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Sean Corcoran
Associate Professor

Virginia Tech
Collegiate Square, Suite 302 (0286)
460 Turner Street
Blacksburg, VA 24060

Phone: (540) 357-0188
Fax: (540) 231-3554

E-mail: sgc@vt.edu

Research Interests
  • Mechanical and tribological properties of nanoscale contacts
  • Environmental effects on mechanical properties
  • Atomic scale mechanisms in electrodeposition and corrosion processes
  • Nanoporous metals
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Techniques: Nanoindentation / scratch, Scanning Probe Microscopy including Electrochemical Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Small Angle Neutron Scattering

Education
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