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David DePaoli first worked at ORNL as a cooperative education student, and became a staff member in 1986. He has been involved in a wide range of chemical- and energy-related research and development projects, including demonstration of environmental-cleanup and waste-treatment technologies, basic research on separations employing electric fields, and development of separation processes for medical isotope production. For the past 10 years, Dave has been group leader of the Separations and Materials Research Group in the Chemical Technology and Nuclear Science and Technology Divisions at ORNL. He is currently involved in efforts aimed at developing advanced materials for electrochemical double-layer capacitors, devising new routes for production of chemical feedstocks from renewable sources, developing improved models of the performance of centrifugal contactors for solvent extraction, and demonstrating real-time characterization tools for nanomaterials production processes. Since 2004 he has been supporting joint efforts of the semiconductor and chemical industry liaison groups to the National Nanotechnology Initiative to define research needs for commercialization of nanotechnology. He is author of over 40 peer-reviewed publications, and holds three patents.
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