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Congratulations to Ying HAN for winning the Excellent Poster Award in 2019 CCTAM (Chinese Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) !
(Sept 03, 2019)
Chen Sijie and Fan Rong's work on "super bamboo" featured in college "Student Project Exhibition"
(June 26-27 2019)
Congratulations to Ying HAN for winning the Best Student Presentation Award in The 23th Annual Conference of HKSTAM 2019 in conjunction with The 15th Jiangsu - Hong Kong Forum on Mechanics and Its Application
(April 13, 2019)
Best of Advanced Engineering Materials 2018
(March 28 2019)
Our high-entropy alloy nanolattice paper, publishedn in AEM 2018 Jan issue as the front cover, has been chosen as the Editors’ selection of some of the most outstanding articles of the past year!
Congratulations to Ying HAN for winning the Best Postgraduate Student Paper Award in the 15th National Congress on Physical Mechanics
(Sept 23, 2018)
Invited journal club review for iMechanica ---a web of mechanics and mechanicians
(Sept 1, 2018)
Journal Club for September 2018: Nanomechanics of Covalent Crystals and Elastic Strain Engineering
by Hongti Zhang, Chaoqun Dang and Yang Lu
James received prestigious poster awards at nanomaterials international conference
(July 9 2018)
Congratulation to PhD student Mr. James Utama Surjadi on receiving the Nano Letters Best Poster Award and the Materials Today Rising Star Poster Gold Award during the NANO 2018: XIV International Conference on Nanostructured Materials held on 24-29 June 2018 at CityU. The latter was the biggest award presented during the whole conference. James is currently studying PhD under Dr. Yang Lu’s supervision.
More information on the conference can be found at www.nano2018.org
MS thesis defense
(Pai Wang, July 6 2018)
Congratulations, Pai!
(From left to right: Zhengbao Yang, Pai Wang and Yang Lu)
PhD thesis defense
(Libo Gao, June 28 2018)
Congratulations, Dr. Gao!
Dr. Gao will join Xidian University as an Associate Professor starting from December 2018.
(Left to right: Xinrui Niu, Libo Gao, Yang Lu, Kaili Zhang; with Li Zhang from CUHK then in London, UK)
Ultralarge elastic deformation of nano diamond revealed for the first time
(Apr 20, 2018)
Yang Lu’s research team, including Amit Banerjee (former postdoc in the lab) and Hongti Zhang (former PhD student in the lab, now postdoc) under his supervision, has discovered that diamonds at nanoscale can undergo ultralarge, fully reversible elastic deformation. The research team demonstrated that when diamond was downsized to nearly 100 nanometres in diameter, which is about one six-hundredth of the size of human hair, up to around 9% of tensile elastic strain was recorded for single crystalline samples. The findings could have a profound impact on the nanotechnology and biomedical fields, and even quantum information technologies. This groundbreaking discovery was recently published in the prestigious journal Science under the title “Ultralarge elastic deformation of nanoscale diamond”.
Selected press coverage:
(19 Apr 2018) Scientists discover how to bend DIAMOND in 'surprising' breakthrough for ultra-strong nanomaterials [Daily Mail Online]
(19 Apr 2018) How to Bend Diamonds [IEEE Spectrum]
(19 Apr 2018) How to Bend A Diamond [Discover Magazine]
(20 Apr 2018) Scientists Discover How to Bend and Stretch Diamonds—the Hardest Natural Material [Newsweek]
(21 Apr 2018) Scientists Find a Way to Bend And Stretch Diamond, One of The Hardest Materials on Earth [ScienceAlert]
(21 Apr 2018) 鑽石全球最硬？專家：有彈性 [China Press]
(21 Apr 2018) 鑽石在納米尺度上有彈性 [Xinhuanet]
(21 Apr 2018) Hallan una forma de doblar los diamantes [ABC (Spain)]
(22 Apr 2018) Scientists Discover How to Bend and Stretch Diamonds—the Hardest Natural Material [Brinkwire]
(22 Apr 2018) 科學家在納米尺度下實現金剛石超彈性 [ScienceNet.cn]
(23 Apr 2018) Se il diamante diventa flessibile [Le Scienze]
(23 Apr 2018) Scientists can now make diamonds bend and stretch like rubber [India Today]
(23 Apr 2018) https://www.forbes.com/sites/bridaineparnell/2018/04/23/scientists-can-now-bend-and-stretch-diamond-like-rubber/ (Forbes.com)
(24 Apr 2018) https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/shine-on-you-bendy-diamond (COSMOS magazine)
(24 Apr 2018) 城大發現納米鑽石具彈性 [Sing Tao Daily]
(24 Apr 2018) 城大揭變形鑽 助納米科技應用 [Wen Wei Po]
(24 Apr 2018) 納米級鑽石 具伸縮彈性 [Sky Post]
(25 Apr 2018) 恒久不變承諾幻滅了 城大發現納米鑽可變形 [Oriental Daily News]
(25 Apr 2018) 中外科學家在納米尺度發現金剛石超彈性變形 [People’s Daily]
TQE final-year students obtain awards in HKSQ student project competition
(Mar 2018)
Congratulations to TQE final-year students CHAN Ka San (team leader), LEE Tsz Kwan, WONG Wing To, and LAM Yuk Chun on obtaining the 1st runner-up in the 2018 HKSQ Student Project Competition: Industrial Experience for Students for their project “Quality Issue of Cutting Wire Oxidization”, under the supervision of Yang LU and Haokun YANG. The competition was organized by Hong Kong Society for Quality and sponsored by Defond Electrical Industries Ltd., which aims at offering an opportunity for students to work on an actual industrial case and propose resolution, so as to allow them to gain experience to resolve an industrial problem. The winning team’s project proposes a wax-coating method to solve the oxidization problem occurring at the cutting position of electrical wires produced by the sponsor of the competition.
