报告简介：

I will report our recent research on optical and thermal polymer actuators. We studied both liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs) and semicrystalline polymers (SCPs). The polymers investigated include a reprocessable LCP bearing azobenzene moieties and a commodity SCP either with or without gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) loaded. I will discuss the similarities and differences between the two types of polymer actuators in terms of actuation temperature, amplitude, speed and reversibility. The issue of autonomous actuation will also be addressed.
 
 
报告人：

Yue Zhao received his BSc in 1982 from Chengdu University of Science and Technology (now Sichuan University). He went to France in 1983 for graduate studies at the école Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de Paris (ESPCI). After obtaining his PhD in 1987, he went to Canada for postdoctoral studies at the Université Laval. In 1991, he joined the Chemistry Department of the Université de Sherbrooke and has been a full professor since 2000. He was a chair professor of Chang Jiang Scholar at Sichuan University (2007-2010). Zhao’s main research interest focuses on self-assembled, nanostructured and stimuli-responsive polymers and liquid crystalline materials. He has published over 185 papers in primary journals. He is the 2013 recipient of the Macromolecular Science and Engineering Award of the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) and was elected CIC Fellow in 2014.

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