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| Professor Michael Mackay Michigan State University |
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| Recorded: 6/14/06 | |
| Professor Michael E. Mackay is Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University. He received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering with distinction from the University of Delaware in 1979. He received an M.S. in 1983 and a Ph.D. in 1985 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Following his Ph.D. he joined the chemical engineering staff at the University of Melbourne (Australia) as a University of Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellow. He was a staff member in the Chemical Engineering Department at The University of Queensland (Australia) from 1987 until 1998. From 1999 through mid-2001 he was a professor at Stevens Institute of Technology.fProfessor Mackay joined the faculty at Michigan State University in mid-2001 where he is performing research in the area of nanotechnology and its application to plastic materials. His most recent work has been published in Science and Nature Materials where very unusual phenomena have been discovered when nanoparticles are added to polymers or plastics. | |