Event

Have you ever wondered what are nanomaterials and smart materials? The UWI Department of Physics invites you to commemorate World Science Day 2022. Join them for a Virtual Talk on " Tetrapods based Smart Materials for Advanced Technologies " featuring Professor Yogendra Kumar Mishra. Come and learn about the importance of complex shaped nanostructures towards smart 3D nanomaterials structuring. The application of 3D nano structuring based smart materials in sensing, electronics, optoelectronics, energy and biomedical engineering will be briefly highlighted. It’s happening on Thursday, November 10 at 9 a.m. on Zoom.

Meeting link: https://sta-uwi-edu.zoom.us/j/93072152956?pwd=L3F6d1Z0R0VsbWJySjl6TUx4ZFVRdz09

Meeting ID: 930 7215 2956

Passcode:   242810

About Professor Yogendra Kumar Mishra

Yogendra Kumar Mishra is Professor MSO at Mads Clausen Institute, NanoSYD, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark. Prior joining to SDU, he worked as group leader at Kiel University, Germany. He did Habilitation in Materials Science from Kiel University in 2015 and Ph. D. in Physics in 2008 from Jawaharlal Nehru University (Inter University Accelerator Centre), New Delhi, India.

 In Kiel, he introduced a new flame-based process for metal oxide tetrapod nanostructuring and their 3D networks which showed many applications in engineering and biomedical fields. Additionally, tetrapods can be used as templates to create hybrid and new 3D materials. At NanoSYD, he is heading ‘Smart Materials’ group with the focus to develop new materials for green and sustainable technologies.

Abstract 

Considering the size dependent utilization complexities of nanoscopic dimensions towards real applications, the focus of nanomaterials community is merging to three-dimensional (3D) form of materials which are built out interconnected nanostructures. This talk will briefly introduce the importance of complex shaped nanostructures towards smart 3D nanomaterials structuring. A simple flame based single step approach was developed for synthesizing zinc oxide tetrapods which demonstrated many applications in different technologies. These tetrapods have been used as building blocks to construct highly porous interconnected 3D nanonetworks in form of flexible ceramics which offer further new application avenues. Additionally, these 3D networks have been utilized as sacrificial templates to develop hollow tetrapodal 3D networks from almost any desired material, carbons, nitrides, oxides, polymers, hydrogels, etc. The sacrificial template-based strategy offers new and unique opportunities in the direction of 3D nanomaterials engineering and accordingly advanced technological applications. Some examples of 3D nanomaterials engineering will be demonstrated along with their applications [1-10]. The scopes of 3D nanostructuring based smart materials in sensing, electronics, optoelectronics, energy, and biomedical engineering will be briefly highlighted in the talk.