We happily started to reopen our research laboratories on May 19th. Special thanks to Dr. Sima Alidokht for being the first to return,...

Congratulations to Vamsi for publishing his article "Sliding wear of Ti6Al4V coatings: Effect of porosity and normal load" in the journal...

Our New Website Is Now Online

29 Nov 2019- Lin and Yu presented their Masters poster.

Vamsi successfully defended his PhD thesis.

1 Nov 2019- Tongyue presented her Masters graduate seminar.

Welcome to Alejandra Islas Encalada and Lin Wu, who join our research group September 2019!

Sara's article "Failure dynamics of spherical and irregular shaped Ti splats deposited on sapphire by cold spray" was recently accepted...

July 2019 – Dr. Yinyin Zhang publishes article, “Tribologically induced nanolaminate in a cold-sprayed WC-reinforced Cu matrix composite: a

June 2019 – Dr. Sima Alidokht visited the research group of Dr. Guillaume Kermouche at Ecole des Mines St Etienne to work on micromechanical

April 2019 – Prof. Chromik attends the Spring MRS meeting in Phoenix, AZ and presents the invited talk “Are Tribofilms Predictive of Wear Re

April 2019 – Welcome to the group Karim Selim and Theo Lescoat, who will work with us for the summer as co-op students.

April 2019 – Farewell to Kostas Pagkalis, who completed his post-doc with us. Thank you Kostas and keep in touch!

“High-temperature friction and wear behavior of cold-sprayed Ti6Al4V and Ti6Al4V-TiC composite coatings”

February 2019 – Vamsi Munagala and Sara Imbriglio publish the article, “The influence of powder properties on the adhesion strength and micr

February 2019 – Dr. Sima Alidokht published article, “Effect of Microstructure and Properties of Ni-WC Composite Coatings on Their Solid Par

January 2019 – Sara Imbriglio publishes her paper, “Adhesion strength of titanium particles to alumina substrates: A combined cold spray and

November 2018 – Dr. Sima Alidokht joins our group as Research Associate working on the Green SEAM Network and other current surface engineer

October 2018 – Sara Imbriglio and Vamsi Munagala attend MS&T2018 in Columbus, Ohio and successfully present their research in the symposium

September 2018 – Welcome to the group new graduate students: Bruno Castilho, Tongyue Liang, David Lonstein and Yu Gao!