1.         Nanomaterial and heterogeneous structure fabrication, especially the aluminum-based, Nickle-based alloys, and steels

2.         High strength lightweight metals design

3.         Grain boundary engineering for metal mechanical and thermal properties

4.         Deformation physics of nanotwin and heterogeneous structures

5.         Advanced microstructure and analytical material characterization in terms of HRSTEM, iDPC, 4DSTEM, EELS 

2022.1 – Present   Xi'an Jiaotong University, China          Associate Professor

2020.9 – 2021.11  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory     Postdoc  

2017.8 – 2020.8   Purdue University                      Postdoc  

2013.8 – 2017.5   Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.    Ph.D.

2010.9 – 2013.6   Materials Processing Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.      M. S. 2006.8 – 2010.6  Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China.      

2017 ~ 2018 Silver Poster Award Winner (TMS 2017 Annual Meeting & Exhibition)

2016 ~ 2017 Young Scientist Award Winner (TMS 2016 Annual Meeting & Exhibition)

2012 ~ 2013 National Scholarship (China)

Full publications list and Citation

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ezsSVKwAAAAJ&hl=en

Selected Publications

1. Y. Wang, S. Xue, Q. Lin, D. Song, Y. He, L. Li, J. Zhou, M. Zong, J. De Yoreo, J. Zhu, K. M. Rosso, M. Sushko, X. Zhang, Particle-based hematite crystallization is invariant to initial particle morphology, Proceedings of the National Academy of sciences of the United States of America, 2022

2. Q. Li, S. Xue, C. Fan, NA Richter, Y. Zhang, Y. Chen, H.Y. Wang, X. Zhang, Epitaxial nanotwinned metals and alloys: synthesis-twin structure-property relations, CrystEgComm (review) 23(38) (2021) 6637-6649.

3. S. Xue, Y. Zhang, Q. Li, J. Ding, H.Y. Wang, X. Zhang, Tailoring the formation of twins in Al by introducing epitaxial layer interfaces, Scripta Materialia 192 (2021) 1-6.

4. S. Xue, Q. Li, D. Xie, Y. Zhang, H. Wang, H. Wang, J. Wang, X. Zhang, High strength, deformable nanotwinned Al–Co alloys, Materials Research Letters 7(1) (2019) 33- 39.

5. S. Xue, Q. Li, Z. Fan, H. Wang, Y. Zhang, J. Ding, H. Wang, X.H. Zhang, Strengthening mechanisms and deformability of nanotwinned AlMg alloys, Journal of Materials Research (invited) 33(22) (2018) 3739-3749.

6. S. Xue, W. Kuo, Q. Li, Z. Fan, J. Ding, R. Su, H. Wang, X. Zhang, Texture-directed twin formation propensity in Al with high stacking fault energy, Acta Materialia 144 (2018) 226- 234.

7. S. Xue, Z. Fan, O.B. Lawal, R. Thevamaran, Q. Li, Y. Liu, K. Yu, J. Wang, E.L. Thomas,H. Wang, High-velocity projectile impact induced 9R phase in ultrafine-grained aluminium, Nature communications 8(1) (2017) 1653.

8. S. Xue, Z. Fan, Y. Chen, J. Li, H. Wang, X. Zhang, The formation mechanisms of growth twins in polycrystalline Al with high stacking fault energy, Acta Materialia 101 (2015) 62- 70.