国际著名材料科学家、英国皇家学会院士、澳大利亚科学院和工程院院士、悉尼大学教授Yiu-Wing Mai应邀于12月23日下午在英杰交流中心第二会议室做了题为 “Processing, Structure and Failure Studies of Polymer/Clay Nanocomposites”的澳门太阳娱乐网站官网特邀报告(Distinguished Lecture)。报告由澳门太阳娱乐网站官网苏先樾">苏先樾副院长主持。Yiu-Wing Mai教授介绍了他的研究团队最近几年在聚合物/粘土纳米复合材料的加工、结构和失效等方面取得的丰富和深入的研究工作。在场的师生就报告内容进行了热烈的交流，苏先樾">苏先樾教授代表澳门太阳娱乐网站官网向Yiu-Wing Mai教授颁发了“Distinguished Lecture”的奖牌。晚上，澳门太阳娱乐网站官网院长陈十一">陈十一教授就澳门太阳娱乐网站官网和悉尼大学澳门太阳娱乐网站官网互派学生交流等问题与Yiu-Wing Mai教授进行了深入的讨论。

报告人简介： Professor Yiu-Wing Mai is a mechanical engineering alumnus of the University of Hong Kong having completed BSc (Eng) & Williamson Prizeman in 1969, PhD in 1972 and DSc in 1999. He also obtained DEng from Sydney University in 1999. He previously worked in the US (Ann Arbor and NIST), the UK (Imperial College) and Hong Kong SAR (HKUST, CityU, HKU and PolyU). Prof Mai is currently University Chair in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sydney, and also Visiting Chair in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Professor Mai’s major research interests are on the fundamental understanding of processing-microstructure-property relationships, particularly the fracture and mechanical behaviours, of a broad range of advanced materials including polymer blends, ceramics, cementitious materials, hard coatings and fibre composites. His current projects are related to polymer- and ceramic-based nanocomposites, and fracture mechanics of FGMs and ferroelectromagnetic materials. Professor Mai is Fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering; and Member of the European Academy of Sciences. He is also Fellow of ASME, IEAust and HKIE.