More information on the competition can be found at www.hksq.org
Dr. Lu joined Science China: Technological Sciences editorial board
(Jan 1, 2018)
Our 2014 bamboo paper was cited in a recent Nature “News and Views”
Libo Gao and Ke Cao attended MRS Fall meeting 2017
(Meet with Amit Banerjee, our former postdoc fellow in the lab)
CityU Congregation（Nov 20, 2017 )
Congratulations, Dr. Xiaowei Liu (co-supervised with Prof. Jian Lu) and Mr. James Utama Surjadi!
Libo's HEA nanolattice work featured on Advanced Science News
(Oct 11, 2017)
Ranked No.1 "Most Read This Week"
Congratulations to Libo and his Advanced Engineering Materials paper, which is "one of the most downloaded and read publications in Advanced Engineering Materials in Oct 2017.
(中文版本新闻）
Surjadi James Utama’s project highlighted in CityU Linkage journal
“Recycling and processing of campus waste paper for developing novel green composite materials"
(September 25th, 2017)
Prof. Nicholas Fang from MIT visited our lab
(September 1st, 2017)
And he gave a seminar at CityU about "Architectured Metamaterials for Guiding Energy Dissipation and Wave Propagation"
Outstanding Academic Performance Award 2016/17
(Libo Gao, Aug 22, 2017)
Congratulations to our lab PhD student Libo GAO, who received the CityU Outstanding Academic Performance Award 2016/17!
PhD thesis defense
(Chenchen Jiang, Aug 22, 2017)
Congratulations, Dr. Jiang!
(Left to right: Zuankai Wang; Dongyan Xu from CUHK; Chenchen Jiang; Yang Lu; Wen Jung Li)
PhD thesis defense
(Shang Xu, July 26, 2017)
Congratulations, Dr. Xu !
(Left to right: Jianhua Hao from HK PolyU; Yang Lu; Shang Xu; Jian Lu; Yong Yang)
Dr. Lu invited to deliver a talk about "Bamboo Mechanics and Bamboo-Inspired Materials Design" for CityU Business and Industrial Club (CUBIC)
(July 21, 2017)
Dr. Lu invited to give a talk on "Bamboo Mechanics and Bamboo-Inspired Materials Design" at ARUP Hong Kong headquarter
(July 14, 2017)
Dr. Lu appointed Managing Editor for Materials Today (Elsevier)
(July 03, 2017)
Materials Today is the flagship journal of the Materials Today family and is dedicated to covering the most innovative, cutting edge and influential work of broad interest to the materials science community (2016 Impact Factor 21.675). Materials Todayhas recently expanded its scope to cover ground breaking original research in materials science, and aims to become a leading forum in the field.
Dr. Lu promoted to Associate Professor with early tenure.
(July 01, 2017)
Bio-Inspired 3D Printing of Lattice Metamaterials---Featured project in CSE Discovery and Innovation Gala 2017 (James, Libo and Chenchen, June 21, 2017)
"Bronze Prize" Excellent Poster Award (Hongti Zhang)
The 10th international workshop on materials behavior at micro- and nano- scale (2017) in conjunction with the 10th KH Kuo summer school
(May 31- June 2, 2017 Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China)
Best Student Presentation Award (Chenchen Jiang)
The 21st Annual Conference of HKSTAM (2017) in conjunction with the 13th Jiangsu – Hong Kong Forum on Mechanics and Its Application
(April 8, 2017 Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HKSAR)
Dr. Lu has joined the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)
(Jan 25, 2017)
"力学在材料基因组科学与工程中的作用"研讨会
(Dec 17-18, 2016)
Congratulations, Dr. ZHANG Hongti! （Nov 23, 2016 CityU Congregation)
Scanning (Wiley/Hindawi) special issue on
"In Situ SEM Nanomanipulation and Nanomechanical/electrical Characterization"
Our Science Advances silicon nanowire work featured by CityU News and local media
CityU News (Sept 26, 2016) （中文版)
香港文匯報 (Sept 27, 2016) "矽納米線更彈"
成報 (Sept 29, 2016) “城大研彈性矽納 將革新醫療儀器”
鳳凰衛視 (Dec 3, 2016)
圖為研究第一作者、博士生張洪題（右）及其導師、助理教授陸洋（左）。
■城大供圖
(Sept 14, 2016) and giving a talk about our group's recent work on ultra-large elasticity of silicon nanowires
Outstanding Academic Performance Award 2016/17
(Aug 24, 2016)
Congratulations to our lab PhD students, Shang XU, Chenchen JIANG and Libo GAO, who received the Outstanding Academic Performance Award & Research Tuition Scholarship 2016/17~!
