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84th Westlake Engineering Lecture Series (WELS) | Seeram Ramakrishna: Electrospinning of Intelligent and Sustainable Materials

Time: 10:00-11:30, Friday, January 10, 2025

Venue: E10-205, Yungu Campus

Host: Dr. Jian Yang, Chair Professor, Westlake University

Language: English

Speaker：

Prof. Seeram Ramakrishna

Professor of Materials Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering

National University of Singapore

Biography:

Seeram Ramakrishna is a Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an elected Fellow of UK Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng); Singapore Academy of Engineering; Indian National Academy of Engineering; ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology; and International Academy of Engineering and Technology. He received the Chinese Government Friendship Award. He is among the World’s Most Influential Minds (Thomson Reuters) and a Highly Cited Researcher with 207 H-Index and 202,300 citations. Academician Seeram Ramakrishna is a world-renowned professor of cross-fields at the National University of Singapore, which is ranked among the top 3 universities in the world for interdisciplinary research.

Abstract:

Historical observations indicate that people are increasingly living in a manufactured world. Manufactured products are ubiquitous in buildings and infrastructure, gadgets of living spaces, healthcare and wellbeing, birth, aging and death, transportation, energy systems, automation and robotics, information and communication technology, air, water, food and nutrition, agriculture and farming, textiles and garments, sports, leisure, entertainment, cultural activities, waste and pollution management, sanitation, safety, security, learning, education, climate mitigation and adaptation, and manufacturing and production. In other words, modern living is inundated with the manufactured products. There is a growing demand for products made from sustainable materials as well as intelligent materials.

Intelligent material interacts reversibly with its environment, or responds or adapts to changes in the environment. Two types of intelligent materials are envisaged: a) assisted intelligent materials rely on externalities and b) built-in intelligent materials are fully self-sufficient.

Sustainable material fosters a healthy living ecology via the elimination or reduction of associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, wastage, and resources depletion. They are purposely designed or selected with lower ecological footprint and social costs, and higher circularity while satisfying the cost as well as functional requirements.

In recent years, electrospinning emerged as a nanotechnology method of manufacturing science and engineering. This seminar illustrates this technology with strategies for producing sustainable and intelligent materials | products.

Contact:

Bing Qu， School of Engineering

qubing@westlake.edu.cn