Bingqing (B.Q.) Wei
Professor
EDUCATION
PhD | Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University
MS | Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University
BS | Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Dr. Bingqing (B. Q) Wei is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University from 2003 to 2007. He had worked as a research scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center from 2000 to 2003. Dr. Wei was a visiting scientist for Max-Planck Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany in 1998 and 1999. From 1992 to 2001, he was a faculty member at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where he received his Bachelor’s degree (1987), M.S (1989), and Ph.D. (1992) in Mechanical Engineering.
Dr. Wei’s research interest and expertise lie in nanomaterials and nanotechnology. His research interests have been focusing on the synthesis, processing, characterization, and physical properties of carbon nanostructures, carbon nanotube nanocomposites, and applications of carbon nanostructures in energy conversion and storage devices. His scholarly achievements in nanomaterials and nanotechnology are adequately reflected by his 365 papers published in refereed international journals, 122 scientific conference presentations, and 230 invited talks and seminars in academia and industry worldwide. His research work has been cited more than 35500 times by peer scientists with an h-index of 96 (Web of Science) (more than 45200 times with an h-index of 106 on Google Scholar). Dr. Wei is among the Highly Cited Researchers from Clarivate for his research on nanomaterials that enable energy conversion and storage. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, he is the inaugural Field-Chief-Editor of Frontiers in Nanotechnology.
RESEARCH AREAS
- Clean Energy & Environment
- Composites & Advanced Materials
- Nanotechnology
FACULTY EXPERTISE
- Materials Engineering
