The development of hydrogen (H) economy calls for high-performance structural metallic materials that could safely serve in a hydrogen environment. High-strength aluminum (Al) alloys, as the primary choice of metallic materials for structural lightweight design, are notoriously sensitive to environmentally assisted cracking and highly subject to H embrittlement, like most high-strength metals s...

2025 International Workshop on Materials Behavior at Micro- and Nano-Scal

Recently, Professor Evan Ma in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, received an official notification from the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc), informing him of his election as a Non-EU Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences.As one of the leading scientists at the forefront of metastable materials research, Prof. En Ma has conducted pioneering r...

Porous silicon carbide (SiC) ceramics exhibit unique advantages in high-temperature insulation, corrosive gas filtration, and lightweight structural applications due to their low density, exceptional thermal stability, corrosion/oxidation resistance, and so on. However, their inherent brittleness—combined with the tendency of pores to act as crack initiation sites—often results in low strengt...

Magnetic materials play a crucial role in spintronics and its applications. Beyond traditional ferromagnetic systems, antiferromagnets have attracted growing attention in the fields of condensed matter and materials physics in recent years, owing to their unique advantages such as ultrafast spin dynamics, precise control schemes, absence of stray magnetic fields, and robustness against external...

​Xi'an, China - April 20 - The School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) celebrated the 8th anniversary of its Alumni Association with a high-profile Academic Development Symposium today. The event gathered over 100 distinguished alumni, industry leaders, and academic representatives to discuss cutting-edge advancements in materials science and stren...

BackgroundWith the urgent demand to increase the gravimetric energy density of sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) for practical applications, O3-type layered transition metal oxides have emerged as promising cathode materials due to their high capacity. In particular, raising the cut-off voltage of these cathodes to 4.2 V versus Na/Na⁺ has the potential to achieve energy densities comparable to comme...

​Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia, excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS), and accumulation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs). These pathological factors often lead to persistent inflammation, recurrent infections, and delayed tissue regeneration during wound healing. Titanium (Ti) alloys are widely used in hard tissue repair due to thei...

​Groundbreaking!Prof. Wei Ma’s Team at Xi’an Jiaotong UniversityDevelops Chemically Modulated Artificial Nerves,Published in Nature Electronics!This Research Holds Major Scientific Valuein Organic Semiconductors & Emerging Neuroelectronics,Offering New Avenues for Brain-Computer Interfacesand Neurological Disease Therapies.BackgroundRecent advances in brain science, regenerative medicine, an...

​High strength and large tensile ductility (indicating high static toughness, i.e., the area under the stress-strain curve) are critical prerequisites for the engineering applications of metallic structural materials, especially for those used in low-temperature environments. The strength-ductility-toughness matching of materials is particularly important to avoid catastrophic accidents caused...