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Victor Starov

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Professor of Chemical Engineering
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Loughborough University	Chemistry Engineering
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Victor Starov is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Loughborough University, UK. He is also an Honorary Professor, Moscow State University of Food Production, Russia. His areas of nanoscience interests include:

• Kinetics of wetting and spreading: influence of surface forces, spreading over hydrophobic and porous substrates
• Influence of surface forces on membrane separation: nano-filtration, ultra- and microfiltration (fouling and/or gel layers formation)
• Influence of surface forces on rheology of concentrated suspensions

Career Highlights

• Member of the Editorial Board of Colloid Journal (Russian Academy of Sciences)
• Member of Council Colloid Science and Physicochemical Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences
• Guest Editor of a Special Issue of Advances in Colloid and Interface Science
• Member of Review Panels of Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Journal of Membrane Science, Colloid Journal (Russian Academy of Sciences)

Books

• Starov, V.M., Velarde, M.G. and Radke, C.J., Wetting and Spreading Dynamics, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2007
• Starov, V.M. and Ivanov, I. (eds), Fluid Mechanics of Surfactant and Polymer Solutions, Springer-Verlag, Wien New York, 2004

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