Monthly Archives: February 2016

2016 TMS Meeting

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Jarek Drelich

The TMS annual meeting in Nashville this year was very productive. First, Dr. Bowen and Prof. Drelich served as co-organizers to a mini-symposium entitled Magnesium-based Bioabsorbable Implants that was part of 2016 Magnesium Technology conference. Both of them represented the … Continue reading →

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SI Volume 4 Issue 1

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Jarek Drelich

The 1st issue of 2016 of the Surface Innovations journal is available. This issue contains five additional invited papers on recent developments in polymer surface modification, dedicated to Dr. Kash Mittal – the first five papers were included in the … Continue reading →

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Second Paper on Armor

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Jarek Drelich

A new paper on ballistic armor has been accepted for publication in the Materials & Design journal. The paper entitled: Novel Ballistic Ramie Fabric Composite Competing with Kevlar™ Fabric in Multilayered Armor, was prepared by collaborators from the Institute of … Continue reading →

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New Duties at TMS

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Jarek Drelich

Prof. Drelich was nominated and invited to the TMS Content Development and Dissemination Committee that is part of the TMS Administrative Board committees. The purpose of the Content Development and Dissemination Committee is to collaboratively guide and support TMS initiatives … Continue reading →

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High-School Follower Awarded

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Jarek Drelich

Nina Ferenc is a freshman student attending Westfield High School in Virginia. At the beginning of 2016, she came up with a science fair project that was designed based on our research on biodegradable zinc stents. She was intrigued by … Continue reading →

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Editorial Board Member

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Jarek Drelich

Prof. Drelich has been invited to serve on the Editorial Board of the Eureka: Physics & Engineering journal. This is a new open-access international peer-reviewed journal devoted to science and engineering.

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Leading Citation at ICE

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Jarek Drelich

We are very happy to report that our papers published in two journals of ICE Publishing are among top cited contributions of 2015. In Surface Innovations, the very top paper is that entitled “Guidelines to measurements of reproducible contact angles … Continue reading →

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