The structure – property relationships of materials including metallic materials, polymers.

12/2005— present School of Material Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, P.R. China. Associate professor.

09/2010—12/2010 Humanities and Sciences, Nara Women’s University, Japan. Research Fellow.

04/2002—04/2004 Department of Textile and Apparel Science.Graduate School of Humanities and Science, Nara Women’s University, Japan, Research assistant.

07/1994—12/2005 School of Material Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, P.R. China. Lecturer.

07/1992—07/1994 School of Material Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, P.R. China. Teaching Assistant.

05/1985—07/1989 Engineering in Metallic Materials, School of Material Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, P.R. China. Bachelor.

09/1989—07/1992 Engineering in Metallic Materials, School of Material Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, P.R. China. Master.

10/2000—03/2004 Science in polymer, Department of Textile and Apparel Science, Graduate School of Humanities and Science, Nara Women's University, Japan, Ph. D. (Japanese government scholarship)

[1] Substructure of α Brass during Constant Strain Fatigue, Tong Xu, and Yuxu Tan, Fatigue 93, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

[2] Structural Alteration Analysis of α Brass during Constant Strain Fatigue, Tong Xu, Journal of Xi’an Institute of Metallurgy Construction Engineering, 1992

[3] Structure Analysis of TA2 Alloy under Surface Strengthening Condition, Yuxu Tan, Wei Gao and Tong Xu, Journal of Northwest University, 1997

[4] Morphological change and crystallization of polyethylene terephthalate film drawn in water bath. Tong Xu, Yuezhen Bin, Hiromichi Kurosu and Masaru Matsuo. The Society of Polymer Science, Osaka, Japan, 2001.

[5] Oriented and Thermal Crystallization of Polyethylene terephthalate, Tong Xu, Yuezhen Bin, Hiromichi Kurosu and Masaru Matsuo, Colloid Polym Sci, 281 (2003) 624

[6] Small angle Hv light scattering from deformed spherulites with orientational fluctuation of optical axes, Yuezhen Bin, Reiko Adachi, Tong Xu and Masaru Matsuo. Colloid Polym Sci., 282 (2004) 544.

[7] Density fluctuation of amorphous region of polyethylene terephthalate films by quasi-spinodal decomposition, Tong Xu, Yuezhen Bin, Yuko Nakagaki and Masaru Matsuo. Macromolecules, 37 (2004) 6985.

[8] Positron annihilation study of density fluctuation of amorphous PET films in terms of the quasi-spinodal decomposition. Tong Xu, Nikolay Djourelov, Takenori Suzuki, Yuezhen Bin, Masaru Matsuo. Physical Review B, 71 (2005) 1.