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ME Seminar - Smart Soft Materials with Multiscale Architecture and Dynamic Surface Topographies

Event and Seminar

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  • Date

    29 Jul 2024

  • Organiser

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, PolyU

  • Time

    15:00 - 16:00

  • Venue

    N102, PolyU Campus Map  

Remarks

Registration is NOT required for this seminar. Limited seats are available on a first-come first-served basis. Attendees can apply for an e-certificate of attendance during the seminar. Latecomers or early leavers of the seminar might NOT be eligible for an attendance certificate.

Guest Speaker: Prof. SUN Luyi 

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Connecticut

Dr Sun is a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and a member of the Polymer Program at the University of Connecticut. His research focuses on the design and synthesis of nanostructured materials for various applications. Dr Sun has published >300 peer-reviewed journal articles. He is the inventor/co-inventor of >70 U.S. patents/foreign equivalents. The scientific results by Dr Sun’s group have been reported by major media including Chemical & Engineering News of the American Chemical Society, Plastics Engineering magazine of the Society of Plastics Engineers, New Scientist, Smithsonian Magazine, Yahoo, MSN, etc. He is a Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers and the National Academy of Inventors, and a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.

Abstract

Smart soft materials have one or more characteristics that can be significantly altered in convertible fashions by external stimuli, such as light, moisture, mechanical force, temperature, electric/magnetic fields, pH, and so on. Inspired by the fascinating visual display strategies and adaptive mechanisms in animals and plants, we have fabricated a series of smart soft material-based devices that can respond to external stimuli with instantaneous and reversible fashions in optical, electrical, mechanical, and/or shape deformation signals. These devices can be fabricated for widespread applications, including smart windows, encryption devices, thermal camouflage, wearable strain sensors, anticounterfeit tabs, 3D stretchable electronics, dynamic displays, rewritable media, human−machine interfaces, and so on. The key to successfully achieving those intriguing characteristics in these smart material systems lies in the function-orientated structural design, which integrates bioinspired design and surface engineering with multiscale architecture as the crucial elements. This talk will present a summary of our recent work on bioinspired smart soft materials. These materials are characterized by convertible topographies like dynamic cracks, folds, stimuli-responsive wrinkles, and other analogous structures. These systems demonstrate high design flexibility, excellent reversibility, and wide applicability, which can pave new routes for designing next-generation smart soft materials equipped with versatile, tunable, adaptable, and interactive stimuli-responsive properties.

 

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