WUHAN, China (March 27, 2019) - Wuhan Optoelectronics Forum No. 152 was successfully held in Auditorium A101 at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) in the morning of March 27. Prof. Richard Fu from Northumbria University delivered an exciting talk entitled Nanostructured Smart Thin Films and Its Sensing and Actuation Applications. Dr. Mingkui Wang, from WNLO chaired the forum. Prof. Dan Zhu, Deputy Director of WNLO, awarded Prof. Richard Fu the forum medal.
This talk will focus on recent work of micro-engineering and nanostructuring of smart materials for integrated sensors, microactuators, microfluidic and lab-on-chip applications. The selected examples for these smart materials include shape memory alloy films and microactuators and nanocomposite shape memory polymer which can be used for microsurgery applications; piezoelectric thin film materials which can be explored for mcirofluidics and lab-on-chips applications ; and a few examples of nanostructured oxides devices for sensing and renewable energy applications.
Richard (YongQing) Fu is a professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Environment, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK. He was a Reader in Thin Film Centre in University of West of Scotland, Glasgow, UK, and a lecturer in Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. He obtained his PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and then worked as a Research Fellow in Singapore-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alliance, and a Research Associate in University of Cambridge. He has extensive experience in smart thin film/materials, biomedical microdevices, energy materials, lab-on-chip, micromechanics, MEMS, nanotechnology, sensors and microfluidics. He has established a worldwide reputation from his pioneer research work on shape memory films, piezoelectric thin films, nanostructured composite/films for applications in MEMS, sensing and renewable energy applications。He published over 350 science citation index (SCI) journal papers (including Nat. Comm., Prog. Mater Sci, Nano Energy, Nano Lett., Chem. Mater., J Mater Chem A, Advanced Drug Delivery Review, etc.) 2 books, 20 book chapters, and over 120 conference papers. His current SCI H-index is 44 with over 8000 citations, and his Google scholar H-index is 53 (up to Oct 2018).
