Haiyan Wang

Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering

Fellow of MRS, APS, AAAS, ACerS, ASM, and NAI

School of Materials Engineering

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Purdue University

Email: hwang00@purdue.edu

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Research Interests

  • Nanostructured nitride and oxide thin film heterostructures for structural applications, radiation tolerant materials, microelectronics, optoelectronics, ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials, high temperature superconductors, solid oxide fuel cells, batteries and solar cells.

  • Coated superconductor materials scale-up and architectures; Flux-pinning mechanisms of nanoparticles and defects in high temperature superconductors.

  • Microstructural characterizations with transmission electron microscopy (TEM), high resolution TEM, Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and XRD; in situ TEM; Materials property-microstructure correlations.

Honors

  • Fellow, NAI, 2020

  • Fellow, MRS, 2019

  • Richard Grace Best Faculty Research Award, Purdue University, 2018

  • Fellow, APS, 2017

  • Alumni Hall of Fame, Materials Science Engineering, NC State University, 2017

  • Fellow, AAAS, 2016

  • Fellow, ACerS, 2015

  • The O'Donnell Award in Engineering Category 2015, TAMEST (The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas, one per year)

  • Distinguished Research Achievement Award, Association of Former Students (AFS) 2015.

  • Fellow, ASM International, Class of 2014

  • TEES Senior Fellow 2014

  • TEES Fellow 2013

  • ASM Silver Medal Award for Outstanding Materials Scientist in Mid Career, 2011

  • US Frontier of Engineering Selected Attendee (NAE FOE), 2011

  • Charles H. Barclay Jr. Fellow--College of Engineering Faculty Fellow Award 2011

  • TEES Selected Young Fellow Award 2010

  • NSF CAREER Award 2009.

  • Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers 2007 (PECASE awarded in Dec. 2008).

  • ONR Young Investigator Program Award, ONR-YIP 2008.

  • Featured as one of the Rising Stars of Texas at the NANO Summit, Texas 2007.

  • Air Force Young Investigator Research Program Award, AFOSR-YIP 2007.

  • Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship, AFOSR, 2007 and 2008.

  • TMS Young Leader representing the Electronic, Magnetic and Photonic Materials Division. (Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, TMS 2005)

  • Lab Director Funded Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2002-2004).

  • Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award (Fall 2001, Boston)

Education

  • Ph.D., Materials Science & Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2002

  • M. S., Materials Science & Engineering, Institute of Metal Research, Shenyang, China, 1999

  • B. S., Materials Science & Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China, 1998