Category Archives: Notables
Awards, service, recognition, widely-circulated news
TMS 2017
The 2017 TMS Annual Meeting took place in San Diego, CA, this year. The SURFI team was represented by Shan Zhao and Dr. Drelich. Shan presented a poster on Zn-Li alloy materials and their biocompatibility in endovascular environment. Dr. Drelich … Continue reading
Outstanding Scholarship Award
Congratulations to Shan! She is a recipient of the Outstanding Scholarship Award in MSE Department recognizing her academic performance. She was nominated by department. A certificate of recognition for this award will be presented at the Graduate Research Colloquium Banquet … Continue reading
Course in India
Dr. Drelich traveled to India and instructed a new course entitled “Contact Angles: Measurements, Interpretation and Modern Applications“ from January 29 to February 4. The course was offered to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at the Indian Institute of Technology … Continue reading
Point of Pride
One of our publications remains as the top cited paper for Surface Innovations in the last 3 years. The paper is entitled Guidelines to Measurements of Reproducible Contact Angles Using a Sessile-Drop Technique and was published at the end of … Continue reading
Successful Ph.D. Dissertation
Shan successfully defended her Ph.D. Dissertation entitled Structural characteristics and corrosion behavior of biodegradable Zn-Li alloys in stent application on December 19, 2016. She is scheduled to complete her entire Ph.D. program some time during the Spring 2017 semester.
Successful M.S. Defense
Avishan successfully defended her M.S. Thesis entitled Formulation and testing of biodegradable polymeric coating on zinc wires in cardiovascular stent application on December 14, 2016. She is scheduled to complete her entire M.S. program some time during the Spring 2017 … 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
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
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
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
