Category Archives: Team
New members, outgoing members, team alumni activity
New PhD Candidate
Mr. Matthew Graham has joined our research team as a PhD Candidate in Fall 2021. He is a distance graduate student whose interests are in surfaces and surface coatings. Matthew earned his MS degree in Polymer Science and Engineering from … Continue reading
New MS Candidate
Henry Summers has joined our research team in 2021 as an undergraduate researcher. Why he continues his B.S. degree program, he also started his accelerated Master of Science degree program. His research effort is concentrated towards characterization of zinc alloys … Continue reading
Morteza Graduates
Congratulations to Dr. Morteza Ardakani for defending his PhD dissertation and graduating in Spring 2022.! Morteza dissertation is entitled Engineering Mechanically-Stable Zinc-based Alloys for Medical Implants, and the following is the abstract: Zinc-based alloys have been introduced as candidate absorbable … 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
SI Impact Factor
We are glad to report that the journal impact factor (IF) for Surface Innovations rose to 2.845 from 2.333 in 2019. This is the fourth year in a row when the journal climbs in ranking.
SI Volume 8 Issue 4
We would like to share with you the content of the fourth issue of 2020 of Surface Innovations. This issue offers Invited Feature Article on plasma surface modifications of orthopedic biomaterials and three original papers on bioresorbable medical materials. Hope … Continue reading
Award to Emily
Congratulations to our undergraduate researcher for receiving the Graduate School Academic Excellence Award (GAEA) and her acceptance to MTU master’s program. This one-time award of $4,500 will be applied towards Emily’s tuition for the fall 2020 semester. Well deserved Award … Continue reading
JOM Collection of Papers
Three members of our team, Dr. Drelich, Dr. Sikora-Jasinska and Dr. Mostaed, have served as guest editors to the JOM journal and prepared a collection of quality papers on Biodegradable Materials for Medical Applications II. To mitigate the long-term side … Continue reading
Magnesium Alloy
We have published a new article entitled “Tailoring the mechanical and degradation performances of Mg-2.0Zn-0.5Ca-0.4Mn alloy through microstructure design” in the JOM journal A novel Mg-2.0Zn-0.5Ca-0.4Mn alloy was formulated and processed through melt spinning and hot extrusion to enhance the … Continue reading
Visit of Former Student
We really enjoyed the three-days visit by Sara Schellbach, our former undergraduate researcher, who graduated from MSE program in 2016. She currently works for GM, and pursues her MS degree at Wayne State University. Sara came with her brother who … Continue reading
