Dr Wei Min Huang is currently an Associate Professor (tenured) at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. With over 20 years of experience on various shape memory materials (alloy, polymer, composite and hybrid), he has published over 150 papers in journals, such as Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, Materials Today, Soft Matter, and Journal of Materials Chemistry, and has been invited to review manuscripts from over 150 international journals (including Progress in Polymer Science, Advanced Materials, Advanced functional materials, Small and biomaterials, etc), project proposals from American Chemical Society, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, etc, and book proposals from CRC. He has published two books (Thin film shape memory alloys – fundamentals and device applications, Polyurethane shape memory polymers) and is currently on the editorial board of over a dozen of international journals.

Research interest:

1.Shape memory materials and composites (bulk and thin film)

2.Laser annealing and micro fabrication

3.Thin films (characterization and materials/devices)

4.Micro/nano mechanics, nano patterning and indentation technology

5.Surface and optical properties of smart materials

6.Advanced and novel materials

7.Micro assembly and packaging, active disassembly

8.Deploy able and bi-stable structures

9.Materials selection

10.Flight mechanism in inserts

11.Micro biomedical devices

URL of Official Website: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/mwmhuang/  </xml> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;} </style> URL of Official Website: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/mwmhuang/

Skype ID: shape_memory_material@hotmail.com

Grant details: Current project: Self-coloring atop polymeric materials 

No. of Publications : 183

1.Sun L, Huang WM, Lu HB, Lim KJ, Zhou Y, Wang TX, Gao XY, Heating-responsive shape-memory effect in thermoplastic polyurethanes with low melt-flow index, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 215, 2014, 2430-2436
2.Zhang JL, Huang WM, Lu HB, Sun L, Thermo-/chemo-responsive shape memory/change effect in a hydrogel and its composites, Materials and Design, Vol. 53, 2014, 1077-1088
3.Sun L, Huang WM, Wang CC, Ding Z, Zhao Y, Tang C, Gao XY, Polymeric shape memory materials and actuators, Liquid Crystals, Vol. 41, 2014, No. 3, 277-289
4.Sun L, Huang WM, Lu HB, Wang CC, Tang C, Zhang JL, Shape memory technology for active assembly/disassembly: fundamentals, techniques and example applications, Assembly Automation, Vol. 34, No.1, 2014, 78-93
5.Wu XL, Huang WM, Ding Z, Tan HX, Yang WG, Sun KY, Characterization of the thermo-responsive shape memory effect in polyether ether ketone (PEEK), Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol. 131, 2014, 39844
6.Lu H, Liang F, Gou J, Huang WM, Leng J, Synergistic effect of self-assembled carbon nanopaper and multi-layered interface on shape memory nanocomposite for high speed electrical actuation, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 115, 2014, 064907
7.Lu H, Huang WM, Leng J, Functionally graded and self-assembled carbon nanofiber and boron nitride in nanopaper for electrical actuation of shape memory nanocomposites, Composites Part B: Engineering, Vol. 62, 2014, 1-4
8.Huang WM, Lu HB, Zhao Y, Ding Z, Wang CC, Zhang JL, Sun L, Fu J, Gao XY, Instability/collapse of polymeric materials and their structures in stimulus-induced shape/surface morphology switching, Materials and Design, Vol. 59, 2014, 174-192
9.Lu H, Huang WM, Wu XL, Ge YC, Zhang F, Zhao Y, Geng JF, Heating/ethanol-response of poly methyl methacrylate (PMMA) with gradient pre-deformation and potential applications in temperature sensor and anti-counterfeit, Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 23, 2014, 067002
10.Lu H, Yao Y, Huang WM, Leng J, Hui D. Significantly improving infrared light-induced shape recovery behavior of shape memory polymeric nanocomposite via a synergistic effect of carbon nanotube and boron nitride, Composites: Part B, C62, 2014, 256-261
11.Zhang JL, Huang WM, Gao G, Fu J, Zhou Y, Salvekar AV, Venkatraman SS, Wong YS, Tay KH, Birch WR, Shape memory/change effect in a double network nanocomposite tough hydrogel, European Polymer Journal, 58, 2014, 41-51
12.Yang WG, Lu H, Huang WM, Qi HJ, Wu XL, Sun KY, Advanced shape memory technology to reshape  product design, manufacturing and recycling, Polymers, 6, 2014, 2287-2308
