Professor Ken Gonsalves is the Celanese Acetate Distinguished Professor of Polymer Chemistry at the UNC-Charlotte. His current research interests lie in the synthesis, characterization and processing of novel polymers for electronic applications and biomaterials.
The main focus is on nanoscale materials design and fabrication. Dr. Gonsalves projects on nanolithography are supported by SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative, Intel and Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials.
His biomaterial initiatives are funded by National Institutes of Health, Winkler Foundation/CHS and the North Carolina Biotechnology Center. Prior to moving to UNC-Charlotte, Dr. Gonsalves was a chemistry and polymer science professor at the University of Connecticut at Storrs from 1990 to 2001.
Dr. Gonsalves obtained his doctorate in 1985 from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst followed by postdoctoral work at MIT. He was at the Stevens Institute of Technology in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from 1986 to 1990.
Dr. Gonsalves has published and lectured extensively both nationally and internationally, on nanoscale materials- synthesis, characterization and processing. He has written more 250 publications and eight patents. He is the lead editor on a book being published by Wiley this fall: Biomedical Nanostructures.