Marek
Pyda
Research Professor of Physical Chemistry
Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996?1600,
Telephone: UT Office (865) 974-0652, fax: (865) 974-0652, email: athas@utk.edu,
pyda@novell.chem.utk.edu, or mpyda@utk.edu, Internet: web.utk.edu/~athas
Marek Pyda received his the PhD in Physical Chemistry in
the area of thermodynamics of biopolymers from A. Mickiewicz University,
Poznan, Poland in 1982. From 1973!1992, he was a Senior Research Assistant
at the Department of Physics, Agricultural University of Poznan, Poland.
Dr. Pyda was a Visiting Researcher at CNRS - Centre de Recherches Sur
la Physico-Chimie des Surfaces Solides in Mulhouse in France from 1987!1988,
at SUNY in Syracuse, NY from 1988!1989, at the University of Glasgow in
Scotland, UK, and a Visiting Research Professor at University of Granada
in Spain from 1991-1992.
Dr. Pyda joined the University of Tennessee in 1992 as a Research Associate
at the Department of Chemistry, and at the Chemical and Analytical Sciences
Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, (Directed by Prof.
B. Wunderlich). Dr. Pyda was promoted to Research Professor in 2000 and
is the Director of the ATHAS (Advanced THermal Analysis Laboratory), the
Polymer Characterization Laboratory and the ATHAS Data Bank (Internet:
web.utk.edu/~athas).
His research interests include:
Thermal Analysis and Physical Chemistry of Synthetic and Biological Polymers
and Small Molecules. The solids, liquids, and mesophases of macromolecules
and biomaterials; Theory and application of thermal analysis.
Material Science: Physics and chemistry of modified silica as reinforcement
in polysilicone elastomers. Studies of calcium carbonate treated with
alkylketene dimer by Inverse Gas Chromatography. The surface properties
of active carbons by inverse gas chromatography at infinite dilution.
Chromatography: Work in the area of nonlinear gas chromatography adsorption-energy
distribution, the surface properties of active carbons, modified silica,
calcium carbonates by inverse gas chromatography at infinite dilution.
Sorption: Studies of sorption of gases on polymers, the statistical physics
modeling of mechanisms of plasticiziation of a polymer by water. Investigations
of cellulose and starch by adsorption techniques. The adsorption on modified
silica and unmodified silica.
Dr. Pyda has published over 70 research articles in refereed journals
and conference proceedings.
Selected publications:
M. Pyda, Macromolecules, 35, 4009-4016 (2002).
M. Pyda, and B. Wunderlich, J. Polymer Sci.: Part B: Polymer Phys., 40,
1245-1253 (2002).
M. Pyda, J. Polymer Sci., Part B: Polymer Physics, 39, 3038-3054 (2001).
M. Pyda, and B. Wunderlich, J. Polymer Sci., Part B: Polymer Phys., 38,
622-631 (2000).
M. Pyda and B. Wunderlich, in J. Brandrup, E. H. Immergut, and E. A. Grulke,
eds., "Polymer Handbook," Wiley, 4th, revised ed. Pages VI/1
- VI/38, 1999.
He is a member of the American Physical Society (APS); the North American
Thermal Analysis Society (NATAS), and the International Confederation
for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (ICTAC).