Team

Mingyu Gong

Education

Ph.D. in Materials Engineering,

University of Nebraska, Lincoln

B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Email: mingyu@huskers.unl.edu

Mingyu obtained his Ph.D. degree in Materials Engineering from UNL, focusing on “atomistic simulations of deformation twins in HCP metals”. During his Ph.D. study, he worked as intern in Los Alamos National Lab Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory. After graduation, he launched his career in UNL as a Postdoctoral Associated.

Biography

Bingqiang Wei is a PHD graduate student in Mechanical and Materials Engineering. He has his Bachelor’s degree and Master’s in Materials Science and Engineering from Central South University, Hunan, China,. in 2014 and 2017 respectively. His areas of research include Metallic-amorphous nanocomposite including PVD sputtering, microstructure, mechanical property and irradiation resistance, Selective Laser Melting including microstructure and mechanical property, and Microstructural characterization (in-situ SEM/TEM deformation).

Bingqiang Wei

Bwei5@huskers.unl.edu

Dongyue Xie is interested in characterizing microstructure of materials by using electron microscopy, and quantifying nanoscale phenomena by performing in-situ tests. This includes topics such as characterization of defects, nanomechanics, and in-situ growth of nanomaterials.

research interest

Dongyue Xie

EDUCATION

Pursuing Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2017 - present

Master of Science in Materials Science and Engineering

Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2014 - 2017

Bachelor of Science in Metallic Material Engineering

Sichuan University 2010 - 2014

Selected Publications

Xie, Dong Yue, Ming‐hui Lin, Wei Zhou, Jian Wang, and Guo‐zhen Zhu. "Kinetically favorable vapor–adsorbate–solid growth of rutile nanowires." Small Methods 3, no. 7 (2019): 1900111.

Xie, Dongyue, Greg Hirth, J. P. Hirth, and Jian Wang. "Defects in deformation twins in plagioclase." Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 46, no. 10 (2019): 959-975.

Xie, Dong Yue, Jiawei Yan, Yangxin Li, Dong Qiu, Guilin Wu, Xiaodong Wang, Bin Chen, Yao Shen, and Guo-zhen Zhu. "Ordered stacking faults within nanosized silicon precipitates in aluminum alloy." Materials Letters 190 (2017): 225-228.

Fan, Cuncai, Dongyue Xie, Jin Li, Zhongxia Shang, Youxing Chen, Sichuang Xue, Jian Wang et al. "9R phase enabled superior radiation stability of nanotwinned Cu alloys via in situ radiation at elevated temperature." Acta Materialia 167 (2019): 248-256.

Xu, Shun, Dongyue Xie, Guisen Liu, Kaisheng Ming, and Jian Wang. "Quantifying the resistance to dislocation glide in single phase FeCrAl alloy." International Journal of Plasticity (2020): 102770.

awards

Othmer Fellowship

2017

Outstanding Thesis Award

2014

Outstanding Graduate Award

2014

National Scholarship

2012

Tel: +1-402-915-0692

E-mail: dxie@huskers.unl.edu

Academic Degrees

Wenqian Wu

Ph.D. graduate student in Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Email: wwu13@huskers.unl.edu

Ph.D. (Jun. 2019), Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.
B. E. (Jun. 2014), Powder Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.

Areas of Research

Nanoparticles reinforced metal-based composite: theory and modeling at atomic scale to explore interface structure and properties and the unit processes of defect-interface interaction.
Twin-twin interactions in hexagonal metals: crystallographic analysis; microscopic characterization; molecular dynamics simulation.