Public Research Seminar by Sustainable Energy and Environment Thrust, HKUST(GZ) - Nanoengineering for Advanced Materials & Structures with Applications in Water Harvesting and Heat Dissipation
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When the scale of materials goes down to a tiny scale, i.e., nanometer scale which is a billionth of a meter, the physical and chemical properties of the materials become quite unusual due to the quantum and size effects. As a result, nanotechnologies have often served as tools for design of highly functional engineered materials & structures with potential applications in health, energy and manufacturing. In this seminar, I will discuss a number of nanoengineering examples showcasing our recent materials and technologies innovations including methodology development for heat carriers’ quantification, optimizing the boiling heat transfer via surface functionalization for water harvesting, enhancing the interfacial thermal transport via the water adsorption in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), and understanding the thermal transport behavior of vibrations in alloyed perovskites.
Dr. Yanguang Zhou received his Ph.D. degree with “Ausgezeichnet” in the Mechanical Engineering Department at RWTH-Aachen University. He worked as a postdoc research associate and an assistant visiting project scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) before joining Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) as an assistant professor. Dr. Zhou’s group at HKUST designs advanced materials & structures, i.e., thermoelectric materials, magnetic materials and nanocomposites, via using nanotechnologies (both experimental and theoretical methods), with applications in water harvesting and thermal management. His research has been published in Nature Communications, Nano Letters, Advanced Functional Materials, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer and Physical Review B. Dr. Zhou is a receipt of AICES Fellowship, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, Borchers-Plakette at RWTH-Aachen University, National Young Talent Project of China and Hong Kong SciTech Pioneers Award.
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