Joseph Deitzel Research Associate 219 Composites Manufacturing Science Laboratory University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716-3144 Phone: (302) 831-0274 Fax: (302) 831-8525 Email: deitzel@ccm.udel.edu

Research Interests: Polymer physics, nanomaterials, high performance organic fibers, think-films and interphase.

Education

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, 1997-2001
Ph.D., University of Akron, Polymer Science, 1996
B.S., University of Akron, Physics, 1991

Professional Activities

Research Associate, University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials

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Patents

J.K.Kleinmeyer, J.M. Deitzel, J. Hirvonen, “Electro Spinning Of Submicron Diameter Polymer Filaments” , U.S. Patent Docket number: ARL 00-17, Pending

Recent Journal Papers

Deitzel, J.M., Kosik, W.E., McKnight, S.H., Beck Tan, N.C., DeSimone, J.M., Crette, S., “Electrospinning of Polymer NanoFibers with a Specified Surface Chemistry”, Polymer 43 (2002) 1025-1029

J. M. Deitzel, J. D. Kleinmeyer, J. K. Hirvonen, N. C. Beck Tan, “Controlled Deposition of Electrospun Poly(ethylene oxide) Fibers”, Polymer (42) : 2001 8163-8170

J. Deitzel, J. Kleinmeyer, D. Harris, N. Beck Tan, “The Effect of Processing Variables on the Morphology of Electrospun Nanofibers and Textiles”, Polymer (42), 2001, 261-272

Iksoo Chun, Darrel H. Reneker, Xioayan Fang, Hao Fong, Joe Deitzel, Nora Beck
Tan, and Kristin Kearns, "Carbon Nanofibers from Poly Acrylonitrile and
Mesophase Pitch," Journal of Advanced Materials, volume 31 no.1 1999

A.Leal, J. M. Deitzel, A. Chatterjee, A.Abu-Obaid1, J. W. Gillespie Jr.,C. Hoppel, P. M.Cunniff, “Mechancial Properties and Surface Characteristics of Novel High-Performance Organic Fibers”, SAMPE 2003 proceedings

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Recent Reports

J. Deitzel, N. Beck Tan, J. Kleinmeyer, J. Rehrmann, D. Tevault, D. Reneker,I Sendijarevic, A. McHugh, "Generation of Nanofibers Through Electrsopinning", U.S.Army Research Laboratory Technical Report, ARL-TR-1989, June 1999

J.M. Deitzel; "Ordered Structure and Phase Transitions in
Statistically Alternating Poly(Ethylene-co-Chlorotrifluoroethylene)", Ph.D. Dissertation

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