Surface-Interface-Interphase Engineering and Science
The overarching research goal is to fundamentally understand and advance knowledge of surface, interface, and interphase across multiple length and time scales—from natural materials to biomaterials to engineered structures—and to design materials and structures with desirable mechanical properties. This encompasses surfaces, interfaces, and interphases in a wide range of conditions, including manufacturing and processing, adhesion and bonding, fatigue, impact, creep, scratching, acoustic loading, radiation, humidity, chemical exposure, pressure, temperature fluctuations, extreme environments such as underwater and outer space. Consideration of biomechanics and human interaction is also essential. Achieving this goal requires a multidisciplinary approach that integrates expertise in manufacturing, mechanics, physics, chemistry, materials science, biomechanics, artificial intelligence, probability, mathematical modeling, numerical modeling, and related fields.
Selected recent 5 events in 2025 (More):
The fatigue fracture scaling paper (link) in Polymer Composites was selected as an editor's choice.
A DOE-SULI summer undergraduate intern published an article (link) on bonding in Advanced Engineering Materials.
Another DOE-SULI summer undergraduate intern published an article (link) on bonding in Materials & Design.
A non-provisional patent (link) on surface modification has been filed.
The journal article (link) on Polymer Composites is the most-read/downloaded paper since 2023.