Name Isao Noda | ||
Books Modern Polymer Spectroscopy |
Isao Noda (born January 29, 1951 in Tokyo, Japan) is a chemical engineer whose research has focused on polymer science and spectroscopy. He currently holds ninety patents granted in the United States and the EU, has published over three hundred articles, co-authored three books and received a number of industry-wide awards and recognition for his contributions to his fields of research.
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Education
Noda moved to the United States in 1969 to attend Columbia University in the City of New York, where he graduated in 1974 with a B.S. degree in chemical engineering. He subsequently received his M.S. in bioengineering (1976), as well as M. Phil (1978) and Ph.D. (1979) in chemical engineering from Columbia. In 1997, he received a D.Sc degree in chemistry from the University of Tokyo.
Career
In 1978, Noda joined Procter & Gamble, where he became one of the world's leading authorities in the field of polymer science, specializing in a type of biopolymer, polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA). Noda pioneered development of medium-chain-length branched polyhydroxyalkanoates (mcl-PHA). The most promising PHA product developed during this time was trademarked as Nodax. After retiring from Procter & Gamble in 2012, he accepted a position as Adjunct Professor at the University of Delaware, where, as of 2014, he continues to teach and research in the areas of polymer science and spectroscopy.
Noda is known for developing a novel class of bio-based biodegradable plastics and has received multiple awards for his development of two-dimensional infrared (2D IR) correlation spectroscopy. In February 2013, he became Senior Vice President of Innovation at Meredian Holdings Group Inc., which recently announced the start up of the world's largest production facility for mcl-PHAs.