Prof. Victor C. Li Joined NEXCEL TAC

Time: 2025/07/23 Publisher： oiginal Views：

On July 21, Dr. Li Juan, NEXCEL Project Director, visited Professor Victor C. Li, inventor of Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC), for in-depth discussions on NEXCEL’s projects on sustainable concrete, and invited Professor Victor C. Li to join NEXCEL Technical Advisory Committee(TAC).

Professor Victor C. Li provided strategic guidance for NEXCEL future research:

Promoting the intergration of materials science and structural design;
Integrating ECC with Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composites for marine engineering and seismic-resistant structures;
Developing low-carbon ECC through waste recycle and Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) technologies.

Drawing on the experiences of United States and Japan, he also advised on China’s ECC standardization and industry capacity building. He sincerely hope that NEXCEL will make great contribution China’s low-carbon goals and high quality development.

Professor Yu Jiangtao (academic leader in China’s ECC research, Tongji University) and Professor Lu Zichen (NEXCEL Project Principal Investigator, Tongji University) also participated in the meeting. Professor Yu provided a detailed introduction to the ECC standards system in China and the future research and application, while Professor Lu presented outcomes from NEXCEL’s project on gradient enhanced polymer modified concrete.

Concluding the discussion, Dr. Li Juan formally invited Professor Victor C. Li to join NEXCEL’s Technical Advisory Committee(TAC).

NEXCEL remains committed to collaborating with global leading scholars, continuously drawing cutting-edge insights to drive nonmetallic materials innovation.

Professor Victor C. Li

Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering, MIT

James R. Rice Distinguished University Professor of Engineering & E. B. Wylie Collegiate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan.

Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the World Innovation Forum, and the American Concrete Institute.

His research interest is in multifunctional materials targeted at enhancing civil infrastructure sustainability and resiliency. He led the research team that invented Engineering Cementitious Composites, popularly known as “Bendable Concrete”.