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Fluoryx's Technology Team

To join our team of experts, please send your resume to david@fluoryx.com (see list below for expertise needed)

Dr. David Offord, President and Founder

• PhD, Chemistry, Stanford University
• Set up and commercialized fluorotelomer and fluoropolymer production
• Previously co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Nano-Tex
• Expertise in fluorine chemistry, textile chemistry, organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, materials science
• 16 US patents, 16 US patent applications
• Experienced in chemical production in China

Dr. Yuhong Wang, Program Manager

• PhD in Polymer Materials
• Strengths
• Expertise in polymer chemistry/materials, textile chemistry
• Application of fluoropolymers on textile materials
• New product development
• Program coordination
• Fluent in English and Mandarin

Expert 1

• PhD, Chemical Engineering
• Expertise in fluorine chemical & petro-chemical engineering
• Designed over 137 operating chemical plant processes
• Chemical production plant manager- DuPont
• 10 US and World Patents, DuPont and Conoco
• Set up commercial fluorotelomer production plant
• Experienced in chemical production in China

Expert 2

• PhD, Chemistry
• 45 years at DuPont
• Major expertise in fluorine chemistry
• Inventor of over 70 patents at DuPont
• Another 14 patent applications
• Award for Chemistry Achievement from DuPont
• ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry
• Ex-Chair of ACS Division of Fluorine Chemistry
• Set up and commercialized fluorotelomer and fluoropolymer production

Expert 3

• BS Chemical Engineering
• 19 Patents
• 30 years at Dupont (retired)
  • Purchased fluorspar, elemental fluorine (F₂), and SbF₅
  • Developed:
    • Fluorinated surfactants
    • PFOA removal technologies
    • Next generation refrigerants/solvents/blowing agents
    • Holographic polymers
    • Fluoromonomers including hexafluoropropylene and chlorotrifluoroethylene
    • Fluoropolymers
    • Anesthetics
• Designed and operated Simons Cell fluorination chemistry (ECF)
• Mechanical and operating experience on a 5000 amp fluorine

Expert 4

• PhD in Chemistry, MBA (Finance)
• Combination of technical and business know-how
• Strengths:
• Synthetic organofluorine chemistry
• Pharmaceutical fine chemical market development
• New product introductions
• US market entry
• Strategic and operational planning
  

Expert 5

• BS in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering
• 45 years of industrial experience
• Strengths:
• Hydrofluoroorganic fluids
• Nitrogen trifluoride preparation
• Perfluorohexane purification
• Elemental fluorine electrolysis
• Fluorocarbon synthesis via pyrolysis
• Fluorination of polymers

To join our team of experts, please send your resume to david@fluoryx.com.

Fluoryx is currently looking for experts in the following fields (note: all Fluoryx technologies must not violate any patents, laws, non-compete agreements, secrecy agreements, or other agreements/contracts):

1. Industrial electrochemical fluorination to make hydrofluoroethers (HFE's), especially HFC-7100, CF₃CF₂CF₂CF₂OCH₃and (CF₃)₂CFCF₂OCH₃.


2. Improve industrial PTFE suspension resin process:
   
   • Automatic control of the polymerization process
     
   • Resin drying and grinding process
     
   • Environmenal health and safety (EH&S) for the whole process
     
   • Control of manufacturing process cleanlines
     
   • To make suspension resins with similar performance to Daikin's M11^® and M12^® products
     
   • To modify suspension resin's processing variables to minimize creep.
     
     
3. Improve industrial PTFE dispersion resin post-treatment including coagulation and drying
   
   • Impact of coagulation on the particle size distribution
     
   • Impact of particle size on extrusion pressure
     
   • Protect resins from agglomeration
     
   • Decrease extrusion pressure
     
   • Continuous drying of resins
     
   • Automatically adjust the density of emulsions after the polymerization
     
     
4. Industrial polymerization of PVDF, post treatment, and coagulation.
   
   
5. Industrial technology to convert perfluoroisobutylene (PFIB) to other valuable products.
   
   
6. Industrial technology to make HFC152a (CF₂HCH₃) and F142b (CF₂ClCH₃) via the acetylene (HCCH) route. HFC152a is typically produced by the mercury-catalyzed addition of HF to acetylene:
   • HCCH + 2 HF --> CH₃CHF₂
     
   • Improve the halflife of the catalyst
   • Improve efficiency of photochemical reactions
   • Or new routes to make HFC152a
     
   
   
7. Technology to manufacture next generation refrigerants.
   
   
8. Replacement surfactants for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in processes such as the production of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE).