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Recent News

 

 

1.         Congratulation to Stephen Tillie, our final year project student, who has won the best BEng Project presentation in Department of Mech Engng!

 

2.            Dr. Fu becomes a “Fellow of the Higher Education Academy”, but do not know what is this used for?

 

3.            Dr. Fu received “Major Awards” from “The Royal Academy of Engineering Research Exchanges with China and India Scheme” to focus his work on “Nanocomposite Shape memory polymer for microsurgery applications”.

 

4.            Dr. Fu received “Research Grant” from Royal Society to focus his work on “Thin Films based Lab-on-chip”

 

5.            Dr. Fu received “International Exchange Award” from Royal Society of Edinburgh to collaborate with researchers from Taiwan (Prof. Cherng in Mingchi University of Technology and Prof. Shu from National Taiwan University)

 

6.            Another Nanotechnology work published in Nanotechnology (impact factor: 3.446), focusing on low temperature sintering of nano Ag powder!!

 

7.            A 1.4 million pounds research boost! Dr. Fu is Co-I in an EPSRC/IeMRC Research Funding. More can be found from this website: http://imnssm.eng.ed.ac.uk/

 

8.            Scotland-China Higher Education Partnership Project granted! with Prof. X. He from Harbin Institute of Technology.

 

9.            A fully funded studentship available! (for UK citizen only)

 

10.         My top 25 hottest downloaded paper again after publication for 5 years!

 

            My 2004 paper in Sensors and Actuators is still the No.14 of the most downloaded 25 hottest papers

(in 3rd Quarter in 2009)!

Yongqing Fu, Hejun Du, Weimin Huang, Sam Zhang, Hu Min, TiNi based thin films in MEMS applications: a review, Sensors & Actuators A, 112 (2-3) : 395-408 (2004)

Citation No. 100 (from SCOPUS)

·                    3rd Quarter 2009 Top 14

·                    4th Quarter 2008 Top25

·                    2nd Quarter 2008 Top25

·                    4th Quarter 2007 Top24

·                    3rd Quarter 2007 Top 24;

·                    4th Quarter 2006 Top 20;

·                    4th Quarter 2005 Top 15;

·                    2nd Quarter 2005 Top 2;

·                    1st Quarter 2005 Top 4

·                    4th Quarter 2004 Top 4;

·                    3rd Quarter 2004 Top 1.

 

11.         Congratulation to Ben! His new paper is accepted by J. Mater. Chemistry (impact factor: 4.65): B. Xu, Y.Q. Fu, M. Ahmad, J. K. Luo, W.M. Huang, A. Kraft, R. Reuben, Y.T. Pei, Z.G. Chen, J.Th.M. De Hosson, Thermo-mechanical properties of polystyrene-based shape memory nanocomposites, J. Mater Chem., 2010, in press.

 

12.         Being invited as Guest Editor on a topic of Special Issue "Novel Stimuli-Responsive (co)Polymers" for Journal of Biomaterials: Welcome to submit your paper on smart polymers!

 

13.         Excellent news! Invited topic review paper will be published in Sens. Actuat B (impact factor: 3.122)!

            Y.Q. Fu, J.K. Luo, X. Du, A.J. Flewitt, Y. Li, A. Walton, W.I. Milne, Recent developments in ZnO films for acoustic wave based bio-sensing and microfluidic applications: Review,  Sens. Actuat. B. 2009.

 

14.         Mr. Stuart Broddie joined in this group with Prestigious DTA scholarship!

 

15.         Paper accepted by IEEE J. MEMS (impact factor:2.7): J. Luo, Y. Q. Fu et al. "Thermal Degradation of Electroplated Nickel Thermal Microactuators", J. MEMS, 2009.

 

16.         Being invited as Symposium chairman for “Surface treatment and Thin Film Shape Memory Alloys” in 5th International Conference on Thin Films and Surface Coatings, Harbin, China, July 11-14.  Call for papers: Thin Films 2010 @Harbin, China 11-14 July 2010: www.thinfilms-singapore.org

 

17.         Book Published! S. Miyzaki, Y. Q. Fu, W. M. Huang, Book of “Thin Film Shape Memory Alloys: Fundamentals and Device Applications”, Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN 9780521 885768. total pp.590. http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521885768

 

18.         Ben’s second journal paper has been submitted to “Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters” Congratulation!

