Author Archives: Jarek Drelich
Visitor from Brazil
We are happy to host Prof. Sergio N. Monteiro from the Military Institute of Engineering in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He studies natural fibers and their applications in ballistic armors. He has been collaborating with us on natural fiber – … Continue reading
Scholarship
Congratulations to Shan! The Graduate School Dean’s Advisory Panel has recommended that her application for a PhD Finishing Fellowship be approved. Competition for these awards is always strong, and she should be proud of her accomplishments. The panel was impressed … Continue reading
Contact Angle Symposium
Dr. Drelich attended 10th International Symposium on Contact Angle, Wettability and Adhesion that took place at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, on July 13-15. He replaced Sara Schellbach, who was originally scheduled to attend this meeting, and … Continue reading
Impact Factor for SI
Surface Innovations journal received its first Impact Factor: 1.438. Although this number is not great yet, it will increase next year to about 2, as per our early estimate, and hopefully will continue to increase to much higher number in … Continue reading
New PhD Candidate
We would like to welcome our new graduate student Zhiyong Yin. Zhiyong received his M.S. degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at Montana Tech in May 2016. This is his second M.S. degree and the first one he received at … Continue reading
Charge Anisotropy of Scheelite
We employed atomic force microscopy to measure the colloidal interactions between silicon nitride cantilever tips and scheelite crystal surfaces in 1mM KCl solutions of varying pH. By fitting the DLVO theoretical model to the recorded force-distance curves, the surface charge … Continue reading
Making News
We made news in Tech Today and in the local newspaper on: How does our zinc stent invention turn into commercially available—and potentially lifesaving—product? Read more at Tech Today, by Jenn Donovan. Since reading the Daily Mining Gazette requires a … Continue reading
M-TRAC Grant
Our team received a grant from the M-TRAC (Michigan Translational and Commercialization) program on Prototyping Biodegradable Zn-Based Stents of Enhanced Mechanical Properties. The goal of this project is to manufacture Zn-based stents with improved mechanical properties as compared to what … Continue reading
SI Volume 4 Issue 2
We are glad to share with you the content of the 2nd issue of 2016 of Surface Innovations, with a review on sol-gel coatings for corrosion protection of aluminum alloys, three technical papers on topics related to local impedance imaging, … Continue reading
8th Biometal Symposium
Shan missed opportunity to attend the 8th Symposium on Biodegradable Metals in Esterel Resort, near Montreal, Canada, as her Canadian visa arrived too late. Just bad luck as she submitted request for her visa in the last week of March, … Continue reading
