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2025 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit
2025 MRS Communications Lecture
Monday, April 7
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Summit, Level 4, Terrace Suite 1
The MRS Communications Lecture recognizes excellence in the field of materials research through work published in MRS Communications during the previous year.
Kelvin Fu
University of Delaware
Fu will speak on the limitations of conventional 3D printing in composite manufacturing and how emerging technologies can address these challenges. He will discuss how novel composite processing techniques enable new architectures and functionalities that go beyond what is currently achievable with additive manufacturing.
The talk is a broader look at the research area that included his paper published in March 2024, "Additively manufactured 3D short carbon fiber scaffold for thermoset composites" with Chunyan Zhang, in which they presented a novel process utilizing shear force to create 3D scaffold with customized fiber alignment for the manufacturing of short carbon fiber-reinforced thermoset composites for which results demonstrated greatly improved tensile strength and tensile modulus compared to neat epoxy.
Biography
Kelvin Fu is the Terri Connor Kelly and John Kelly Career Development Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware and a faculty member at the Center for Composite Materials. He is the co-founder of CarbonForm Inc. and serves as an assistant editor for Composites Part B: Engineering. Fu directs the Composite & Additive Manufacturing Laboratory, where his research focuses on advancing composite materials and additive manufacturing technologies. He was honored with the 2023 Outstanding Early Career Faculty Award at the University of Delaware. His innovation in 3D printing was a finalist for the TCT Hardware Award - Non-Polymer Systems at the TCT Awards 2024 and a winner/finalist of the Award for Composites Excellence at CAMX.
Call for Papers
Advanced Polymers and Nanostructured Materials
MRS Communications will publish a topical issue that will cover the design, synthesis, and characterization of advanced polymers and the fabrication and application of advanced materials. This issue will address comprehensive material fabrication processes, including AI- and ML-directed methods, 3D and 4D (3D + time) printing for advanced materials, and material design with advanced techniques at the atomic or nanometer level. Topics include polymer modifications, functional polymers, microstructure and properties relationship, biopolymers and bio-based materials/bioplastics, polymers for energy and biomedical applications, and more.