 

19.         Mansuor Alghane passed his first year confirmation, Congratulation!

 

20.         A paper is published three years after its acceptance: Review on Thin Films Shape Memory Alloys

 

21.         Our first paper on shape memory polymer is published in Eup. Polym. J. : Mechanical properties of attapulgite clay reinforced polyurethane shape memory nanocomposite

 

22.         Paper published in J. Vac. Sci. Technol. on “Deep-Reactive Ion Etching as a Tool for Nanostructure Fabrication”

 

23.         Ben (Bin Xu) has passed his first year confirmation, congratulation!

 

24.         Being invited into Editorial Boad of The Open Ceramic Science Journal.  ISSN 1876-3952

 

25.         Visited University of Groningen, Netherland, and gave an invited talk on Smart Material devices on April 9th.

 

26.         Our first paper on shape memory polymer is accepted for publish: Mechanical properties of attapulgite clay reinforced polyurethane shape memory nanocomposite

 

27.         Our work on ZnO film microfluidics accepted for publication in J. Appl. Phys. Microfluidic Pumps Employing Surface Acoustic Waves Generated in ZnO Thin Film

 

28.         Paper accepted! J. Vac. Sci. Technol. on “Deep-Reactive Ion Etching as a Tool for Nanostructure Fabrication”

 

29.         Review Paper on Microfluidics published in JMM on “Moving-part-free microfluidic systems for lab-on-a-chip”!

 

30.         Being invited as one organization member in conference of 2nd International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering, 8-11 July 2009, Weihai, P. R. China, http://smart-nano.org/smn2009

 

31.         Invited as an Editorial Board Member for The Open Surface Science Journal! (ISSN 1876-5319)

 

32.         Invited to be a grant referee for “Royal Society” in London, UK!

 

33.         My research team! “Smart Team” (more information can be found if you click here)

           

            Main theme of research team: Smart materials and micro/nano-devices for biological applications

 

34.         Being in charge of “Photo Competition in Heriot-Watt University”! Lots of money to win! Pls. send your photo directly to: photocompetition@hw.ac.uk. For more information, pls. click here.

 

35.         I have been invited to be included in prestigious “2009 Edition of Marquis Who's Who in the World”.

 

36.         New Paper: Applied Physics Letter

 

            X.Y. Du, Y.Q. Fu, S.C. Tan, J.K. Luo, A.J. Flewitt, W.I. Milne, D.S. Lee, N.M. Park, J. Park, Y.J. Choi, S.H. Kim, and S. Maeng, ZnO film thickness effect on surface acoustic wave modes and acoustic streaming, Appl.Phys. Lett., 2008, 93(7) 094105.  

 

37.         Being invited to write a chapter for book of “Surface Engineering of Light Alloys”: Chapter 25: Duplex Treatment of Light Alloys.

 

38.         Receiving Carnegie Trust Awards, Scotland

 

39.         International Exchange Award from Royal Society of Edinburgh to collaborate with Prof. X Li in Shanghai, China.

 

40.         Invited as organization Committee member for 4th International Conference of Thin Films and Surface coatings (Thin Films 2008), Singapore, July 13 to 17, 2008

 

41.         Invited as Session Chairman for 1st International Conference on Nanomanufacturing, Singapore, July 13th to 17th.

 

42.         Invited as a Member of Editorial Board for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters (USA); http://www.aspbs.com/nnl/

 

43.         Invited as an External Ph.D. Examiner for University of Cambridge

 

44.         Academic Visiting Chinese and USA Universities

 

*                Visited and gave talk in Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and information Technology (Prof. X. Li), March, 2008

*                Visited East China Normal University in Shanghai (Prof. J. Zhang), March, 2008

*                Visited and gave talk in Nanjing University (Prof. H. Zheng), March, 2008

*                Visited and gave talk in University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Cheng Du (Prof. X. Zu), April, 2008

*                Visited and gave talk in Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lan Zhou (Prof. W. Liu) April, 2008

*                Visited and gave talk in Xian Jiaotong University (Prof. C. Chen), April, 2008

*                Visited Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Prof. Thomson), Dec 2007

*                Visited and gave talk in Yale University (Prof. T.P. Ma and H. Tang), Dec. 2007

*                Visited Prof. Jack Luo, University of Bolton

 

45.         First prize in IIS Proposal Competition with Dr. Yifan Li

 

46.         New Paper published and my cover page image in the journal!

photo on journal front page  microcage-ball

 

 

Saving the planet earth!!!

(Photo from this paper, many thanks for Dr. Stuart Milne to add colour on the plastic ball!)

Y. Q. Fu, J. K. Luo, S. E. Ong, S. Zhang, A. J. Flewitt, W. I. Milne, Shape memory microcage of TiNi/DLC films for biological applications, J. Micromech. Microeng. 18 (2008) 035026.

 

 

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Updated: Nov. 2009

Yongqing Fu –R.Y.Fu@hw.ac.uk