Shi-Qing Wang
Kumho Professor
University of Akron
USA
Biography
Prof. Shi-Qing Wang, a world leader in Polymer rheology and Mechanics, came to University of Akron in 2000 after serving 11 years on the faculty in the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. He joined CWRU in October 1989 after receiving a Ph.D. in Physics from University of Chicago in 1987, and rose to the rank of full professorship in 1998 while developing a research style to internalize experimental and theoretical activities. At UA Wang has built a unique research program that resulted in a paradigm shift in the field of nonlinear rheology of entangled polymers and a book- Physics of Nonlinear Polymer Rheology (Wiley, 2015). The more recent adventure of his research group has explored a working theoretical framework for mechanical behavior of polymer glasses that could guide us in new molecular design of stronger polymer materials.
Research Interest
Nonlinear Polymer Rheology