Development of Advanced Wear-resistant Materials.

Development of Heat-resistant High-strength Alloys

Solidification and Iron Matrix Composites.

Computer Simulation by First-principles Calculation.

Development of Ceramic Particle Dispersed Super Hard Alloys

12/2011—now Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Lecturer.

09/2008—12/2011 Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Ph.D.

09/2010—09/2011 Division of Materials Science, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Joint-Ph.D.

2015 National Award for Technological Invention 2nd Prize

2013 Guangdong Province Award for Science and Technology 3rd Prize

List of publications (First+Corresponding Author, in the past five years – 2010 onwards)

[1]        Guoliang Wang, Yefei Li*, Yimin Gao, Yonghong Cheng, Shengqiang Ma. Theoretical study of structural, mechanical, thermal and electronic properties of Ti₃B₄ with Ta₃B₄ structure under high pressure. Computational Materials Science, 2015, 104: 29-34.

[2]        Ruipeng Gao, Yefei Li*. Theoretical study on the electronic structure, mechanical property, and thermal expansion of yttrium oxysulfides. International Journal of Computational Materials Science and Engineering, 2015, 4 (1): 1550004.

[3]        Kaihong Zheng, Yimin Gao, Shuli Tang, Yefei Li*, Shengqiang Ma, Dawei Yi, Zhiyun Zhang. Interface structure and wear behavior of Cr26 ferrous matrix surface composites reinforced with CTCP [J]. Tribology Letter, 2014, 54 (1): 15-23

[4]        Shuli Tang, Yimin Gao and Yefei Li*. Recent development in the fabrication of ceramic particles reinforced iron matrix wear resistant surface composite using infiltration casting technology [J]. Ironmaking and Steelmaking. 2014, 41 (8): 633–640.

[5]        Kaihong Zheng, Yimin Gao, Yefei Li*, Sanmei Zhao and Juan Wang. Three-body abrasive wear resistance of iron matrix composites reinforced with ceramic particles [J]. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology, 2014, 228 (1): 3-10.

[6]        Liang Sun, Yimin Gao, Bing Xiao, Yefei Li* and Guoliang Wang. Anisotropic elastic and thermal properties of titanium borides by first-principles calculations [J]. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2013, 579(5): 457-467.

[7]        Yefei Li, K Matsuura, M Ohno, Yimin Gao, J Yu. Combustion synthesis of TiB₂ based hard material cemented by Fe-Al intermetallics [J]. Powder Metallurgy, 55 (2): 162-167, 2012.

[8]        Liang Sun, Yimin Gao, Yefei Li*, Yoshida Katsumi, Wen Wang. The structural, electronic and mechanical properties of M₂O₂S (M=Y, La, Ce) by first-principles calculations [C]. 16^th International conference on mathematical and computational methods in science and engineering, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 23-25, 2014: 121-125.

[9]        Yefei Li, Guoliang Wang, Yimin Gao, Shengqiang Ma, Shuli Tang. First-principles study on the adhesion, electronic structure, and bonding of Fe/TiB2 interface [C]. The 9th Cross-strait Workshop on the Engineering Materials, Tainan, China, November 7-8, 2014: 25-37.

[10]     Yefei Li, Yimin Gao, Yonghong Cheng, Zhifu Huang, Shuzeng Hou, Shuli Tang and Shengqiang Ma. A study of interface property of Fe/WC composites both from ab initio calculations and experiments [C]. Advanced Metals, Ceramics and Composites Part II: The 12^th China-Russia Symposium on Advanced Materials and Technologies, Kunming, Yunnan, November 19-22, 2013: 503-507.

[11]     Shuli Tang, Yimin Gao, Yefei Li* and Zhen Liu. Preparation and interface investigation of Ni-Ti acticvated ZTA particles reinforced iron matrix composites [C]. Advanced Metals, Ceramics and Composites Part II: The 12^th China-Russia Symposium on Advanced Materials and Technologies, Kunming, Yunnan, November 19-22, 2013: 497-502.

