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POROUS MATERIALS
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The Porous
Materials Group conducts research on the manufacture and characterisation of
particulate and porous materials. Our current focus is to develop the patented
Lost Carbonate Sintering (LCS) process for manufacturing porous metals, to
study the mechanical, thermal, electrochemical and acoustic properties of
porous metals and metal matrix syntactic foams, and to explore their
feasibility for applications in energy, automotive, defence, aerospace and
building industries.
The LCS technology has been licensed to Versarien plc, a high-tech start-up company founded in 2010 and floated on the London Stock Exchange in June 2013, to commercialise the LCS process for micro-porous copper in thermal management applications.
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Articles about Our Research Cooling
Down, FOCUS, Issue 15, April 2010. University
of Liverpool Business Gateway News UK
Consortium Develops Innovative Technology The
Key, 2008 Research
Intelligence, Issue 28, May 2006. Realising the Potential
of Porous Metals University
of Liverpool Leaflet |
Awards Professor
Yuyuan Zhao was awarded the Ivor Jenkins Medal by the
Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining for his outstanding contribution to
powder metallurgy in developing and commercialising innovative powder based
technologies for manufacturing metal foams The
following project is a Finalist of Project: Micro-porous
metals for thermal management |
Prof. Zhao receiving Ivor Jenkins Medal from President of IoMMM, 14 July 2015 |
Heat transfer in
porous metals
Fluid flow in porous
metals
Electrochemical
properties of porous metals
Mechanical properties
of metal matrix syntactic foam
Manufacture of
thermoplastic composite prepregs
Y. Y. Zhao,
‘Porous metallic materials and
method of production thereof’, EP1755809 B1, filed: 2005, granted:
2008.
Y. Y. Zhao,
‘Porous metallic materials and method of
production thereof’, US8968641 B2, filed: 2005, granted: 2015.
Selected Recent Publications (Full publication list here)
W. Luo, Y.
Wang, L. Luo, S. Gong, M. Wei, Y. Li, X. Gan, Y.
Zhao, Z. Zhu and Z. Li, ‘Single-atom
and bimetallic nanoalloy supported on nanotubes as a bifunctional electrocatalyst for
ultrahigh-current-density overall water splitting’, ACS Catalysis, 12(2022), 1167−1179. (Supplementary
Materials)
X. Zhang, Z.
Xiao, Z. Xia, S. Han, X. Meng, Y. Zhao, Z. Li and Q.
Lei, ‘Microstructure and properties
of Cu-TiNi composites prepared by vacuum hot pressing’,
Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 897(2022)
162729.
H. Li, Y. Gao and Y. Zhao, ‘Irreversible expansion of silica-gel beads
and quantification of pore structure made by silica-gel bead infiltration
method’, Powder Technology, 379(2021),
428–437.
J. Baloyo and
Y. Zhao, Permeability, ‘Form drag
coefficient and heat transfer coefficient of porous copper’, Heat
Transfer Engineering, 42(2021),
670–682.
C. Liang and
Y. Zhao, ‘Experimental
and analytical study on homogeneous and layered Al matrix syntactic foams under
impact’, International Journal of Impact Engineering, 153(2021) 103861.
P. Zhu and Y.
Zhao, ‘A limiting current sensor
based on porous Ni electrode for ferricyanide and ferrocyanide detection in aqueous solutions’, Electrochimica Acta, 385(2021), 138428
E.
Avalos-Gauna, Y. Zhao, L. Palafox and P. Ortiz-Monasterio-Martinez,
‘Porous metal properties
analysis: A machine learning approach’, JOM, 73(2021), 2039–2049.
X. Lu, Y. Zhao
and D.J.C. Dennis, ‘Fluid flow
characterisation in randomly packed microscale porous beds with different
sphere sizes using micro-particle image velocimetry’, Experimental
Thermal and Fluid Science, 118(2020)
110136.
P. Zhu, Z. Wu
and Y. Zhao, ‘Hierarchical
porous Cu with high surface area and fluid permeability’, Scripta Materialia, 172(2019) 119–124.
J. Yi, Y. Jia,
Y. Zhao, Z. Xiao, K. He, Q. Wang, M. Wang and Z. Li, ‘Precipitation behavior
of Cu-3.0Ni-0.72Si alloy’, Acta Materialia, 166(2019)
261-270.
K. Diao and Y.
Zhao, ‘Heat transfer performance
of sintered Cu microchannels produced by a novel
method’, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 139(2019) 537–547.
X. Lu and Y.
Zhao, ‘Effect of flow regime
on convective heat transfer in porous copper manufactured by lost carbonate
sintering’, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 80(2019) 108482.
Y. Zhang and
Y. Zhao, ‘Hysteretic
energy dissipation in aluminium matrix syntactic foam under intermittent cyclic
compression’, Materialia, 6(2019) 100286
P. Zhu and Y.
Zhao, ‘Cyclic voltammetry
measurements of electroactive surface area of porous nickel: Peak current and
peak charge methods and diffusion layer effect’, Materials Chemistry
and Physics 233(2019) 60–67.
H. Li, B.
Yuan, Y. Gao and Y. Zhao, ‘Effect of oligocrystallinity
on damping and pseudoelasticity of oligocrystalline Cu-Al-Mn shape
memory foams’, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 773(2019) 940-949.
For further information please contact:
Professor Yuyuan Zhao
School of Engineering
The University of Liverpool
Brownlow Hill
Liverpool L69 3BX
U. K.
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+44 (0)151 794 4697 |
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