Stuart Croll

Professor & Chair
Coatings and Polymeric Materials
North Dakota State University

Phone: 701.231.9415
Fax: 701.231.8439
e-mail: Stuart.Croll@ndsu.edu

"Nine-tenths of the universe, in fact, is the paperwork."
From "Thief of Time" (author Terry Pratchett)

PostDoc, National Research Council, Canada
Ph.D., 1974, University of Leeds, UK

Research Interests

Weathering Durability

  • predictive modelling of coating property deterioration
  • Monte Carlo simulation
  • nanoscale changes in coating properties including molecular relaxations
  • corrosion protection
Film Formation
  • latex and pigment particle assembly
  • drying behavior
Internal Stresses in Films
  • Internal Stresses in Films
  • effect on adhesive and cohesive properties
  • during weathering
  • in novel crosslinking chemistries
Modern Art Conservation
  • application of coatings' and materials science to the preservation and restoration of modern art
History of Paint Technology
  • How external events, polymer science, pigment development and analytical instrumentation lead to the history of paint technology. Please send a message if there is an error or there is additional information that I can add.