Multifunctional Materials | Micro-and-Nanostructuring Laboratory

Congratulations to Prof. Siu Ning (Sunny) Leung, Prof. George Zhu, and their PhD student (Linh Hoang) for winning the Best Presentation Award in the 2018 6th International Conference on Mechanical, Automotive, and Materials Engineering, which was held in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Their research in developing an industrially viable strategy to enhance the conductive […]

Congratulations to 2nd year Master’s student Pardis Ghahramani, Prof. Ahmed ElDyasti, and Prof. Siu Ning (Sunny) Leung for winning the Best Paper Award in the 2018 Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) ANTEC conference (Thermoplastic Materials and Foams Session), which is the largest, most respected, and well known international conference in the plastics industry. Their research […]

The third annual Undergraduate Summer Student Research Conference was a huge success. Kyra McLellan (right), who conducted a research on the development of piezoresistive polymer nanocomposites as smart sensing materials, was the winner of two top awards: (i) the 1st place and (ii) the Student’s Choice Award in oral presentation. Matteo Timpano (left), who investigated the […]

A recent journal article published by Ji Eun Lee and Prof. Siu Ning Leung has been featured on the cover page of the CrystEngComm (RSC) in Aug 2018 (Volume 20, Page 4080-4089). This SEM micrographs on the journal’s cover page depict morphologies of piezoelectric polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) foams. This paper decouples the thermal and supercritical carbon dioxide processing of PVDF proposed in […]

Hanen Chammakhi, Lucine Dayian, Kyra McLellan, and Matteo Timpano are joining M3 Lab for exciting summer research on the development of smart and multifunctional materials for energy harvesting and/or sensing applications. Hanen is currently a 3rd year student in Mechanical Engineering, Tunis University in Tunisia, is a recipient of the Mitacs Summer Research Internship. Lucine […]

M3 Lab has published four new journal articles that report the design and fabrication of new material systems for thermoelectric nanogenerators, development of thermally conductive polymer material systems, as well as guidelines to promote the accuracy and efficiency to simulate the electrical conductivity of polymer-CNT nano composites. These include: Guo, Y. and Leung, S.N., “Strain-Induced Oriented […]

Prof. Leung and his research team, including Jamie, Mehdi, and Pardis, have presented three papers in 2018 Society of Plastics Engineers ANTEC Conference in Orlando, FL, USA during May 6 – 11. ANTEC is one of the largest international technical conferences in the field of plastics engineering that is held annually in U.S.A. This year, the research […]

Congratulation to Parisa Ghariniyat and Prof. Sunny Leung for the publication of their recent work entitled, “Development of Thermally Conductive Thermoplastic Polyurethane Composite Foams via CO2 Foaming-Assisted Filler Networking” to be published in Composites Part B: Engineering. This work reports the uses of foaming-induced filler alignment and post-foaming elastic recovery to fabricate compliant thermally conductive thermoplastic elastomer composite foams, […]

Congratulation to Maryam Fashandi and Prof. Sunny Leung for the publication of their recent work entitled, “Sodium Acetate Trihydrate-Chitin Nanowhisker Nanocomposites with Enhanced Phase Change Performance for Thermal Energy Storage” has been published in Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. This work reports the uses of bio-derived chitin nanowhisker to effectively suppress the super-cooling of sodium acetate trihydrate (SAT). […]

Congratulation to Mohammadmehdi Aghelinejad and  Ji Eun (Jamie) Lee of winning the Best Presenter Awards among Ph.D. students and Master students, respectively, on the Graduate Seminar Day in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. It is also an exceptional achievement for Mohammadmehdi as he has won this award for consecutive years. Their findings in developing novel strategies to enhance the thermoelectric and piezoelectric properties of polymer-based […]