Qimeng Yang
PhD Candidate
Anti-icing; HVOF; Quasicrystalline coating
email: qimeng.yang@mail.utoronto.ca
Biosketch
I did my MASc at the University of Alberta with Prof. Xuehua Zhang working on the adhesion of oilsands to solid surfaces at low temperature, and received my BS in Materials Engineering from University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB). In my daily life, I like playing badminton and basketball. I’m also a fan of the video games and usually play with my friends in my leisure time.
Research
For the Ph.D. project, I’m working on studying the reduction of ice adhesion at large scale and the fabrication of quasicrystalline coatings via High Velocity Oxygen Fuel (HVOF) method. Quasicrystals (QC) are a class of metallic materials that demonstrate low surface energy and mechanical durability against erosions. The low interfacial toughness with ice (LIT property, proposed by Prof. Kevin Golovin in 2019) was recently found in QC and my research goal is to tune the QC coating for the optimized de-icing performance coupling with excellent erosion resistance.