13.Huang WM, Zhao Y, Zhang JL, Lu HB, Chemo-responsive shape memory/change effect in polymeric materials based on transport phenomena, Journal of Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer, 1, 2014, 16-22
14.Huang WM, Song CL, Fu YQ, Wang CC, Zhao Y, Purnawali H, Lu HB, Tang C, Ding Z. Zhang JL, Shaping tissue with shape memory materials, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, Vol. 65, 2013, 515-535
15.Cui HP, Song CL, Huang WM, Wang CC, Zhao Y, Rubber-like electrically conductive polymeric materials with shape memory, Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 22, 2013, 055024
16.Zhao Y, Wang CC, Huang WM, Purnawali H, Ethanol induced shape recovery and swelling in poly(methyl methacrylate) and applications in fabrication of microlens array, Advances in Science and Technology, Vol. 77, 2013, 354-358 
17.Tang C, Huang WM, Wang CC, From dual-shape/temperature memory effect to triple-shape memory effect in NiTi shape memory alloys, Advances in Science and Technology, Vol. 78, 2013, 1-6 
18.Chen YH, Skote M, Zhao Y, Huang WM, Stiffness evaluation of the leading edge of the dragonfly wing via laser vibrometer, Material Letters, Vol. 97, 2013, 166-168
19.Lu HB, Huang WM, Yao YT, Review of chemo-responsive shape change/memory polymers, Pigment & Resin Technology, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2013, 237-246
20.Lu H, Huang WM, Synergistic effect of self-assembled carboxylic acid-functionalized carbon nanotubes and carbon fiber for improved electro-activated polymeric shape-memory nanocomposite, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 102, 2013, 231910
21.Wu XL, Huang WM, Tan HX, Characterization of shape recovery via creeping and shape memory effect in ether-vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA), Journal of Polymer Research, Vol. 20, 2013, 150
22.Chen YH, Skote M, Zhao Y, Huang WM, Dragonfly (sympetrum flaveolum) flight: kinematic and measurement and modelling, Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol. 40, 2013, 115-126
23.Lu H, Huang WM, Liang, F, Yu K, Nanoscale design of nano-sized particles in shape-memory polymer nanocomposites driven by electricity, Materials, Vol. 6, 3742-3754
24.Lu H, Huang WM, On the origin of the Vogel–Fulcher–Tammann law in the thermo-responsive shape memory effect of amorphous polymers, Smart materials and Structures, Vol. 22, 2013, 105021
25.Lu H and Huang WM, A phenomenological model for the chemo-responsive shape memory effect in amorphous polymers undergoing viscoelastic transition, Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 22, 2013, 115019
26.Lu H, Yin W, Huang WM, Leng JS, Self-assembled carboxylic acid-functionalized carbon nanotubes grafting onto carbon fiber for significantly improving electrical actuation of shape memory polymers, RSC Advances, Vol. 3, Issue 44, 2013, p 21484-21488
27.Sun L and Huang WM, Reply to “Comment on ‘Mechanisms of the multi-shape memory effect and temperature memory effect in shape memory polymers’" by H. Lu, Soft Matter, 2013, 9, DOI:10.1039/C3SM51720A”, Soft Matter, Vol. 9, 2013, 11159
28.Wu XL, Huang WM, Seow ZG, Chin WS, Yang WG, Sun KY, Two-step shape recovery in heating-responsive shape memory polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and its thermally assisted self-healing, Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 22, 2013, 125023
29.Wu X, Huang WM, Zhao Y, Ding Z, Tang C, Zhang J, Mechanisms of the shape memory effect in polymeric materials, Polymers, Vol. 5, 2013, 1169-1202 and More.....

Prof Hermis Iatrou has received his PhD  in University of Athens, Chemistry Department on December 1993. Currently, he is working as a Professor and Director of the Industrial Chemistry Lab in the University of Athens. He has successfully completed his Administrative responsibilities as Director of Section II of the Chemistry Department of the University of Athens .He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals like Journal of Materials, Hindawi. He has authored 120 research articles/books. He is a member of Hellenic Polymer Society as well as the Hellenic Society of Applications of Nanomedicine.

Research Interest:

A. Polymer Synthesis

Β. Polymer Characterization and their Properties.

C. Solid State Properties of Polymers.

URL of Official Website: http://users.uoa.gr/~iatrou/index.html/web/

Skype ID: hermis.iatrou

Grant/ Funding Details: Participated as IP or member in more than 25 national and international projects.

No. of Publications: 117

1.Η. Iatrou and Ν. Hadjichristidis “Synthesis of a Model 3-Miktoarm Star Terpolymer.”
Macromolecules, 1992, 25, 4649.

