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NANOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH

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Selected Research Profiles

• Superior coatings save industry, government billions. . .
  
  Wear of mechanical equipment costs the private and public sectors billions of dollars each year. Aiming to extend the life and enhance the durability of high performance surfaces, a team of engineering faculty and researchers from government and industry are developing novel coatings at the Storrs campus. Dr. Eric Jordan and his colleagues are involved in designing, developing and applying nanostructured - or minutely grained - ceramic coatings that, when applied to surfaces, particularly metal surfaces, display superior resistance to wear, erosion and corrosion. In particular, his research focuses on improved durability of thermal barrier coatings. He leads a multidisciplinary team that is developing new liquid plasma spray processes with a strong commercial potential in many applications, including aircraft and industrial gas turbine engines, naval ships and submarines, and diesel engines.
  
  
• Beaming in on versatile lasers. . .
• Engineering dislocation structures in heterostructures. . .