1. Edition - January 2009
162.- Euro
2009. XVII, 408 Pages, Hardcover
- Handbook/Reference Book -
ISBN-10: 3-527-31953-0
ISBN-13: 978-3-527-31953-4 - Wiley-VCH, Weinheim






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Sample Chapter

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Author information
Philippe Dubois received his PhD degree from University of Liège. In 1997 he moved to University of Mons-Hainaut (UMH) where he obtained the chair of macromolecular chemistry and directed the Laboratory of Polymeric and Composite Materials. He has co-authored more than 350 peer-reviewed publications and is co-inventor of 40 patents. He co-edited 5 books. In 2007 he became Director of of The Center of Innovation and Research in Materials and Polymers (CIRMAP) at UMH. He is currently past-president of the Belgian Royal Chemical Society (president in 2006-2007) and scientific director of Materia Nova research center in Mons.

Olivier Coulembier received his PhD degree from University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium in 2005 and joined the University of Stanford (United States) for his postdoctoral research in 2006. He is currently Research Associate by Belgian F.R.S.-FNRS in the Laboratory of Polymeric and Composite Materials (Professor Philippe Dubois) at University of Mons-Hainaut. His main activities are focused on the (non)organometallic ring-opening polymerization of cyclic monomers. He has authored 24 scientific papers in international journals.

Jean-Marie Raquez, PhD in chemistry um UMH, Belgium, is currently postdoctoral researcher by Belgian F.R.S.-FNRS and works in the Laboratory of Polymeric and Composites Materials (Professor Philippe Dubois) at University of Mons-Hainaut (UMH) in Mons, Belgium. He has authored 12 scientific papers and 5 US patents in Materials Technology including macromolecular synthesis and reactive processing. In 2004, he joined the Michigan State University, USa, for his postdoctoral research.