Prof. Wei CHEN
Professor
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- weii.chen@polyu.edu.hk
- Nanotechnology-based smart materials for wearable applications
Biography
Professor Wei CHEN is now a full professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001. From 2001 to 2006, he worked as a postdoc at the University of Science and Technology of China, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University respectively. From 2006 to 2018, he worked as a Professor of Materials Science at Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In August 2018, He joined in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is internationally recognized for his leading research work in nanotechnology-based smart materials and applications, including muscle-like flexible actuators, skin-like touch sensors, electricity generators, and optoelectric functional fibers for wearable energy harvesting and storage. He has published more than 130 papers in high-impact international scientific journals, including Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Angewandte Chemie, ACS Nano, Nano. Lett., JACS, Progress in Polymer Science, Materials Science & Engineering R, and etc. The total citations: >11500, h-index =54 from Google Scholar.