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MizzouForward Keynote

 

 

Toughening 2D Materials and Hybridizing Biomass Carbon for Advanced Applications

 

 

May 9th | 11:00am – 12:00pm

Ketcham Auditorium – W1005 Lafferre Hall

 

Join us for Toughening 2D Materials and Hybridizing Biomass Carbon for Advanced Applications" a keynote presentation by College of Engineering – Mechanical & Aerospace, MizzouForward faculty candidate, Dr. Yingchao Yang.  Dr. Yang will present on his research for approximately 40-minutes with a 20-minute question and answer session to follow.

 

Dr. Yingchao Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maine (UMaine). Prior to joining UMaine in August 2017, Dr. Yang was a postdoc in the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering at Rice University. He earned his B.E. and M.E. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Wuhan University of Science & Technology (China) and Harbin Institute of Technology (China), respectively, and his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina in December 2013. Dr. Yang's research interests span a broad range of topics, including the fabrication and mechanics of low-dimensional nanomaterials, structural and multifunctional nanocomposites, and biomass-based energy and catalyst materials. He has received several awards for his work, including the 2023 UMaine Faculty Mentor Impact Award, the 2021 UMaine College of Engineering Early Career Research Award, and the NSF Early Career Award in 2022. As of May 2023, Dr. Yang has published 70 peer-reviewed journal papers and has an h-index of 33.

 

Confined to two-dimensional (2D) geometry, cracks in 2D materials generally favor a brittle behavior with minimum plasticity at room temperature, which continues the dilemma of mutually exclusive fracture toughness and mechanical strength in bulk materials. The research to be presented focuses on improving the fracture toughness of 2D materials by integrating carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into graphene as an extrinsic toughening strategy and exploring the intrinsic toughening mechanism induced by lattice asymmetry in monolayer h-BN, which exhibits an exceptionally high fracture toughness. Shifting to advanced applications, selected biomass-converted porous carbon has been combined with nanostructures, such as CNTs, Ag nanoparticles, metal-organic frameworks for energy storage, air filters, and water desalination.

 

You can access Dr. Yang’s CV via OneDrive here:

​pdf icon Curriculum Vitae_Yingchao Yang_Apr. 2023.pdf  (University log in required to access)

 

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