Hiroki Kurita Editor

Hiroki Kurita has been Assistant Professor at Tohoku University in Japan since 2018. His current research interests involve developing piezoelectric and magnetostrictive materials for energy harvesting and developing wearable devices and smart sensors. He recently studied the additive manufacturing of magnetostrictive alloys to fabricate complex shapes to enhance energy harvesting performance. He also studies natural fiber-reinforced biodegradable polymer matrix composites (green composites). He is interested in the relationships between mechanical properties and the decomposition level of natural fiber-reinforced biodegradable polymer matrix composites. He also addresses the development of high-specific strength metal and ceramic matrix composites.

Yu SHI is Professor and director of Chester Smart Materials Centre (CHESMAC), focusing on smart composite structure with embedded electronics, welding and recycling of composite, damage assessment of composite, finite element modelling, nanocomposite, energy harvesting, structural health monitoring of composite for future lightweight and sustainable applications on electric/hydrogen aircraft, automotive, rail vehicles, space, renewable (wind and hydrogen) energies and healthcare. He is the Fellow of Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM) and Chartered Engineer (CEng).

Haidong WANG is an associate professor and vice-director of the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics in the Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University. His research focuses on the micro/nano heat transfer, property characterization of nanomaterials, and development of functional nano-devices. He has invented H-type comprehensive measurement method to simultaneously measure the electrical, thermal and electro-thermal properties of the same nanomaterial. He recently studied the high-performance two-dimensional heterostructure devices for the charge and heat transport manipulation. He has developed suspended graphene nanopore bio-sensor for single molecule detection.