On January 3, 2024, Professor Huang Weimin from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, visited DGUT at the invitation of the university for academic exchange and delivered an academic report titled "Rapid Manufacturing Anywhere, Anytime." The exchange session was held in Conference Room A10 of the Interdisciplinary Science Research Center at DGUT and was chaired by Professor Wang Anding of the School of Materials Science and Engineering. The report was conducted in a hybrid format combining online and in-person participation, with dozens of faculty members and students from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, the School of Mechanical Engineering, and other units attending.
During the exchange session, Professor Huang Weimin began by discussing working environments where gravity is absent or severely affected by random disturbances, such as outer space, midair, at sea, and on special terrestrial sites. He elaborated on the key challenges faced by rapid manufacturing technologies in harsh environments and proposed a rapid 3D printing technology for polymeric materials in the solid state. This technology enables rapid volumetric additive manufacturing using solid-state UV-crosslinkable polymer materials, with the non-crosslinked portions subsequently removed in a convenient manner. The developed crosslinked polymer exhibits an excellent shape memory effect (SME), which ensures high precision of the printed products. This rapid additive manufacturing technology has already been validated through thermogel, UV-crosslinked vitrimer, and dual-crosslinked resin rapid manufacturing processes.
The report was presented in an accessible yet in-depth manner, offering valuable insights and ideas for the scientific research work of faculty and students, and generating broad interest among the attendees. Following the report, Professor Huang Weimin engaged in discussions with the participating faculty and students on relevant academic topics.
Professor Huang Weimin delivers his report during the exchange session
Professor Huang Weimin in a group photo with faculty members from the School of Materials Science and Engineering
Biography of Professor Huang Weimin:
Huang Weimin received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998. He subsequently joined the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he has served as a Tenured Associate Professor since 2005. He currently serves on the editorial boards of several international journals and has been invited to review manuscripts for over 160 international journals and to serve on review panels for various funding agencies and academic organizations. He has published over 160 SCI papers and authored two monographs. Professor Huang Weimin has long been dedicated to fundamental and applied research on various shape memory materials, with profound expertise in the preparation techniques and applications of shape memory materials. He has been invited on multiple occasions to contribute review articles on shape memory materials and to edit special issues on shape memory materials and technologies.
Draft: Tong Mengmeng / First Review: Liu Zhao / Second Review: Li Runxia / Third Review: Wang Biao
