Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Interests:
Functional polymer composite materials (thermal conductivity, electromagnetic shielding, wave absorption, etc.); Fiber-reinforced advanced resin-based composite materials (thermal conductivity, wave transmission, ablation resistance, etc.)
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Bio:
Professor Junwei Gu, Ph.D. Supervisor, Chinese National-Level Leading Talent, Shaanxi Provincial Outstanding Young Researcher, and Leader of the Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Innovation Team for "Thermally Conductive Polymer Composites". He has been elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. He has been selected as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics and a Most Cited Chinese Researcher by Elsevier. He is currently the Dean of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Northwestern Polytechnical University, Deputy Secretary-General/Director of the Chinese Society for Composite Materials, Executive Deputy Director of the Thermally Conductive Composite Materials Professional Committee, and Deputy director of the Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science and Technology. He is mainly engaged in researches on the design, preparation and molding processing of functional polymer composites and fiber-reinforced advanced resin matrix composites. As the first/second completer, he has won 4 provincial and ministerial scientific research awards including the second prize of Shaanxi Provincial Natural Science Award and the second prize of Ministry of Education Technology Invention Award. He has also won the Young Scientist Award of the Chinese Society for Composite Materials, the Polymer Innovation Paper Award of the Chinese Chemical Society (2 times), and the “New Innovation Award” for polymer molding and processing and its industrial development. He has presided over more than 20 projects at the provincial and ministerial level and above, including key projects of the Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published more than 160 academic papers as the first and/or corresponding author in journals such as Angew Chem Int Ed, Adv Mater and Macromolecules, with more than 29,000 citations and an H-factor of 107. He serves as the chief/co-editor of 4 monographs. 34 national invention patents have been authorized. He serves as associate editors and editorial board members of several journals such as Compos Sci Technol, Nano-Micro Lett, etc. He has also won the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award and the second prize of the Shaanxi Provincial Teaching Achievement Award.