Part of the Chemical and Materials Engineering department in the University of Auckland, specialising in nanoindentation techniques.
19/11/2019
How sticky is ice? Here's one way to find out...
A tensile technique for measuring frozen products adhesion strength: Application to stainless steel/frozen milk interaction The adhesion of frozen products such as dairy, water, and juices to industrial metallic surfaces is a major source of inefficiency in the food process…
28/02/2019
Are you wondering how hard your powder particles are? The nanomechanical research lab can help with that!
An all-gluten biocomposite: Comparisons with carbon black and pine char composites Three different charcoals (gluten char, pine bark char and carbon black) were used to rectify certain property disadvantages of wheat gluten plastic. …
07/11/2018
This accurately describes what actually happens in our lab.
Credit: Twisteddoodles
The truth about working in science.
07/11/2018
Ever looked inside your freezer and saw the trays all covered in ice? Nanoscratch can help develop the science to prevent ice from sticking around and cause problems! Just let it go :)
Take a look at our open-access publication here:
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/348/1/012003/meta
AMP IGNITE 2015 | Thomas Loho Auckland University student Thomas Logo was one of 12 finalists for the 2015 AMP IGNITE competition. Thomas’ research aims to prevent economic losses and haz...
02/11/2018
Nanoindentation can help tell you how good the adhesion of your coating is to your substrate. Have a look at our newest publication in the open-access journal: Coatings!
A Novel Way of Adhering PET onto Protein (Wheat Gluten) Plastics to Impart Water Resistance This study presents an approach to protect wheat gluten (WG) plastic materials against water/moisture by adhering it with a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film using a diamine (Jeffamine®) as a coupling agent and a compression molding operation. The laminations were applied using two different...
02/11/2018
How big are the indents we make here during "nano"indentation? Take a look for yourself in these images that we obtain from doing nanoindentation on an aluminium surface!
These indents range from 20 to 200 nm deep, which is about a thousandth times smaller than the thickness of your hair. That's tiny!
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19/10/2018
Some people say science started with people poking at stuffs with a really long stick and seeing how they react.
And that is exactly what we do here in the nanomechanical research lab. We poke really small stuffs with really sharp tips and observe how they react.
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19/10/2018
Ever wondered how your old DVDs work? These little bumps and valleys at the back of your DVD translate into the 1's and 0's that make up your movie / music / program!
Imaging the back of a DVD is just one of the things that we can do here in the nanomechanical research lab :)
