ACCM12 Keynote Speakers

 

Professor Xiaosu YI,  University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Presentation Title

Development of Function-integrated Structural Composites for Aerospace Application

  

Biography

Xiao-Su YI (Prof. Dr.-Ing.)

Dipl.-Ing. (M.S.) and Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) degree in Material Engineering at University of Paderborn, Germany. Executive director of CCIC, LDS Chair Professor in Composite Materials and Technology of UNNC, Fellow of SAMPE (F. SAMPE) and Academician of APAM (Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials). He was also former AVIC Chief Scientist on Composites, Director of the National Engineering Laboratory of Carbon-fiber Structural Composites and Beijing Engineering Laboratory of Green Composites. He published about 400 papers, 10 books and 60 invention patents. His research interests in structural composites, polymer materials, functional composites, process engineering, materials modelling, adhesive bonding and surface technology.

 

Professor Quan-hong YANG, Tianjin University

Presentation Title

A 1000 Wh/L lithium-ion battery enabled with shrinking graphene caged microparticulate silicon anodes

Biography

Quan-Hong Yang is a Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professor of School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University and the winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. His research is totally related to nanocarbons and other low dimensional materials, and their applications in advanced electrochemical energy storage. Specially, his recent interests mainly focus on materials design for compact energy storage devices, catalysis in lithium-sulfur batteries, and carbon design for advanced batteries. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers with citations over 30,000 times and H-index of 97. He is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher and among Most Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier. He holds over 40 patents about nanocarbons and batteries. He received National Award for Technological Invention (2nd class, 2017), Nature Science Award of Tianjin (1st class, 2013), the Science and Technology Progress Award of Tianjin (1st class, 2012), Technological Invention Award of Tianjin (2018) and the Brian Kelly Award (British Carbon Group, 2004). He serves as Associate Editor for Energy Storage Materials and the members of the editorial boards for ten journals including Advanced Energy Materials, Carbon and Science China Materials.

Professor Qiang FU, Sichuan university

Presentation Title 

Control of Hierarchical Structure of Polymer Articles via “Structuring Processing”

Biography

Qiang Fu is currently the professor at the College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, Sichuan University. Dr. Fu’ research interests have been focused on high-performance and multi-functionality of polymer blends and composites, and processing-structure/morphology-performance relationship of polymer materials. Dr. Fu has published more than 400 peer-reviewed papers and books, as well as 35 national patents of China. He is now serving as editor for the journal of Polymer.

Professor Sergey Zherebtsov, Belgorod State University

Presentation Title

Thermomechanical treatment of metal matrix composites

Sergey Zherebtsov was graduated from Ufa State Aviation Technical University. In the year 2002, he received PhD degree in Materials Sciences (Institute for Metals Superplasticity Problems, Ufa, Russia), and in the year 2013 Dr. habil. (Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia). He worked at Institute for Metals Superplasticity Problems till 2007. For three years (2003-2006) he worked as a Researcher at Ibaraki University, Hitachi, Japan. From the year 2008 he has been working in Belgorod State University, Belgorod, Russia. Currently he is a Professor of Department of Material Science and Nanotechnology and a Leading Researcher in Laboratory of Bulk Nanostructured Materials. His research interests include: deformation induced structure formation in titanium alloys, high-entropy alloys and metal-matrix composites; extensive TEM/SEM/EBSD studies of structural changes during plastic deformation; evaluation of mechanical properties of metals and alloys; processing of metallic materials. He has published more than 170 papers in high-quality journals. According to Scopus, his h-index is 36, and the number of citations exceeds 5100. He is a member of the International Conference on Superplasticity in Advanced Materials organizing committee and a member of the Metals and Materials (published by MDPI) Editorial boards.

Professor Yusheng Shi, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Presentation Title

High-performance fiber-reinforced composite materials manufactured by robotic laser additive manufacturing technology

 

 

Biography

Prof. Yusheng Shi, born in 1962, acting as the Huazhong Scholar leading Special Term Professor in Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), is now undertaking several duties including chief scientist at Innovation Special Zone Expert Group of National Defense Sci. & Tech. and vice chairman of National Technical Committee of Additive Manufacturing Standardization.

He won 1 item of China’s top 10 Scientific and Technological Progress, 1 second prize  of National Technological Invention Award, and 2 second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award.

