Dr. Zhiwei Shan's proved that grain boundary mediated plasticity can play a prominent role in nanocrystalline metals which has been sought for many years; he and his collaborators discovered and identified that mechanical annealing is a general phenomenon for small volume single crystal metals regardless of crystal structure and further invented a cyclic healing method to tailor the mechanical properties of metals; most recently, his research group discovered the novel effects of hydrogen on dislocations as well as the integration of interface between metal/oxide.
Dr. Shan got his bachelor’s degree from Jilin University, mater degree from Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academic of Sciences and Ph. D degree from University of Pittsburgh. He conducted his post-doctoral research at National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory. After this, he joined Hysitron Inc., a world leader in manufacturing nano-mechanical testing instruments, as a product line manager and later as the director of Hysitron Applied Research Center. From 2010 to 2016, Dr. Shan was a professor in School of Materials Science and Engineering. Because of his achievements, he was selected as “Chang Jiang Scholars”, for “The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars” and “The Thousand Talents Plan” successively. He found and co-found three international research centers, i.e. Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale (CAMP-Nano), Hysitron Applied Research Center in China (HARCC) and Xi’an Jiatong University & Hitachi High Tech Research and Development Center (XHRDC). From July 2016, he was appointed as the dean of School of Materials Science of Engineering at Xi’an Jiaotong University.
His main research interests include the size effect on mechanical behavior of materials, hydrogen embrittlement and magnesium-based advanced materials. His current research focuses on: 1) probing the properties and advancing the performance of materials from the nanoscale; 2) developing technologies to enable above goals, and 3) accumulating and constructing the knowledge system of materials at the micro- and nano- scale. So far, Dr. Shan has published 70+ papers in peer reviewed journals, including those most prestigious ones such as Science (1), Nature (1), Nature Materials (4), Nature Communications (6), PNAS (2), Physical Review Letters (3) et al; organized and co-organized 22 international conferences; authored/presented more than 200+ talks with more than half of them being invited talks. He also served as a volume organizer for the 2016 MRS Bulletin volume. He is currently a Deputy Chief Editor of Materials China.
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