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Prof. Yan Yi, from the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of NPU, is responsible for the undergraduate course “ Polymer Degradation”, which is fully English and school’s first-class undergraduates course, and the graduate courses, including “Frontiers of Modern Polymer Chemistry,” “Organometallic Chemistry,” and “Supramolecular Chemistry.”

His research interests include the hybridization of functional polyoxometalate clusters, synthesis and supramolecular assembly of stimuli-responsive materials, hybrid surfactants and colloid interfaces, metal-based supramolecular systems, synthesis and functionality of polymers, catalysis, corrosion protection, nuclear shielding, and particular materials for nuclear medicine.

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Fu Maosen，an associate professor and Ph.D. holder, is from the School of Materials Science and Engineering of NPU. He is responsible for the undergraduate course “Structural Characterization” in English.

His research interests: (1) structure, properties, and applications of advanced functional dielectric materials and energy materials; (2) microstructure-property relationships in high-performance wear-resistant metallic materials; (3) structural and microstructural analysis; (4) material structural phase transitions.

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Prof. Zheng Zebang, a Ph.D. supervisor, from the School of Materials Science and Engineering of NPU.. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the School of Materials Science and Engineering of NPU in 2012. From 2012 to 2018, he studied at Imperial College London in the United Kingdom under the supervision of Prof. Fionn Dunne, and then obtained a Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering. In September 2018, he returned to China through NPU’s “Aoxiang Overseas Scholars Program.”

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Prof, Wang Jun is a professor and Ph.D. holder in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical University. He teaches the undergraduate course “Metal II—Alloy Systems and Heat Treatment” (taught entirely in English). His main research focuses on metal materials and the control of their microstructure and properties. He is particularly interested in solidification science and technology, materials processing under strong magnetic fields, high-entropy alloys, and amorphous alloys.

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Chen Yanhui is a professor and Ph.D. holder in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical University. She teaches the undergraduate course “Polymer Characterization” (taught entirely in English) and the graduate course “Advances in Polymer Materials Processing” (taught entirely in English). Her main research interests include: (1) Controlling the morphology and properties of semi-crystalline polymers under forming and processing conditions; (2) Designing and synthesizing functional, intelligent, and high-performance polymers; (3) Investigating the structure construction, property control, and mechanisms of polymer nanocomposites; (4) Methodology of synchrotron X-ray scattering; (5) Simulation and machine learning of material properties.

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Kong Jie is a professor and Ph.D. holder. He is a recipient of the National Distinguished Youth Science Fund and the Ministry of Education’s New Century Excellent Talents program. He teaches the undergraduate course “Elastomeric Materials” (taught entirely in English).

His main research focuses on (1) Design and synthesis of hyperbranched polymers; (2) High-temperature ceramic precursor materials. (3) High-temperature absorptive/ transmissive materials; (4) 3D printing of electromagnetic “metamaterials;” (5) Electrode materials for sodium-ion and lithium-ion batteries.

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Chen Fang is an associate professor and Ph.D. holder in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical University. She teaches the undergraduate course “Elastomeric Materials” (taught entirely in English). Her main research focuses on the green synthesis and structure-property optimization of organic-inorganic hybrid functional materials.

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Prof. Shi Xuetao, a Ph.D. in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical University is responsible for the undergraduate course “Polymer Processing” (taught entirely in English). Her main research focuses on the design and characterization of biodegradable polyester structures.

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Zhuang Qiang is an associate professor and holds a Ph.D. in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of NPU. He obtained doctoral degree in Materials Science from Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2015. He conducted a visiting study at Northwestern University in the United States from 2010 to 2012 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at UNIST in South Korea from 2017 to 2019.

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Prof. Luan Xingang, a Ph.D. from the School of Materials Science and Engineering of NPU is the Director of the Sino-German Joint Research Center for Ultra-High-Temperature Ceramic Matrix Composites at Northwestern Polytechnical University and Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. He is also in charge of the International Science and Technology Cooperation Base for Ultra-High-Temperature Ceramic Matrix Composites Preparation in Qingdao. He is a member of the Ceramic Matrix Composites Branch of the Chinese Society for Composite Materials and a member of the Outstanding Science and Technology Innovation Team of Academician Zhang Litong in the defense science and technology industry. He is a core member of the Changjiang Scholars Innovative Team led by Professor Cheng Laifei.

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Prof. Li Wenya, a doctoral supervisor from the School of Materials Science and Engineering of NPU, is a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor appointed by the Ministry of Education and the director of the Shaanxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Friction Welding Engineering and Technology. He is responsible for the undergraduate courses, including “Solid State Welding,” “Manufacturing Processes,” and “Introduction to Materials and Chemical Engineering.”

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Prof. Chen Biao, a doctoral supervisor, is from at Northwestern Polytechnical University. He is recognized as a national-level young talent. His research focuses on the forming of metallic materials. He has published over 100 SCI papers, including three highly cited papers, with a total citation count of over 3,000. He has been granted 14 national invention patents. Professor Chen Biao has led eight national-level projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation General Program and the Youth Program, as well as six provincial-level projects. As the principal investigator, he received the Research Progress Award from the Japan Society of Powder and Powder Metallurgy. He is responsible for the undergraduate core course “Fatigue and Creep Failure” and the university-wide elective course “Development History of Metal Materials for Aerospace.”

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