2.Η. Iatrou and Ν. Hadjichristidis “Synthesis and Characterization of Model 4-Miktoarm Star Co- and Quaterpolymers.” Macromolecules, 1993, 26, 2479.

3.J. Roovers; Zhou Lin Lin; P. Toporowski; van der Zwan, Mark; H. Iatrou; and N. Hadjichristidis “Regular Star Polymers with 64 and 128 arms. Models for polymeric Micelles.” Macromolecules, 1993, 26, 4324.

4.N. Hadjichristidis; H. Iatrou; S. Behal; J. Chludzinski; M. Disko; R. Garner; S. Liang; D. Lohse; S.Milner
“Morphology and Miscibility of Miktoarm Styrene-Diene Copolymers and Terpolymers.” Macromolecules, 1993, 26, 5812.

5.G. Floudas; N. Hadjichristidis; H. Iatrou; T. Pakula; E. Fisher “Microphase Separation in Model 3-Miktoarm Star Copol (Simple Graft) and Terpolymers. 1. Statics and Kinetics” Macromolecules, 1994, 27, 7735.

6.H. Iatrou ; A. Avgeropoulos; N. Hadjichristidis “Synthesis of Model Super H-Shaped Block Copolymers.” Macromolecules, 1994, 27, 6232.

7.H. Iatrou; E. Siakali; N. Hadjichristidis; J. Roovers ; J. Mays “Hydrodynamic Properties of Model 3-Miktoarm Star Copolymers.” J. Polym. Sci. Part B: Polym. Phys. 1995, 33, 1925.

8.N. Hadjichristidis; H. Iatrou; Y. Tselikas; V. Efstratiadis Miktoarm Star Polymers.” Chim. Chron., New Series, 1995, 24, 189.

9.H. Iatrou; L. Willner; N. Hadjichristidis; A. Halperin; D. Richter  “Aggregation Phenomena of Model Super-H-Shaped Block Copolymers. Influence of the Architecture.” Macromolecules, 1996, 29, 581.

10.G. Floudas; N. Hadjichristidis; H. Iatrou; T. Pakula “Microphase Separation in Model 3-Miktoarm Star Co- and Terpolymers. 2. Dynamics.” Macromolecules, 1996, 29, 3139.

11.Y. Tselikas;  H. Iatrou; N. Hadjichristidis; S. Liang; K. Mohanty; D. Lohse “Morphology of Miktoarm Star Block Copolymers of Styrene and Isoprene.” J. Chem. Phys., 1996,105, 2456.

12.N. Hadjichristidis; Y. Tselikas; H. Iatrou; V. Efstratiadis;  A. Avgeropoulos “Model Nonlinear Block Copolymers: Synthesis, Characterization, Morphology.” J. Macromol. Sci. Pure Appl. Chem. 1996, A33, 1447.

13.N. Hadjichristidis; H. Iatrou; Y. Tselikas; J. Mays “Miktoarm Star Polymers.” Polymeric Materials Encyclopedia, Volume 6, 4398-4406, CRC Press, Boca Raton, N.Y., London, Tokyo.

14.H. Iatrou; J. Mays, and N. Hadjicrhistidis “Regular comb polystyrenes and graft polyisoprene/polystyrene copolymers with double branches (Centipedes). Quality of (1,3-henylene)bis(3-methyl-1-phenylpentylidene) dilithium initiator in the presence of polar additives” Macromolecules, 1998, 31, 6697.

15.G. Floudas; N. Hadjicrhistidis; H. Iatrou; A. Avgeropoulos; T. Pakula “Microphase separation in Super-H-shaped block copolymer colloids” Macromolecules, 1998, 31, 6943.

16.Ν. Hadjichristidis; S.Pispas; M. Pitsikalis; H. Iatrou and C. Vlahos “Asymmetric star polymers: Synthesis and properties” Advances in Polymer Science, 1999, 142, 71.

17.N. Chan; J. Hoffman; V. Lee; H. Iatrou; A. Avgeropoulos; N. Hadjichristidis; R. Miller and E. Thomas
“Ordered bicontinuous nanoporous and nanorelief ceramic films from self assembling polymer precursors”
Science, 1999, 286, 1716.

18.F. Beyer; S. Gido; C. Buschl; H. Iatrou; D. Uhrig; J. Mays; M. Chang; B. Garetz; N. Balsara; N. Tan; and N. Hadjichristidis “Graft copolymers with regularly spaced, tetrafunctional branch points: morphology and grain structure” Macromolecules, 2000, 33, 2039.

