Other projects
Anti-Corrosion Coatings
Corrosion is a spontaneous process that causes the decay of metals. Many industries (e.g., aerospace and military) have used chromium conversion coatings (CCCs) as their main resource to protect metals such as aluminum from corrosion. However, chromium VI species present in CCCs are carcinogenic. Thus, CCCs substitutes are of interest. Our group studies the use of polyelectrolyte multilayers as coatings to mitigate corrosion in metals.
Fluids in Confinement
Phase behavior in shale remains a challenge in the petroleum industry due to many complexities. One complexity arises from strong surface-fluid interactions in shale's nano-scale pores. These interactions can lead to a heterogeneous distribution of molecules, which conventional bulk-phase thermodynamics fail to describe. Efforts are being made to study the phase behavior of fluids in nano-scale capillaries using both experimental and theoretical methods.
