Research interest:
1) Structural materials: high-performance steels, titanium alloys, etc.
2) Microstructural evolution, i.e. phase transformations, twinning and dislocations, etc., during heat treatment and/or mechanical deformation → relation between microstructures and mechanical properties → strengthening and toughening mechanisms of materials
3) Research methods: molecular dynamics simulations and experiments
Examples
1. Nonclassical nucleation theory during solid-soild phase transition in steels (Acta Materialia, 2022, 226: 117655)
2. Mechanisms governing the propagation of the {10-11} twinning boundary in α titanium alloys (International Journal of Plasticity, 2022, 153: 103273)