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Since 1957, Dr. Wallenberger has contributed 152 publications including journal articles, books, book chapters and patents to the scientific and technical literature. His publications appeared in selected technical journals, including Science, the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, the American Ceramic Society, Applied Physics, Materials Letters, Materials Processing and Manufacturing Science, Chemical Vapor Deposition, Angewandte Chemie, Organic Chemistry and Polymer Chemistry. More recently, his publications described the design of environmentally friendly fiberglass compositions (Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 2004, Ceramic Transactions, 2004, and Glastechnische Berichte - Glass Science and Technology, 2004), the structure of glass fibers (Science, 1995), rapid prototyping directly from the vapor phase (Science, 1994), pure carbon fibers from the vapor phase (Science, 1993) and melt spinning of amorphous alumina fibers (Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 1992). Ten of his original journal papers were reprinted by other journals since 1962, mostly in the form of a translation into another language.

Dr. Wallenberger has published three books, "Natural Fibers, Polymers and Composites" (Kluwer, 2003), "Advanced Fibers, Plastics and Composites" (MRS, 2002) and "Advanced Inorganic Fibers" (Kluwer, 1999). He wrote a chapter on "Glass Fibers" (Handbook on Ceramics and Glasses, 2005), two chapters on "Reinforcing Fibers" (ASM Composites Handbook, 2001), a survey of "Melt-Spinning of Amorphous Alumna Fibers" (American Ceramic Society Bulletin, 1991) and the first review of "The Chemistry of Heat Resistant Polymer Fibers" (Angewandte Chemie, 1964).

Among many professional honors, Dr. Wallenberger received the Environmental Respect Award from Du Pont. He is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, and a member of the American Chemical Society, the Material Research Society, and the Association of Harvard Chemists.

Dr. Paul A. Bingham received a BEng (Hons) in 1995 from the Department of Engineering Materials at the University of Sheffield. Also at the Department of Engineering Materials, one of the world's premier glass research groups, he subsequently investigated the optical properties, the redox behavior, and the structure of iron-containing silicate glasses, and received his PhD in 1999.

Between 1999 and 2003 he was a Technologist at Glass Technology Services Ltd (GTS), the research arm of the British Glass Manufacturers Confederation, and carried out a wide range of research and project management functions related to the development of new glasses. He reformulated existing container glasses for environmental benefit and energy reduction, and giver glass compostions which he developed have achieved full-scale production. In 2004, he took a position as Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Immobilization Science Laboratory (ISL), University of Sheffield, where he researches composition-structure-property relations for a large range of glass systems with the aim of providing environmental benefit. He has developed novel silicate, borosilicate, phosphate and borophosphate glasses with potential applications in waste immobilization and commercial glassmaking.

Dr. Bingham has nine publications in refereed journals including several papers in the field of glasses for environmental benefit and an invited review paper on the vitrification of toxic wastes. He has also published several conference papers and other articles in the field. Dr. Bingham is a member of the Society of Glass Technology, where he is Secretary of the Basic Science and Technology Committee. He has also undertaken consultancy work for the optical communications industry.