April 29, 2026, Weijiang Zhao passed his thesis defense! Congratulations! Dr. Zhao.
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March 25, 2026, Yinghui Shang passed her thesis defense! Congratulations! Dr. Shang.
Jan 29, 2026, Ziyin Yang passed his thesis defense! Congratulations! Dr. Yang.
Nov 17, 2025, Zhaoqi Chen passed his thesis defense! Congratulations! Dr. Chen.
Sept 13, 2025, Shicheng Dai passed his thesis defense! Congratulations! Dr. Dai.
Dec 12, 2024, Xiang Gao passed his thesis defense! Congratulations! