Our focus

Understanding the nature of environment-surface interactions is absolutely essential for designing functional materials and structures with enhanced properties - in particular the ability to resist degradation and subsequent loss of performance, especially under extreme conditions of service or environment.   The goal of the Surface Analysis and Corrosion Science Laboratory for the past 40 years has been to combine state-of-the-art surface and chemical spectroscopic techniqueswith electrochemistry and materials synthesis techniques to create powerful experiments which provide key data and models that elucidate the mechanisms responsible for corrosion, catalysis, anti-microbial and anti-bacterial properties, recyclability, nanoscale surface structure, color and optical properties, functionality and adhesion of coatings, and many other properties critical for engineering applications.

The Lab has been supported through projects with the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific research, the Army Research Laboratory, the State of New York, and a large number of University-Industry collaborations.

Please contact us at gary.halada@stonybrook.edu and clive.clayton@stonybrook.edu for further information and to discuss potential collaborations and research projects.