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Dr. Timothy G. Rials Professor, Director of the Tennessee Forest Products Center Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries University of Tennessee Agricultural Campus 2506 Jacob Drive Knoxville, TN 37996-4750 Phone 865-946-1116 Fax 865-946-1109 Email trials@utk.edu |
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Professor and Director: B.Sc. in Forestry and Forest Biology from Mississippi State University in 1980; M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Wood Science and Technology (polymer chemistry emphasis) from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1983 and 1986 respectively; Became an Assistant Professor in the Forest Products Laboratory at University of California in 1986; Joined the USDA-Forest Service, Southern Research Station as a Research Physical Scientist in 1988; Promoted to Project Leader/Research Scientist in 1996; Joined the Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries at the University of Tennessee, became the Director of Tennessee Forest Products Center in 2001.
Research Interests include structure and properties of wood/polymer interfaces, raw material assessment and process monitoring using spectroscopy, and cure analysis of thermosetting polymers.
Selected Publications:
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1.
Snell, R., L.H. Groom and T.G. Rials.
2001. Characterizing
the Surface Roughness of Thermomechanical Pulp Fibers with Atomic Force
Microscopy. Holzforschung,
55(5): 511-520. 2. Rials, T.G. and M.P. Wolcott. 2001. Interfacial Contributions In Lignocellulosic Fiber Reinforced Polyurethane Composites. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 80(4): 546-555. 3.
Harper, D., M.P. Wolcott and T.G. Rials. 2001. Evaluation
of the Cure Kinetics of the Wood/pMDI Bondline. International Journal
of Adhesion and Adhesives, 21(2): 137-144. 4.
Rials,
T.G. and J. Simonsen.
2000. Monitoring
Interphase Development In Wood-Polymer Composites By Inverse Gas
Chromatography, Composite Interfaces, 7(2): 81-92. 5.
Rials,
T.G., and M.P.
Wolcott. 1998. Morphology
and properties of wood fiber-based polyurethane composites. Journal
of Materials Science – Letters,
17(4): 317-319. 6. Liu, F.-P., T.G. Rials, and J. Simonsen. 1998. Relationship of Wood Surface Energy to Surface Composition. Langmuir, 14(8): 536-541. |
