Autonomous Additive Manufacturing for Sustainable Energy and Personalized Health
The mission of the Advanced Materials and Manufacturing for Energy and Health (AM2EH) Lab directed by Prof. Yanliang Zhang is to innovate and transform manufacturing science and technology to address grand societal challenges in energy and health. Our research focuses on developing innovative multi-materials additive manufacturing and hybrid manufacturing methods for functional materials and devices. In particular, our lab has established a unique and transformative atoms-to-systems engineering approach capable of integrating a diverse range of nanoscale building blocks into micro/macroscale systems. Our lab has been developing advanced energy materials and systems to improve energy and environmental sustainability, and creating versatile additive manufacturing techniques to produce biomedical devices for personalized healthcare.
Specific research topics in our lab includes: (1) Hybrid additive manufacturing of wearable/implantable devices for personalized healthcare (2) Hybrid printing of microscale soft robots for biomedical applications (3) High-throughput printing of thermoelectric devices for energy harvesting and solid-state cooling (4) Self-powered wireless sensors for monitoring of structural health and human health and industrial internet of things
AM2EH is a very dynamic research lab. We are a multidisciplinary research group of talented students and postdocs working on highly innovative and impactful research topics. We are inventing new technologies that can improve energy and environmental sustainability and individual wellbeing by addressing grand challenges our society is facing.