The 14th Global Conference on Materials Science and Engineering
(CMSE 2025)

Abstract: Polymeric materials have been modified by nano-materials in order to improve their mechanical, physical and materials properties so that the use of them would be increased in the main engineering applications. Specifically, elemental carbon based nanofillers have been under attention due to possibility of having carbon structures in different geometries. CQDs (Carbon-based Quantum Dots), CNT (Carbon Nanotubes) and GNP/GO/rGO (Graphene nanoplatelets/Graphene Oxide/Reduced Graphene Oxide) are just some of the carbon structures available with 0-D (Zero-dimensional), 1-D (One-dimensional) and 2-D (Two-dimensional). The use of different carbon based nanofillers in the polyurethane (PU) foams, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) will be given in the talk. Moreover, use of different dimensional carbon nanofillers in those polymers will also be discussed to further understand synergistic effect of using more than one nano-fillers on the properties of fabricated materials. The multifunctionality of polymer-nano-composites based on aforementioned approach will be presented in field of mechanical, thermal, acoustic, electrical and reverse osmosis membrane applications

Biography: Levent Trabzon is a faculty member of Mechanical Engineering at Istanbul Technical University, ITU. He completed B.Sc. degree on the Mechanical Engineering Department at Bogazici University, Istanbul in 1992 and M.Sc. degree on the Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh in 1995 and Ph.D. degree on Engineering Science Department at The Pennsylvania State University, State College, in 2000. He is also adjunct Professor at Samarkant State University and Tashkent State Technical University. He was the founding director of Nanotechnology Research and Application Center - ITUnano and he is currently director of MEMS Research Center. He has published more than 100 research articles in journals and conferences with 12 patents application. He has got several national and international awards including the Technology award from Elginkan Foundation for his contribution on MEMS technology and first place in the International Innovation Competition, IAM2021. His research interests are primarily on MEMS-Design and fabrication, nanotechnology/materials, microfluidics, surface science and polymer-nano-composites.