Mineral Materials for Building Products: Creating Lighter, Stronger Concrete with Waste Additives
Speaker: Dr. Yunfei Xi
Date: Wednesday 28th June, 2023
Time: 12:00 – 13:00
Location: QUT Garden’s Point, P-421 (Kindler Theatre)
Zoom Meeting ID: 819 668 3317
Agenda:
Associate Professor Yunfei Xi is an accomplished researcher at the School of Chemistry and Physics & the Central Analytical Research Facility at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Over the past two decades he has contributed significantly to his research field toward the advancement of fundamental knowledge on mineral structure, property, and characterisation, particularly for clay minerals. His research has led to some major breakthroughs on reactions of nano- and micro- particles on surfaces and interfaces of minerals, and development of novel functional materials/catalysts for environmental remediation (wastewater and VOCs). While these areas continue to be his interest, in recent years, he has extended his focus towards building products, while developing consumer products at an affordable cost with reduced energy consumption and CO2 emission.
Since commenced his PhD at QUT in 2003, he has authored or co-authored over 200 peer reviewed journal articles. His publications have been cited more than 11,400 times (H-index of 53, i10-index of 153, Google Scholar, or H-index of 48, Scopus). The quality of his publications has been recognised by several award bodies, for example, five papers are ranked in the ‘Top 1%’ by Essential Science Indicators in the fields of Engineering, Chemistry and Geosciences, and two papers are ranked as ‘Top Cited Article’ and ‘Most Cited Article’ by Elsevier. With his colleagues from different research fields, he has been awarded with a few grants in recent years, including three highly competitive fellowships, i.e., Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellowship at QUT (2013) and Advance QLD Fellowship (2017). His ARC Industrial Mid-career Fellowship (2023) is a most recent prestigious award to acknowledge his significant contributions to the field.
His research has brought significant technical supports and benefits to local industries, e.g., for Brickworks Ltd (one of the two largest Australian companies producing building materials), its Rochedale site (Austral Bricks) is recognised as the most energy efficient, productive and innovative factory in the group company, and is producing the most advanced and high value products at scale. Best practices out of this factory operation have since been applied with similar operational improvements across 10 Austral Bricks factories in Australia.
He is a strong advocate for, and leader of, the advancement of Clay Science in Australia, USA and also in China and Asia, where he is well-respected by colleagues. He has been working as chair or co-chair in some key conferences in his research field and is an active participant in professional committees, journals, and a few funding bodies.
Details:
| Location: | QUT GP, P-421 |
| Start Date: | 28/06/2023 [add to calendar] |
| Start Time: | 12:00 |
| End Time: | 13:00 |
| RSVP By: | Friday 23rd of June 2023 |
| Enquiries: | Jayden Fryer (Project Officer): fryerj@qut.edu.au |
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