Ben(jamin Thomas Peng-nien) Chu

                                                              Curriculum Vitae

 

Personal Information

            Home Address:      27 View Road, Setauket, New York 11733

            Nationality:             U.S.A.; Naturalized February 13, 1968, U.S. District Court of Kansas City.

            Marital Status:         Married, three children.

 

Present Position:        Distinguished Professor

                                                Phone: 631‑632‑7928                 FAX:  631-632-6518

                                    E-mail:  bchu@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

 

Education:                  B.S., magna cum laude, St. Norbert College, 1955

                                                Ph.D., Cornell University, 1959

 

Employment History:

            Research Associate with Peter J. W. Debye, Cornell University                 1958-1962.

            Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Kansas                             1962‑1965

            Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Kansas                            1965‑1968

            Professor of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook         1968‑1988

                        Chairman,                                                                                 1978‑1985

            Professor of Materials Science and Engineering                                        1982‑

            Leading Professor of Chemistry, SUNY/Stony Brook                                 1988‑

            Distinguished Professor, SUNY/Stony Brook                                                        1992‑

 

Other Appointments:

            Brookhaven National Laboratory                                                              Summer, 1957

            Univ. of New South Wales, Australia                                                        Summer, 1974 & 1994

            Australian National University                                                                  Summer, 1974

            Wayne State University, Detroit                                                               May‑June, 1975

            Hokkaido University, Japan                                                                     July‑Sept, 1975

            Peking University, Fudan University, PR China                                         August, 1979 & 1982

            Institute for Theoretical Physics,                                                              December, 1982

              Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara

            External Examiner in Chemistry,                                                            1986‑1989

              Chinese University of Hong Kong

            Science Advisory Committee, Hong Kong University                                 1995-1997

              of Science and Technology

            Chinese American Chemical Society, Board of Directors                           1995-1997

 

Editorial Boards:

            Associate Editor, Materials Letters                                                          1986‑1989

            Editorial Board, Journal of Colloid                                                                                    1986‑1989

              and Interface Science

            Editorial Advisory Board, Macromolecules                                                            1990‑1992

            Editorial Board, Review of Scientific Instruments                                      1993-1995

            Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Polymer Science                                1990‑

              Part B (Polymer Physics)

 

Fellowships, Special Invitations and Honors:

            Participant of the 1966 Study Week on Molecular Forces, Pontifical Academy of

              Science, Vatican City, Rome, Italy.

            Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow                                                             1966‑1968

            John Simon Guggenheim Fellow                                                              1968‑1969

            Visiting Professor, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)      1975‑1976, 1992‑1993

            Humboldt Award for Senior U.S. Scientists                                              1976‑1977, 1992‑1993

            Distinguished Achievement Award in Natural Science,                               1981

              St. Norbert College

            Fellow, American Institute of Chemists

            Fellow, American Physical Society

            Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences                         1992-

            High Polymer Physics Prize, American Physical Society                           1993

            Langmuir Distinguished Lecturer Award, Division of                                  1994

              Colloid and Surface Chemistry, American Chemical Society

            Honorary Professor, Nankai University                                                    1996-

            Award for Distinguished Service in Advancement of Polymer

              Science, Society of Polymer Science, Japan                                         1997

            Honorary Professor, Xiamen University                                                   1998-

            1998 Achievement Award of Chinese Institute of Engineers/USA,

             Outstanding Achievement Award                                                                        1998

            Honorary Professor, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China                               2004-   

 

Lectures:

            Robert R. Gilpin Memorial Lecture, Clarkson University,                            1996

            Collaboratus VI, Distinguished Lectures in Chemical and

            Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University,                                           1996

 

Research Interests:

     Techniques:

            Rayleigh, Brillouin and Raman scattering;

            Time‑resolved small angle x‑ray scattering and wide angle x-ray diffraction;

            Small angle neutron scattering;

            Transient electric birefringence;              Laser-induced fluorescence detection

            Rheometry;                                            Electrospinning.

      Topics:

            Static and dynamical properties of macromolecular, colloidal, and supramolecular solutions,

            Nanocomposites;                                    Biomineralization;

            Polyelectrolyte-surfactant complexes;      Modification of nanostructured materials;

            Supercritical fluids;                                Modified fullerenes;

            Capillary electrophoresis of DNA;

            Tissue engineering.                                Biodegradable polymers for medical applications;

 

Publications:

            509 scientific papers, 5 book reviews, 6 books, 12 patents, 1 meeting report, 7 article reviews, and 16 papers in progress.

 

Consultantships:

            1. Calgon Corporation, Subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Pittsburgh, PA.

            2. Brookhaven Instruments, Holtsville, New York.

            3. Universities Space Research Association (USRA), Microgravity Science &

                 Applications Division, NASA.

            4. Eastman Kodak Company, Eastman Chemicals Division, Kingsport, Tennessee.

            5. Roche Diagnostic Systems, Division of Hoffmann‑LaRoche, Inc., Nutley,

                 New Jersey.

            6. Bristol‑Myers Squibb Company, The Squibb Institute for Medical Research,

                 New Brunswick, New Jersey.

7. DuPont Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware

            8. W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., Elkton, Delaware.

            9.  Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, Texas.

 

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