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Arnaldo T. Lorenzo is a Materials Engineer (specialist in Polymer Science), with a Ph.D. in Engineering (from Simón Bolívar University, USB, Venezuela). Former Assistant Professor at the Materials Science Department at the USB campus (Caracas, Venezuela) and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston (Texas, USA). He presently holds a position as Senior Research Engineer at The DOW Chemical Company - Performance Plastics (Freeport, Texas, USA).

He has co-authored 28 publications which have been published in international peer review journals (indexed in the SCI), achieving an h-Index of 11 (see Citations).

Arnaldo Lorenzo's field of interests include: i) morphology, nucleation and crystallization behavior of semi-crystalline materials and semi-crystalline components within multiphasic materials (polymer blends, block copolymers and nanocomposites); ii) polymer rheology in the bulk and solution state.

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Last Publications

These are my last publications so far. For a complete list of publications, please click here

The Crystallization of Confined Polymers and Block Copolymers Infiltrated Within Alumina Nanotube Templates
Macromolecules 2012, 45, 1517-1528
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The influence of blend morphology (co-continous or sub-micron droplets dispersions) on the nucleation and crystallization kinetics of double crystalline polyethylene/polyamide blends prepared by reactive extrusion
Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2011, 212, 1335-1350
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Super-Nucleation in Nanocomposites and Confinement Effects on the Crystallizable Components within Block Copolymers, Miktoarm Star Copolymers and Nanocomposites
European Polymer Journal 2011, 47, 614-629
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Poly(ethylene oxide) crystallization in single walled carbon nanotube based nanocomposites: Kinetics and structural consequences
Polymer 2011, 52, 4938-4946
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SAXS/DSC Analysis of Lamellar Thickness Distribution on a SSA Thermally Fractionated Model Polyethylene
Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 2011, 212, 2009–2016
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