On the morning of April 17, 2024, Professor Guo Zhiguang, Dean of the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Hubei University, visited the Interdisciplinary Science Research Center at Dongguan University of Technology (DGUT) for academic exchange.
Professor Liang Jun presided over the session. Dean Guo delivered an academic report titled "Biomimetic Tribology" in the conference room of the Interdisciplinary Science Research Center. The report was conducted in a hybrid format combining online and in-person participation.
In his report, Dean Guo analyzed the numerous biological surfaces in nature that possess special functions, exhibiting outstanding properties such as self-cleaning, superlubricity, superadhesion, self-healing, and fog water collection due to their unique structures. Using modern microscopic analysis instruments, Dean Guo examined the microstructures of a wide variety of biological surfaces with diverse morphologies in nature, and discussed the corresponding relationships between these microstructures and the properties they exhibit. Through approaches such as engineering biomimetics, he constructed biomimetic surfaces with similar functions, conducted comparative experiments and analyses on the advantages and disadvantages of biological surfaces versus biomimetic surfaces, and shared his original insights into their applications.
Dean Guo's report was both accessible and scientifically engaging, greatly benefiting the faculty and students in attendance. Following the report, Dean Guo engaged in in-person exchanges and discussions with the participants.
Dean Guo's presentation broadened the academic horizons of the faculty and students of the School of Materials Science and Engineering, enhanced their scientific research literacy, and held significant implications for the research and disciplinary development of the school.
Biography of Dean Guo Zhiguang:
Guo Zhiguang, male, from Huanggang, Hubei Province, serves as Dean of the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Hubei University. He is a Fellow of the International Society of Bionic Engineering (ISBE), an awardee of a national leading talent program, and a recipient of the National Natural Science Foundation's Excellent Young Scientists Fund. He has led over 20 projects, including key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He currently serves as Chair of the Youth Committee of the International Society of Bionic Engineering and as a council member of the Chinese Tribology Society. He has published over 520 academic papers in domestic and international journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials, and Tribology, with over 20,000 SCI citations and an H-index of 76. He was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher from 2018 to 2023. He has authored one monograph in Chinese and one in English, and has been granted 50 Chinese invention patents. He currently serves as Associate Editor of Bio-design and Manufacturing, Journal of Bionic Engineering, and Friction. His honors include the Tribology Young Scholar Award and the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award (ranked second) in 2015, the ISBE Outstanding Youth Award in 2016, the Youth Science and Technology Achievement Award of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society in 2017, the First Prize of the Gansu Provincial Natural Science Award (ranked first) in 2018, and the Nanoscale Horizons & Materials Horizons Outstanding Paper Award 2019 in 2020.
Draft: Chen Zhiping / First Review: Liu Zhao / Second Review: Li Runxia / Third Review: Wang Biao
