The effective development and large-scale application of new energy technologies will bring great changes to the global energy landscape. The documents of 《The National Medium and Long Term Science and Technology Development Plan (2021-2035)》and 《The 14th Five-Year Plan for Science and Technology Innovation in the Field of Energy》 point out that energy storage technology, as the "last mile"...

​Ceramic nanofiber-assembled ultralight materials such as sponges and aerogels exhibits high porosity, low thermal conductivity, high specific surface area, and high temperature thermal and chemical stability, making them promising applications in areas of aerospace vehicles, thermal protection, and gas filtration. In recent years, to optimize the mechanical properties of this class of ultrali...

Shan Zhiwei, dean of the School of Materials Science and Engineeringat Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), recently gave Nature Materialsan exclusive interview, based on which the journal published an article titled "Caution on Trace Impurities".

Two-phase titanium-based alloys are widely used in aerospace and biomedical applications, and they are obtained through phase transformations between a low-temperature hexagonal closed-packed α-phase...

Congratulations! Prof. Sun Jun, a professor at XJTU’s School of Materials Science and Engineering, has been elected as a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). His research interests include th...

The Ge2Sb2Te5 alloy has served as the core material in phase-change memories with high switching speed and persistent storage capability at room temperature. However widely used, this composition is n...

Lattice defects are typically used to tailor the thermoelectric properties of materials. It is desirable that such defects improve the electrical conductivity, while, at the same time, reduce the ther...

Tailoring the degree of disorder in chalcogenide phase-change materials (PCMs) plays an essential role in nonvolatile memory devices and neuro-inspired computing. Upon rapid crystallization from the a...

School of Materials Science & Engineering provides interested researchers and students a focused Course -- Froniters in Materials Research under the framework of University Alliance of the Silk Road (...

Materials with layered crystal structures and high in-plane anisotropy, such as black phosphorus, present unique properties and thus promise for applications in electronic and photonic devices. Recent...