Richard Piner

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Richard Piner is a research engineer at Texas Research Institute (TRI) Austin, Inc. He has 50 years of industry experience spanning a wide variety of technical topics, including, but not limited to, the four broad categories of reactors, graphene, graphene oxide, and scanning microscopy techniques. He has hundreds of scholarly publications yielding over 40,000 citations to his work. Dr. Piner holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in physics as well as a B.S. in mathematics from Purdue University, where he studied scanning tunneling microscopy.

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