Ziyao Zhao earned a BSc in Materials Science and Engineering in 2022, and an MSc at Imperial College London, focusing on developing a polystyrene microfluidic mixer for 3D bio-printing. Her research experience spans metal materials, secondary battery simulations, and biotesting. Ziyao is working on designing acoustic metamaterials integrated with ultrasound transducers for broadband excitation and reception of guided waves, utilizing additive manufacturing. The aim is to create a metamaterial matching layer with a gradient acoustic impedance to transfer energy across a wide frequency range efficiently.
Project objectives
- Develop numerical tools for simulation of GW in bones and osseointegrated implants transmitted and registered by ultrasonic transducer
- Investigate methods for ultrasonic transducer enhancement by MMs matching layer
- Perform feasibility studies of multi-mode QUS methods for fractured bone healing and osseointegrated implant monitoring
Supervision and secondments
Hosted at
Instytut Maszyn Przepływowych im Roberta Szewalskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk (IMP-PAN), Gdansk, Poland
Supervisors
Prof. Wieslaw Ostachowicz
PhD enrolment
IMP-PAN Tricity Doctoral School, Polish Academy of Sciences, PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Gdansk, Poland
Secondments
CNRS, Amazemet, OrthoSens