19.N. Hadjichristidis; M. Xenidou; H. Iatrou; M. Pitsikalis; Y. Poulos; A. Avgeropoulos; S. Sioula; S. Paraskeva; G. Velis; D. Lohse; D. Schultz; L. Fetters; P. Wright; R. Mendelson; C. Franco; T. Sun and C. Ruff “Well-defined, model long chain branched polyethylene. 1. Synthesis and characterization”
Macromolecules, 2000, 33, 2424.

20.V. Bellas; H. Iatrou and N. Hadjichristidis “Controlled anionic polymerization of hexamethylcyclotrisiloxane model linear and miktoarm star Co- and terpolymers of Dimehylsiloxane with Styrene and isoprene” Macromolecules, 2000, 33, 6993.

21.Y. Nakamura; Y. Wan; J. Mays; H. Iatrou and N. Hadjichristidis “Radius of gyration of polystyrene combs and centipedes in solution” Macromolecules, 2000, 33, 8328.

22.Ν. Hadjichristidis; H. Iatrou; S.Pispas and M. Pitsikalis “Αnionic polymerization: High vacuum techniques” J. Polym Sci A: Polym Chem, 2000, 38, 3211.

23.G. Wise; M. Denn; A. Bell; J. Mays, K. Hong, H. Iatrou “Surface Mobility and Slip of Polybutadiene Melts in Shear Flow” J. Rheol., 2000, 44(3), 549.

24.G. Floudas; B. Vazaiou; F. Schipper; R. Ulrich; U. Wiesner; H.Iatrou and N. Hadjichristidis
“Poly(ethylene oxide-b-isoprene) Diblock Copolymer Phase Diagram” Macromolecules, 2001, 34, 2947.

25.N. Hadjichristidis; M. Pitsikalis; S. Pispas and H. Iatrou, “Polymers with Complex Architectures by Living Anionic Polymerization” Chemical Reviews, 2001, 101, 3747.

26.H. Pasch; E. Esser; C. Kloninger; H. Iatrou and N. Hadjichristidis “Chromatographic Investigations of Macromolecules in the Critical range of Liquid chromatography. XIV. Analysis of miktoarm Star Polymers”
Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 2001, 202, 1424.

27.V. Bellas; H. Iatrou; Ε. Pitsinos and N. Hadjichristidis “Heterofunctional Linking Agents for the Synthesis of Well-Defined Block Copolymers of Dimethylsiloxane and t-Butyl Methacrylate or 2-Vinyl Pyridine” Macromolecules, 2001, 34, 5376.

28.R. Weidisch; S. Gido; D. Uhrig; H. Iatrou; J. Mays and N. Hadjichristidis “Tetrafunctional Multigraft Copolymers as Novel thermoplastic   Elastomers” Macromolecules, 2001, 34, 6333.

29.K Takahashi, H. Hasegawa, T. Hashimoto, V. Bellas, H. Iatrou, and N. Hadjichristidis “Four-Phase Triple Coaxial Cylindrical Microdomain Morphology in a Linear Tetrablock Quaterpolymer of Styrene, Isoprene, Dimethylsiloxane, and 2-Vinylpyridine” Macromolecules, 2002, 35, 4859.

30.Sophia Houli, Hermis Iatrou, NikosHadjichristidis, and Dimitris Vlassopoulos “Synthesis and Viscoelastic Properties of Model Dumbbell Copolymers Consisting of a Polystyrene Connector and Two32-Arm Star Polybutadienes” Macromolecules 2002, 35, 6592.

31.M. Stogiou; C. Kapetanaki and H. Iatrou “Examination of the Universality of the Calibration Curve of Size Exclusion Chromatography by using Polymers Having Complex Macromolecular Architectures.”
International Journal of Polymer Analysis and Characterization, 2002, 7, 273.

32.V. Bellas, E. Tegou, I. Raptis, P. Argitis, H. Iatrou, N. Hadjichristidis, E. Sarantopoulou, A. Cefalas,
“Evaluation of Siloxane and Polyhedral Silsesquioxane Copolymers for 157 nm Lithography” J. Vac. Sci. Technol. 2002, B 20 (6), 2902.

33.P. Fragouli, H. Iatrou, N. Hadjichristidis,“Synthesis and Characterization of Linear Diblock and Triblock Copolymers of 2-Vinyl Pyridine and Ethylene Oxide” Polymer 2002, 43, 7141.

34.Ν. Hadjichristidis, S.Pispas, H. Iatrou, M. Pitsikalis,“Linking chemistry and anionic polymerization”
Current Organic Chemistry 2002, 6, 155.

