Post

• Professor, Doctor Supervisor in Materials Science and Engineering

   

  Academic careers

• 2004-2009： Doctor’s degree of Materials Science, Shanghai Jiaotong University

   

  Employments

• 2012-: Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, USST

• 2008-2010: Research associate of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

   

  Research interests

• Fabrication and characterization of advanced nanostructured materials;

• Deformation behavior of multi-scaled graded materials;

• Processing & mechanical properties of surface coating;

• Electrochemistry & Corrosion of nanostructured metallic material.

  Important research and development projects

• 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 (NSFC)

• Strengthening mechanisms and size effect of nanotwins in super high strength of austenite stainless steel. Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, 2013-2015

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

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

   

  Important papers and publications

• Scale law of complex deformation transitions of nanotwins in stainless steel, Nature Communications, 2019

• The influence of strain rate on the microstructure transition of 304 stainless steel, Acta Materialia, 2011

• Improving the intergranular corrosion resistance of austenitic stainless steel by high density twinned structure , Scripta Materialia, 2017

• Gradient twinned 304 stainless steels for high strength and high ductility, Materials Science and Engineering A, 2016

• Reinforcement of laser-welded stainless steels by surface mechanical attrition treatment , Materials Science and Engineering A，2013

• Off-on fluorescent switching of boron-doped carbon quantum dots for ultrasensitive sensing of catechol and glutathione, Carbon, 2020

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

• Construction of nanoporous gold/g-C₃N₄ heterostructure for electrochemical supercapacitor, Electrochimica Acta, 2019

• Microstructure and electrocatalytic performance of nanoporous gold foils decorated by TiO₂ coatings, Surface and Coatings Technology, 2016

• Effect of annealing atmosphere on the thermal coarsening of nanoporous gold films, Applied Surface Science, 2015

• Pore-size tuning and optical performances of nanoporous gold films, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2015

   

  Important patents and proprietary rights

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

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

• 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

   

  Contact me

• E-mail: aychen@usst.edu.cn