Guest Speaker: Prof. Richard YongQing FU
Faculty of Engineering and Environment
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Prof. Richard YongQing Fu is a Professor in Faculty of Engineering and Environment, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK. He has extensive experience in advanced materials, biomedical microdevices, lab-on-chip, MEMS, sensors, microfluidics, and nanotechnology. He has extensive publications in these fields, with current Google scholar H-index of 92 with over 39000 citations. He is associate editors/editorial board members for a few international journals and has co-organized 15 international conferences worldwide.
Abstract
Smart materials can respond to external stimuli by automatically changing their physical, electrical, chemical, or mechanical properties, thus they can perform a wide range of functions, including sensing, actuation, energy conversion, signal processing, and adaptive control, providing intelligent and efficient solutions across fields such as aerospace, biomedical engineering, robotics, electronics, and structural engineering. This talk will introduce Prof. Fu’s work using smart thin films for integrated sensors, microactuators, microfluidic and lab-on-chip. The key examples of the smart materials in this talk will be focused on (1) shape memory thin films and shape memory polymer for microrobotics and microsurgery applications; (2) piezoelectric thin film materials for biosensing, particle/cell concentrating and sorting, and tissue engineering; (3) nanostructured smart materials for various sensing and renewable energy applications.