He also got the outstanding award of China invention, the contemporary inventor, top 10 outstanding invention person of China science, award nomination for top 10 national outstanding scientific and technical worker, special national government allowance, etc.

The Rapid Manufacturing Center led by him is one of the earliest teams engaged in the research and development of additive manufacturing in China. The research and development are carried out for the whole chain of additive manufacturing equipment, materials, software, processes, applications, etc. His group has been selected as the innovation group of Ministry of Education and Hubei province.

Professor Shuguang Li, University of Nottingham,UK

Presentation Title 

The Tsai-Wu failure criterion: Its full rationalization and implications

 

Biography

Professor of Aerospace Composites, a part of the Institute for Aerospace Technology, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, UK.  Obtained his PhD from University of Manchester in 1993.  Appointed to his present position in 2012.

One of advisors to the 2^nd World Wide Failure Exercise for polymer composites (on 3D failure theories).  One of the organisers for the 3^rd Exercise of the same (on damage theories).  The outcomes have been published in Journal of Composite Materials.  He is on the editorial board of International Journal of Mechanical Sciences.  He is a visiting professor of NUAA and Zhejiang University, China.  

Published well over 100 academic papers.  Main research interest in the area of analysis of composite materials and structures, in particular, on subjects of modelling damage and failure, micromechanics and material characterisation in recent years.  As an outcome of his research on micromechanical modelling of composites, a monograph entitled ‘Representative Volume Elements and Unit Cells ¾ Concepts, Theory, Applications and Implementation’ published by Elsevier in 2020.  

Dr. Dongsheng Li, Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. (COMAC)

Presentation Title  

Application of Composite Materials in COMAC Aircraft Structures

Dr. Dongsheng Li, Chief Engineer of Composites, COMAC; Fellow of Royal Aeronautical Society of the UK. Dr Li obtained his PhD from Bristol University in the UK. He worked for Airbus in Europe for many years with technical and management responsibilities. He has been Industrial Ph.D. supervisors for Imperial College London, Bristol University and Bath University in the UK. He has also worked as Vice President of COMAC Shanghai Aircraft Design & Research Institute, and Acting President of COMAC R&T Centre in Beijing. Dr. Li has many years of experience in industry and academia in both China and Europe. He is widely known as an expert in composite structures and has worked on many aircraft programs.

Professor Jinglei YANG , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Presentation Title  

Green Manufacturing Technologies of Thermoplastic-based FRP Composites: Current Situation and Future Development

Biography

Dr YANG Jinglei is a Professor of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is concurrently serving as General Director of HKUST Shenzhen Research Institute, General Director of HKUST Shenzhen-Hong Kong Collaborative Innovation Research Institute, General Manager of HKUST R&D Corporation (Shenzhen) Ltd., Executive Founding Director of HKUST-Bright Dream Robotics Joint Research Institute, and Director of Center for Engineering Materials and Reliability @ FYTRI. He is the Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry. He was included in the top 0.5% list among the global materials scientists assessed by Academic Impact by Year 2020 in a Stanford research. His research interests include interfacial science and engineering, microencapsulation and green nanomaterials, composites and mechanics, AI+Robotics empowered novel materials discovery ecosystem. He is the editorial board member or associate editor of Composites Communications, Functional Composites and Structures, Journal of Micromechanics and Molecular Physics, and others. He published more than 170 journal papers and was granted more than 10 patents.

Professor Jianguo GUAN, Wuhan University of Technology

Presentation Title  

Construction, Propulsion and Applications of Micro-/nanomotors

Biography

Chief Professor of Materials Science affiliated with Wuhan University of Technology, Deputy director of State Key Laboratory of advanced technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, leader of the innovation team in the key fields of MOST, China.  He has presided over more than 20 national important scientific research projects such as the national key R&D plan project and 863 plan projets.  He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers in internationally renowned journals including Chem. Rev., Chem. Soc. Rev., Adv. Mater., Natl. Sci. Rev., Matter and Nat. Commun., and received more than 12,000 citations. He has 56 granted invention patents.  He was elected to be an executive member of the Chinese Society of Micro & Nano Technology and the Chinese Society of Optical Engineering, as well as editorial board members for several international well-known academic journals. He won a number of honorary titles and awards, including the national "ten thousand project" science and technology talents, Changjiang scholar distinguished professor of MOE, Fellow of the Royal Chemical Society, Fellow of the Chinese society of micron nanotechnology, and Second Prize of Higher Education National Teaching Achievement Award.

