Author Archives: Jarek Drelich
Surface Innovations in Thomson Reuters
Dr. Alison McAnena from ICE Publishing just informed us this morning that the Surface Innovations journal has been accepted into Thomson Reuters Indices SCIE, Current Contents and JCR. This means that papers published in Surface Innovations will start to show … Continue reading
Wetting of Natural Fibers
Sara Schellbach has published her first technical paper. The paper’s title is A novel method for contact angle measurements on natural fibers, co-authored by Prof. Sergio N. Monteiro and Prof. Jarek Drelich, and will be included in one of the … Continue reading
Visitor from Canada
We hosted Prof. Diego Mantovani from the Laval University in Quebec City, Canada, on November 11. Prof. Mantovani delivered a seminar entitled Degradable Metals, Nanocoatings and Cellularised Scaffolds for Tissue Replacement and Regeneration to departments of Materials Science and Engineering … Continue reading
Celebrating Patrick’s success
We celebrated Patrick’s PhD degree at KBC – local brewery. It is always great to take a short break from regular duties and enjoy company of talented young people.
Patrick defends his PhD
Congratulations to Patrick! Patrick successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled Biocorrosion Rate and Mechanism of Metallic Magnesium in Model Arterial Environments, and we proudly call him Dr. Bowen since October 20.
Good-bye to Dilek and Adam
We had a memorable good-bye party for Dilek and Adam in the Ambassador restaurant last Friday. Dilek Arslon has completed has one-year visiting program entitled Experimental and theoretical analysis of molecular interactions in different originated colemanite suspensions at Michigan Tech. … Continue reading
BIOMETAL Symposium
Patrick attended recently the 7th International Symposium on Biodegradable Metals for Biomedical Applications in Riva Marina Resort, Carovigno, Italy (August 23-28, 2015). He traveled together with Emily Shearier from Biomedical Engineering Department. Patrick presented the paper entitled Early experiences with … Continue reading
Advisory Board Member
Prof. Drelich has been invited by the Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology in Hyderabad (India) to serve as the Advisory Board Member to the 5th International Conference on Materials Processing and Characterization that will take place in Hyderabad … Continue reading
SI Volume 3 Issue 3
The 3rd issue of 2015 of the Surface Innovations journal is available. This issue contains two papers on superhydrophobic surfaces, our paper on the effect of hydrophobic nano-asperities on particle – surface colloidal interactions, contribution on adsorption of proteins on … Continue reading
Biocompatibility of Zn
We reported in 2013 in the article published in Advanced Materials that metallic zinc exhibited an ideal biocorrosion rate within murine aortas, thus raising the possibility that zinc might be the ideal material for endovascular stenting applications. In the new … Continue reading
