Professor Peter P. Tsai, a retired and adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee, was invited to visit our college on the morning of December 18, 2024, to give an offline academic report for the teachers and students of our college. The title of the academic report is: "Properties and Electrostatic Charging of Meltblown Nonwoven Fabrics". The academic report was chaired by Professor Liu Yanbo. Professor Liu Yanbo and some teachers of the college listened to the report and participated in the exchange and discussion in the 8H302 conference room of the college. A large number of teachers and students also listened to this academic report.
Professor Liu Yanbo first introduced the scientific research and work experience of Professor Peter P. Tsai and extended a warm welcome to Professor Peter P. Tsai's presence. In the lecture, with the topic of "Properties and Electrostatic Charging of Meltblown Nonwoven Fabrics", Peter P. Tsai introduced the research background of this subject and shared the electrostatic charging and meltblowing processes. Electrostatic charging means embedding permanent charges into fibers to form electrets, thereby improving the filtration efficiency through electrostatic attraction. The meltblowing process is a non-woven fabric manufacturing process that manufactures ultra-fine fibers into non-woven fabrics by dispersing polymer resins under high-speed air. Then, Professor Tsai also shared the innovative method of N95 masks, using an electric field to ionize neutral air to generate ions and electrons, and then charging the non-woven fabric through the electric field and electromagnetic induction. Using this innovative method without increasing air resistance, the efficiency of the charged non-woven fabric in filtering air particles is ten times that of the uncharged non-woven fabric. Besides masks, Professor Tsai's technology has also been applied to other fields in the past 30 years, such as HVAC filters and medical masks. Professor Peter P. Tsai had a heated discussion with the participating teachers and students on electrostatic charging and the meltblowing process, answering questions and solving doubts for them. The participating teachers and students said that the lecture was full of practical content and they gained a lot. Finally, the participating teachers and students expressed their sincere gratitude to Professor Peter P. Tsai.
Personal Profile:
Peter P. Tsai is currently a retired and adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee and a consultant for many global companies, providing professional technical support and consulting services for these companies. In terms of educational and academic background, Professor Tsai once served as a university research professor at the University of Tennessee and conducted frontier scientific research as a distinguished scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. In addition, he is also an international cooperation professor and visiting professor at many universities around the world, greatly promoting international academic exchanges and cooperation. Professor Tsai has fruitful research achievements. His personal H-index is 19, and he has published 45 papers in total, with a total citation count of 1790 times. He has published 6 papers in top journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications, and Cancer Research. His main research directions cover biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, agricultural and forestry sciences, medicine, immunology and microbiology, etc. His outstanding contributions have also won numerous honors and awards, including the Federal Laboratory Consortium Impact Award, the University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) Innovation Award and Technology Transfer Award, the UT Research Foundation Wheeley Innovator Hall of Fame Award, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director's Award, the UT-BATTELLE Awards Night Award, the 2021 American R&D Award, the Knox.biz Healthcare Heroes Award, the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) Legend Award, the University of Tennessee Department of Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Award, the UT Research Foundation Legend Award, the American Filtration and Separation Society (AFS) Lifetime Membership Award, the Museum of Chinese in America Innovator Award, and the Chinese American Academic and Professional Society (CAAP) Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award, etc. These honors fully demonstrate his outstanding achievements and influence in the fields of scientific research and technology transfer.