Prof. Hao WANG, University of Southern Queensland

Presentation Title  

Fifty Years of Carbon Fibre Composites and Their Future Opportunities

Biography

Professor Hao Wang received his PhD from The University of Queensland in 2001, and has been with University of Southern Queensland since 2006. He was previously the Director of Centre for Future Materials at USQ. Professor Wang has over 30 years of research experience in a wide range of materials. His current research interests are carbon fibre composites, green concrete, and electrocatalysis. He has over 350 journal publications with h-index 80 and total citation close to 30,000 (Google Scholar). Professor Wang currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for Composites Part B: Engineering (Elsevier, IF 11.3), Editor for Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Advisory Board member of Nano Materials Science. He is the Fellow of Engineers Australia (FIEAust), Fellow of Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences (QAAS). He is now the President of Asian-Australasian Association for Composite Materials (2022-2024). He was the Chair of the last ACCM, the 11th Asian-Australasian Conference on Composite Materials, Cairns, Australia in 2018. 

Professor Huisheng Peng, Fudan University

Presentation Title  

High-performing fiber lithium-ion batteries

  

Biography

Huisheng Peng is currently as a University Professor at the Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials at Fudan University. He has discovered a family of new fiber devices with functions of energy harvesting, energy storing, lighting, displaying, sensing and computing, and is recognized as a pioneer of smart fiber electronics. He has published over 320 peer-reviewed papers and 4 books with citation of about 25000 and H-index of 90. He obtains 87 issued patents with 37 royally transferred to the industry for commercialization, which has initiated three companies. He makes editorial services for over ten journals. Professor Peng receives over 30 national and international awards including National Natural Science Award.

Professor  Jun MA, University of South Australia

Presentation Title  

Evolutionary Polymer/Nanosheet Composites

Biography

Prof. Jun Ma received his PhD in 2002 from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He then conducted research as a visiting scholar and postdoc fellow at the Centre for Advanced Materials Technology, the University of Sydney. In 2007 Jun joined the University of South Australia as a lecturer and in 2019 he was promoted to a full Professor in Materials Engineering. Prof. Ma’s research is focused on the development of applied functional composites through processing polymers with a range of safe, cost-effective nanomaterials, aiming to engage with industry in the design, development, and manufacturing of advanced polymeric composite materials.

As a lead chief investigator, Prof. Ma has been awarded three Australian Research Council Discovery Projects and four Australian Research Council Linkage Projects, resulting in a research income of ~$2.2 M. His total research income is over $10.2 M. Prof. Ma has published over 150 journal papers in Applied Science and Engineering, which have provided him with a Web of Science H-index of 52 and a Category Normalized Citation Impact of 2.1.

Due to his renowned expertise in polymer nanocomposites, Prof. Ma has been appointed to the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts since December 2022.

Prof. Dr. Zhong Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China

Presentation Title 

Mechanism Study on Advanced Lightning Strike Protection Composites Using a Miniature Tip Discharge Technique

Biography

Prof. Dr. Zhong Zhang is a full professor at the School of Engineering Science of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He obtained his Bachelor, Master and PhD degrees at USTC in 1990, 1996, and 1999, respectively. Since 2000, he started to work at the Institute for Composite Materials (IVW), University of Kaiserslautern of Germany, as an Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) research fellow. In 2001, he obtained the AvH Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, which supported him to establish an independent research group at IVW between 2001 and 2006. He was recruited by the newly established National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China (NCNST) in 2005, and served as the director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication at NCNST till the end of 2021, before he moved back to USTC since 2022.

His major research interests are polymer based nanocomposites, nano-mechanics, nanostructured surfaces, coatings and applications. Up to now, he has published more than 250 refereed papers. He holds 4 European patents and 40 Chinese patents. He currently serves as the Chinese Editor of Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing. He has been invited for more than 20 plenary, keynote and invited talks on leading international conferences (ICCM and ACCM). His research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholar, and many other key projects from governmental funding agents and industries, e.g. Airbus, Bayer Material Science, Siemens, Evonik Degussa, Merck, Mitsubishi, the State Grid of China, and COMAC.

