报告题目一：Biomedical Engineering Education and Accreditation of Biomedical Engineering Programmes
报 告 人：Min Wang 教授（香港大学）
报告题目二：Nanobiomaterials for Medical Applications
报 告 人：Min Wang 教授（香港大学）
报告题目三：Understanding 2-D Interfacial “Phases” to Help Decipher the Materials Genome and Beyond
报 告 人：Jian Luo 骆建教授（美国加州大学圣迭戈分校）
主 持 人：陈晓峰 教授
报告时间：2018年11月19日（星期一）09:30
报告地点：大学城校区B2-101会议室
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广东省生物医学工程重点实验室
2018年11月16日
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报告摘要一：Biomedical engineering (BME) is a constantly expanding and intrinsically interdisciplinary field. The US and Western Europe as pioneers in the field have provided exemplary BME educational programmes. How to learn from these programmes and then set up their own programmes with distinct features for local students is not an easy task for BME educators in other countries. Five universities in Hong Kong provide bachelor-degree level BME education. In 2012 in Hong Kong, the British style 3-year university education was changed to the North-American 4-year type. The accreditation in Hong Kong of 4-year curriculum BME programmes was started in 2013, and in 2014 HKU’s 4-year curriculum Medical Engineering Programme became the first BME programme to gain provisional accreditation by the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) which is a signatory of the Washington Accord. In 2017, after a rigorous assessment, HKU’s Medical Engineering Programme became the first fully accredited BME programme in Hong Kong. Other universities’ BME go through HKIE’s accreditation exercises. All BEng programmes put forward for HKIE’s accreditation must use the outcome-based approaches in student learning. With these BME programmes as the foundation, a three-tier BME education is now in place in Hong Kong: bachelor-degree level education (BEng or BSc), taught-master’s degree (MSc), and research degrees (MPhil or PhD). Beyond education in the university, professional training in BME can be obtained in different organizations in Hong Kong. Government departments and the private sector contribute to BME engineer training. This presentation will give an overview of BME education and training in Hong Kong and briefly compare the BME programmes. It will also discuss various aspects of BME programme accreditation, drawing the author’s experience as the Programme Director to lead the HKU Medical Engineering programme through its accreditation exercises and also as a member of HKIE’s accreditation team.
报告摘要二：In recent years, nanoscience and nanotechnology have advanced rapidly and are making an enormous impact in the biomedical field. Using existing as well as emerging nanotechnologies, nanobiomaterials are being developed mainly along two directions: (1) nano-structured biomaterials, and (2) biomaterials of nano-sizes or nano-feature(s). Nano-structured biomaterials can provide desired properties which are not attainable with conventional, micro-structured biomaterials. On the other hand, biomaterials of nano-sizes or nano-feature(s) can affect/direct cellular and tissue responses; and nano- or micro-sized biomaterials can be used as drug, biomolecule or gene carriers for their targeted, controlled and sustained delivery. Nanomedicine and tissue engineering are two important areas for the application of nanobiomaterials. Nanomedicine emerged a decade ago and involves the use of nanotechnologies to detect and treat diseases or even to identify and stop potential sources of diseases before they get started. For example, nanoparticles (polymer-, metal- or ceramic-based) have attracted great attention for their potential as diagnostic and/or therapeutic tools in oncology due to their unique properties. A major direction in cancer nanotechnology is the design and development of multifunctional nanodevices, the so-called “theranostics”. With advances in nanodevice design, fabrication and functionalization, many lives will be saved by using advanced theranostics. Tissue engineering can provide long-term solutions in human tissue repair and potentially offer treatments for medical conditions that are currently untreatable. It has made rapid advances over the past two decades and simple tissues such as skin or bone can now be successfully regenerated in the body using appropriate tissue engineering strategies. For scaffold-based tissue engineering, nanofibrous scaffolds can be made using different technologies and materials and have been shown to have particular advantages over conventional scaffolds. This lecture will give an overview of our research on nanobiomaterials and discuss a few factors in nanobiomaterials design and development.
