Polyurethane Foams Expert

Expertise

• Foams and foaming.
• Structure formation in Polyurethane and other polymers.
• Structure to properties relations in materials.
• Micromechanical modeling.
• Liquids and glasses.
• Phase transitions, glass transition, and solidification.
• Modeling, problem solving in materials.
• Nucleation, including gas bubble nucleation. Foams.
• Surface contact and interactions.
• Soft and hard breakdown in composites.
• Pattern recognition in noisy environments (theory).
• First principles-based modeling and problem solving in materials.
• Physical bonding and molecular aggregation in glasses and liquids.
• Leakage current, soft and hard breakdown mechanisms in dielectrics.
• Nano-structure, its dynamics and recognition. Glass transition.
• Dynamic networks in polymers and biopolymers.

Experience

Undisclosed Company, Consultant, 1999 - Present

• Structure to properties relationships in polymers.
• Structure formation in polyurethanes.
• Modeling foam initiation and growth in polymers.

Undisclosed University, 1993 - Present

• Research Professor

NASA Glenn (Lewis) Center, Cleveland OH, Aerospace Materials Consultant, 1996 - 2001

• Near-critical liquids.
• Macromolecular crystallization.
• Coating.

Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1978 - 1997

• Principal Research Fellow

Novosibirsk State University, 1967 - 1992

• Professor of Physics

Honors & Publications

Credentials

• Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (Ph.D. equivalent), SD Academy of Sciences of USSR.
• Focused studies: Low Temperature Engineering, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, USSR. Theoretical Science: Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems, Moscow, USSR.

Academic and Professional Affiliations

• Fellowships: APS (2003), National Center for Microgravity Research in Fluids and Combustion and NASA, Lewis Research Center.

Awards

• Labor Honor Medal, USSR
• Scientific Achievement Diploma, USSR Academy of Sciences
• Veteran of Siberian Division (Diploma and Medal), USSR Academy of Sciences
• Landau Prize, USSR Academy of Sciences
• Professor in Physics and Mathematics (Diploma, Honorary), Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

Publications and Patents

• Author and Co-Author of over 150 papers in major journals, 1 book and educational text (chapters).
• One patent, (Russia, USSR)

Education

• Ph.D. Science: Physics, Mathematics, WTINT, Kharkov, USSR
• M.S. Physical Engineering, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, USSR