Polymer-Based Multifunctional Nanocomposites and Their Applications

John Zhanhu Guo is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Tennesee, Knoxville. Prof. Guo earned his Ph.D degree in chemical engineering from Louisiana State University in 2005. He received his three-year (2005-2008) postdoctoral training in mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California Los Angeles. Dr. Guo directs the Integrated Composites Laboratory and Chairs the Composite Division of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE, 2010-2011). Prof. Guo has published more than 300 journal papers, with citations of more than 10903 and i10-index of 199.Kenan Song is a joint Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. Dr. Song graduated with Ph.D. degree from Northeastern University in Mechanical Engineering in 2014. Dr. Song's research interests concern the processing-structure-property relationships in nano-composites. Dr. Song' research is also focused in the area of fabrication and characterization of advanced high-performance polymer nano-composites. Dr. Kenan Song has served as a chair for PCM 2016, CAMX 2016, and also will for Advanced Strucutre Composites session in AIChE 2017. He has been on editorial board for Structural Materials, Composite Materials, and, Nanomateirals and Nanotechnology. He has been awarded the Cabot Materials Research Forum Funding (2016), Leadership Award in Nanotechnology (2016), GCG conference funding award (2012, 3013, 2014) and POSCO Fellowship (2010).Dr. Chuntai Liu, currently a Professor of National Engineering Research Center for Advanced Polymer Processing Technology (NERC for APPT) of Zhengzhou University, obtained his BS degree and MS degree in engineering mechanics from Peking University(1987) and Xi'an Jiaotong University(1993) , respectively, and his PhD degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Zhengzhou University (2003), and worked as a visiting

1. General introduction to composite manufacturing 2. Micro and nano fillers used in composite engineering 3. Interphase engineering 4. Composite mechanics: Stimuli-responsive composites 5. Shape memory polymeric composites and their mechanisms 6. Fire-retardant composites and their applications 7. Smart composite fibers 8. Mechanically and chemically protective composite coatings for metal protections in aerospace and ocean engineering 9. Magnetic nanocomposites 10. Composites used for electrical engineering: Polymer nanocomposites used for flexible electronics 11. Polymer nanocomposites with 2D materials 12. Nanocomposites used for biomedical applications 13. 3D printed nanocomposites