Yi He and Ishan Patel are the latest ICMT PhD students to defend their dissertations.

Yi's research topic was, "Effect of Intermittent Wetting on Corrosion Inhibition in Oil/Water Systems". Understanding wetting phenomena is key to understanding corrosion itself, and how it can be mitigated. Stemming from her research, she has over 10 publications as conference proceedings papers and peer reviewed journal articles; including in CORROSION, Corrosion Science, and The Journal of the Electrochemical Society. Advised by Prof. Marc Singer, she performed her research within our corrosion inhibition focused project working with TotalEnergies. She is continuing research within ICMT.

Ishan Patel performed his research within ICMT's long-standing NAP-JIP, his dissertation work was on, "Modelling and Simulation of High Temperature Naphthenic Acid and Sulfidation Corrosion". He has manuscripts currently going through the peer review process, as well as several AMPP conference proceedings papers. He worked closely with NAP-JIP Project Leader Dr Gheorghe Bota, his advisor being Research Professor David Young. Ishan will be joining NETL as an ORISE post-doc.