Bhavesh Ghandhi
Country	India
Email	bhavesh@umr.edu

Academics: Chemical Engineering coupled with polymers is my interest. I am basically a chemical engineer but my love towards polymers pulled me here working with Dr. Frank Blum. I enjoy working here with Dr. Blum. I graduated with chemical engineering degree from INDIA and joined UMR to pursue masters degree in Chemical Engineering. I have worked with different big equipments on plant like distillation column, reactors but now I end up using small but powerful equipments like AFM!!!!! ( Size does not matter !!!!! ).

My Goal:In future I want to be a great businessman!!!!!!!!

Personal Interests:I love singing. I am a certified classical ( INDIAN Classical ) music singer. I have won many trophies in singing. I love to travel a lot. I want to see the whole world before I die. I love playing cricket. Cricket is my favorite game. I also play table tennis and love to play chess.

Research Interests:Surface properties of polymers ( Adhesion Behavior )

	Burak METIN
Graduated from	Koc University, Istanbul, TURKEY
Year	2000
Country	TURKEY
Phone Number	573-308-0023
Email	bmetin@lycos.com
Web Page	www.umr.edu/~bmetin
Research Interests	Polymer Chemistry

Academics: Polymer Science is the major interest of my life in Chemistry..I have studied the synthesis of polyurethanes, polyureas and had a chance to study the effect of hydrogen bonding on the physical and mechanical properties of those polymer blends(polyethylene oxides-polyurethanes) by using FTIR, DSC and computational calculations in Koc University(Turkey) with a group mostly consisted of undergrduate studentsTou..Choosing PhD degree in University of Missouri-Rolla in Dr. Blum's research group motivated me to concentrate my studies on the surface properties of polymers.. Currently I am working to understand the behavior of monodisperse polymethyl acrylate polymer on adsorbed surfaces. NMR, DSC and light scattering instruments are going to be my major characterization tools..Synthesis of deuterated methyl acrylate monomers and usage of those monomers in Atomic Transfer Radical Polymerization(ATRP) to get monodisperse deuterated polymethyl acrylate are the major experimental activities I am doing for now..Update of my activities will be reported here as soon as I show progress....

Interests: Playing and watching soccer, table tennis, basketball, computer games