The Team

[From Left to Right: Trilok Ranjan, Jaspreet Gandhi, Anuj Seth, Tonya Shipp, Dr. van Ooij, Anna Lamar, Ramakrishna, Karthik Suryanarayan, Dr. Danqing Zhu.]

Advisor

CALL FOR PAPERS – “Environment friendly pre-treatments for aluminum and other metals”- Oslo, Norway, June 16-18, 2004. [Click here for details]

Dr. Danquing Zhu

[Resume]

E-mail: zhud@email.uc.edu ; danqingzhu@yahoo.com

Anna Lamar, Masters Student

Area of Research: Optimisation of deposition conditions of non-organofunctional silanes, selection of silane pretreatments of epoxy coated AA 2024 T3.

Email: annalamar@yahoo.com

Anuj Seth, Masters Student

Area of Research: Prevention of Corrosion Fatigue cracking of Aerospace alloys using Silane pretreatment. Cathodic Protection of Stainless Steel using Silane Pretreatment for marine applications.

Email: setha@email.uc.edu

Vignesh M. Palanivel, Masters Student

Area of Research: Incorporation of colorants into silane films for inline detection.

Development of self healing silane films. Strengthening of silane films by incorporation of nanoparticles. Technology of corrosion protective compounds. Sol-gel processiong

Email: vignesh_marudhu@yahoo.com

Ramkrishna Sukumar, Masters Student

Area of research: The bonding of rubber to Brass wires and Aluminum alloys using water based silanes.

Email: sukumar@email.uc.edu

Matthew Stacy, Master Student

Area of Research: Development of "Superprimer", Rubber bonding to metals using Silanes.

Email: staceymb@email.yahoo.com

Corinne Aimard, Visiting scholar

Area of Research: Rubber to metal bonding has a major importance in automotive components at Paulstra, France. The use of silanes should replace the actual process which is costly and enviornmentally unsafe (because of the use of chromate) and provide both adhesion and protection to the corrosion in non-tire applications.

Email: corinne_aimard@hotmail.com

Jaspreet Singh Gandhi, Masters Student

Area of Research: Electrodeposition of Silanes on various metal substrates.

Email: g_jaspreet@rediffmail.com

Trilok Ranjan, Masters Student

Area of Research: Erosion Corrosion of metal substrates and inhibition of this phenomenon using Silane films.

Email: trilok_ranjan@rediffmail.com

Kartik Suryanaryan, Masters Student

Area of Research: Investigation of the effect of Biofilms on Silane coated metal substrates and their performance under corrosive environment.

Email: suryank@email.uc.edu