EU ACADEMY OF SCIENCES EUAS EU ACADEMY 2017 ANNUAL REPORT EU ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 2017 ANNUAL REPORT Board of Governors President Professor E.G. Ladopoulos (2000 Outstanding Scientists 20th-21st Centuries) Governors Board of Governors in the Division of Engineering and Physics: Professor S. Glashow (Nobel Physics 1979) Professor J. Friedman (Nobel Physics 1990) Professor G. Smoot (Nobel Physics 2006) Board of Governors in the Division of Chemistry: Professor Y.T. Lee (Nobel Chemistry 1986) Professor R. Ernst (Nobel Chemistry 1991) Professor M.Levitt (Nobel Chemistry 2013). Professor F. Stoddart (Nobel Chemistry 2016). Board of Governors in the Division of Medicine: Professor C. Greider (Nobel Medicine 2009) Professor R. Schekman (Nobel Medicine 2013) Professor S. Yamanaka (Nobel Medicine 2012). Board of Governors in the Division of Social Sciences, Law & Economics: Professor D. Kahneman (Nobel Economics 2002) Professor P. Krugman (Nobel Economics 2008) Professor J. Stiglitz (Nobel Economics 2001) Professor E. S. Phelps (Nobel Economics 2006). 1 EU ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 2017 ANNUAL REPORT Contents 7 Maximum Speed of Light for the Future Spacecraft by Relativistic Elasticity, Thermo-Elasticity & Universal Mechanics Suitable for the Nobel prize ? by Prof. Evangelos Ladopoulos, President & CEO of EUAS 12 Innovative & Groundbreaking Supramolecular Chemistry and Nanotechnology – Nobel Lecture. by Prof. Sir Fraser Stoddart, Governor EUAS 18 Strategies for delivering Biotech Macromolecules: the Small Intestine, Cheek, and Joints. by Prof. David J. Brayden, Member EUAS 22 Earthquake and Structural Engineering. by Prof. Guiqing Li, Member EUAS 26 Digital Content Analytics and Computational Science. by Prof. Fionn Murtagh, Member EUAS 29 Advanced Materials for Energy Storage & Conversion. by Prof. Zongping Shao, Member EUAS 32 New Aspects in Cardiovascular Research & Echocardiography. by Prof. Thomas F. Lüscher, Member EUAS 35 Contributions to Rheology and Polymer Processing. by Prof. Avraam I. Isayev, Member EUAS 42 Biomedical Materials and Clinical Biochemistry. by Prof. Pankaj Vadgama, Member EUAS 46 Contributions in Obesity Surgery. by Prof. Christine Stroh, Member EUAS 2 EU ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 50 Materials Science, Novel Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion. by Prof. Meilin Liu, Member EUAS 54 New Contributions in Cardiovascular Medicine. by Prof. Hiroaki Shimokawa, Member EUAS 58 innovative Aspects in Biochemistry. by Prof. Etana Padan, Member EUAS 63 Robotics and New Energy System Research. by Prof. Aarne Halme, Member EUAS 67 Innovative Methods in Airway Disease Research. by Prof. Peter Barnes, Member EUAS 71 Biomimetic Physics: Learning from Evolutionary Strategies of Overcoming Evolutionary Crises. Nature as Material Designer. by Prof. Erich Sackmann, Member EUAS 78 Nanoglasses: A Way of alloying Materials that are immiscible in all of Today’s Materials? by Prof. Herbert Gleiter, Member EUAS 82 Innovative Research in Plasticity Engineering. by Prof. Michael Kassner, Member EUAS 86 Neutron Reflectivity of Spintronic Materials. by Prof. Hartmut Zabel, Member EUAS 92 Game Theory-Based Control System Algorithms with Real- Time Reinforcement Learning. by Prof. Frank Lewis, Member EUAS 96 Innovative Research in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). by Prof. George Perry, Member EUAS 99 New Aspects of Experimental Physics of Interfaces. by Prof. Hans-Jürgen Butt, Member EUAS 3 EU ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 103 Quantum Dot Based Photonics:The Markets are now coming. by Prof. Dieter H. Bimberg, Member EUAS 109 Fabric Formwork: A New Form of Architecture. by Prof. Tim Ibell, Member EUAS 113 Innovative Aspects in Tribology, Fatigue & Damage Analysis. by Prof. Michael Khonsari, Member EUAS 117 Advanced Technologies & Diagnostic Spin-Outs. by Prof. Carl Borrebaeck, Member EUAS 121 Process Machinery & Systems Engineering. by Prof. Eberhard Schlücker, Member EUAS 125 Developments in Wind Engineering. by Prof. Qiu-Sheng Li, Member EUAS 129 Research in Optical Properties of Materials: Theory & Practice. by Prof. David Aspnes, Member EUAS 131 Mechanical Properties of Lightweight Materials. by Prof. Daolun Chen, Member EUAS 135 Appropriate Technology for Fighting Energy Poverty Developing Countries. by Prof. Antonio Lecuona-Neumann, Member EUAS 139 Innovative Energy Research & Technology. by Prof. Mohsen Assadi, Member EUAS 144 Structural Phenomenon of Concrete Elements at Limit States. by Prof. Yuri Ribakov, Member EUAS 148 Innovative Improvements in Vascular Biology. by Prof. Yihai Cao, Member EUAS 4 EU ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 152 Recent Developments in Materials Science of Metastable Materials. by Prof. Jürgen Eckert, Member EUAS 156 Machine Learning and