Links

 

maldissi@fractalsystemsinc.com (Fractal Systems Inc.)

 

SBIR/STTR

 

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FSI’s Collaborations with university

Dr. Kevin D. Belfield          Professor of Organic and Polymer Chemistry of University of Central Florida

Prof. Ashok Kumar          Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Nanomaterials and Nanomanufacturing Research Center (NNRC), University of South Florida, Tampa

Dr. Srikanth Hariharan      Professor in Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa

Prof. John H. Paul            Professor, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, Tampa

Prof. Eric S. Bennett         Associate Professor, Physiology and Biophysics, Heath Sciences Center University of South Florida, Tampa

Prof. G.S. Bullerjahn         Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio

Prof. Deanne Snavely       Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio

Bruno Ullrich                    Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 

Prof. Donald A. Graetz     Professor, Soil and water Science Department, University of Florida, Gainesville

Prof. Nick B. Comerford   Soil and water Science Department, University of Florida, Gainesville

Prof. Albert E. Stiegman   Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee

 

Books on conducting polymers

 

The following is a short list. Any suggestions for additional books for listing in this section are welcome.

Conducting Polymers, Fundamentals and Applications: A practical Approach, P. Chandrasekhar Editor, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Hingham, MA (kluwer@wkap.com), ISBN 0-7923-8564-0, 1999, pages 760

 

Conductive Polymers and Plastics in Industrial Applications, L. Rupprecht Editor, A publication of the Society of Plastics Engineers (#9902), ISBN 1-884207-77-4, 1999, 290 pages, (SPE member) or (non member), Plastics Design Library, 13 Eaton Ave., Norwich, NY 13815 (Tel/Fax: 607-337-5080/337-5090).

 

Handbook of Conducting Polymers, 2nd edition, T. Skotheim, R.L. Elsenbaumer and J. R. Reynolds Editors, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1998, 1097 pages, ISBN 0-8247-0050-3, www.dekker.com

 

Intrinsically Conducting Polymers: An Emerging Technology, M. Aldissi Editor, 1993, 223 pages, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Hingham, MA (kluwer@wkap.com), ISBN 0-7923-2456-0

 

Proceedings of the International Conference on Synthetic Metals held every two years and typically published by Elsevier as a special issue in the Journal "Synthetic Metals". The last meeting was held in Austria, July 16-21, 2000.

 

A book on electroactive polymers that focuses on actuator applications and edited by Y. Bar-Cohen has a chapter (Ch. 7) on conductive polymers. An outline can be found at http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/nasa-nde/yosi/yosi-books.htm

 

 

Company actively involved in the area of conducting polymers

 

                   Dupont technologies, Delaware, USA

                   Covion Organic Semiconductors, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

                   E-Ink, Boston, USA

                   Add-Vision, USA

                   Infineon Technologies (Siemens), Germany/USA

                   Universal Display Corporation, Princeton, USA

                   IBM Almaden Research Center, OLEDs, USA

                   IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland

                   Max Planck Institut fur Polymerforschung , Mainz, Germany

                   Optical Science Center at the Univ of Arizona , USA

                   Pioneer, Japan

                   Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, USA

                   Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, USA

                   Xerox, Palo Alto, USA

                   Philips, Polymer LEDs, Netherlands

                   Canon, Japan/America

                   Ritek, Taiwan

                   Lite Array Inc., Novato, USA

                   Emagin Corp., N.Y., USA

                   Cambridge Display Technology, Cambridge, UK

                   Univ of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, Optoelectronics, Cambridge, UK

                   Kemet Electronics, S.C, USA

                   RTP company, Winona, USA

                   Competitive technologies, USA 

 

Databases

 

Chemical Abstracts Service  (almost all of these are free, although they may require registration.)

Information about one of the very best sources of chemical information. (no te: CAS itself is NOT free.)

CS Chemfinder  Search for information about compounds by name, formula, CAS number, boiling point...

GINC: Global Information Network on Chemistry . Search for information on a particular chemical name, or for information about chemistry in Japan

Hazardous Chemical Database Database of all the 1991 hazardous chemicals.

NIST WebBook The data collection of the National Institute of Standards.

ChemDex

Organic Chemistry Conferences, research groups, journals, and lots of other stuff.

Organic Chemistry Resources Worldwide Based in the Chem. Department at Georgia State University.

WebChemistry  Contains academic and commercial sites, software, jobs, and other resources.

The WWW Virtual Library: Chemistry   Another good list of universities, associations, and other general resources

Chemweb    Chemistry journals and many chemistry related website

US patents   US patent search