报告摘要三：A piece of ice melts at 0 C, but a nanometer-thick surface layer of the ice can melt at tens of degrees below zero. This phenomenon, known as “premelting,” was first recognized by the physicist Michael Faraday. Materials scientists have discovered that interfaces in engineered materials can exhibit more complex phase-like behaviors at high temperatures, which can affect the fabrication and properties of a broad range of metallic alloys and ceramic materials [see, e.g., an Overview in Acta Mater. 62:1 (2014)]. Specifically, recent studies of 2-D grain-boundary (GB) phases (also called “complexions”) shed light on several long-standing mysteries in materials science, including the origins and atomic-level mechanisms of solid-state activated sintering [see, e.g., Acta Mater. 130:329 (2017) for a recent example of CuO-doped TiO2, with applications in low-temperature co-fired ceramics], as well as liquid metal and GB embrittlement [Science 333: 1730 (2011); Science 358:97 (2017); Nature Comm. 9:2764 (2018)]. Since bulk phase diagrams are arguably one of the most useful tools for materials design, it is conceived that GB “phase” diagrams can be developed as a useful materials science tool [see, e.g., JACerS 95:2358 (2012); Acta Mater. 20:268 (2016);Scripta Mater. 130:165 (2017); Phys. Rev. Lett. 120: 085702 (2018); Scripta Mater. 158:11 (2019)].
Analogous 2-D surface phases have also been studied and utilized to improve the performance of various materials for energy-related applications, including batteries [PCCP 16:7786 (2014); ACS AMI 9:36745 (2017); JPS 375:21 (2018)], supercapacitors [ACS AMI 8:12871 (2016)], and oxygen-ion conductors [Nature Comm. 6:8354 (2015)].
If time permits, I will also briefly discuss our other on-going studies on (a) flash sintering (see, e.g., a most recent viewpoint article [Scripta Mater. 146:260 (2018)]), where we recently invented a “water-assisted flash sintering” method to flash ZnO (Tm 1975 C) at room temperature to subsequently sinter it to ~98% density in ~30 seconds and (b) fabrication of new classes of high-entropy ceramics, e.g., (Hf0.2Zr0.2Ta0.2Nb0.2Ti0.2)B2 ultra-high-temperature ceramics [Sci. Rep. 6:37946 (2016)], Sr(Zr0.2Sn0.2Ti0.2Hf0.2Mn0.2)O3 functional perovskites [Scripta Mater. 142:116 (2018)], and low-thermal-conductivity (Hf0.2Zr0.2Ce0.2)(Y0.2Gd0.2)O2-δ fluorite-structured oxides [JECS 38:3578 (2018)].
报告人简介： Min Wang is a tenured professor at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and as Programme Director, has led HKU’s interfaculty Medical Engineering Programme (retitled as Biomedical Engineering Programme in 2018) from 2013 to 2018. He has also been a Guest Professor or Adjunct Professor of several universities in mainland China (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Zhejiang University, Tianjin University, etc.). He was Chairman of the Biomedical Division of Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) and has served in the HKIE Council. He earned his BSc (1985) and PhD (1991) in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and University of London, UK, respectively. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng, 1995, UK) and Chartered Scientist (CSci, 2005, UK). He is an elected fellow of professional societies in the UK, USA, Hong Kong and internationally (FIMMM, 2001; FIMechE, 2007; FHKIE, 2010; FBSE, 2011; FAIMBE, 2012; WAC Academician, 2013). He has worked in universities in the UK (1991-97), Singapore (1997-2002) and Hong Kong (2002-now) for research and teaching. He started biomaterials research in 1991 in UK’s Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Biomedical Materials. His current interests include biomaterials, tissue engineering, controlled release, bionanotechnology, and 3D printing. He has published a large number of book chapters, journal articles and conference papers and has given many conference presentations, including more than 160 invited talks. He was Chairman/Organizer of many conferences and has served in committees of over 70 international conferences. He has been the book Series Editor of Springer Series in Biomaterials Science and Engineering and Editor or Associate Editor of several journals. He has served in the Editorial Board of 19 international printed journals. He has been a Council Member of the Chinese Society for Biomaterials, Asian Biomaterials Federation, WACBE, and IFMBE. He is a member of the Steering Committee of International College of Fellows in IUSBSE.
报告人简介：Jian Luo graduated from Tsinghua University with dual Bachelor's degrees.After receiving his Ph.D. degree from M.I.T. in 2001, Luo worked in the industry for more than two years with Lucent Technologies and OFS/Fitel. In 2003, he joined the Clemson faculty, where he served as an Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. In 2013, he moved to UCSD as a Professor of NanoEngineering and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. He received a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2005 (from the Ceramics program) and an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator award in 2007 (from the Metallic Materials program). He served as the Chair of the Basic Science Division of the American Ceramic Society (2012-2013), the Chair of the Thin Films and Interfaces committee of TMS (2012-2014), and the 2018 Chair of the Ceramics Gordon Conference. Professor Luo is a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow (2014-2019) and a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (2016). Most recently, he was selected as one of the TMS 2019 Brimacombe Medalists “for significant contributions of understanding materials interfaces, especially developing grain boundary phase diagrams and uncovering the mysterious mechanisms of liquid metal embrittlement and activated sintering.” His works have been published in several papers in Science and Nature Comm. etc.