Ph.D. Candidate, Yunzhi Xu wins Trustee Award of the ECD Best Poster Awards from the American Ceramic Society

Congratulations to Yunzhi for receiving a Trustee Award of the ECD Best Poster Awards by the Engineering Ceramics Division (ECD) of The American Ceramic Society. The award consists of an award certificate and a complimentary ACerS Global Graduate Researcher Network (GGRN) membership.  Yunzhi presented her poster at the 46th International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC2022), which detailed her work on developing a novel approach to wet electrospinning to yield fiber-reinforced polymer ceramic composites.

 Yunzhi is in her fourth year of Ph.D. studies in Dr. Ange Akono’s Sustainability and Nanomechanics lab in the CEE Department, where the main research focus is the investigation of fracture at the nanoscale in complex material systems. Yunzhi received her B.E. degree in 2015 from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and her M.E. degree in 2018 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Yunzhi’s research interests include composite materials, fracture mechanics, and electrospinning. Her current research focuses on the design and manufacturing of nanofiber-reinforced ceramic composites based on electrospinning methods, from controlling the distribution of nanofibers to characterizing the material behavior at the nanoscale, to accelerating the discovery of organic-inorganic nanocomposites with enhanced physical and mechanical properties.