Manufacture
and Characterisation of Porous Materials. (Group website here) Our
current focus is: Ø to develop the
patented Lost Carbonate Sintering (LCS) process for manufacturing porous
metals, Ø to study the
mechanical, thermal, electrochemical and acoustic properties of porous metals
and metal matrix syntactic foams, and Ø 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. Current Research Projects 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. Last updated on 28 January 2022 |
