Barrier polymers.. Photopolymers and Photoresists Imaging media. Reaction kinetics. Molecular transport & diffusion. Radioisotope and fluorescent labeling. Radiation and Photochemistry. Analytical Techniques: UV/Vis/FT-IR and Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Dynamic Light Scattering, HPLC, GC, GC - MS, Gel-Permeation, Ion-Exchange, and Radio-Chromatography, Mass-Spectrometry, Neutron Activation Analysis, Optical Microscopy, Computer Image Analysis, ESR, NMR, Optical, electronic instrumentation assembly, Dynamic Mechanical Analysis, Differential Scanning Calorimetry, Thermo-Mechanical Analysis, Thermogravimetric Analysis, Polymer mechanical testing. Software Engineering: C++, SAS, FORTRAN, Perl, Java, J2EE, HTML, XML, XSML, Standard ML, Open GL, RenderMan, POV-Ray, UNIX shell scripting, All Microsoft Office Package Programs: Access, Excel, Word, etc. Sigma Plot, PSI Plot, etc., Molecular modeling: Gaussian, GaussView, HyperChem, etc., Image Analysis: ImagePro Plus, ImageJ, Statistical Analysis, Design of Experiments: SOS, Minitab Six Sigma.