Monthly Archives: December 2021

Surface Tension of Asphalt

A collaboration with Prof. Zhanping You and his PhD student, Lingyun You, from Civil Engineering Department brought Prof. Drelich back to his research with bitumens and asphalts, research he conducted at the University of Utah during his PhD and postdoctoral … Continue reading

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Emily Graduates

Congratulations to Emily Tom! She successfully defended her M.S. Thesis entitled Exploring Rapid Solidification and Equal Channel Angular Pressing in the Fabrication of Mg-based Alloys for Medical Applications. The development of magnesium bioresorbable implants has become increasingly popular due to … Continue reading

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Biological effects of Zn

Our collaborator from Brock University in Canada, Prof. Jeffrey A. Stuart, investigated biological effects of Zn-based stent materials. His research team identified mitochondria as an important target of zinc that is differently affected in the vascular endothelial and smooth muscle … Continue reading

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