Dr. Kin Liao

Khalifa University


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Thermo-electro-mechanical Characterization of Lattices Made from 2D Materials


Short Biography

Dr. Kin Liao graduated with B.Sc. (Engineering Science & Mechanics), M.Sc. (Engineering Mechanics), and Ph.D. (Materials Engineering Science), all from Virginia Tech, USA. He had spent two years at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Northwestern University as a visiting scientist before joining Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore as a Lee Kuan Yew Fellow, and served there for 13 years. He was one of the founding faculty of NTU’s Bioengineering Division. Dr. Liao joined Khalifa University in 2011. Dr. Liao’s research encompasses advanced materials for aerospace/senor/energy applications, nanomaterials and nanomechanics, and durability of composite materials. Dr. Liao's current research interests are in two-dimensional heterogeneous materials, and novel composites for aerospace applications and has published extensively in leading international journals.  Dr. Liao is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Abstract

Cellular materials (also known as porous materials or aerogels) have found wide applications in engineering and technology. Creating cellular materials with emerging new materials and explore their potential applications arise as new challenges in the advent of nanomaterials age, especially that of two-dimensional (2D) materials – materials that are only a few atoms thick, such as graphene. We have developed a novel, facile, and scalable fabrication method for fabricating cellular structures using 2D materials using additive-manufactured, polymer-based lattices as the initial sacrificial scaffold. These polymeric scaffolds were first dip-coated in 2D material solution followed by drying and thermal etching of the polymer scaffold, resulted in a neat 2D material lattice. We have fabricated cellular solids of reduced graphene (rGO), Mxene, Molybdenum disulphide (MoS2), as well as heterogenous rGO/MoS2. These lattice structures were subjected to thermo-electro-mechanical characterization, and it is demonstrated that the hydrothermal-assisted fabrication process is adaptable for different architectures based on 3D printed scaffolds and thus could have broad functional applications.


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