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- I work as a materials scientist and business development manager/consultant.
- My
R&D is on extreme environment instrumentation and glass and ceramics for laser and optical applications.
- Projects
include: R&D for commercial customers, government agencies (DOE, NIH, NASA and NSF) and collaborations with universities.
Past projects include low gravity research for NASA and and a research appointment in several research centers in Japan.
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1993, I co-founded a technology R&D company called Containerless Research, Inc. (CRI) based in Evanston, IL. In 2007, CRI's
Glass Products technology was sold.
- In 2006, I founded Materials Development, Inc. to provide extreme environment
instrumentation and materials development R&D services.
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Photo of an Aero-Acoustic Levitator (AAL) originally developed by Intersonics, Inc.
and built by Containerless Research, Inc. (CRI). A picture of this instrument appeared on the cover of Science magazine in
Feb., 2000.
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Picture
from a NASA/NSF joint press conference about CRI's glass products in Oct., 2003. Left to right: Mike Wargo (NASA), Rick Weber
(CRI), Herb White (BridgeTech).
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Electromagnetically
levitated liquid metal droplet. This photo was taken at Intersonics, Inc. in 1990. Intersonics developed various levitation
technology that was transferred to CRI in 1993.
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Visit
with Illinois Congressman Mark Kirk in Washington, DC, October 2002 after receiving the Roland Tibbetts' SBIR Award for small
business development. Left to right: Rick Weber (CRI), Rep. Mark Kirk, Mary Weber, Paul Nordine (CRI).
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Picture
of a "Conical Nozzle Levitator" installed at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source to study liquid structure and glass formation.
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