报告题目：Smart Materials for Energy Harvesting and Robotics

报  告  人：香港Zhengbao YANG  教授

报告时间:   2019年12月26日 15:00

报告地点：东区10号楼508会议室

报告人简介：

       Dr. Zhengbao YANG is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the City University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining the MBE department at CityU, Dr. Yang was a research fellow jointly appointed by the University of Toronto and Magna Inc.  He received his BEng in Mechatronics from the Harbin Institute of Technology in 2012, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 2016. Dr. Yang’s research interests are vibrations and mechatronics with a special focus on the development of smart structures and dynamical systems for energy harvesters, actuators and sensor systems.

报告简介：

The Smart Transducers and Vibration Laboratory at the City University of Hong explores new designs and materials for energy conversion.  In today’s talk, I will briefly introduce our research work in three directions:

      ·       Piezoelectric materials

      ·       Energy harvesting

      ·       Robotics

The piezoelectric effect results from the linear electromechanical interaction between the mechanical and electrical states in crystalline materials with no inversion symmetry. We focus on piezo materials such as PZT, PVDF and AlN in micro- to mill- scale. Energy harvesting holds great potential to achieve long-lifespan and self-powered operations of wireless sensor networks, wearable devices and medical implants, and thus has attracted substantial interest from both academia and industry. In Robotics, we have developed biomimetic fish robots using shape memory alloys. The seminar will also present information about the PhD admission and visiting scholars in Hong Kong.