[12]     Kaihong Zheng, Yimin Gao, Yefei Li* and Juan Wang. Three-body abrasive wear resistance of iron matrix composites reinforced with ceramic particles [C]. Advanced Metals, Ceramics and Composites Part II: The 12^th China-Russia Symposium on Advanced Materials and Technologies, Kunming, Yunnan, November 19-22, 2013: 467-473.

[13]     Shuli Tang, Yimin Gao, Yefei Li*, Shengqiang Ma, Zhifu Huang, Liqiu Sun. An Investigation for Co-sintered ZTA Particles and Elements Powders / High-Cr Cast Iron Matrix Composites. The 10th Cross-strait Workshop on the Engineering Materials, 2015.8.14-17 Baotou, China,154-160

[14]     Yefei Li, Yimin Gao, Bing Xiao, Ting Min, Zijian Fan, Shengqiang Ma, Dawei Yi. Theoretical study on the electronic properties and stabilities of low-index surfaces of WC polymorphs. Computational Materials Science, 50 (3): 939-948, 2011.

[15]     Yefei Li, Yimin Gao, Bing Xiao, Ting Min, Ying Yang, Shengqiang Ma, Dawei Yi. The electronic, mechanical properties and theoretical hardness of chromium carbides by first-principles calculations. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 509 (17): 5242-5249, 2011.

[16]     Yefei Li, Yimin Gao, Bing Xiao, Ting Min, Shengqiang Ma, Dawei Yi. Theoretical calculations on the adhesion, stability, electronic structure, and bonding of Fe/WC interface. Applied Surface Science, 257 (13): 5671-5678, 2011.

[17]     Yefei Li, Yimin Gao, Jianjun Zhang, Jingbo Yan. Interface property and two-body wear behavior of high-Cr WCI matrix composite reinforced with CC particles. Key Engineering Materials, 457: 273-278, 2011.

[18]     Yefei Li, Yimin Gao, Jianjun Zhang, Jingbo Yan. Interface property and two-body wear behavior of high-Cr WCI matrix composite reinforced with CC particles. Key Engineering Materials, 457: 273-278, 2011.

[19]     Yefei Li, Yimin Gao. Three-body abrasive wear behavior of CC/high-Cr WCI composite and its interfacial characteristics. Wear, 268, 511-518, 2010.

[20]     Yefei Li, Yimin Gao, Zijian Fan, Bing Xiao,Qingwen Yue, Ting Min, Shengqiang Ma. First-principles study on the stability and mechanical property of eta M₃W₃C (M=Fe, Co, Ni) compounds, Physica B: Condensed Matter, 405, 1011-1017, 2010.

[21]     Yefei Li, Yimin Gao, Bing Xiao, Ting Min, Zijian Fan, Shengqiang Ma, Leilei Xu. Theoretical study on the stability, elasticity, hardness and electronic structures of W-C binary compounds. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 502, 28-37, 2010.

List of China Indentation Patents (in the past five years – 2010 onwards)

[1]        Liang Sun, Yefei Li, Yimin Gao, Shuli Tang. A kind of Fe, W, C ternary carbide Fe₃W₃C its preparation method [P]. ZL 2013 1 0675889.9, 2015.8.5.

[2]        Liang Sun, Yefei Li, Yimin Gao, Shuli Tang, Huanlin Zhou. A gas protection glove bags [P]．ZL 2013 1 0329948.7, 2015,4,29.

[3]        Shuli Tang, Yefei Li, Yimin Gao, Jiandong Xing, Kaihong Zheng. A Method for preparing cemented carbide preforms and the method for preparing composite wear parts using the preforms [P]. ZL 201310075344.4, 2015, 5, 27.

[4]        Shuli Tang, Yefei Li, Yimin Gao, Jiandong Xing, Kaihong Zheng, Liang Sun. A method for active element sintered ZTA particles reinforced steel matrix composite hammer [P]. ZL 201410029952.6, 2015, 11, 20