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is a member of the research staff of the Analytical Division of the Central Research & Development Department at Du Pont Experimental Station. Wilmington. Delaware Before joining the Du Pont Company in 1988. he was a research scientist and group leader at Hercules Research Center. He received his B A (1969) and Ph D. (1973) in analytical chemistry from Northeastern University. He is a frequent lecturer at short courses sponsored by the ACS Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering Division. His specialties include polymer characterization, size exclusion chromatography, and high-performance liquid chromatography. He has published over 40 papers in these areas and has also edited a book. Modern Methods of Particle Size Analysis. published by Wiley. Barth was on the Instrumentation Advisory Panel of Analytical Chemistry and was Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Polymer Science.He is cofounder of the International Symposium on Polymer Analysis and Characterization and is past Chairman of the Delaware Section of the ACS. Dr. Barth is a member of the ACS divisions of Analytical Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, and Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering, and the ASTM. AAAS, and the Delaware Valley Chromatography Forum. He is also a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemists.Shao-Tang Sun is a senior research physicist with the Physics Division of Hercules Research Center in Wilmington. Delaware. He is project leader of the optoelectronics program He received his B.S. (1972) in physics from Tunghai University. Taiwan, and Ph D. (1978) in physics from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Before joining Hercules. Inc., in 1983. he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Materials Science and Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is interested in applying physics concepts and methods to the understanding of polymeric and biological systems and is also interested in optical properties of materials. He is the author of more than 20 publications in light scattering, phase transition, polymer physics, and biophysics. He is a member of the American Physical Society.