Optimization for Material Design Innovation. by Prof. Timon Rabczuk, Member EUAS 161 The Essence of Importance Measures. by Prof. Way Kuo, Member EUAS 163 Materials and Process Modelling Technologies. by Prof. Jianguo Lin, Member EUAS 168 New Aspects for Development of Green Cements and Sustainable Infrastructure. by Prof. Paulo Monteiro, Member EUAS 172 Solutions for Century Old Engineering Problems. by Prof. William Gerberich, Member EUAS 177 Overview on Important Research Contributions in Polymer Opto-Electronics. by Prof. Show-An Chen, Member EUAS 181 Can we create an Intelligent and Evolutionary Robot with a Brain?. by Prof. Fuji Ren, Member EUAS 185 Contributions to Evolvable Assembly Systems. by Prof. Mauro Onori, Member EUAS 192 Two Themes in Holomorphic Dynamics. by Prof. Mikhail Lyubich, Member EUAS 196 Interaction between the Plasma Atmosphere of the Sun and its Magnetic Field. by Prof. Eric Priest, Member EUAS 200 Recent Contributions in Applied Medicine. by Prof. John Forrester, Member EUAS 5 EU ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 205 Functional Organic- Inorganic Nanohybrid Materials. by Prof. Chang-Sik Ha, Member EUAS 210 Motivation, Scope and Structure of the 2nd Edition of the Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics with special Focus on the first two Volumes: Fundamentals. by Prof. Erwin Stein, Member EUAS 215 Chemical Reaction Dynamics: Recent Advances and New Insights. by Prof. Kopin Liu, Member EUAS 219 Recent Trends in Natural Gas Supply Chain Optimization. by Prof. Zuo-Jun Max Shen, Member EUAS 222 Fatigue Crack Growth Behaviour of Steels in High Pressure Hydrogen. by Prof. Ashok Saxena, Member EUAS 227 Overview on CBS Extrapolation and its Implications. by Prof. Antonio Varandas, Member EUAS 6 EU ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 2017 ANNUAL REPORT Maximum Speed of Light for the Future Spacecraft by Relativistic Elasticity, Thermo-Elasticity & Universal Mechanics Suitable for the Nobel prize ? by Evangelos Ladopoulos, President & CEO of EUAS Short Biography Prof. Dr. Civil Engineer, Mechanical (Aerospace) Engineer & Petroleum Engineer, D.Sc. Included in the list of 2000 Outstanding Scientists of 20th Century by Cambridge Bio Centre. Included in the list of 2000 Outstanding Scientists of 21st Century by Cambridge Bio Centre. Included in the list of 100 Top Scientists of 2007 by Cambridge Bio Centre. Over 300 publications in high quality scientific journals and 5 books. Project Manager for over 500 Projects in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Petroleum Engineering. Chairman and Professor by Interpaper Research Organization. Visiting Professor at Universities in Europe and USA. Editor-in-Chief of many SCI Engineering Journals. President & CEO of the EU Academy of Sciences. Member by several Academies in USA. For the design of the future spacecraft of any speed, the very sophisticated theory of “Universal Mechanics” is proposed. The modern theory of ―Universal Mechanics‖ consists of the combination of the theories of ―Relativistic Elasticity‖ and ―Relativistic Thermo-Elasticity‖. So, according to the above theories there is a considerable difference between the absolute stress tensor and the stress tensor of the airframe even in the range of speeds of 50,000 km/h. Also, for bigger speeds of the absolute spacecraft, like c/3, c/2 or 3c/4 (c=speed of light), then the difference between the two stress tensors is very much increased. Thus, for the future spacecraft with very high speeds, the relative stress tensor will be therefore very much different than the absolute stress tensor. Also, for velocities near the speed of light, then the values of the relative stress tensor are very much bigger than the corresponding values of the absolute stress tensor. Such future spacecraft will be moving by using laser engines. The theory of ―Relativistic Elasticity‖ is a combination between the theories of "Classical Elasticity" and "Special Relativity" and results in the “Universal Equation of Elasticity”. Furthermore, the theory of ―Relativistic Thermo-Elasticity‖ is a combination between the theories of "Classical Thermo-Elasticity" and "Special Relativity" and results in the “Universal Equation of Thermo-Elasticity”. The "structural design" of super speed vehicles requires the consideration of mass pulsation and energy-mass interaction at high velocity space-time scale, as the relative stress intensity factors are different than the corresponding absolute stress intensity factors. Such theory results in the "Universal Stress 7 EU ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 2017 ANNUAL REPORT Intensity Factors". Thus, the ―Universal Equation of Elasticity‖, the ―Universal Equation of Thermo-Elasticity‖ and the "Universal Stress Intensity Factors" are parts of the general theory of ―Universal Mechanics‖. The scope by the International Space