Joe DeSimone is the Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry at University of North Carolina; and William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University.
Research Interests
Applying the lithographic fabrication technologies from the computer industry for the design and synthesis of new medicines and vaccines; Nanomedicine; Interventional oncology; Medical devices; Inhalable therapeutics; Fluoropolymers: photolithography, fuel cells, microfluidics, minimally adhesive surfaces; Colloid, surfactant and surface chemistry; Patterning surfaces, manipulation of light; Polymer synthesis and processing in carbon dioxide: new polymers, interfacial science and colloids, reaction kinetics and engineering, green chemistry; Process engineering.