Carbon Nanomaterials: Modeling, Design, and Applications

Dr. Kun Zhou is an Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Deputy Director of Environmental Process Modelling Centre, Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), He received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from NTU in 2006, and both his M.Eng. and B.Eng. degrees in mechanical engineering from Tsinghua University, China in 2001 and 1998, respectively. His research interests focus on computational materials science, nanomaterial synthesis, characterization and modelling, and contact mechanics and tribology. He has published 17 book chapters and over 250 papers in refereed international journals. He serves as a founding editor of Journal of Micromechanics and Molecular Physics, an associate editor of Mechanics Research Communications, and an editorial board member of International Journal of Applied Mechanics, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, Virtual and Physical Prototyping, Polymers, and Materials Physics and Mechanics.

• 1. Modeling Mechanical Properties of Graphene-Based and Diamond-Like Nanostructures 2. Anharmonic Excitations in Graphene and Other 2-D Nanomaterials 3. Modeling Thermal Properties of Graphene and Graphene-Based Nanostructures 4. Modeling of Thermal Conductivity of Carbon Nanotubes and Nanoribbons 5. Amorphous Carbon–Based Films: Structures, Properties, and Applications 6. Carbon Nanomaterials for Tribological Applications 7. Carbon Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications 8. Carbon Nanomaterials for Sandwich-Type Energy-Storage Devices 9. Carbon Nanomaterials for In-Plane Energy-Storage Devices 10. Carbon Nanomaterials for Electrochemical Energy Conversion 11. Carbon Nanomaterial–Based Membranes for Seawater Desalination

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