Lucian Lucia Editor

Ali Ayoub is an internationally recognized expert in the carbohydrate science and engineering field and has successfully developed groundbreaking inventions in areas relevant to polymeric materials and the biorefinery concept. Currently, he is a Senior Scientist in the chemical industry and an Adjunct Professor and member of the Associate Graduate Faculty at North Carolina State University. Dr. Ayoub is affiliated with the U.S. Department of the Interior, SE Climate Science Center. Lucian Lucia currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Departments of Forest Biomaterials (Wood & Paper Science) and Chemistry and as a faculty in the programs of Fiber & Polymer Science and Environmental Sciences at North Carolina State University. His laboratory, The Laboratory of Soft Materials & Green Chemistry, probes fundamental materials science topics focused on the green chemistry of renewable polymers. He received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Florida for modeling photoinduced charge separation states of novel Rhenium (I)-based organometallic ensembles as a first order approximation of photosynthesis.