On the 17^th April 2013, under the invitation of Prof. Pengwan Chen, Prof. Min Zhou from Georgia Institute of Technology visited the Material Science and Engineering Institute of BIT and gave a lecture entitled “Mechanical Reliability of Rechargeable Battery Electrode Materials”.

Prof. Min Zhou's short bio:

Min Zhou is a Professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mechanics from Brown University in 1993 and was a postdoctoral research fellow at California Institute of Technology between 1993 and 1995. His research focuses on the multiphysics behavior of materials at several time and length scales, emphasizing molecular dynamics and finite element simulations as well as experiments with laser interferometry and digital diagnostics. Professor Zhou is a recipient of several awards, including the US National Science Foundation’s CAREER award (formerly known as the Presidential Young Investigator Award) and the Sigma Xi Best Paper Award. He was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in 2005 and named a World Class University Professor at Seoul National University in Korea in 2009.