Biography
Khalid Askar is a faculty member in the Mechanical and Materials Engineering (MME) Department at Masdar Institute of Science and Technology – A part of Khalifa University. Khalid began his studies at Purdue University, where he did research on molecular simulations of chemical reactions under both equilibrium and non-equilibrium conditions. He graduated shortly thereafter with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and became a graduate student in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Florida with the prestigious MASDAR Fellowship. During his graduate studies, he worked on developing new colloidal self-assembly techniques, shape memory polymers and polymer composites with excellent antireflection and self-cleaning properties. He graduated with honors with his Masters and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida in August 2014. Following that he spent 2 years at MIT collaborating with Prof. Robert E. Cohen and Prof. Michael F. Rubner, who also served as his mentors, on research with focus on the development of a multifunctional polymer composite coating for desert based-solar cells. He is now one of the few UAE national faculty member in the Mechanical and Materials Engineering (MME) Department at Khalifa University - Masdar Campus.
Research Interest
His group focusses on developing new coating methods to control orientation of specific nano-filler materials within different polymer matrices. Recent projects include the fabrication of a cost-efficient, multifunctional and durable coating that can easily be scaled up and applied onto different surfaces (ex: buildings, car windshield, glass cover of solar panels. Etc.). The optimized coating has many properties including: 1) Anti-Reflection, 2) Self-Cleaning, 3) Abrasion Resistance, 4) Self-Healing and 5) Anti-Static.
Biography
Jiangwei Wang received his Ph.D. from Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science of University of Pittsburgh in 2014. He joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University in 2016. His research interests are in the nanomechanics, in situ characterization of energy-storage materials and in situ TEM technique. He has published more than 35 peer-reviewed papers in these research fields.
Research Interest
Nanomechanics of materials, Energy-storage materials, In situ TEM technique
Biography
Dr. Bhattacharyya has completed his PhD PhD degree from Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart and Universität Stuttgart, Germany in the year 2006. He spent three years as post doc in different places of Germany (FZ-Juelich, IOM Leipzig) and USA (Virginia Tech). In the year 2009 he joined as faculty member at TIFR, Mumbai, India and in August 2015 moved at IIT Madras as an Associate Professor Among other scientific merits until now Dr. Bhattacharyya has published 35 papers in reputed international journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of Scientific Reports, Indian Journal of Materials Science.
Research Interest
Development of new methodology related to TEM/STEM to study materials at atomic scale aiming to correlate with materials properties.