Ali Erdemir

Educational Background

Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology — 1986
M.S., Materials Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology — 1982
B.S., Metallurgy, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul — 1977

- Bridging scientific principles with engineering innovations
- Developing new materials, coatings, and lubricants for a broad range of cross-cutting applications
- Studying mechanisms that control friction, wear and lubrication - including advanced surface technologies and lubricant chemistries
- Upcycling plastic wastes into lubricating oils in a green and continuously recyclable manner
- Designing and manufacturing new materials, coatings, and lubricants for safety, efficiency, and reliability in electric vehicle applications

“Electric Vehicle Tribology”, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2024, ISBN: 9780443140747.
2D materials for durable and sustainable electric vehicles, Nature Reviews Materials, (2024): pp. 1-3
Se Nanopowder Conversion into Lubricious 2D Selenide Layers by Tribochemical Reactions, Advanced Materials, 35(2023) 2302076
Achieving ultralow friction and wear by tribocatalysis: enabled by in-operando formation of nanocarbon films, ACS Nano, 15(2021) pp. 18865–18879.
Synthetic lubricants derived from plastic waste and their tribological performance, ChemSusChem, 14(2021) pp. 4181-4189.