​The School of Materials Science and Engineering at XJTU has launched an international program with all courses taught in English and will begin accepting international undergraduate students starting in September 2025.About MSE/XJTUXi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), established in 1896, is a national key university directly administered by the Ministry of Education of China. It is one of Chin...

​The high yield strength and tensile plasticity of metallic materials are crucial for their engineering applications. However, for all the alloys developed thus far, including recent high-entropy alloys, those possessing good tensile ductility rarely approach 2 GPa yield strength at room temperature. The few that do are mostly ultrastrong steels; however, their stress-strain curves exhibit pla...

Nature Materials published the research article “Amorphous phase-change memory alloy with no resistance drift” online on October 1, 2025.Phase change memory utilizes the resistance difference between the amorphous and crystalline phases of chalcogenides to achieve data storage. However, amorphous materials typically exhibit spontaneous structural relaxation. For phase-change materials (such a...

Global Experts Gather to Explore Cutting-Edge Advances in Materials ScienceXI’AN, China – July 5, 2025 – The 2025 Xi’an Jiaotong International Summer Session (XJTISS), co-organized by the Materials Sub-Alliance of the University Alliance of the Silk Road (UASR-MSESA) and School of Materials Science and Engineering，Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU-MSE), successfully concluded on July 4th. T...

​Aqueous supercapacitors have garnered significant attention due to their exceptional capacitive properties, high safety, and environmental friendliness. However, the narrow electrochemical stability window of water (1.23 V) limits the energy density of these devices, hindering their practical applications.To address this challenge, a research team led by Professor Lei Li has developed an inno...

As one of the most important high-specific-strength structural materials, duplex (α+β) Ti alloys exhibit a broad range of mechanical properties by tailoring their major constituent-HCP α phase. However, high-strength duplex Ti alloys often confront low work hardening rate (WHR, Θ) and thus the limited uniform elongation (εu), due to the following two factors. i) The HCP α-phase often lack...

​Metallic glasses, also known as amorphous alloys, exhibit superior mechanical properties such as high strength and elasticity due to their disordered atomic arrangement. However, these properties also render them prone to the formation of localized shear bands at the nanoscale during plastic deformation. The initiation and propagation of these shear bands often trigger brittle fracture, which...

2025 Xi'an Jiaotong International Summer Session (XJTISS) ​DateTimeLecturerTitleInstitutionLocationPresentationHostJune   30th10:00 - 11:30Prof. Upadrasta RamamurtyStrength, ductility,   fracture toughness, and fatigue resistance of additively manufactured alloysNanyang Technological University, Singapore主楼D-105OnlineKai Chen14:30 - 16:00Prof. Lei HuThermal Expansion and   Conduction in Inor...

Under the strong impetus of China’s “dual carbon” (carbon peak and carbon neutrality) strategy, renewable and clean energy sources such as wind and solar power are developing rapidly and are expected to play a central role in the nation’s future energy landscape. However, the inherent intermittency and variability of these sources, influenced by uncontrollable natural conditions, present si...