New PhD student joins ACG 

New student joins ACG in spring 2018 

We are pleased to welcome new PhD student Kaibao Wang, who began his studies with ACG in spring 2018. Kaibao is part of our growing team of research students supervised by Dr Liu Yang.

The topic of Kaibao’s project is mechanical and thermal performance of aerogel composites for thermal insulation application and development. In his research he will attempt to harness the properties of aerogels such as high porosity, low density and low thermal conductivity that make them excellent potential thermal insulators, whilst overcoming factors that limit their application such as relatively poor mechanical properties.