35.Ν. Hadjichristidis, S.Pispas, M. Pitsikalis, H. Iatrou, D. J. Lohse “Graft copolymers”
Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology, Wiley, 2002.

36.H. Iatrou, N. Hadjichristidis, G. Meier, H. Frielinghaus, and M. Monkenbusch “Synthesis and Characterization of Model Cyclic Block Copolymers of Styrene and Butadiene. Comparison of the Aggregation Phenomena in Selective Solvents with Linear Diblock and Triblock Analogues”
Macromolecules 2002, 35, 5426.
 
37.Y. Zhu, S. Gido, H. Iatrou, N. Hadjichristidis, J. Mays “Microphase Separation of Cyclic Block Copolymers of Styrene and Butadiene and of their Corresponding Linear Triblock Copolymers”
 Macromolecules 2003; 36; 148.

38.K. Yamauchi, K. Takahashi, H. Hasegawa, H. Iatrou, N. Hadjichristidis, T. Kaneko, Y. Nishikawa, H. Jinnai, T. Matsui, H. Nishioka, M. Shimizu, H. Furukawa “Microdomain Morphology in an ABC 3-Miktoarm Star Terpolymer: A study by Energy-Filtering TEM and 3D Electron Tomography” Macromolecules 2003, 36, 6962.

39.Y. Zhu, S. Gido, M. Moschakou, H. Iatrou, N. Hadjichristidis, S. Park, T. Chang “Effect of junction point functionality on the lamellar spacing of symmetric (PS)n(PI)n Miktoarm star block copolymers”
Macromolecules 2003, 36, 5719.

40.P. Fragouli, H. Iatrou, N. Hadjichristidis “Synthesis and characterization of linear tetrablock quarterpolymers of styrene, isoprene, dimethylsiloxane and 2-vinylpyridine” J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem. 2003, 42, 514.

41.Nikos Hadjichristidis,  Marinos Pitsikalis, Hermis Iatrou, Stergios Pispas “The Strength of the Macromonomer Strategy for Complex Macromolecular Architecture: Molecular Characterization, Properties and Applications of Polymacromonomers” Macromolecular Rapid Communications 2003, 24, 979.

42.Thrasyvoulos Aliferis, Hermis Iatrou, and Nikos Hadjichristidis “Living Polypeptides”
Biomacromolecules 2004, 5, 1653.

43.J. Mays, D. Uhrig, S. Gido, Y. Zhu, R. Weidisch, H. Iatrou, N. Hadjichristidis, K. Hong, F. Beyer, R. Lach, M. Buschnakowski “Synthesis and Structure-Property Relationship for Regular Multigraft Copolymers” Macromol. Symposia 2004, 215, 111.

44.X. Hu, Y. Zhu, S. Gido, T. Russell, H. Iatrou, N. Hadjichristidis, F. Abuzain, and B. Garetz “The effect of molecular architecture on the grain growth kinetics of AnBn star block copolymers” Faraday Discuss., 2005, 128, 103.

45.H. Iatrou, M. Pitsikalis, N. Hadjichristidis, “Hyperbranched Architectures. Synthesis-Characterization-Properties” NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry (2004), 175 (Modification and Blending of Synthetic and Natural Macromolecules, 73-89, 2004, Kluwer Academic Publishers).

46.M. Vamvakaki, L. Papoutsakis, V. Katsamanis, T. Afchoudia, P. Fragouli, H. Iatrou, N. Hadjichristidis, S. Armes, S. Sidorov, D. Zhirov, V. Zhirov, M. Kostylev, L. Bronstein and S. Anastasiadis “Micellization in pH-sensitive amphiphilic block copolymers in aqueous media and the formation of metal nanoparticles”
Faraday Discussions, 2005, 128, 129.

47.N. Hadjichristidis,  H. Iatrou, M. Pitsikalis, “Macromolecular Engineering”  McGraw Hill, Yearbook of Science and Technology 2005, 181.

48.K. Terao, B. Farmer, Y. Nakamura, H. Iatrou, K. Hong, J. Mays “Radius of Gyration of Polystyrene Combs and Centipedes in a Θ Solvent” Macromolecules 2005, 38, 1447.

49.N. Hadjichristidis, M. Pitsikalis and H. Iatrou “Synthesis of block copolymers”Advances in Polymer Science 2005, 189, 1.

50.N. Hadjichristidis, H. Iatrou, M. Pitsikalis, S. Pispas, A. Avgeropoulos “Linear and Non-Linear Multiblock Terpolymers. Synthesis, Self-Assembly in Selective Solvents and in Bulk” Progress in Polymer Science 2005, 30, 725. and More....