Nanocomposites with improved functional and structural properties

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2 September 2016 - 12:00pm
UNSW Kensington Room G02, Ainsworth Building (map ref. J17)

Recent research on nano-reinforcement, such as carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofibres and graphene nanosheets, have indicated promising reinforcement efficiency as well as the ability to enhance electric and thermal properties of the polymer matrix.

 

Biograhy Professor Chun Wang
Head of School (from January 2017), School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, UNSW Australia

Prof Chun-Hui Wang joined the University of New South Wales, Australia in 2016 as the next Head of School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (January 2017). He was the Director of Sir Lawrence Wackett Aerospace Research Centre, RMIT from 2009. Prior to this appointment, he was the Head of the Advanced Composite Technology Group in the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, where he worked for 14 years. He has extensive research experiences in advanced composite materials, bonded repairs, fatigue and fracture mechanics, structural health monitoring, and multifunctional materials systems.

 

Fore further information please contact Associate Professor Shawn Kook