The ability of certain materials to regenerate after damage has attracted a great deal of attention since the ancient times. For instance, self-healing concretes, able to resist earthquakes, aging, weather, and seawater have been known since the times of ancient Rome and are still the object of research. Self-healing is also an intrinsic ability of living systems, such as animals and plants.
This symposium will focus on recent advances in the field of various self-healing materials and deal with the restoration of their mechanical, biological, and electronic functions. New avenues to design self-healing materials as well as new strategies to unravel self-healing mechanisms will be discussed with a multidisciplinary approach.
- Self healing
- Electronic devices
- Organic electronics
Dr. Shiming Zhang is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), leading the wearable, intelligent and soft electronics (WISE) research group. Before that, He spent three years at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as a postdoctoral scholar (group leader on bioelectronics), and promoted to affiliated faculty in Terasaki Inst. He obtained his Ph.D. degree (Best Thesis Award) from École Polytechnique, Université de Montréal, Canada, and B.S./M.S. degree (Outstanding Graduates) from Jilin University, China. He was recognized as a “Rising Star”on bioelectronics by Advanced Science (2022) and an“Emerging Investigator”by Journal of Materials Chemistry C (2022). He was awarded the prestigious title of “Vanier Canada Scholar”by the Canada Government, "Outstanding International Student" by Quebec Government, and "Outstanding Students Abroad" by the Chinese Government.