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Dr. Tao Xuis a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Center for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University (USA). He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T) in 2018. His research interests include (1) electrospun 3D nanofibrous structures for biomedical, energy, and environment applications, (2) nano-encapsulation and smart/responsive delivery of agrichemicals through electrospray/electrospinning of biopolymers, and (3) smart food packaging materials prepared from electrospinning of natural biopolymers and their derivatives.
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Dr. Xianfu Liis a Faculty Member in the School of Biological and Chemical Engineering at the Anhui Polytechnic University (China). He received his Ph.D. in Materials Physics and Chemistry at the Fudan University (China) in 2015. In the period from August 2018 to August 2019, Dr. Li was a visiting research scientist at the SDSM&T. His research endeavors are focused on the preparation and evaluation of innovative materials consisting of transitional metal sulfides/selenides and graphene for making high-performance supercapacitor electrodes.
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Mr. Zhipeng Liangis a Ph.D. Student in Biomedical Engineering at the SDSM&T. He earned his M.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology (USA) in 2016. His Ph.D. dissertation research has been focused on the preparation and characterization of various electrospun 3D nanofibrous structures for different applications including, but not limited to, (1) scaffolds for bone tissue engineering application, and (2) sponges with tunable conductivity for highly sensitive tactile pressure sensor application.
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Dr. Vinod S. Amaris a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the SDSM&T. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from the SDSM&T in 2016. He specializes in process design, renewable energy and fuels, waste management, molecular simulation, and synthesis and application of nanomaterials. Dr. Amar has more than 5 years of experience in renewable energy and alternate fuels through water-splitting and biomass conversion, materials characterization for products obtained. His current research focuses on performing optimization studies on biomass conversion and installation of a pilot plant to process solids for the production of value-added co-products such as lactic acid, phenol, and biochar.
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Mr. Runzhou Huangis a M.S. Student in Materials Engineering and Science at the SDSM&T. He earned his B.S. degree in Materials Chemistry at the Jiangxi Normal University (China) in 2018. His M.S. thesis study has been focused on the conversion of biochemically/hydrothermally generated biochar into value-added products of carbon nanofibrous felt/sponge.
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Dr. Rajesh V. Shendeis a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the SDSM&T. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology (India) and gained postdoctoral research experience at the National Chemistry Institute (Slovenia) and University of Missouri-Columbia (USA). In 2008, he became a Chemical Engineering Faculty Member at the SDSM&T. Dr. Shende is currently serving on the editorial board of 3 engineering journals, and as a reviewer to more than 35 scientific journals and proposal review panels for several funding agencies. He has received research grant awards for more than $10 million as principal investigator (PI) and Co-PI from the federal and state funding agencies as well as industries. He has published more than 140 technical papers and delivered 125 technical presentations, invited talks, and keynote lectures. Dr. Shende has advised/co-advised 35 undergraduate students, 22 graduate (M.S. and Ph.D.) students, and several postdoctoral researchers. During his last sabbatical, he worked as a visiting professor with Professor William Green in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). In recent years, Dr. Shende’s research group has been working on integrated bioprocessing technologies for biofuels and carbon materials, synthesis of core-shell redox and photocatalytic nanomaterials for hydrogen and synthesis gas production, and sensors/biosensors.
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Dr. Hao Fong is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biological Sciences at the SDSM&T, and he is also a faculty member in the SDSM&T’s multidisciplinary graduate programs of Materials Engineering and Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Nanoscience and Nanoengineering. Dr. Fong is one of the pioneers and a top scientist worldwide in the field of “Electrospinning and Nanofibers”, and he has published over 160 peer-reviewed journal articles, ~20 books or book chapters, and numerous symposium proceedings/presentations. According to Google Scholar (on February 28, 2020), his publications have been cited for 14,853 times; and his personal H-Index is 54. Dr. Fong’s highest degree is a Ph.D. earned in 1999 from the Department of Polymer Science at the University of Akron (USA); and his Ph.D. advisor is Dr. Darrell H. Reneker, who re-vitalized the research on the technique of electrospinning in the 1990’s. In the recent 18 years, Dr. Hao Fong’s research has been focused on the technique of electrospinning and various applications of electrospun polymer, ceramic, carbon/graphite, composite, and hierarchically structured nanofibers and/or nanofibrous materials, and the research has been have been supported by the (US) National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Army Research Laboratory, Air Force Research Laboratory, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the State of South Dakota with the total funding amount to date of more than $10 million.
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