Dr. D.T.A. Matthews | People Pages: Find employees & contact details | University of Twente

Born and bred in the UK, I came to the Netherlands in 2004 after attaining my BEng (Hons) in Materials Science and Engineering (University of Swansea) and MSc in Surface Design & Engineering (University of Nottingham). Following my PhD at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen under Prof. Jeff de Hosson (thesis title Surface Engineering: Amorphous alloys and nanocrystallinity), I worked for Tata Steel from 2008 as a Principal Researcher "Surface Technology", developing processes and products for a wide variety of market sectors such as automotive, packaging, energy and construction, generating several patents along the way.

Since 2017 I have held the position of Associate Professor "Surface Design & Engineering" and focus my research within the Laser Material Processing and Skin Tribology chairs of the Engineering Technology Faculty. By coupling materials science, topology and metrology we can tailor surface design for a variety of products and applications including bio-medical, automotive, smart materials and packaging. We achieve our research goals by developing and validating new coating and surface treatment processes, models and software for better prediction and control of surface functionality in a wide range of environmental conditions.

The research also feeds our education programme. I am coordinator of the Emerging Technology Design Master track of Industrial Design Engineering and also coordinate the Products and Surfaces Technology Programme within that Master track. I give lectures in both Bachelor and Master programmes within the Engineering Technology Faculty.

Since August 2020 I have also been privileged to hold the position of Distinguished Chair Professor at Feng Chia University in Taiwan. Together, we develop hybrid surfaces for a wide range of processes and products through, for example, the combination of designed surface topologies and novel coating processes.

In addition I am Managing Editor for two Q1 Elsevier journals: 1) Biomaterials Advances and 2) Surface & Coatings Technology.

Expertise

Material Science
- Laser
- Surface
- Friction
- Coating
- Temperature
- Spring Steel
- Stamping
Engineering
- Surfaces

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Publications

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2025

Influence of plant-based compounds on the structural stability of mucous boundary layers in tribological contact (2025)Tribology international, 209. Article 110688. Gamaniel, S. S., de Vries, E. G., Tromp, R. H., de Hoog, E. H. A., Vreeker, R., Matthews, D. T. A. & van der Heide, E.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.triboint.2025.110688Insights in the interaction between roughness reduction and fatigue crack growth in rolling contacts (2025)Engineering failure analysis, 174. Article 109493. Gargourimotlagh, M., Matthews, D. T. A., Schneider, S. & de Rooij, M. B.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfailanal.2025.109493The impact of surface cracks and surface roughness in the performance of hard chromium coatings in cold rolling applications (2025)Applied Surface Science Advances, 27. Article 100738. Ranjbar-Nouri, Z., Matthews, D., Bolt, H. & de Rooij, M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsadv.2025.100738An investigation into the evolution of surface topography and contact characteristics of rolling elements under repeated rolling contact (2025)Tribology international, 208. Article 110644 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Gargourimotlagh, M., Matthews, D. T. A. & de Rooij, M. B.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.triboint.2025.110644Influence of environment on wetting properties of common polymers for Skin-Device Interfaces (2025)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] 10th Dutch Biomedical Engineering Conference, BME 2025. Reuvekamp, H., Hekman, E. E. G., van der Heide, E. & Matthews, D. T. A.Pore formation and pore inter-connectivity in plasma electrolytic oxidation coatings on aluminium alloy (2025)Surface and coatings technology, 496. Article 131597. Adelinia, A., Yerokhin, A., Matthews, D. T. A., de Rooij, M. B. & Zanjani, J. S. M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2024.131597

2024

Laser implantation of ceramic particles for enhanced surface textures on tool steel (2024)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Ettema, B. R.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036563635How To Predict Truck Tyre Wear (2024)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] 15th Fall Rubber Colloquium: KHK. Hoeksma, M., Kaewsakul, W., van der Heide, E., Matthews, D. T. A. & Blume, A.Insights in the wettability of hard chromium coated steel for cold rolling applications (2024)Results in Engineering, 23. Article 102815. Ranjbar Nouri, Z., Matthews, D. T. A., Bolt, H. & de Rooij, M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rineng.2024.102815Reducing Feature Size in Laser Implantation Texturing (2024)Micromachines, 15(8). Article 958. Ettema, B., Matthews, D. & Römer, G.-W.https://doi.org/10.3390/mi15080958Adhesive-Free Metal-Thermoplastic Bonding by Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation (PEO) (2024)[Contribution to conference › Poster] MS3 DAY 2024. Adelinia, A., Yerokhin, A., Matthews, D. T. A., de Rooij, M. B. & Seyyed Monfared Zanjani, J.Room-temperature sputter deposition of gold-colored TiN assisted by niobium bombardment from a bipolar HiPIMS source (2024)Journal of vacuum science & technology A: vacuum, surfaces, and films, 42(2). Article 023107. Fernández-Martinez, I., Ganesan, R., Akhavan, B., Matthews, D. T. A., Stueber, M., Bilek, M. M. M. & McKenzie, D. R.https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0003325Strategies in surface engineering for the regulation of microclimates in skin-medical product interactions (2024)Heliyon, 10(4). Article e25395. Reuvekamp, H., Hekman, E. E. G., Heide, E. v. d. & Matthews, D. T. A.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e25395The effect of coating characteristics on implant-bone interface mechanics (2024)Journal of biomechanics, 163. Article 111949. Sánchez, E., de Vries, E., Matthews, D., van der Heide, E. & Janssen, D.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2024.111949

2023

Friction of biomechanical interfaces (2023)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. de Vries, E. G.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036558242Metal substrate provided with tailored surface textures and method for applying such textures on metal substrates (2023)[Patent › Patent]. Baart, P., Bottema, J. & Matthews, D. T. A.Interface Optimization in Metal-Thermoplastic Hybrid Joints: The Effect of Surface Treatment (2023)[Contribution to conference › Poster] MS3 Day 2023. Adelinia, A., Seyyed Monfared Zanjani, J., Matthews, D. T. A. & de Rooij, M. B.Tribological behaviour of a synthetic synovial fluid and polyurethane in biomedical implants (2023)Biotribology, 33-34. Article 100242. de Vries, E. G., van Minnen, B. S., Wu, Y., Matthews, D. T. A. & van der Heide, E.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotri.2023.100242Pulse length selection in bipolar HiPIMS for high deposition rate of smooth, hard amorphous carbon films (2023)Surface and coatings technology, 454. Article 129199. Ganesan, R., Fernández-Martinez, I., Akhavan, B., Matthews, D. T. A., Sergachev, D., Stueber, M., McKenzie, D. R. & Bilek, M. M. M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2022.129199Regulating Microclimates in Biomedical Product Interfaces by Surface Engineering (2023)[Contribution to conference › Poster] Dutch Biomedical Engineering conference, BME 2023. Reuvekamp, H., Hekman, E. E. G., Matthews, D. T. A. & van der Heide, E.

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