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Dr. David Gottfried
Summary Sentence: Nano@Tech welcomes Chuck Zhang, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute, on Februaury 25th to present a seminar on multifunctional buckypaper materials.
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Chuck ZhangAbstract: The manufacturing of lightweight, multifunctional composites is a fast-growing industry of enormous importance. Research and advancements have resulted in innovative uses of composites in aerospace, auto, marine, and sporting goods industries. The recent discovery and insertion of nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes, further expands the capabilities and potential uses of composites for multifunctional applications. However, these nanomaterials are relatively new and their manufacturing often involves multiple and complex processing steps. Such issues have created difficulty in scalable manufacturing of nanomaterials with consistent quality, which in turn, has limited the application bases of these new nanomaterials. This presentation will discuss recent progresses in the development of a unique multifunctional nanomaterial, carbon nanotube buckypaper. Special focus of the presentation will be given on the integration of physics-based models and experimental data for scalable nano-manufacturing of buckypaper.
Biography: Chuck Zhang is Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI). Prior joining Georgia Tech, Professor Zhang served as Professor and Chairman in the Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering and the Deputy Director of the High-Performance Materials Institute at Florida State University. His research interests include additive manufacturing; including printed electronics, scalable nano-manufacturing, computational modeling of composites and nanocomposites manufacturing, and multifunctional materials development. As a PI or co-PI, Professor Zhang has conducted and managed over 40 research projects sponsored by a number of federal agencies including NSF, NIST, AFOSR, ARL, ONR, VA, as well as industrial companies such as ATK Launch Systems, Cummins, General Dynamics, GKN Aerospace Services, Lockheed Martin and Siemens Power Generation. Professor Zhang has published over 130 refereed journal articles and 180 conference papers. He also holds 11 U.S. patents.
For more information on this or upcoming Nano@Tech seminars, contact Dr. David Gottfried at: david.gottfried@ien.gatech.edu
