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Ben Hatton
Ben Hatton
Ben Hatton | BScE (Queen’s), MScE (McMaster), PhD (Toronto)
Professor
Department of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE)
Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Email: benjamin.hatton@utoronto.ca
Website: Functional & Adaptive Surfaces Group
Ben Hatton is a Professor, and Percy Edward Hart Professor, in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at the University of Toronto. Also, he is cross-appointed to the Institute for Biomedical Engineering (BME), and Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE). His PhD was completed in 2005 (University of Toronto) in self-assembled mesoporous organosilicas, and had post-doc positions at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan (2005), and Bell Labs (NJ, USA) (2006-2007). Prof. Hatton also held a research associate position at Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and the Wyss Institute for Bio-inspired Engineering for 5 years (2007-2012), before joining the University of Toronto. In 2022, he held a JSPS research fellowship position (2 months) at NIMS, in Tsukuba, Japan.
Research Team: <10 trainees
Facilities: Surface patterning, wetting, adhesion, microfluidics, microbiology culture and imaging (CL2)
Research
Porous and cellular solids
Mesoporous materials, colloidal-templating (inverse opals), mechanical properties, drug encapsulation (for dental materials)
Design and testing of surface micro and nano topographies
Superhydrophobic and slippery surfaces to control wetting, protein adsorption, bio-fouling, bacterial attachment
Bacterial growth on surfaces
Testing bacterial growth on medical devices, and designing surfaces to prevent bacterial attachment and biofilm infections
Active surfaces using large area fluidic networks
Designing milli-fluidic systems over macroscopic areas, for control of optical properties, and smart material functions
