James C. Stevens (b. July 27, 1953; Miami Springs, Florida) is a chemist, a Corporate Fellow, at the Dow Chemical Company. His area of expertise is organometallic chemistry and his primary field of research is in the area of polyolefin catalysis, particularly in the area of polyethylene, polypropylene, ethylene/styrene copolymers, and the combinatorial discovery of organometallic single-site catalysts. Stevens major contributions have come in the discovery and commercial implementation of single-site polyolefin catalysts. He invented and led the commercialization of constrained geometry catalyst for the polymerization of olefins. These have been commercialized by Dow as a number of polymers, elastomers and plostomers.
Stevens is currently leading efforts in the development of photovoltaic materials based on earth abundant elements.
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