Ink‐Based Additive Nanomanufacturing of Functional Materials for Human‐Integrated Smart Wearables

Nanomanufacturing of Emerging 2D Materials for Thin-Film Photovoltaic Applications

2D layered transition metal dichalcogenides (LTMDs) attracted a great deal of interests because of their attractive electronic, optoelectronic and mechanical properties, versatile chemistry, and large natural abundance. Especially, a single semiconducting LTMD (e.g., WSe 2 , WS 2 , and MoS 2) layer (~0.5 nm thick) can absorb as much sunlight as 50 nm of Si (or 12 nm of GaAs) and generate curren...

WeVe: When Smart Wearables Meet Intelligent Vehicles

A risk forecasting process for nanostructured materials, and nanomanufacturing

Nanomaterials exhibit novel properties that enable new applications ranging from molecular electronics to energy production. Proactive consideration of the potential impacts on human health and the environment resulting from nanomaterial production and use requires methods for forecasting risk associated with of these novel materials. However, the potential variety of nanoma...

FUNCTIONAL AND SMART MATERIALS -Structural evolution and structure analysis

Smart systems and smart materials Smart structures are a new emerging materials system which combines contemporary materials science with information science. The smart system is composed of sensing, processing, actuating, feedback, self-diagnosing and self-recovering subsystems. The system uses the functional properties of advanced materials to achieve high performances with capabilities of re...

Temperature-responsive smart packing materials utilizing multi-functional polymers.

Polymers that respond to small changes in environmental stimuli with large, sometimes discontinuous changes in their physical state or properties, are often called "smart" polymers. Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), PNIPAAm, is one of the most representative smart polymer that exhibits a thermally reversible soluble-insoluble change in the vicinity of its lower critical solution temperature (LCST) a...