Functional materials/surfaces, bioabsorbable materials, and natural minerals
Formulation, separation, processing, characterization, and application
Patrick Bowen
Patrick Bowen receives one-year Predoctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association (AHA) for the project entitled “Fabrication and Deployment of Zinc-Based Bioabsorbable Stents.” This is Patrick’s second award from AHA – he was supported through the AHA Predoctoarl Fellowship program in the last two years and this new award will allow him to finish his Ph.D. program at the end of 2015.
Congratulations to Patrick for this prestigious Award!
Materials journal
Prof. Drelich has become a new member of the External Advisory Board for Materials journal. This is one of the most successful open access journals that publishes papers on manufacturing, processing and characterization of all types of materials.
Jacob Braykovich
Jacob Braykovich, who worked with us for two years and won a RISE scholarship last year (when working with us), is featured in the story entitled “German Exchange Programs Broaden 3 Tech Students’ Horizons“. The RISE scholarship was provided by the German Academic Exchange Service.
Although Jacob is currently not working with us, we appreciate his two-years contribution he made to processing of zinc alloys in our program. We wish him successful senior design project and graduation!
Surface Innovations, the journal
The 4th issue (and last for this year) of Surface Innovations is available online. It contains 6 interesting papers and is the second part of a special collection of papers honoring Prof. Emil Chibowski from M.Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland.
Jeremy Goldman
When Prof. Jeremy Goldman took his family to Israel to work on his research on bioabsorbable cardiovascular stents, missiles flying overhead were just one of the facts of war that they had to worry about. Other concerns included terrorists crawling through tunnels, suicide bombers, riots, etc. Read rest of the story entitled Doing Research in a War Zone.
Surface Innovations, the journal
New review article entitled “Physics and applications of superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic surfaces and coatings” was published in Surface Innovations: Vol. 2, No. SI4, pp. 211-227 by Prof. Drelich. This review is co-authored by Prof. Marmur from the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, well known and respected international expert in the area of wetting phenomena.
Shan Zhao
Congratulations to Shan Zhao for receiving the Travel Grant from the MTU Graduate Student Government!
Ambassador Restaurant
October 20, 2014
Surface Innovations Team said good-bye to Onur on Monday with tasty pizzas. He is returning to Turkey on October 22, completing his ~6 months visiting research program at Michigan Tech with us. Onur completed his flotation tests on the effect of particle roughness on flotation recovery and kinetics, together with characterization of particles using scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy. He has also prepared a foundation for modeling of forces between rough particles and a smooth surface. Onur and his adviser in Turkey, Prof. Celic, will continue working with us on completion of this program and publication of results.
Poster Presented at Food & Nutrition Conference
Ms. Jacquelyn R. Nyenhuis from the University of North Dakota is our collaborator on application of vermiculite in food and agriculture industries. She delivered a poster during the Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo organized by Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics on October 18-21, 2014, in Atlanta, GA. The title of the poster presentation is Analyzing Uptake of Micro-Nutrients by Micro-Greens from Novel Mineral-Fortified Fiber Mats: Case of Copper and is co-authored by Prof. Jarek Drelich.
Sara Schellbach
Sara Schellbach has been awarded with the Barbara Stoyack Link Research Internship at our department. Her research will focus on the characterization of surface and bulk properties of natural fibers produced in Brazil to replace glass fibers in polymeric composites. Congratulations to Sara and we wish her productive academic year!
