Professor Zhanpeng Jin has been engaged in the research of phase diagram calculations and phase transformation kinetics. He promoted the alloy phase thermodynamic model, and proposed even micro-diffusion component analysis study of the phase diagram of efficient cooperation. Moreover, he put forward the periodically metastable phase transition theory and the method for derivation of metastable phase diagram through the cooperation, assessed and calculated the phase diagrams for a series of alloy systems, ceramic oxide systems and artificial crystal materials, then established the relevant thermodynamics and phase diagram database, and researched various dynamic channels based on the phase diagrams with different thermodynamic variables as coordinates. By his work, a theoretical framework was set up for the simulated microstructural evolution of materials that are used for predicating and clarifying the amorphous zone of alloy, the interface reaction process of composite material and the forming conditions of the thermal corrosion products. His papers cover physics, chemistry, materials science and computer applications, which have been cited on over 50 international journals and periodicals as references for the establishment of a new theory, development of new methods, design of new materials, clarification of new phenomena and the formulation of new technology. In 1989, he was awarded with the Second Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of the State Education Commission of the PRC, and the Third Prize of Award of State Natural Science in 1991. In 1999, he obtained the Science and Technology Progress Award of Guangxi University.
Professor Zhanpeng Jin is called “academician of Chinese Hawking, live map of materials science”. Although the disease hampered his health, he never stopped his pace of research and teaching. In 1998, he won the First Prize of Baogang Education Award. In 2003, he was awarded with the top Ten Big News Figures of Hunan Province, titled as National Teacher Model in 2007, “Ethic Model of Hunan Province” in 2009. In 2011, he was named as National Teaching Model for the second session and as National Excellent Communist Party Member in 2012. Up to now, He has supervised more than 50 MS and PhD students. Some students were hired as Lotus Scholar, and entered the Changjiang Scholars Program and the 1000 Talents Plan, and some served as Deputy Editor of the international journal CALPHAD & JPED, and Editor of IJMR and Metal. Among the 20 members of American Commission of Alloy Phase Diagram, four of them are supervised by Professor Zhanpeng Jin. They are now outstanding scientists and experts in areas of material phase diagram and phase change all around Europe, Asia and the America.
Recently, Professor Zhanpeng Jin’s research focuses on the features of the times, cross situation, internal rules and innovation space of scientific materials.