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Avraam I. Isayev is a Distinguished Professor of Polymer Engineering and Director of the Molding Technology Center at the Institute of Polymer Engineering of the University of Akron. He is a native of Azerbaijan. He received M.Sc. degrees from the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry in Chemical Engineering and the Moscow Institute of Electronic Machine Building in Applied Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Polymer Engineering and Science from the Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Before joining the University of Akron in 1983 as an Associate Professor, he was a Senior Research Associate at Cornell University, a Senior Research Fellow at Technion and a Research Associate at the Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He has edited 3 books, published over 200 papers, many book chapters and encyclopedia articles. He has received numerous awards.

Sanjay Palsule received Ph.D. from Heriot?Watt University Edinburgh, UK and then worked in Europe for a Space Agency project. Since then he has been actively working on Polymer Blends, Molecular Composites, Molecular Micro Composites, and Molecular nano Composites for aerospace systems. Dr. Palsule is an invited contributor to the Polymeric Materials Encyclopedia, a Guest Editor of the Journal Advances in Polymer Technology, author of monograph Molecularly Reinforced Polymer Blends (Wiley?VCH), and of six textbooks on polymers, including Fundamentals of Polymer Blends. (New Age, formerly Wiley). A recipient of the Young Scientists Award, EUROAVIA Satellite Design Award and patents on aerospace molecular composites, Dr. Palsule is presently with the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.