Overview

The research team undertakes 8 projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 6 provincial and ministerial projects, and 10 other horizontal scientific research projects. The main research fields are involved: (1) Lightweight design and failure mechanism of nano metal materials; (2) Design and development of functional alloy materials, including gradient structure, multi-scale structure, grain boundary engineering, nano precipitation and other multi-level and multi-scale structure design; (3) Surface treatment technology, such as electric spark strengthening, surface nanocrystallization, electrodeposition technology, low-temperature rolling and other surface treatment methods to improve the corrosion, friction, fatigue and biological performances of alloy materials; (4) Intelligent forming technology, using intelligent experimental data platform for forming equipment, intelligent mold, precision workpiece manufacturing.

Team leader

• Professor Aiying Chen

  Members

• Associate Professor Fang Liu

• Associate Professor Xiang Li

• Associate Professor Meifeng He

• Associate Professor Xing He

• Lecture Lijiang Gu

  Research Fields

• Lightweight design and failure mechanism of metallic materials

• Design and development of functional alloy materials

• Surface modification technology

• Intelligent forming technology

   

  Important research and development projects

• Precipitation strengthening of hierarchical nanotwins in austenitic stainless steel at high temperature, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2018-2021

• Study on the mechanisms of synergistically enhanced plasticity and biological corrosion of Mg-based bulk metallic glasses composites. National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2018-2021

• Lower temperature molten salt diffusion aluminum coating on magnesium alloy and the semiconductor behavior of the passive film. National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2014-2016

• Constrained transformation and size effect of nanotwins in austenite stainless steel, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2013-2016

• Structure, anti-oxidation and thermal diffusion behavior of thermal sprayed AlCoCrNiMxREy high-entropy alloy coating on the surface of superalloy, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Project manager, 2017-2019

• Alternating magnetic imaging of single magnetic nanoparticles with small scale by new magnetic force microscope, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2013-2015

• Fabrication and properties of porous graphene/bioactive glasses scaffolds by protein foaming, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2013-2015

• Refinement mechanisms and fracture behavior of stainless steel with micro/nano gradient structure produced by local deformation, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2013-2015

   

  Important papers and publications

• Construction of 1D Vortex Chain Using a Chiral Nanostructure[J], Adv. Sci. (2020) 2001040.

• Scale law of complex deformation transitions of nanotwins in stainless steel, Nature Commun. 10 (2019)1403.

• Bridgman growth and magneto-optical properties of CeF3 crystal as Faraday Rotator[J], Optical Materials, 100 (2020) 109675.

• Off-on fluorescent switching of boron-doped carbon quantum dots for ultrasensitive sensing of catechol and glutathione, Carbon, 157 (2020) 537-548.

• Corrosion resistance enhancement of magnesium alloy by N-doped graphene quantum dots and polymethyltrimethoxysilane composite coating, carbon 196 (2019) 563-571

• Construction of nanoporous gold/g-C3N4 heterostructure for electrochemical supercapacitor, Electrochimica Acta, 294 (2019) 260-267.

• Pinning-dependent vortex wall oscillations in a one dimensional NiFe nanowire[J], App. Phy. Lett. 111 (2017) 162403.

• Improving the intergranular corrosion resistance of austenitic stainless steel by high density twinned structure , Scr. Mate. 130 (2017) 264-268.

• Gradient twinned 304 stainless steels for high strength and high ductility, Mater. Sci. Eng. A 667 (2016) 179-188.

• In vitro biocompatibility and corrosion behavior of biodegradable Magnesium-pearl powder metal matrix composite [J]. J. Alloys Compd. 663 (2016) 156-165.

• Microstructure and electrocatalytic performance of nanoporous gold foils decorated by TiO2 coatings, Surf. Coat. Technol. 286 (2016) 113-118

• Effect of annealing atmosphere on the thermal coarsening of nanoporous gold films, Appl. Surf. Sci. 286 (2016) 113-118

• Pore-size tuning and optical performances of nanoporous gold films, Micropor. Mesopor. Mater. 202 (2015) 50-56.

• Influence of microstructure on corrosion properties of multilayer Mg–Al intermetallic compound coating. Corros. Sci. 53 (2011) 1312-1321.

• The influence of strain rate on the microstructure transition of 304 stainless steel, Acta Materialia, 59 (2011) 3697-3709

   

  Important patents and proprietary rights

• Production of nanostructure austenitic sheet by repeat reverse transformation, USA, US2010/0101686

• Molten salt diffusion coating on magnesium alloy. China patent, ZL 200710041705.8

• A preparation method of pearl powder/magnesium alloy composite. China patent, ZL201410347085.0

• A preparation method of car brake pad. China patent, ZL201510946901.4

• A preparation method of car brake pad of high content of carbon. China patent, ZL 201611197928.9

• Amorphous nanocrystalline soft magnetic alloy and its preparation methods, China Patent, ZL201210508847.1, 2014

• Electrode material of supercapacitor and its preparation method, CN 108364800 B

• A method to improve the corrosion resistance of magnesium alloy by nitrogen doped graphene quantum dot coating, CN108796571B

• Double layer TiO2 / Au porous structure catalyst and its preparation method, ZL 201510167744.7

• A titanium dioxide nanowire and its preparation method, ZL 201510393996.1

   

  Honors and awards

• Third Prize of Excellent Innovative Entrepreneurship Team for College Students, 2018

• Excellence award in course teaching of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, 2014-2015

• Second prize of Academic Award, Proceedings of the 9th Zwick Academia Day Testing of high performance, lightweight and sustainable materials, Rome, Sapienza University,

  Activities in professional associations

• 2020-: Member of Expert Committee of National Think Tank for Materials and Devices Scientists

• Editorial board member of the journal “International Journal of Corrosion”

  Contact us

• E-mail: aychen@usst.edu.cn