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Aravind Dasari is a Ph.D. candidate at the CAMT under the guidance of Professor Yiu-Wing Mai. He received his B.Tech. degree in 1999 from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India, and MS degree in 2003 from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. His research interests include wear/scratch damage, deformation/fracture mechanisms, and flame retardancy behaviour of polymer nanocomposites.

Szu-Hui (Cynthia) Lim received her B.Eng. (Hons) and M.Phil. degrees in 2001 and 2003, respectively, from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK. She is a Ph.D. student at the CAMT, University of Sydney, under the supervision of Professor Yiu-Wing Mai. Her research area is on the structure–property relationships of polymer nanocomposites, particularly their fracture toughness and deformation mechanisms.

Dr Zhong-ZhenYu, Ph.D., received a doctoral degree in process engineering from the National Institute of Polytechnic at Lorraine, France, in 2001. From 1996 to 1999 he was a Research Fellow in the State Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is currently an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow in the CAMT, University of Sydney. He has published over 60 refereed papers in scientific journals. His research interest focusses on polymer processing, polymer physics, and polymer nanocomposites.

Professor Yiu-Wing Mai, B.Sc. Ph.D. D.Sc. D.Eng. FAA FTSE FHKEng FASME FHKIE FIEAust, is University Chair, Federation Fellow, and Director, Centre for Advanced Materials Technology (CAMT), at the University of Sydney since its inception in 1988. He has a general research interest on the processing–structure–property relationships of a broad range of advanced materials, fracture and fatigue mechanics, and tribological aspects of polymer nanocomposites and superhard coatings. Professor Mai is a highly cited researcher in the field of Materials Science.