PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES & LEADERSHIP

Conference Symposium Organizer/Co-organizer

• Co-chair: “Functional Soft Composites - Design, Mechanics, and Manufacturing.” under the track for Polymers, Soft Matter, Glasses and Porous Materials. Society of Engineering Science (SES), Virtual Technical Meeting (2020).

• Co-chair: “Functional soft composites”, the 56th annual conference of the Society of Engineering Science (SES), St. Louis, MO (2019).

• Co-chair: “General Papers-New Concepts in Polymeric Materials”, ACS Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2019).

• Co-chair: “General Papers-New Concepts in Polymeric Materials”, ACS Annual Meeting, Boston, MA (2018).

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Independent Grant/Journal Reviewers

• Grants: Swiss National Science Foundation (2023); The Royal Society introduced the University Research Fellowship (2022); Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) funds (2018).

• Journals: Advanced Materials, Advanced Materials Technology, Cell Reports Physical Science, Biosensing & Bioelectronics, Aggregate, Nano Energy, Microsystems & Nanoengineering, ACS. Applied Materials&Interfaces, ACS. Appl. Polymer Materials, ACS. Appl. Electronics Materials, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, ACS Omega, Additive Manufacturing, Composites: Part B, Materials&Design, Chemical Engineering Journal, Scientific Reports, Polymers, Polymer, Sustainability, Waste Management, Materials Future, Materials, Chinese Journal of Polymer Sciences, Journal of Materials Research and Technology, Frontiers in Medical Technology, Bioengineering, etc

 

​Journal Editor board: Materials, Fundamental Research

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Member of Professional Societies

• Society of Engineering Science (SES)

• American Chemical Society (ACS)

• Society for Biomaterials (SFB)

 

Seminars/Conferences Presentations​

1. (Invited talk) Instructive Biomaterials Enable 3D (Bio)printing for Regenerative and Precision Medicine，MGB Engineering in Medicine Seminar Series， Mar. 2024.

2. (Invited talk) Integrated Experiment and Computation in Developing and Manufacturing of Soft Biomaterials for Precision Health， Department of Applied Science, College of William and Mary, Mar. 2023.

3. (Invited talk) Instructive Biomaterials Enable 3D (Bio)printing for Regenerative and Precision Medicine， Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Feb. 2024.

4. (Invited talk) Adaptive Soft Materials Enable Advanced Manufacturing: Development, Mechanisms, Applications, Department of Mechanical Engineering,  University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jan. 2024.

5. (Invited talk) Soft Adaptive Materials Enable 3D/4D (bio)printing for Healthcare and Medicine, Biomedical Engineering Department, The University of Sydney, Aug. 2023.

6. (Invited talk) Cell-instructive Tough Hydrogels Enable Microfluidic (Bio)printing Functional Blood Vessels, 3D Bioprinting and Bioimaging workshop, The University of Sydney, Aug. 2023.

7. (Invited talk) Heterogeneous Biomaterials and 3D (Bio)printing for Personalized Medicine and Therapy, Biomedical Engineering Department, Stony Brook University, New York, Mar. 2023.

8. (Invited talk) 3D Printing of Multimaterial and Multifunctional Materials. Additive Manufacturing as a System Workshop, Institute of Manufacturing, Georgia Tech, Feb. 2019.

9. X. Kuang, D. Wang, S. Maharjan, Y.S. Zhang, Microfluidic Bioprinting of Tough Hydrogel-based Vascular Conduits for Functional Blood Vessels. Society for Biomaterials, San Diago, CA, Apr. 2023. (Oral Presentation)

10. X. Kuang, B. Ikizer, S. Weng, H. J. Qi, N. Orbey, Evaluating Residual Stress in 3D Printed Parts, Annual AIChE Meeting, Virtual, Nov. 2020. (Oral Presentation)

11. X. Kuang, H. J. Qi, Grayscale Digital Light Processing 3D printing for Highly Functional Graded Materials, SES Conference, St. Louis, MO, Oct. 2019. (Oral Presentation)

12. X. Kuang, H. J. Qi, Chemical Recycling of Epoxy Thermosets and Composites via Small Molecule Participated Exchange Reactions, SES Conference, St. Louis, MO, Oct. 2019. (Oral Presentation)

13. X. Kuang, H. J. Qi, 3D Printing of Highly Stretchable, Shape-memory and Self-healing Elastomer toward Novel 4D printing, ACS National Meeting & Expo, Orlando, FL, 2019. (Oral Presentation)

14. X. Kuang, C. M. Hamel, H. J. Qi, Thermosets and Composites Recycling via Small Molecule Participated Bond Exchange Reaction, ACS National Meeting & Expo, Orlando, FL, 2019. (Oral Presentation)

15. X. Kuang, H. J. Qi, Grayscale Digital Light Processing 3D Printing Assisted by a Two-stage Curing, 256th ACS Meeting, Boston, MA, 2018. (Oral Presentation)

16. X. Kuang, H. J. Qi, Grayscale Digital Light Processing 3D Printing for Highly Functionally Graded Materials, Society for Experimental Mechanics Southeast Graduate Symposium on Experimental Mechanics, Clemson, SC, Mar 2019. (Oral Presentation)

17. X. Kuang, H. J. Qi, 3D Printing of High-performance Polymeric Materials, Society for Experimental Mechanics Southeast Graduate Symposium on Experimental Mechanics, Huntsville, AL, May 2018. (Oral Presentation)

18. X. Kuang, Q. Shi, H. J. Qi, Recyclable 3D Printing of Vitrimer Epoxy, The 28th Solid Freedom Fabrication, Austin, TX, Aug. 2017. (Oral Presentation)

19. X. Kuang, H. J. Qi, Grayscale Digital Light Processing 3D Printing for Highly Functionally Graded Materials, ACS National Meeting & Expo, Orlando, FL, Mar. 2019. (Poster Presentation)

20. X. Kuang, G. Liu; X. Liu, D. Wang, Smart Polymers Based on Reversible Diels-Alder Reaction, The 7th International Symposium on Engineering Plastics, Xining, China, Aug. 2015. (Poster Presentation)

21. X. Kuang, G. Liu; X. Liu, D. Wang, Fast Recyclable and Multiple Self-healing Epoxy Materials， Chinese Materials Conference, Guiyang, China, 2015. (Poster Presentation)