Grain boundary engineered and bio-inspired nanomaterials

申请人是国际公认的电沉积纳米结构材料（金属、合金、金属基复合材料）的合成、结构表征、性能评估和商业应用领域的世界领导者。在过去的三十年里，他的开创性工作不仅为纳米结构电沉积工艺以及全致密纳米材料的物理、化学和机械性能提供了坚实的基础理解，而且为这种材料在世界上的第一次工业应用做出了贡献。在过去30年建立的知识基础上，申请人未来5年的研究工作将集中在两个特定领域：纳米晶体前体的晶界工程材料和蛾眼/荷叶型仿生纳米结构表面，通过电化学合成和其他方法生产下一代纳米结构。

The applicant is internationally recognized as a world leader in the areas of synthesis, structural characterization, property evaluation and commercial applications of nanostructured materials (metals, alloys, metal-matrix composites) made by electrodeposition. Over the past three decades his groundbreaking work has not only provided a solid fundamental understanding of the nanostructure electrodeposition process, and the physical, chemical and mechanical properties of fully dense nanomaterials, but also contributed to the first industrial applications of such materials in the world. Building on the knowledge base established over the past 30 years, the applicant' s research efforts over the next five years will focus on the next generation of nanostructures produced by electrochemical synthesis and other methods in two specific areas: grain boundary engineered materials from nanocrystalline precursors and moth eye/lotus leaf type bio-inspired nanostructured surfaces.