Professor Jian Shen, Nanjing University/ Nanjing Normal University

Presentation Title 

Surface Construction Technologies and Biomedical Applications of Zwitterionic Materials

Professor Raj Das , RMIT University, Australia

Presentation Title 

Analysing the Thermo-Mechanical Response of Natural Fibre Composites Under Fire

Biography

Prof Raj Das is the Full Professor of Aerospace Structures and Group Leader of the ‘Simulation of Advanced Materials and Structures (SAMS)’ research group in the ‘Sir Lawrence Wackett Defence and Aerospace Centre’ of RMIT University (Australia). He is the ‘Program Director’ in the Aerospace Engineering and Aviation discipline of the School of Engineering. He is also an honorary academic in the University of Auckland, New Zealand and the University of Quebec, Canada.

Prof Das has nearly 20 years of experience in the design, analysis and optimisation of engineering materials and structures with a focus on computational mechanics, structural optimisation, composite structures, failure analysis, and damage tolerance design. Prof Das has published more than 300 papers in international journals and conferences in collaboration with several universities, institutes and industries.

 Prof Das is currently the President of the 'International Congress on Mechanical Behaviour of Materials (ICM)' and represents Australia as a ‘Director’ in the Executive Committee of the 'International Congress on Fracture (ICF)'. He is also the Chair of the ‘Australia Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’. Within Australia, Prof Das serves as the Chair of the ‘National Committee on Applied Mechanics’ and in the executive committee of the ‘National Committee on Space Engineering’ of Engineers Australia. Prof Das has been elected as a ‘Fellow’ of Engineers Australia (FIEAust). He has organised several well-known conferences as the chair/co-chair.

Prof Das has been granted several national and international awards and fellowships, including the ‘Science Award’ by the Sustainable Aviation and Energy Research Society, ‘RMIT Team Award for Impact and Collaboration as part of the Multifunctional Composite Materials Group, ‘Computational Methods Award’ by ICCM, ‘Jim & Hazel D. Lord Emerging Faculty Fellowship’, ‘Research Excellence Award’, and ‘AUEA Emerging Researcher Award’ by the University of Auckland. He has received the ‘CONICYT award’ from the Government of Chile, ‘Certificate of Merit Award’ from the International Association of Engineers, Hong Kong, ‘UQAC Visiting Fellowship’ from the University of Quebec, Canada, and ‘Visiting Researcher Fellowships’ from the Sapienza University, Italy and the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Professor Chun-Hui Wang, University of New South Wales, Australia

Presentation Title 

Nano-micromechanical analysis of the fibre reinforced composites’ growth resistance to through-thickness matrix cracking 

 

Biography

Chun-Hui Wang is the Head of School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Previously he held the appointments as the Head of Advanced Composites Technologies at Defence Science and Technology Organisation and the Director of Sir Lawrence Wackett Aerospace Research Centre at RMIT University.

His research interests cover the mechanics of advanced materials, structures, and sensors. He has made significant scientific contributions, having co-authored over 400 scientific papers, two books on composite repairs, and many book chapters. He has pioneered new fatigue criterion, damage imaging algorithm, conformal repairs, and stretchable sensors, which have greatly improved engineering practices in structural design, advanced composites, and health monitoring through patents and products.

He has also provided outstanding leadership in fostering enduring partnerships and establishing ARC Industry Transformation Research Hub and Training Centre. In recognition of his significant research excellence and impacts, he was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering.

Professor Weiqiu CHEN, Zhejiang University

Presentation Title

Waves in hyperelastic material structures and their manipulations

Biography

Professor Weiqiu CHEN is a full professor and Qiushi Distinguished professor at Department of Engineering Mechanics, Zhejiang University. He is also the director of Zhejiang Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, the associate editor (or associate editor in chief) or the member of editorial board of more than a dozen international or domestic journals such as International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, Journal of Thermal Stresses, Journal of Zhejiang University – SCIENCE A. His research interests include active metamaterials, smart materials and structures, multi-field coupling mechanics, mechanics of soft matter, vibrations and waves in structures, etc.

 

Professor Fabrizio SCARPA, University of Bristol

Presentation Title

Beyond the Wooden Table: Extending the Use of Natural Fibres and Biobased Materials to Airframe Interiors, Adaptive Structures, and Metamaterials

Professor of Smart Materials & Structures, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Cabot Institute for the Environment
The Bristol Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information
Composites University Technology Centre (UTC)
Bristol Composites Institute (ACCIS)