Dr. Raouf Loutfy has over 30 years of advanced materials and electrochemical technology development experience. He earned his BS in applied chemical technology, MS degree in Solid State Sciences, a Ph.D. in electrometallurgy, and Diploma in Business administration from McGill University. He was a group leader in the electrochemical technology group at Argonne National Laboratory (1977-1981), where he developed and patented several electrochemical systems for primary metal production and energy conversion.
Dr. Loutfy was also the technical monitor for several contracts ($3 million) for developing advanced load leveling batteries. Dr. Loutfy joined ARCO in late 1981 where he became Research Advisor (one of 11 in the entire company), and led the development and commercialization of advanced materials. A plant to produce specialty chemicals based on this effort was built and operating in 1985. This plant is still in operation today. Dr. Loutfy started MER Corporation in 1986 and at the same time, entered into a joint venture with an international company to develop and commercialize advanced materials including aluminum nitride substrates for the electronic industry. This venture was sold out to the partner in 1988 and MER continued to develop advanced technologies.
Dr. Loutfy have been leading MER's effort on the production and application development of fullerenes and nanotubes for the last 10 years, and as results in 1999, MER entered into a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation and Research Corporation Technology (RCT) forming Fullerene International Corporation (FIC) for the commercialization of Fullerenes. Dr. Loutfy co-authored a book on fullerenes and reviewed the electrochemistry and applications of fullerenes, and published over 100-reviewed article.
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