Studying and Working Experience

In 2011, he went to the University of Wollongong in Australia with the full scholarship sponsored by China Scholarship Council (CSC). He received doctoral degree in 2015 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the same University from 2016 to 2017. Since June 2017, he worked as a research fellow in the Department of Materials Engineering at the University of Tokyo with a grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). In 2020, he joined College of Materials Science and Engineering of Chongqing University, engaged in teaching and scientific research as associate professor and doctoral supervisor.

Professional affiliations

u Deputy Director, CQU International Joint Lab for Light Alloys (Ministry of Education)

u Member of Expert Database of National Graduate Education Evaluation and Monitoring

u Member of Expert Database of National Professional Title Evaluation of College Teachers

u Topic editor / Guest editor of《Metals》

u Reviewer of 20+ SCI academic journals in the field of materials, including《Acta Materialia》《Science China: Materials》《JMST》《Mechanics of Materials》《Journal of Materials Science》 《Materials Characterization》etc.

u Outstanding reviewer of《Computational Material Science》《Journal of Nuclear Materials》

The courses

《Strength and Fracture of Materials》(English)

Main Research areas

u Multiscale computational simulation of materials (MD, DFT, FEM, etc.)

u Microstructure, mechanical properties and plastic deformation mechanism of nanocrystalline metals

u High-throughput computing and machine learning based on material genetic engineering

Research projects

[1] National Natural Science Foundation of China (52071034): Prediction of metastable structures of grain boundary and research on their deformation mechanisms based on molecular dynamics simulation and machine learning, 2021/01-2024/12

[2] National Key Research and Development Program of China (2020YFA0405904-2): Simulation of residual stress evolution during casting process of engineering components, 2020/11-2024/10

[3] National Natural Science Foundation of China (52130107): Extreme strengthening in nanostructured aluminum alloys via grain boundary segregation engineering, 2022/01-2026/12

[4] JW Key basic research projects: Basic study on the regulation of precipitate phase in core-shell structure of heat-resistant Aluminum alloy, 2020/10 -2024/09

[5] Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (P17711;17F17711): Molecular dynamics study of grain boundary deformation behavior in nanocrystalline metals, 2017/06-2019/06

Publications & Patents

Publication list:

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9293-5430

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=C6hHD2cAAAAJ&hl=en

Selected publications:

[1] Zhang L., Mao W., Liu M., Lu C., Shibuta Y. “Mechanical response and plastic deformation of coherent twin boundary with perfect and defective structures” Mechanics of Materials 141, 103266. (2020)

[2] Zhang L., Shibuta Y., Lu C., Huang X. “Interaction between nano-voids and migrating grain boundary by molecular dynamics simulation” Acta Materialia 173, 206-224. (2019)

[3] Zhang L., Shibuta Y., Huang X., Lu C., Liu M. “Grain boundary induced deformation mechanisms in nanocrystalline Al by molecular dynamics simulation-From interatomic potential perspective” Computational Materials Science 156, 421-433. (2019)

[4] Zhang L., Lu C., Tieu K., Shibuta Y. “Dynamic interaction between grain boundary and stacking fault tetrahedron” Scripta Materialia 144, 78-83. (2018)

[5] Zhang L., Lu C., Shibuta Y. “Shear response of grain boundaries with metastable structures by molecular dynamics simulations” Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering 26, 035008. (2018)

[6] Zhang L., Lu C., Michal G., Deng G., Tieu K. “The formation and destruction of stacking fault tetrahedron in fcc metals-A molecular dynamics study” Scripta Materialia 136, 78-82. (2017)

[7] Zhang L., Lu C., Tieu K., Su L., Zhao X., Pei L. “Stacking fault tetrahedron induced plasticity in copper single crystal” Materials Science and Engineering A 680, 27-38. (2017)

[8] Zhang L., Lu C., Tieu K. “A review on atomistic simulation of grain boundary behaviors in face-centered cubic metals” Computational Materials Science 118, 180-191. (2016)

[9] Zhang L., Lu C., Tieu K., Zhao X., Pei L. “Shear Response of Copper Bicrystal with ∑11 Symmetric and Asymmetric Tilt Grain Boundaries by Molecular Dynamics Simulation” Nanoscale 7, 7224-7233. (2015)

[10] Zhang L., Lu C., Tieu K. “Atomistic Simulation of Tensile Deformation Behavior of ∑5 Tilt Grain Boundaries in Copper Bicrystal” Scientific Reports 4, 5919. (2014)

Awards

u August 2021, Chongqing Talents (AIII)

u June 2019, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, JSPS Fellowship

Research team

u "Nanocrystalline Metals and Advanced Characterization" team led by Professor Xiaoxu Huang

u International Joint Lab for Light Alloys (Ministry of Education)

u Shengyang National Laboratory for Materials Science - Light Metals Division

u NSFC Innovative Research Group "Deformation, phase transformation, strengthening and toughening of metallic materials"