Monthly Archives: July 2018
Georgia Hurchalla – MS Defense
Congratulations to Georgia Hurchalla for successfully defending her MS Thesis on Effect of Hierarchical Structure and Orientation on Water – Repellant Legs of Water-Walking Insects! Georgia will leave SURFI team in August heading to industry.
Jeff Brookins – MS Defense
Congratulations to Jeff Brookins for successfully defending his MS Thesis on Development and Characterization of Biodegradable Zinc Vascular Ligation Clips! Jeff leaves us this week to start his PhD program at the University of Tennessee.
Top-Cited in Surface Innovations
Papers on contact angle measurements and physics of superhydrophoobic and superhydrophilic surfaces remain as top two all time most-cited papers published in Surface Innovations. One of our newest publication, on contact angle terminology, published in 2017, climbed quickly to the … Continue reading
Top 1% in Materials Science
The review papers entitled Hydrophilic and Superhydrophilic Surfaces and Materials, published in Soft Matter in 2011, was marked again this year as Highly Cited Paper by Thomson Reuters in its Web of Science. This highly cited paper received enough citations … Continue reading
Postdoc from Poland
Surface Innovations Team welcomes a new member, Dr. Malgorzata Sikora-Jasinska. Dr. Sikora-Jasinska received her double PhD degree at Politecnico de Milano in Italy (Department of Mechanical Engineering) and University Laval, Canada (Department of Mining, Metallurgical, and Materials Engineering). Her doctoral … Continue reading
