Surfaces cover just about everything.
Surface metrology can impact many areas of interest, including nearly all manufacturing processes, surface treatments, adhesion, catalysis, friction, wear, coatings, biotechnology, material science, scattering, and food science. The Continuous Integration Program works with the Surf Met Lab to integrate industry and university research, and all levels of undergraduate and graduate education. Over the past ten years we have had many interesting applications and collaborations with labs in the US, Canada, Europe and Chile. Frequently Surf Met Lab supports the surface measurement and analysis, while the collaborators make experimental measurements in their labs. Skin treatments have been correlated with texture measurements made with a skinvisometer by Dr. Konstantin Ariticus of proDERM, Hamburg, Germany.