Member
Advisor
Guest Professor
Researchers
 

Yan Zhang

Contact Information:

Email: yinzhang@pku.edu.cn

Homepage: https://yzhang951.github.io/

 

Work experience:

2021.09-2023.01   Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (Advisor: Prof. Ju Li)

2023.03-now       Assistant Professor, Peking University

 

Education:

2011.08-2015.07  B.S. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Peking University

2015.08-2021.08  Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (Advisor: Prof. Ting Zhu)

 

Research Areas:

Mechanical properties of advanced engineering and energy materials, mechanics of ultra-strength materials, 3D-printed metal alloys, strengthening mechanisms in high-entropy alloys, and the advancement of multiscale modeling methodologies

 

Interested Research Areas in CAPT:

Damage mechanics of metallic materials under high strain rates

 

Selected Publications:

 

1. J. Ren#, Y. Zhang#, D. Zhao, Y. Chen, S. Guan, Y. Liu, L. Liu, S. Peng, F. Kong, J. Poplawsky, G. Gao, T. Voisin, K. An, Y. Wang, K. Xie, T. Zhu*, W. Chen*, "Strong yet ductile nanolamellar high-entropy alloys by additive manufacturing", Nature, 608, 62-68, (2022).

2. L. Wang#, Y. Zhang#, Z. Zeng, H. Zhou, J. He, P. Liu, M. Chen, J. Han, D. Srolovitz, J. Teng, Y. Guo, G. Yang, D. Kong, E. Ma, Y. Hu, B. Yin, X. Huang, Z. Zhang*, T. Zhu*, X. Han*, "Tracking the sliding of grain boundaries at the atomic scale", Science, 375, 1261-1265, (2022).

3. Q. Ding#, Y. Zhang#, X. Chen#, X. Fu, D. Chen, S. Chen, L. Gu, F. Wei, H. Bei, Y. Gao, M. Wen, J. Li, Z. Zhang, T. Zhu*, R. Ritchie*, Q. Yu*, "Tuning element distribution, structure and properties by composition in high-entropy alloys", Nature, 574, 223-227, (2019).

4. J. Jiang, S. Chu, Y. Zhang*, G. Sun, J. Jin, X. Zeng, M. Chen, P. Liu*, "Crystal plane orientation-dependent surface atom diffusion in sub–10-nm Au nanocrystals." Science Advances, 10, eadn5946 (2024)

5. Z. Cheng#, L. Bu#, Y. Zhang#, H. Wu, T. Zhu*, H. Gao*, L. Lu*, "Unraveling the origin of extra strengthening in gradient nanotwinned metals”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, e2116808119, (2022).

6. Z. Li#, Y. Zhang#, Z. Zhang, Y. Cui, Q. Guo, P. Liu, S. Jin, G. Sha, K. Ding, Z. Li, T. Fan, H. Urbassek, Q. Yu, T. Zhu*, D. Zhang*, Y. M. Wang*, "A nanodispersion-in-nanograins strategy for ultra-strong, ductile and stable metal nanocomposites”, Nature Communications, 13, 5581, (2022).

7. W. Chen#, T. Voisin#, Y. Zhang#, J. Forien, C. Spadaccini, D. McDowell, T. Zhu*, Y. M. Wang*, "Microscale residual stresses in additively manufactured stainless steel”, Nature Communications, 10, 4338, (2019).

8. Y. Zhang#, K. Ding#, S. Stangebye, D. Chen, J. Kacher, O. Pierron, T. Zhu*, "Atomistic modeling of surface and grain boundary dislocation nucleation in FCC metals”, Acta Materialia, 237, 118155, (2022).

9. Y. Zhang, Z. Cheng, L. Lu, T. Zhu*, "Strain gradient plasticity in gradient structured metals", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 140, 103946, (2020).

10. Y. Zhang, W. Chen, D. McDowell, Y. Wang, T. Zhu*, "Lattice strains and diffraction elastic constants of cubic polycrystals", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 138, 103899, (2020).

 

 

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