Zhiyong (Richard) Liang, Ph.D.
Professor, Indutrial & Manufacturing Engineering

Richard Liang, a professor in the industrial and manufacturing engineering department and chief technologist for the High Performance Materials Institute (HPMI), was one of the 11 faculty members the FSU Office of Research honored for making great strides to commercialize their research results. Dr. Liang was noted for his work in Novel Lightweight, Flexible electro- magnetic interference (EMI) Shielding Material. He was noted for building one or more demonstration devices to show the level of electromagnetic shielding that can be obtained using composites fabricated in varying thicknesses with one or more carbon nanotube face layers.

Research Interests

  • Nanostructured materials and nanotube composites
  • Lightweight multifunctional materials
  • Modeling, simulation and optimization of composite manufacturing processes
  • Engineering materials and manufacturing processes