ICCME 2024 Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speaker #1

Prof. Yusuke Yamauchi, The University of Queensland, Australia / Distinguished Professor, Nagoya University, Japan   
Introduction Professor Yusuke Yamauchi received his Bachelor's degree (2003), Master's degree (2004), and Ph.D. degree (2007) from Waseda University, Japan. After receiving his Ph.D., he joined the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan, to start his own research group. At the same time, he began to serve as an adjunct professor to supervise Ph.D. students at the Department of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, Waseda University. After being granted the ARC Future Fellowship, in May 2016, he joined the Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials (ISEM), the Australian Institute for Innovative Materials (AIIM) at the University of Wollongong (UOW) as a Professor. In 2017, he moved to the University of Queensland (UQ). Presently, he is a Senior Group Leader at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) (on secondment from the School of Chemical Engineering until 2026), a Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, and a Director at the Australian Materials nanoTectonics Centre, UQ. He concurrently serves as an ERATO Research Director at the JST-ERATO Yamauchi Materials Space-Tectonics, a Distinguished Professor at Nagoya University (Japan), an Honorary Distinguished Professor at Yonsei University (South Korea), an Invited Researcher at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), a Guest Senior Researcher (Guest Professor) at Waseda University, an Advisory Board Member of prestigious journals (Small, Small Structures, Precision Chemistry, ChemCatChem, J. Inorg. Organomet. Polym. Mater., etc.) and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Materials Chemistry A published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier).
Title Materials Space-Tectonics: A Conceptual Paradigm for Creating Second-Generation Porous Materials
Abstract Different types of inorganic nanomaterials have been designed by using various methods including sol-gel, electrochemical/chemical reduction, calcination, hydrothermal reaction, etc. The dimensionality of these nanomaterials (x, y, z) can be classified as zero-dimensional (0D), one-dimensional (1D), two-dimensional (2D), or three-dimensional (3D), respectively. Accordingly, for 0D nanomaterials dimensions are measured on the nanoscale (< 100 nm for each dimension). 0D nanomaterials, for example nanoparticles (or sometimes, nanocrystals), most commonly have isotropic morphologies where the usually thermodynamically stable planes of lower reactivity are exposed at the nanoparticles’ surfaces. For 1D nanomaterials, a single dimension is extended beyond the nanoscale. This class of nanomaterials includes nanotubes, nanorods, and nanowires. In contrast to 0D and 1D nanomaterials, 2D nanomaterials have recently attracted great interest for the next generation of promising. However, such 2D materials are often formed by stacking/assembly, processes that vastly reduce their active surface areas, and negatively affects their performance in potential applications. Despite recent and significant advances in inorganic nanomaterials of different dimensionalities, we still remain active in making substantial efforts to develop new nanomaterials to help address energy- and environmental-related issues. Our group is fully aware of the serious limitations of the currently available materials’ designs. The continued use of the current nanomaterials design paradigm based on traditional 0D, 1D, 2D nanomaterials obscures the innovative approaches required to address the aforementioned serious issues. Therefore, we have developed a new conceptual paradigm “materials space-tectonics” which is defined as the creation of novel mesoporous/nanoporous materials with precisely controlled internal space (or pore size), composition, and morphology with the assistance of nanomaterials informatics to optimize their functional applications. We will present our recent advance on nanoarchitectural chemistry.


Keynote Speaker #2

Prof. Ramesh K. Agarwal, Washington University in St. Louis, USA   
Introduction Professor Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1994 to 2001, he was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University in Kansas. From 1978 to 1994, he was the Program Director and McDonnell Douglas Fellow at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis. Dr. Agarwal received Ph.D in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1968. Over a period of forty years, Professor Agarwal has worked in various areas of Computational Science and Engineering - Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Materials Science and Manufacturing, Computational Electromagnetics (CEM), Neuro-Computing, Control Theory and Systems, and Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization. He is the author and coauthor of over 500 journal and refereed conference publications. He has given many plenary, keynote and invited lectures at various national and international conferences worldwide in over fifty countries. Professor Agarwal continues to serve on many academic, government, and industrial advisory committees. Dr. Agarwal is a Fellow eighteen societies including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Royal Aeronautical Society, Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics (CSAA), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He has received many prestigious honors and national/international awards from various professional societies and organizations for his research contributions.
Title Shape Memory Alloys for Aerospace Applications
Abstract Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are special class of metallic alloys which show the ability to recover from their original shape at some characteristic temperatures (it is called the shape memory effect), even under high loading and large inelastic deformations. Also, they can undergo large strains without plastic deformation or failure exhibiting super-elasticity. Thus, they offer several advantages that the product designers can exploit such as the possibility of transmitting large forces and deformations, compactness, and the intrinsic capability to absorb loads. In addition, in some applications their use as monolithic actuators can lead to potential simplifications of the system through a reduction of number of parts and the removal of other redundant mechanisms. For these reasons, in past couple of decades the aerospace industry has paid increasing attention on using SMAs, even though issues regarding their fatigue life and performance degradation need to be addressed. In this keynote review paper, we describe the main features of SMAs, their constitutive models and their properties. We also review the fatigue behavior of SMAs, and some methods adopted to remove or reduce its undesirable effects. The review includes examples of applications of SMAs in fighter aircraft, transport aircraft, rotorcraft, UAV and spacecraft.