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Materials Science and Engineering

Doug Perovic

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Accident investigations
  • Defect engineering in photonic band gap materials
  • Forensic engineering
  • High resolution scanning-transmission electron microscopy/spectroscopy of nanomaterials structure and chemistry
  • Mesoporous nanocomposites for nanoelectronics
  • Nanoengineering/science education
  • Nanostructure-property relationships for electronic/photonic applications
  • Product failure analysis
  • Semiconducting quantum wells and dots

Office: N/A
Mobile: (416) 409 1085
Languages: Serbian
Website
Email: perovic@ecf.utoronto.ca
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Harry Ruda

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Nanoelectronics
  • Nanophotonics
  • Semiconductors

Office: (416) 978 4556
Languages: French
Website
Email: ruda@ecf.utoronto.ca
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Steven J Thorpe

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Amorphous Metal / Nanocrystalline Electrocatalysis
  • Characterization of Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Metal
  • Corrosion
  • Electro-oxidation
  • Electrochemistry
  • Electrolysis
  • Fuel cells
  • Materials science
  • Production of Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Thin Films
  • Template Synthesis of Nanowires and Nanotubes

Office: (416) 978 8584
Languages: English
Website
Email: steven.thorpe@utoronto.ca
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Thomas Coyle

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Characterization of hard coatings, including diamond-ceramic
  • Characterization of microstructure-property relationships for toughening mechanisms and fracture behaviour
  • Failure - Brittle fracture analysis
  • Materials selection
  • Mechanical properties
  • Powder processing
  • Powder processing and forming techniques, designed multiphase microstructures
  • Processing and properties of advanced ceramics and ceramic matrix composites
  • Thermal spray coating processes

Office: (416) 978 5647
Website
Email: tom.coyle@utoronto.ca
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Zhirui Wang

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Zhirui Wang

Areas of Expertise

  • Advanced engineering materials such as metal matrix composites
  • Cyclic deformation mechanism and fatigue behaviour
  • Engineering materials failure
  • Failure analysis, FEM (finite element method)
  • FEM (finite element method)
  • Fracture mechanisms and mechanics
  • Metal forming operation
  • Physical and mechanical metallurgy
  • Plastic deformation
  • Stress and strain analysis
  • Structure-property relationships of materials

Office: 4169784412
Languages: English,Chinese (Mandarin)
Website
Email: zhirui.wang@utoronto.ca
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