Author Archives: Jarek Drelich
Poster by Dilek
Dilek presented a poster DFT Simulation of Colemanite Surface coauthored by J.W. Drelich, O. Ozdemir, M.S. Celik, and G.M. Odegard during the NSF IUCRC Annual Review of Projects and Industrial Advisory Board Meeting, Center for Novel High Voltage/Temperature Materials and … Continue reading
Jacob graduates
Jacob Braykovich returned to us this year and helped us in the project on bioabsorbable stent materials. He has just completed his B.S. program and is moving to real world. He will work for Ford. We wish him successful career … Continue reading
Visitor
Prof. William R. Wagner, Director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Professor of Surgery, Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, and the Editor-in-Chief of one of the leading biomaterials journals, Acta Biomaterialia, visited us on April … Continue reading
SURE Scholarship
Congratulations to Sara Schellbach who won the SURE Scholarship from the Wayne State University. This summer undergraduate research experience offered by the School of Medicine to US citizens with GPA >3.0 was very competitive and among more than 100 applicants … Continue reading
Poster Presentations
Shan attended recently the 80th Annual Meeting for the Society for American Archeology in San Francisco, California (April 15-19, 2015). She traveled together with Prof. Timothy Scarlett, our collaborator from the Department of Social Sciences, and presented a poster on … Continue reading
Good-bye to Dr. Seitz
Dr. Jan-Marten Seitz has completed his one-year postdoctoral fellow program at Michigan Tech and is going back to Germany to start a new job, after his traveling across US with his wife. We are thankful to Dr. Seitz for his … Continue reading
NIH Funding
Surface Innovations research team just got awarded with a two-year grant by the NIH – National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. We will study the effects of surface finishing of biodegradable Zn alloys on their biocompatibility and biodegradation rate. … Continue reading
Visit in China
Dr. Drelich was recently invited by Prof. Yuehua Hu to the Central South University in Changsha (China) and spent there one week at the beginning of December. He delivered three seminars on topics related to wetting phenomena on rough surfaces, … Continue reading
Publication from collaboration with Brazil
In August 2014, Dr. Drelich visited the Military Institute of Engineering (MIE) in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and established a research collaboration with this institute in the area of natural fibers, composite materials, diamonds and alloys. The first paper entitled … Continue reading
New Publication on Biodegradation of Mg
In our new study on bioabsobable implants, just published in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research A (Vol. 102, Issue 3, pp. 341-349), we present an in vitro – in vivo biocorrosion correlation for pure magnesium. The studies rely on … Continue reading