Silicon nanowires can be made highly elastic
(Aug 17, 2016) In our new paper published on Science Advances, we measured the elastic mechanical properties of individual silicon nanowires by uniaxial tensile straining, and demonstrated that VLS–grown single-crystalline Si nanowires with diameters of ~100 nm can be reversibly stretched at room temperature with 10% or more elastic strain, approaching the theoretical limit of silicon. This extraordinary elasticity in Si nanowires, presumably in other high-quality semiconductor nanowires, will open the doors for the emerging field of “elastic strain engineering,” and flexible bio- and nano-electronics.
Some media coverage:
Super Stretchy Nanowires May Pave The Way For Flexible Electronics （Singapore）
Stretching the limit of silicon nanowires for next-generation electronics （USA）
Silizium auf der Streckbank （German）
Silicon Nanowires Could Stretch Up to 23% Farther than Previously Thought （USA）
新华社：中美科学家首次使硅纳米线的弹性接近理论极限 （China）
麻省理工科技评论：最新拉伸实验表明硅纳米线的拉伸能力接近其理论极限值 （US/China）
PhD thesis defense
(Hongti Zhang, Aug 10 2016)
The first PhD student from our lab~
Gordon Research Conference on "Structural Nanomaterials" 2016
(Shang Xu, Libo Gao, Weibing Liao, Xiaowei Liu.. & Yang Lu), Jul 2016
Featured Project on "Bamboo Mechanics" (Libo Gao et al.)
Discovery and Innovation Gala 2016 (CityU, June 22-23, 2016)
Best Student Presentation Award (Shang Xu)
The 20th HKSTAM Annual Conference in conjunction with The 12th Shanghai-HK Forum on Mechanics and Its Application (HKUST, Apr 9, 2016)
Best Poster Award (Hongti Zhang et al.)
The 9th International Workshop on Advanced Materials (IWAM9)– in honor of C.T. Liu's life-time contributions to the material advancements, Yangzhou, China, Mar 27-31, 2016)
Welcome visitors from MIT
Dr. Michael Short, Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering of MIT, visited our nuclear research facility and our lab on Jan 18, 2016
Dr. Graham Rong, Senior Industrial Liaison Officer of MIT, visited CityU and our lab on Nov 6, 2015
Gordon Research Conference on "Nano-Mechanical Interfaces"
(Shang Xu, Chenchen Jiang, Yang Lu), Jul 2015
Showcase in CityU Discovery Festival 2015 (Chenchen Jiang)
Best Poster Award (Amit Banerjee, First Prize)
The 11th Cross-Strait Workshop on "Nano Science and Technology" (CSWNST11, Dec 14-17, 2014)
Congratulations, Amit and Hongti!
Best Student Paper Competition Award (C.K. Yip, 1st runner up)
BME 2014 Biomedical Engineering International Conference, Hong Kong (Dec 4-5, 2014)
Congratulations, CK and Shang!
Hong Kong UGC Early Career Award 2013/14 (Nov 2013)
Dr. Lu joined CityU as an Assistant Professor (Oct 29, 2012)
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(2011 and before)
Versatile nano-tensile testing platform available for TEM (Sep 5, 2011)
Brittle Gold (Sep 1, 2011)
科学时报 （Sep， 2011）
Tiny Wires Change Behavior at Nanoscale ScienceDaily (Aug. 29, 2011)
— Thin gold wires often used in high-end electronic applications are wonderfully flexible as well as conductive. But those qualities don't necessarily apply to the same wires at the nanoscale...
"Glittering prizes" (Nature Nanotechnology, Editorial)
In the latest issue (March 2010, published on March 06, 2010) of journal Nature Nanotechnology, our "Cold Welding of Ultrathin Gold Nanowires" paper has been highlighted in the "Editorial" section---------"One of gold's main advantages for many applications ... And gold is still capable of springing surprises..."
Welding uses heat to join pieces of metal in everything from circuits to skyscrapers. But researchers have found a way to beat the heat on the nanoscale. Jun Lou, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science, is quoted. Yang Lu, a graduate student in mechanical engineering and materials science, is mentioned. Futurity.org showcases "Breaking News from the Future." ----- Futurity.org
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