Category Archives: Team

New members, outgoing members, team alumni activity

End of 2015/16 and Good-bye to Sara

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Jarek Drelich

Academic year of 2015/16 is in the books. It was very productive academic year in our team, with several publications and many exciting results that will be used in new publications. Sara will not return to our research program in … Continue reading →

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MSGC Undergraduate Research Award

Posted on April 1, 2016 by Jarek Drelich

Congratulations to Catherine for winning the Michigan Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Fellowship. She will conduct a research on Recrystallization and Coarsening of Hot-Extruded Bioabsorbable Binary Zn Alloys in the 2016/2017 academic year.

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Visitor from China

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Jarek Drelich

Dr. Hua-Lan Jin arrived to Houghton a few days ago. She holds the Assistant Professor position in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nanchang University – Nanchang, P.R. China. Dr. Jin worked on magnesium-based biodegradable alloys and their … Continue reading →

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Good-bye to Patrick

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Jarek Drelich

Patrick, now Dr. Bowen, has completed his four-year PhD program at Michigan Tech and is going to challenge his skills in industry. He will work for Deringer-Ney Inc. in Bloomfield, Connecticut as the Senior Research Metallurgist. We are thankful to … Continue reading →

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Wetting of Natural Fibers

Posted on November 13, 2015 by Jarek Drelich

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 →

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Patrick defends his PhD

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Jarek Drelich

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.

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Addition to SURFI Team

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Jarek Drelich

Surface Innovations team welcomes Ms. Avishan Arabshomali. Avishan has decided to join our research team for at least this summer, and likely will pursue her M.S. program in the area of bioabsorbable polymers. Avishan has earned her B.S. degree in … Continue reading →

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Successful PhD research proposal

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Jarek Drelich

Please congratulate Shan Zhao for the successful defense of her Ph.D. research proposal this morning. Her Ph.D. research proposal is entitled Structural characteristics and corrosion behavior of biodegradable Zn-X alloys in stent application.

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Poster by Dilek

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Jarek Drelich

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 →

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Jacob graduates

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Jarek Drelich

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 →

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