The principal research interests of Professor Rolf Weil were in the structure and properties of electrochemically deposited metals. He pioneered the use of electron microscopy for studying the structure of such deposits and was the first to use thin film s for this purpose in 1949. He is the author of over eighty technical papers. He received the first research award of the Electrodeposition Division of The Electrochemical Society and is also a fellow of the British Institute of Metal Finishing. In 198 2 the American Electroplaters' Society awarded him their Scientific Achievement Award, their highest scientific honor. He has supervised many theses including twelve doctoral ones. Presently he consults for research projects and helps graduate students with the writing of technical articles and theses.
Selected Publications:
"Properties of Electroless Nickel Plating," Electroless Plating, G.O. Mallory and J. B. Hajdu, editors. American Electroplaters' and Metal Finishing Society, Orlando, FL (1990) Chapter 4, pg. 111.
"The Structures of Electrodeposits: Their Characterization and the Properties They Affect," Materials Characterization 28 (1992) 103.
"Structure Studies of Chromium Electrodeposits," Materials Characterization 28 (1992) 113.
"Annealing Behavior of Electrodeposited Chromium" Trans. Inst. Metal Finishing 72(4) (1993) 133.
"Properties of Electroless Nickel Plating," G.O. Mallory and J.B. Hajdu, editors, American Electro platers' and Metal Finishing Soc., Orlando, FL (1990), Chapter 4, pg. 111.
"Aspects of Mechanical Properties of Electrodeposits," Symposium Proceedings of MRS, Vol. 356, p. 119.
"Low-Cycle Fatigue of Thin Copper Foils," accepted for publication by Thin Solid Films.
Prof. Weil also edited and contributed to the Proceedings of the Symposium on Electrocrystallization, The Electrochemical Society, Pennington, NJ 1981, and contributed to the section "Electrodeposition" in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Techn ology, 1993.