The research activities of the consortium are mainly in the areas of advanced materials science and engineering covering nanomaterials & technology, materials design & simulation, structure-property relationships, biomaterials, functional and energy-related materials, composite materials, manufacturing technologies, product design and analysis.
The research work carried out by the members have resulted in international and national patents, and high quality publications in prestigious journals such as NPJ Computational Materials, Nano Energy, International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, International Journal of Plasticity, Nature Materials, Advanced Materials, Physical Review Letters, Carbon, Acta Materialia, Applied Physics Letters, etc.
Members of the consortium maintain a wide range of collaborations in research and academic activities with other departments of PolyU, as well as other universities and institutions around the world, such as:
- Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Harbin Engineering University, China
- Imperial College, UK
- Institute of Metal Research, China
- Nanjing University, China
- Northwestern Polytechnic University, China
- Northwestern University, USA
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
- Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
- The City University of Hong Kong, China
- The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKSAR China
- The Pennsylvania State University, USA
- The University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China
- Tsinghua University, China
- University of Alberta, Canada
- University of Oxford, UK
- University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
- University of Science and Technology of China, China
- University of Sydney, Australia
- Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
- Zhejiang University, China
