McGrath, Helen

 Research Interests

Development of wear-resistant coatings for load bearing orthopaedic applications
AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor 3D modelling, metallic surface analysis; wear tracks, surface roughness, wear factors, etc

Professional Qualifications

B.Eng., National University of Ireland, Galway

Publications/Presentations

McGrath H, Omar H, Pandit A, Apatsidis D. “Novel Refractory Metal Coatings on 316L Stainless Steel”. In 21st European Conference on Biomaterials, September 9 – 12th, 2007, Brighton, UK

McGrath H, Ball M, Gunaratnam M, Pandit A, Apatsidis D. “Cellular Metabolic Activity of Osteoblasts on Exposure to Refractory Metal Ions”. In 21st European Conference on Biomaterials, September 9 – 12th, 2007, Brighton, UK

McGrath H, Ball M, Omar H, Gunaratnam M, Apatsidis D. “Investigation of Boron and Hafnium Coatings on 316L and Ti6Al4V Alloys”. In 19th European Conference on Biomaterials, September 11 – 15th, 2005, Sorrento, Naples, Italy

McGrath H, Ball M, Omar H, Apatsidis D. “Boron and Hafnium as coating materials on 316L SS and Ti6Al4V alloy”. In 1st Marie Curie Summer School on Single Phase Materials, August 8 – 17th 2005, Aachen, Germany

McGrath H, Ball M, Omar H, Apatsidis D. “Investigation of Boron and Hafnium Coatings on 316L and Ti6Al4V Alloys”. In 8th Annual Sir Bernard Crossland Symposium, April 2005, Queen’s University Belfast, N. Ireland