Prof. Qiming ZHANG
Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
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Qiming Zhang is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. His research covers electronic materials, especially polymers and composites, and their devices and applications. Zhang developed the relaxor ferroelectric polymers which possess record high dielectric permittivity at room temperature and polymer thin film actuators with giant electroactuation. The relaxor polymers have been commercialized by Arkema. He founded a high-tech startup with $20 million US dollars VC investments, Novasentis, Inc. (was acquired by KEMET in 2019), in commercializing the relaxor polymer thin film actuators and sensors, as well their haptic, wearable, microfluid devices. In 2008, he developed ferroelectric polymers with giant electrocaloric effect, creating unique opportunity for solid state cooling with high efficiency and zero green greenhouse gas emission. More recently, his group developed polymer dilute nanocomposites in which ultralow volume loading of nanofillers, through interface effects, generate marked enhancement in dielectric constant and breakdown strength, creating a totally new avenue, which is low cost and highly scalable, for developing polymer dielectric capacitors of high energy density and operating temperature. He authored more than 470 journal publications and has 15 patents. He is a Fellow of IEEE and APS.
