05/2012 – Present, Professor, The Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry - Chinese Academy of Sciences (XJIPC-CAS), Urumqi, China.

11/2018 – Present, Director, Laboratory of Environmental Science and Technology, XJIPC-CAS, China.

Education:

08/2005 – 08/2008, PhD in Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, China.

08/2007 – 12/2007, Exchange PhD Student, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea.

09/2001 – 06/2004, MSc in Polymer Chemistry and Physics, Lanzhou University, China.

09/1997 – 07/2001, BSc in Chemistry, Lanzhou University, China.

Working Experience:

07/2015 – 08/2015, Visiting Scientist, Department of Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark.

03/2010 – 04/2012, Research Fellow, Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Germany.

09/2008 – 02/2010, Visiting Scholar, HKUST, Hong Kong.

07/2004 – 08/2005, Chemical Engineer, Yunnan Reascend Company, Kunming, China.

Research Interests:

Materials for separation science and technology;

Basalt and corresponding fiber/FRP structures;

Polymer composites/nanocomposites;

System integration.

Selected Awards and Honors:

• 04/2021, World’s Top 2% Scientists 2020 (Both single year of 2019 and career long data), Stanford University.
• 11/2019, Excellent Young Scientist, Chinese Society for Composite Materials.
• 05/2018, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), UK.
• 05/2015, Composites Part A - Editor's Top Reviewer Award 2015, Elsevier.
• 03/2015, Visiting Researcher at the Technical University of Denmark, Alliance of Universities Denmark.
• 12/2014, Awardee of China-Germany Scientific Cooperation Program (PPP), China Scholarship Council (CSC, China) and Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD, Germany).
• 04/2014, KC Wong Educational Fellowship (Hong Kong) for Academic Conference.
• 03/2010 – 04/2012, Humboldt Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation, Germany.
• 11/2007, Best Student Paper Award, The 9th International Symposium on Electronic Materials and Packaging (EMAP-2007), Daejeon, South Korea.
• 11/2006, Golden Award of the Best Student Paper Competition, The 5th Asian-Australasian Conference on Composite Materials (ACCM-5), Hong Kong.

Publications:

• Ma PC, Kim JK. Carbon Nanotubes for Polymer Reinforcement. CRC Press, USA, 2011/2017 (See More).Selected Papers (Total: 90 papers, with 8.1K citations-Scopus, 10.1K Citations-Google scholar)
• Z. S. GUO, D. XING, X. Y. XI, X. YUE, C. G. LIANG, B. HAO, Q. B. ZHANG, S. I. GUTNIKOV, B. I. LAZORYAK, P. C. MA*. Production of fiber material using lunar soil: feasibility, applicability and perspective. Advanced Fiber Materials, 2022, in press.
• F. X. MA, B. HAO, X. Y. XI, R. WANG, P. C. MA*. Aggregation-induced demulsification technology for the separation of highly emulsified oily wastewater produced in the petrochemical industry. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022, in press.
• M. LI, D. XING, Q. B. ZHENG, H. LI, B. HAO, P. C. MA. Variation on the morphology and tensile strength of basalt fiber processed in alkali solutions. Construction and Building Materials, 2022, 335, 127512.
• Y. R. ZHANG, B. W. MENG, B. HAO, P. C. MA*. Aggregation-induced demulsification triggered by the hydrophilic fabric for the separation of highly emulsified oil droplets from water. Aggregate, 2022, 3, e131.
• Q. MA, B. HAO, P. C. MA*. In-situ characterization on the fracture behavior of three dimensional polymer nanocomposites reinforced by CNT sponge. Composites Science and Technology, 2022, 217, 109132.
• M. LI, D. XING, Q. B. ZHENG, H. LI, B. HAO, P. C. MA. Corrosion behaviors of basalt fiber exposed to the acids. Construction and Building Materials, 2022, 316, 125783.
• D. XING, X. Y. XI, Z. S. GUO, X. YUE, B. HAO, C. G. LIANG, Y. Z. GU, T. CHEN, R. WANG, P. C. MA*. Study on the feasibility of preparing a continuous fiber using lunar soil simulant. Scientia Sinica Technologica, 2020, 50, 1625-1633 (In Chinese).
• C. CHANG, X. YUE, B. HAO, D. XING, P. C. MA*. Direct growth of carbon nanotubes on basalt fiber for the application of electromagnetic interference shielding. Carbon, 2020, 167, 31-39.
• D. XING, X. Y. XI, P. C. MA*. Factors governing the tensile strength of basalt fiber. Composites Part A, 2019, 119, 127-133.
• B. HAO, L. CUI, L. MU, Q. MA, S. D. YANG, P. C. MA*. Stretchable and compressible strain sensor based on carbon nanotube foam/polymer nanocomposites with three dimensional networks. Composites Science and Technology, 2018, 163, 162-170.

Selected Patents

• P. C. MA, B. HAO, X. Y. XI, M. G. QI. Development of conducting basalt fiber. China Patent No.: ZL 201810132995.5.
• P. C. MA, P. LV, S. D. YANG. Bio-based oil gelling agent and application therefore. China Patent No.: ZL 201710674126.0.
• P. C. MA, B. HAO. Method for in-situ observation of fracture behavior of composites. China Patent No.: ZL 201710431250.4.
• P. C. MA, B. HAO, P. LV, M. L. HU. Method to collect spilled oil on water surface. China Patent No.: ZL 201710670061.2.
• P. C. MA, L. MU, J. T. CHEN, S. D. YANG. Superoleophilic polymer sponge and application therefore. China Patent No.: ZL 201410670208.4.

Computer Software Copyright:

• P. C. MA, X. Y. XI, D. XING. Software for the prediction of mechanical performance of basalt fiber. Registration No.: 2021SR0585389, 2021-04-23.
• P. C. MA, D. XING, X. Y. XI, Z. S. GUO. Database of basalt fiber produced in China. Registration No.: 2018SR817036, 10-12-2018.

Academic Services

• Member of Editorial Board
• Advanced Fiber Materials (01/2021 – Present, Springer Nature)
• Frontiers in Materials (12/2015 – Present, Frontiers Media S. A.)
• Recent Patent on Engineering (09/2015 – Present, Bentham Science)
• Advanced Manufacturing: Polymer and Composites Science (02/2014 – Present, Taylor & Francis)
• Member of Academic Society
• Fellow, The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC, 05/2018 – Present).
• Executive Council Member, The International Society of Basalt Fibers and Composites (ISBFC, 01/2022 – Present).
• Committee Member, Aggregated Molecule Emission Session, Chinese Society for Chemistry (08/2020 – Present).
• Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME, 06/2018 – Present).
• Member of Standing Committee, Nanocomposite Session, Chinese Society for Composite Materials (01/2018 – Present).