Powder metallurgy goes live at IRIS
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Swinburne University welcomes Cuie Wen to the position of Professor of Surface Engineering in the Industrial Research Institute Swinburne (IRIS). Cuie's research interests include surface coating/modification of metals and alloys, development of porous metallic biomaterials (Ti, Mg, and their alloys and composites), porous metals for light weight structures (Ti, Al, Mg and their alloys), and nanostructured metal materials with excellent ductility and high strength.
In IRIS, Cuie has access to a world-class surface coating/modification and laser-based sintering laboratories including plasma spray, flame spray, HVOF, sputtering and laser based direct metal deposition/surfacing. In addition, she also has access to standard materials testing equipment and in-situ SEM-EDAX, TEM, AFM/Nano-indentation, confocal microscope, XRD, DSC, high/low temperature vacuum furnaces, ball mills, hot/cold press, extrusion machines, and in vitro cell culture facilities.
These facilities will support her activities in exciting areas of research:
- Surface coating/modification of metals and alloys
- Processing and characterisation of amorphous/nano-structured materials with excellent ductility and high strength
- Shape memory alloys and their coatings
- Development of new Ti alloys, composites and their porous scaffolds for biomedical applications
- Light weight metal foam structures for automotive and defence applications (Al, Mg, and their alloys)
- Laser-based direct metal deposition (DMD) of titanium alloy scaffolds for orthopedic and dental applications
- Biodegradable metal alloys for bone tissue engineering (e.g. Mg and its alloys)
- Surface modification of metallic biomaterials (e.g. nanoengineering of biomaterial surfaces)
Cuie received her BEng and PhD degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and then performed a postdoctoral research at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. She was then employed as a researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan for 8 years. She also worked at Deakin University as a research engineer, senior research academic and associate professor before joining Swinburne University of Technology.
Cuie's research has led to over 200 peer-reviewed original publications in total and these publications have been cited for about 800 times. She has also delivered over 150 invited and oral presentations at national and international conferences.