Prakash Mehta
IIT Gandhinagar, India
Biography
Prakash Mehta pursued his PhD in Polymer Science from the Polytechnic University, USA (1976); MS in Polymer Engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnic, USA (1974); MS in Inorganic Chemistry at the same university (1973) and MSc in Physical Chemistry from Sardar Patel University, India (1969) respectively. He has over 35 years of experience in USA in R&D, product development and production in the field of organosilanes and silicones technology. He worked at Degussa Corporation (Evonik) for over 28 years. He has developed over 40 organosilanes/silicones commercial products. He is one of the Team Member for the waterproofing product development for the NASA space shuttle. He taught Chemistry (part time) for 25 years at the local universities (Pace University; University of South Alabama, USA respectively). He is the Research Advisor at L D Engineering College and Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. He is an Inventor and Developer of Zycosoil (Soil waterproofing), Terasil, Zycotherm, AsphaSeal, AguaProof and TerrenoSeal (Soil waterproofing) commercial products. He has four US patents to his credit.