MMAE Seminar: Nanoscale-to-Macroscale Manufacturing of Advanced Energy and Electronic Systems

The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering will welcome Yanliang Zhang, associate professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at University of Notre Dame, for a lecture titled “Nanoscale-to-Macroscale Manufacturing of Advanced Energy and Electronic Systems” on Tuesday, February 21, from 12:45–145 p.m. in Room 131 of Perlstein Hall. 

Abstract

Nanoscale materials are attractive building blocks for a broad range of emerging technologies due to their unique and often superior properties. However, transforming nanoscale materials into macroscale devices and systems while translating their unique properties from nanoscale to macroscale remains a major challenge due to many scientific and technological obstacles. This talk will focus on our research developing versatile and synergistic additive manufacturing and scalable nanomanufacturing methods to manufacture and transform a broad range of emerging nanoscale materials into advanced energy and electronic systems in a highly scalable and intelligent manner. This talk will present our recent research progress on several closely related topics. First, Yanliang Zhang will present his team’s research on scalable nanomanufacturing to create nanoscale building blocks and printable inks with desired physical property, colloidal stability, and printability. Second, he will present its work on developing novel additive, hybrid, and autonomous manufacturing methods to fabricate multifunctional and flexible/wearable devices for energy conversion, sensing, and health monitoring. Finally, Zhang will talk about innovative thermal processing and sintering methods that enable high-throughput and ultrafast processing of printed semiconducting and metallic nanoparticles on delicate and temperature sensitive materials. 

Biography

Yanliang Zhang is an associate professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2011, and his M.S. and B.S. from Southeast University in 2008 and 2005, respectively. His research focuses on additive manufacturing, scalable nanomanufacturing, autonomous and hybrid manufacturing, advanced materials and devices for energy conversion, sensing, and health monitoring. He has received honors including National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Young Investigator Award from International Thermoelectric Society, IBM Fellowship award, and multiple best paper awards at international conferences.