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Marek W. Urban is J.E. Sirrine Found- ation endowed chair and professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Clemson University, 299 A Sirrine Hall, Clemson, SC 29634; 864/656-1155; mareku@clemson.edu. Until 2012, he was a professor of polymer science and engineering in the School of Polymers and High Performance Materials at the University of Southern Mississippi- Hattiesburg (USM). After 13 years at North Dakota State University, he joined USM where he established and directed the National Science Foundation Materials Research Science Engineering Center (MRSEC) on Stimuli-Responsive Polymeric Films and Coatings. He is co-director of the formally National Science Foundation Cooperative Research Center in Coatings and recently renamed Interface. He received an MS in chemistry from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis., and a doctorate in chemistry and chemical engineering POWDER COATING, August 2016 23 from Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Mich. He has also done postdoctoral work in macromolecular science at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland. Urban has written more than 300 research papers, several patents, and three books, and has edited nine books. He has won numerous awards, including the Technical Focus Speaker and Roon Foundation Awards (1999) from the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technologies (FSCT), and an outstanding research faculty award from USM. His research on self-healing coatings has been featured by numerous media including the New York Times, Forbes magazine, BBC, NBC, Discovery Channel, USA Today, Yahoo, and many other TV and radio stations around the world. Current research interests include self-healing polymers and coatings, understanding physico-chemical processes governing coatings responsiveness, the development of heterogeneous stimuli-responsive polymeric coatings, and molecular level processes that govern self-repaired coatings. Figure 2 R' R' R' OH O CH 2 O (Novolac) O CH 2 CH OH CH 2 O (Novolac) O CH 2 CH OH CH 2 O (Novolac) O CH 2 O (Novolac)' R' O CH 2 CH CH 2 O (Novolac) O CH 2 CH OH CH 2 O (Novolac)' Don't miss another issue! Subscribe today www.pcoating.com