What’s new

ISMA 2019

June 25, 2019

Dr. Golovin and Kamran attended the inaugural International Symposium on Materials for Anti-Icing, hosted by NTNU in Trondheim, Norway. An excellent two-day gathering of some of the top minds in anti-icing materials!

Dr. Mohseni joins OPERA

May 13, 2019

Dr. Majid Mohseni is the lastest member of  the OPERA group, coming to us from France. Welcome Majid!

LIT Research

May 4, 2019

Behrooz proving to be the group artist once again! (Science publication)  

Kick-off connection

May 4, 2019

During the kick-off of COMFORTS, the BC Dragoons decided to roll up onto campus. Roozbeh was on top of things!

LIT Media Coverage

April 29, 2019

Our work on LIT materials was featured on Global News!  

Science publication!

April 27, 2019

Our latest study on anti-icing materials has been published in Science! LIT materials will hopefully revolution the deicing paradigm and we are excited to finally share these insights with the world. Low-interfacial toughness materials for effective large-scale deicing Media coverage: UBC Press Release University of Michigan Press Release CBC Calgary AAAS Toronto City News phys.org… Read more »

New publication!

April 22, 2019

In collaboration with MIT, UT Dallas, and the University of Michigan, our latest study on understanding superhydrophobic drag reduction in turbulent flow is published in Physics of Fluids. An Editors Pick too! Influence of textural statistics on drag reduction by scalable, randomly rough superhydrophobic surfaces in turbulent flow

Wenting receives the IURA

March 31, 2019

Wenting has been awarded the prestigious International Undergraduate Research Award, which will fully fund her summer research project on normal ice adhesion. Congratulations Wenting!!

Dr. Hajiraissi joins OPERA

March 3, 2019

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Roozbeh Hajiraissi as the latest postdoctoral scholar in the OPERA Lab. Glad to have you on the team! Researchgate page for Dr. Hajiraissi

Conference Talk

February 23, 2019

Dr. Golovin was invited to give a Plenary talk at the International Symposium on Materials for Anti-Icing, being held in Trondheim, Norway in May 2019. This should be a very good event, with world experts converging to discuss one of the OPERA’s favourite topics! More info: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/isma2019/isma2019