What is PhylloSci? 

PhylloSci LLC, exists to promote greater awareness and understanding of the myriad uses of kaolin and related materials. The name derives from "phyllosilicate", the general term for layer silicate such as kaolinite.

It may also be a pun on it's Founder and Principal, "Phil o' Sci(ence)".

Who is Phil Jones?

Phil Jones earned his bachelor’s degree in Physics from King’s College, University of London in 1970 and a Ph.D. in Physics (Solid-state properties of synthetic kaolins) from the University of London. In 1975 he joined English China Clays plc . (English China Clays is now a part of Imerys)  In 1979 he transferred to ECC International’s lab in Sandersville, Georgia where he progressed to become Vice President, Technology. In this role he built the Imerys Technology Center for studying minerals’ applications in paper, polymers, paints and ceramics.  His work has concentrated on developing and understanding the mechanisms for white mineral pigment performance where pigment characterization and ways of structuring mixed mineral systems have allowed micro and nano-engineering in a range of applications.

His current role links the global minerals technology strengths of Imerys to the major companies in N America, generating new avenues of business.

He has served 2 terms as a member of the Board of Directors of Tappi (Technical Association of Pulp & Paper Industries), as well as on the Executive Committee, is a Tappi Fellow, winner of the Tappi Herman Joachim Distinguished Service Award, and past chairman of the Tappi Research Management Committee. He was, for several years, on the Board of the Empire State Research Associates at Syracuse NY.

He has been, until recently, Vice-Chairman of the Industry Advisory Boardof CPBIS at Georgia Tech (Sloan Center for Paper Business Industry Studies). He was also a member of the Board of Executives of the Institute of Paper Technology (IPST) @ Georgia Tech. He has been a member of the NSF visiting committee to the Nano-fabrication Center at Pennsylvania State University and also on the AF&PA/TAPPI review committee at the Forest Products Lab in Madison WI.

In 2008 he served as an expert panelist for the Canadian Government’s Business-Led Centres of Excellence Program which reviewed the proposal by FP Innovations for a Nanotechnology program. This has since been approved and funded.

In October 2004 he helped organize and co-chaired a workshop on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry, which resulted in a roadmap being published in March 2005. In 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2013   he co-chaired the Tappi International Nanotechnology Conference for the Forest Products Industry.  He is Co Chair of the Nanotechnology subcommittee of the Agenda 2020 program at AF&PA and a member of the Consultative Board for Advancing Nanotechnology (CBAN) in the Forest Products Industry which interfaces with Government Agencies such as OSTP, DOE, NSF, USDA and DOD through the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI). 

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