Name/Affiliation
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Expertise |
Grant Crawford
South Dakota Mines
Materials & Metallurgical Engineering |
- Surface modification of Ti implants via electrochemical & additive manufacturing techniques
- Structure-property relationships in advanced coatings
- 9 peer reviewed articles related to processing and characterization of advanced coatings
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Frank Kustas
South Dakota Mines
AMP Laboratory
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- PVD & CVD processing, plasma electrolytic oxidation of nanostructured thin-films for erosion, abrasion, sliding- wear, and corrosion resistance. Over 50 publications in surface engineering
- Hybrid atmospheric plasma CVD & nanoparticle spray technology for corrosion protection and superhydrophobic and icephobic coatings
- CTO of NanoCoatings, Inc., a thin-film coating development company in Rapid City; Engineered coatings with sales of over $4.5M in SBIR/STTR funding
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Bharat Jasthi
South Dakota Mines
Materials & Metallurgical Engineering |
- Laser cladding of advanced coatings and functionally graded materials (FGM)
- Friction Stir (surface alloying), Cold spraying of metallic/composite coatings for corrosion and wear
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Haiping Hong
South Dakota Mines
Materials & Metallurgical Engineering |
- Carbon nano-materials (nanotube and graphene) for application in grease lubricants
- Developed unique method to mix carbon nano-materials with metal/metal oxides
- Surface modification and characterization of metal/metal oxides
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Venkata Gadhamshetty
South Dakota Mines
Civil & Environmental Engineering |
- NSF Career Award: Conformal 2D coatings (e.g. graphene) for microbial corrosion resistance
- Corrosion resistant surfaces for crude-oil production equipment in North Dakota
- Graphene coated electrodes in microbial-bioelectrochemical systems for water treatment
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Brian Logue
SDSU
Chemistry & Biochemistry
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- Functionalized carboxylate deposition (FCD) of activated organics as self-assembled monolayers
- FCD to dye-sensitize porous titania for energy generation (solar-cells)
- Patented FCD and published the first use of FCD in the peer reviewed literature
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Fereidoon Delfanian
SDSU
Mechanical Engineering |
- Director - Materials Evaluation and Testing Laboratory (MET LAB)
- Micro and Nano-Mechanical Testing of hard surface coatings and biomedical implants
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Jeffrey Doom SDSU
Mechanical Engineering |
- Computational fluid dynamics, fluid mechanics
- Combustion
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Grigoriy Sereda
USD
Chemistry |
- Functionalization of silica nanoparticles; coating of titania with Ag by the photolysis technique
- Non-destructive functionalization of graphene and other carbonaceous materials by cycloaddition
- USD lead collaborator with Composite & Nanocomposite Advanced Manufacturing
- One US patent, 2 provisional patents, peer-reviewed publications, two book chapters
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