Mohini Sain Faculty of Forestry Area of Interest: Wet-end & Surface Sizing/Neutral & Alkaline Papermaking/ Waste Treatment E-Mail: m.sain@utoronto.ca

Mohini Sain received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering in 1988 from the Technical University, Bratislava. He then worked in the polymer industry before he joined the Pulp and Paper Research Centre at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR). In 1994, he worked in the industry in the US and then became a faculty member at UQTR. In 1999, he joined the University of New Brunswick (Chemical Engineering). He is the Director of Centre for Biocomposites and Biomaterials Processing, a Professor in the Faculty of Forestry and is cross-appointed to the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry. Dr. Sain specializes in paper sizing, coating chemistry, recycling, and biocomposite and nano-biocomposite manufacturing. He received an Industry-University NSERC Synergy Award in 2001 for his work in heavy metal scavenging.

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