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Workshops

The CFE holds annual workshops at CMU. Carnegie Mellon University has long been recognized for cutting edge research in the areas of colloid and polymer science. We host workshops together with local experts in a given topical area, to identify and clarify potential links between academic and industrial research in that area. Our aim is to educate both the academic and industrial participants and to identify the most relevant focus areas in current vital and economically important industries.

The workshops are two days of technical presentations with adequate time for discussion (either panel discussion or open). A poster session with presentations from CFE graduate students and reception are also part of the program.

The workshops hosted in previous years:
"Coatings Technology", January 7 and 8, 1999: Organizers Lynn M. Walker and Robert D. Tilton

"Materials Science Issues in Pharmaceutical Processing and Application", January 13 and 14, 2000: Organizers: Lynn M. Walker, Robert D. Tilton and Todd M. Przybycien

Advisory Board

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Interactions

John L. Anderson

  • Collaborating with Philips Electronics Research, Eindhoven, on the dynamics of colloidal particles on electrodes in DC and AC fields.

Guy C. Berry

  • Consultant for several companies in the area of polymer solution physical chemistry and rheological behavior.

Jim Schneider

  • Local mechanical properties of polyethylene-polypropylene blends using force modulation AFM (Aristech)
  • Steric stabilization properties of reactively grafted polyols using colloidal-probe AFM (Bayer)
  • Surface characterization of printed DNA arrays using dynamic AFM (Naval Research Laboratory)

Robert D. Tilton

  • Co-Adsorption of Polymers and Surfactants Used in Wet Granulation Processes. Sponsor, Merck Research Laboratories.
  • Consulting: Cabot Corporation, Cab-O-Sil Division; Procter & Gamble Health Care Product Development; Alkermes Inc., Merck Research Laboratories.

Lynn M. Walker

  • Consulting: Syngenta, Lubrizol, Merck, DuPont, PPG, Air Products & Chemicals, NOVA Chemicals
  • "Analysis and Optimization of Coating Atomization in a Pan Coating Device," Sponsor Merck & Co. Inc., West Point PA with N. Chigier (CMU - ME)

Lee R. White

  • Lubrizol-low ka high frequency electrophoretic mobility calculations