Author Archives: Jarek Drelich
SI Volume 10 Issue 1
The Surface Innovations journal celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2022. In celebration of this anniversary, we will publish six issues instead of five. This first issue of 2022 offers the Invited Feature Article, Innovation Letter and six Original Research papers … Continue reading
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
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
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
SI Volume 9 Issue 5
In this closing issue of 2021 (Issue 5) we offer seven original research reports on antimicrobial coating, magnetic membranes, photocatalytic nanoparticles, the use of iron phosphide as an energy-storage material, low-reflectivity coating for surgical instrumentation, inhibitor of corrosion, and the … Continue reading
SI Volume 9 Issue 4
We would like to share with you the content of the issue 4 of 2021 of Surface Innovations. In this fourth issue, we offer a leading Invited Feature Article on formulation and characterization of bioactive coatings on magnesium alloys using … Continue reading
Liquid Adhesion to Curved Surface
In our new report on adhesion of liquids to solids, entitled “Droplet Characteristics at the Maximum Adhesion on Curved Surfaces” and published in Langmuir, we analyze the effect of solid surface curvature on liquid droplet adhesion. The following is the … Continue reading
SI Volume 9 Issue 2/3
We would like to share with you the content of the issue 2/3 of 2021 of Surface Innovations. This issue offers the Invited Feature Article on carbon coating of electrode materials for lithium ion batteries and eight original papers on … Continue reading
SI Volume 9 Issue 1
We would like to share with you the content of the first issue of 2021 of Surface Innovations. This issue offers the Invited Feature Article on polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane/epoxy coatings and seven original papers on variety of topics. Hope many … Continue reading
Top Scientist
A new citation metrics was recently prepared by Mendeley; Mendeley is a free reference manager and an academic social network. They have created a publicly available database of 100,000 top-scientists (actual list is longer, ~160,000) that provides standardized information on … Continue reading
