Liming Dai

Ph.D., P.Eng., ASME Fellow

Professor, Industrial Systems Engineering

Office: ED 436.12

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: 306-585-4498

Fax: 306-585-4855

Website: http://uregina.ca/~dailimli/

Professor Liming Dai is a UNSW Scientia Professor and an ARC Laureate Fellow. He is also Funding Director of the Centre for Advanced Carbon Materials at UNSW. Previously, he was a Principal Research Scientist in CSIRO at Clayton (1992-2002), an Associate Professor of Polymer Engineering at the University of Akron (2002-2004), the Wright Brothers Institute Endowed Chair Professor of Nanomaterials at the University of Dayton (2004-2009), and the Kent Hale Smith Professor in the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University (2009-2019).

Professor Dai’s expertise covers the synthesis, functionalization, and device fabrication of conjugated polymers and carbon nanomaterials for energy-related and biomedical applications. Among his many pioneering scientific achievements, he is widely recognised as a pioneer and leading scientist in the research and development of carbon-based metal-free electrocatalysts for renewable energy technologies. He has published more than 500 journal publications with citations over 83,000 and an h-index of 146 (as of Aug 2020, Google Scholar). He has also published a researchonograph on intelligent macromolecules and 5 edited/co-edited books on carbon nanomaterials for advanced energy systems and biomedical applications, including 2-volume edited book on Carbon-based Metal-free Catalysts by Wiley-VCH. He is a Clarivate Analytics World’s Highly Cited Researcher (both in Materials and Chemistry). He serves as an Associate Editor of Nano Energy and editorial board member of more than 10 international journals.  

Professor Dai has been honoured with many awards and accolades, most recently receiving the 2019 IUMRS-Somiya Award from the International Union of Materials Research Societies, the 2019 Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship, and the 2018 Advanced Materials Hall of Fame. He also severs as an Advisory Committee Member of the American Carbon Society. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials, Fellow of the (US) National Academy of Inventors and Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences.

Research interests

Linear and non-linear vibrations/oscillations and the control of vibrations subjected to static and dynamic loadings; Numerical simulation of nonlinear dynamical systems, sound and wave propagation; Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) with seismic wave and vibration stimulation; Industrial noise, traffic noise, and noise control with acoustic design for industrial and domestic facilities; Analysis with Finite Element Method, Non-linear Dynamics, and Fracture Mechanics for assessment of crack initiation and propagation in materials under cyclical loading, high pressure, and high temperature; Metallurgy, microstructures, and property aspects of engineering materials and welding of engineering materials; Design (CAD, FEA) and manufacturing (CAM) aspects of pressure vessels, piping, and LPG transportation vehicles used in petroleum industries; Strategies and analysis of engineering and operations management

Ph.D. (University of Calgary)

M.Sc. (University of Regina)

Program Area

Industrial Systems Engineering

Education

Ph.D., Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 1991 

B.Sc., Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 1983   

Research and Work Experience

Kent Hale Smith Professor, Case Western Reserve University, 2009-present

Wright Brothers Institute Endowed Chair Professor, University of Dayton, 2004-2009

Associate Professor, Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, 2002-2004 

Principal Research Scientist, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Clayton, Australia, 1992-2002 

Visiting Fellow, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 1990-1992 

Engineer, Zhejiang Chemical Industry Research Institute, Hangzhou, China, 1983-1986

Research Interests

Dr. Dai’s research interests cover several fields, including the synthesis, chemical modification, and device fabrication of functional polymers and carbon nanomaterials for energy and bio-related device applications.

Honors and Awards

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)

Associate Editor, Nano Energy (Elsevier, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/nano-energy/)

Member of the Advisory Committee, American Carbon Society, 2016-

Member of the Advisory Editorial Board of the ACS Nano, 2014-

Member of the International Advisory Board of ChemNanoMat, 2014-

Member of the Advisory Editorial Board of the Materials Research Express, IOP, 2013-

Member of the Advisory Editorial Board of Nano Energy, Elsevier, 2011-

Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Nano Energy and Power Research, 2010-

Member of the Advisory Editorial Board of the Journal of Physical Chemistry, ACS, 2012-2014

Member of the Advisory Editorial Board of the Chinese Science Bulletin, 2012-2014

Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2001-2005

Honorary Professor, National Central University, Taiwan, 2016-

Honorary Professor, Wollongong University, 2015-

Honorary Professor, Deakin University, 2012-

LuJian Xi Adjunct Professor, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (CAS), 2017-

Adjunct Professor, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, 2012-

Adjunct Professor, Griffith University, 2010-

Adjunct Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology, 2010-

Adjunct Professor, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, 2009-

Adjunct Professor, Wenzhou Medical College, 2008-

The Guan-Biao Honorary Professor, Zhejiang University, 2006- 

Advisory Professor, East China Normal University, 2006- 

Adjunct Professor, Institute of Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1999- 

2018 NASA-Langley Henry J.E. Reid Award

2016 Case Western Reserve University Faculty Distinguished Research Award

2014 Case Western Reserve University CSE Research Award

2006 Sigma Xi's George Noland Research Award 

2006 Outstanding Engineers and Scientists Award, Ohio

2003 IUPAC Young Observer Award 

Member of NSF Panel Reviews 

Scientific Advisory Board Member, Lifeboat Foundation

Member of CNMS Proposal Review Committee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Highly Cited Researcher, Chemistry, Materials (Thomson Reuters, http:highlycited.com/ )

h-index > 130; Citations ~60,000 (Source: Google Scholar)