Post-Doctorate Fellow
yicheng.du@utoronto.ca
Advisors
Professor Ning Yan, Advanced Forest Bio-Materials Laboratory, Faculty of Forestry
Professor Mark Kortschot, Advanced Materials Group, Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
Education
PhD (2010), Mississippi State University, US
ME (2004) and BSc (2001), Nanjing Forestry University, China
Research
Research Interests:
- Natural fiber-reinforced polymer composites fabrication and process optimization
- Composite mechanical and thermal property characterization
- Composite mechanical property enhancement and modeling
Current research:
- Developing sandwich structured panels with bio-based composite skins and cores
- Sandwich structure design, process development, and mechanical property prediction
- Improving impact properties of natural fiber-reinforced polymer composites
