Author Archives: Jarek Drelich
Scholar from China
The SURFI Team welcomes a new addition to our team, Mr. Yujin Sun. Yujin is the PhD scholar from the China University of Mining and Technology, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology. He will work on fundamentals of flotation systems … Continue reading
Poster at MS&T
Together with several other undergraduate students from the Materials Science and Engineering Department, Jeff attended the Materials Science & Technology (MS&T16) fall meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, which took place on October 23-27 this year. Jeff presented his poster … Continue reading
Top 1% in Materials Science
One of the SURFI review papers entitled Hydrophilic and Superhydrophilic Surfaces and Materials, published in Soft Matter in 2011, was marked as Highly Cited Paper by Thomson Reuters in its Web of Science. This highly cited paper received enough citations … Continue reading
Curaua Reinforced Composite
A new journal publication entitled Promising Curaua Fiber Reinforced Polyester Composite for High Impact Ballistic Multilayered Armor was published online in the Polymer Engineering and Science journal. This publication is a joint effort between Institute of Military Engineering in Rio … Continue reading
IMPS 2016 in Istanbul
The 15th International Mineral Processing Symposium took place in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 19-21, and gathered more than 250 participants. Dr. Drelich was invited plenary speaker. Beside the plenary lecture entitled Surface Charge Heterogeneity of Minerals: Why do We Need … Continue reading
Istanbul Technical University
Dr. Drelich visited the Istanbul Technical University (ITU) on October 18 during his one-week trip to Istanbul. This half-day visit at ITU provided an opportunity to discuss future directions of collaboration with Prof. M.S. Celik and his close associate Dr. … Continue reading
New SI Publication
A better understanding of the surface oxide film on biodegradable metals could lead to the design of smarter, surface responsive biodegradable stents with good biocompatibility and controlled degradation rates at different stages of implantation. In our new study, the surface … Continue reading
SURFI Team of 2016/17
A new academic year is already in a full swing. The SURFI team has been expanded by a PhD candidate, Mr. Zhiyong Yin, who arrived from Montana Tech in summer. We have also recruited two new undergraduate students, Ms. Morgan … Continue reading
IMPC 2016
Dr. Drelich attended the XXVIII International Mineral Processing Congress (IMPC 2016) that took place in Quebec City, Canada on September 11-15. This congress is the major international event that gathers researchers and engineers associated with processing of minerals from many … Continue reading
Visitor from ASU
We were fortunate to host Dr. Konrad Rykaczewski from the Arizona State University, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, starting from Sunday midnight to Tuesday morning. Dr. Rykaczewski came for his short visit to deliver the invited talk … Continue reading
