Autor: Ray Hoff

Ray Hoff is a member of the adjunct faculty at Roosevelt University in Schaumburg, Illinois. He is a former researchscientist in polymerization catalysts for B.F. Goodrich, Chemplex Company, and Quantum Chemical Corporation. He holds twenty-seven U.S. patents in the field of polymerization catalysts, and hissilica-based catalyst inventions scaled up to manufacturing morethan 100 million pounds of production in the U.S. and the Netherlands. Robert T. Mathers is an Assistant Professor of Chemistryat Penn State University. He has coauthored over twenty scientificpapers in the areas of anionic, metallocene, and ring-openingpolymerizations, and holds one U.S. patent. After receiving a BS(1996) in chemistry from North Carolina State University and a Ph D(2002) in polymer science from the University of Akron, he spenttwo years as a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Currently, Dr.Mathers research investigates new methods to integrate renewableresources and catalysis.