Adil Eddiai
Biography
Adil EDDIAI obtained his Ph.D. in Physics in 2013 from the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon. Since 2014, he has held the position of professor-researcher at the Faculty of Sciences Ben M’Sick, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco. His expertise spans various areas, including smart materials, materials characterization, energy conversion, ambient energy harvesting, and electromechanical systems, with a particular focus on sensors and actuators. Since 2014, he has been a permanent member of the Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory (LPMC). He has also been the head of the Innovative Intelligent Materials, Energy Harvesting, and Microelectromechanical Systems team since 2021.
Thus, Dr. A. Eddiai is coordinator of several research projects, including the multi-thematic APRD 2020 project, funded by the Moroccan Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation as well as by the OCP Foundation, and the multi-thematic applied research project “Sustainable Energy”, funded by the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P). His scientific research primarily focuses on the study of smart materials and composites, with a particular emphasis on their dielectric, piezoelectric, and electromechanical characterization. He also explores their applications in energy harvesting and actuation, particularly in microsystems and autonomous hybrid systems for the development of high-performance, autonomous, and communicative sensors.
Dr. Eddiai has made extensive scientific contributions, including over 100 publications in indexed journals, four chapters, and two books. He is a peer reviewer for several academic journals and publishers, and a member of the organizing committee and scientific committees for several national and international conferences. He has supervised numerous doctoral theses as a director and has also participated as a rapporteur and examiner for various thesis panels.
Research Interest
Dr. Adil Eddiai’s research focuses on smart materials and composites, particularly their dielectric, piezoelectric, and electromechanical properties, with applications in energy harvesting, actuation, and the development of autonomous microsystems and sensors.
Abstract
Innovative Smart Materials and composite for Advanced Energy Harvesting Applications
The demand for portable electronic devices and wireless detectors has increased with the growth in the production of microelectronic and mechanical systems (MEMS) in the past decade. Currently, the development of intelligent materials has been recently used for numerous applications such as electrochromic systems for perfectly improved performance. The potential of piezoelectric composite and the smart textiles has been investigated for many areas such as sensing applications. Due to various their excellent properties these materials are becoming widely attractive especially in applications intended energy harvesting. Firstly, the aim is to enhance the intrinsic proprieties of these materials in order to gain a deeper understanding of their functional properties, and to enhance their performances for a better using in the electromechanical and radio frequency conversion in order to develop the micros systems miniaturized, autonomous, communicating and totally flexible. The second part focuses, on the one hand, on the using of flexible composite films with different BCZT/Ps contents in electromechanical conversion and which allows to capture environmental vibrations and converts them into electrical energy. And on the other hand, on the development and conception a compact super-wideband flexible textile antenna which It operates over an extremely broad frequency range. Owing to its simple topology, compact size, super-wideband behaviour, and high gain, endorse its suitability for low-power requirement applications in the real world.
Keywords: Piezo-nanoparticle; Smart composite, electromechanical conversion; All-textile antenna, RF conversion, energy harvesting.
