Education

• Ph.D., Civil & Environmental Engineering, UCLA, December 2017.

Research Topics

• Materials simulations using Density Functional Theory (DFT) – Doping effects of dicalcium silicate
• Metallic corrosion– Nanoscale study pitting corrosion, chemical corrosion mitigation, molecular dynamics simulations of stress corrosion and corrosion initiation

Publications with LCC

• La Plante, E. C.; Guo, P.; Wang, B.; Balonis, M.; Bauchy, M.; Sant, G. New insights into the initiation and propagation of corrosion pits on steel surfaces at the nanoscale. Corrosion Science 2017, submitted.
• Guo, P.; Wang, B.; Bauchy, M.; Sant, G. Misfit Stresses Caused by Atomic Size Mismatch: The Origin of Doping-Induced Destabilization of Dicalcium Silicate. Crystal Growth & Design 2016, 16 (6), 3124–3132 DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.5b01740.