Professor Yong Sun

Solid Mechanics and Materials Research Group (Leader)

Institute of Engineering Sciences (IES)

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Surface Engineering & Coating Technologies for Tribological, Corrosion Resistance and Biomedical Applications

Characterisation of Surface Engineered Systems.

Plasma Nitriding of Ferrous and Non-ferrous Alloys

Duplex Treatments

Magnetron Sputter Deposition of Oxide, Boride and Nitride Coatings

Surface Engineering of Stainless Steels

Surface Nanocrystalline Materials

Finite Element Analysis

Tribology and Corrosion of Coatings

Tribocorrosion

Surface Engineering of Wear Components for Food Processing

Materials Science

Composite Materials

Engineering Science

Failure Analysis

Materials and Sustainability

Green Design

Design for manufacturing

Solid Mechanics 

BSc, Ph.D

Mechanical Engineering BEng

Mechanical Engineering MSc

Member of ASM International and Affiliated Heat Treatment Society

Senior Fellow, HEA

Thin Films'2018, July 2018, Shenzhen, China, invited speaker and session chair

The 8th International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering AEPSE 2011: Invited Speaker and Session Chair, , Dalian, China, September 2011

Area of expertise:

Surface treatments

Failure analysis

Materials selection

Previous consultations:

Generation 2 potato slicing blades: wear and failure analysis, Industrial consultant project for PepsiCo Inc., 2007

Surface treatments for potato slicing blades for improved lifespan, Industrial consultant project for PepsiCo Inc., 2008

 Mr. Hafiz M.A. Ali: PhD student, Second supervisor

The Royal Society-NSFC Costshare International Exchange, 2017-2019.

DMU RIF funding, 2014, Development of a novel 2-dimensional sliding wear test facility.

DMU Research Capital Infrastructure Funding (RCIF): to develop the Materials Laboratory for teaching and surface engineering research, 2009

DMU Fee-only PhD scholarship Award: 2011

Bell, Thomas and Sun, Yong: Process for the treatment of austenitic stainless steel articles

UK Patent ZSR455/Q036333PGB, 1997

United States Patent 6238490, May 29, 2001.

220+ publications

Citation: more than 7500 times

h-index: 48 (Google Scholar)

Editorial board member: Surface Technology

Editorial board member: Journal of Biomaterials

Editor: special issue "Tribocorrosion of Surface Engineered Materials", Lubricants (Journal), 2018-2019.

Editor: special issue "Surface Engineering & Coating Technologies for Corrosion and Tribocorrosion Resistance", Materials (Journal), 2020-2022.

Service as reviewer for the following international journals:

• Surface and Coatings Technology 
• Surface Engineering 
• Corrosion Science 
• Journal of Materials Science 
• Materials & Design 
• Vacuum 
• Materials Chemistry and Physics 
• Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 
• Proceedings of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers 
• Tribology International 
• Tribology Letters 
• Applied Surface Science 
• Iranian Journal of Engineering 
• Thin Solid Films
• Wear
• Materials
• Lubricants

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