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Yongqiang Wang

Dr. Yongqiang Wang is a Scientist 5 at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He holds a joint appointment as a Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) scientist and Radiation Science Experimental Team Leader at Materials Science and Technology Division. Dr. Wang holds a Ph.D. in nuclear physics and technology from Lanzhou University in China. As Director of Ion Beam Materials Laboratory (IBML), Dr. Wang manages IBML's research activities and user projects. He has published over 400 manuscripts with extensive expertise in radiation effects in materials as well as materials modification and characterization with ion beams. He has been serving as Editor for Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms since 2020 and a co-organizer for Biennial International Conference on Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry (CAARI) since 2012. Currently, he also serves as Accelerator Applications Division Chair in American Nuclear Society.

Email: yqwang@lanl.govs

Expertise

Materials science research with energetic ion beams, including radiation effects through ion irradiation, ion beam modification through ion implantation, and materials characterization through ion beam analysis techniques. Extensive hands-on experience in operating and maintaining a variety of electrostatic ion accelerators and ion implanters.

Orchid/Research Gate/Google Scholar Links

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2938-5640;
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yongqiang-Wang-11?ev=

Highlighted Publications/Current Research

C. Thomas et al. ,“Stress Engineering for Crack and Dendrite Prevention in Solid Electrolytes via Ion Implantation”, Cell Reports Physical Sciences, 6 (2025) 102544.
B.K. Wang et al. “Direct Synthesis of Layer-Tunable and Transfer-Free Graphene on Device-Compatible Substrates Using Ion Implantation Toward Versatile Applications”, Energy and Environmental Materials, 7 (2024) e12730.
O. El-Atwani et al. “A quinary WTaCrVHf nanocrystalline refractory high-entropy alloy withholding extreme irradiation environments”, Nat. Comm. 14 (2023) 2516.
X.J. Wang et al. "Enhanced exciton-to-trion conversion by proton irradiation of atomically thin WS2", Nano Lett. 23 (2023) 3754.
W.S. Cunningham et al. “Grain Boundary Softening from Stress Assisted Helium Cavity Coalescence in Ultrafine-Grained Tungsten”, Acta Mater. 252 (2023) 118948.
X.H. Xu et al. “Fabrication of Single-Color Centers in Sub-50 nm Nanodiamonds Using Ion Implantation”, Nanophotonics 12 (2023) 485-494.
K.H. Yano et al. “Radiation-Enhanced Anion Transport in Hematite”, Chem. Mater. 33 (2021) 2307-2318.
J. Tang et al.“Smart network nanocomposites collect irradiation-induced “trash””, Matter 3 (2020) 1631.
S. Agarwal et al. “Non-destructive Atomic Scale Depth Resolved Measurements of Ion-irradiation Induced Defects in Fe and Observation of a New Mechanism for Void-Cascade Interaction”, Science Advances 6 (2020) eaba8437.
M.Z. Mo et al. "Visualization of ultrafast melting initiated from radiation-driven defects in solids", Science Advances 5 (2019) eaaw0392.
G. Wang et al. “Seamless lateral graphene p–n junctions formed by selective in situ doping for high-performance photodetectors”, Nature Communications, 9 (2018) 5168.
M.Z. Mo et al. “Heterogeneous to homogeneous melting transition visualized with ultrafast electron diffraction”, Science, 360 (2018) 1451-1455.
D. Chen et al. “Self-organization of helium precipitates into elongated channels under confinement within a metal nano-layer”, Science Advances 3 (2017) eaao2710.
B.P. Uberuaga et al. “Opposite correlations between cation disordering and amorphization resistance in spinels versus pyrochlores”, Nature Communications, 6:8750, DOI: 10.1038 (2015).
W.Z. Han et al. “Design of Radiation Tolerant Materials via Interface Engineering”, Advanced Materials, 25 (2013) 6975-6979.
E.M. Bringa et al. “Are nanoporous materials radiation resistant?”, Nano Letters, 12 (2012) 3351.
Y.H. Li et al. “Role of antisite disorder on pre-amorphization swelling in titanate pyrochlores”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 108 (2012) 195504.
Z.D. Sharp et al. “The chlorine isotope composition of the Moon and implications for an anhydrous mantle”, Science, 329 (2010) 1050.

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