I am working on the mechanism and applications of self-healing materials. Polymeric self-healing coating are being made to protect the magnesium alloy from corrosive attack. Various techniques including Raman, FTIR, XPS, XRD, EDS and SEM are of interest to my studies.

Journal Publications

1. Fan Fan, Chunyu Zhou, Xu Wang, Layer-by-Layer assembly of a self-healing anticorrosion coating on magnesium alloys. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (IF=6.72, accepted), DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b08577. 2015, 7(49), 27271 - 27278.

2. Fan Fan, Jerzy Szpunar. Characterization of viscoelasticity and self-healing ability of VHB 4910. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering (IF=2.66), 2015, 300(1), 99-106.

3. Fan Fan, Jerzy Szpunar. The self-healing mechanism of an industrial acrylic elastomer. Journal of Applied Polymer Science (IF=1.77), 2015, 132(25), 42135.

4. Fan Fan, Jerzy Szpunar, Characterization of the Self-Healing Mechanism of VHB 4910, Procedia Engineering (ICMAT2015 proceedings, DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.1109).

5. Xu Wang, Fan Fan, Jerzy Szpunar, Lina Zhang, Influence of grain orientation on the incipient oxidation behavior of Haynes 230 at 900 oC, Materials Characterization, 107 (2015) 33 - 42.

Conference Presentations

Oral Presentation at 26th Canadian Materials Science Conference, Saskatoon, Canada, Jun01-Jun04, 2014.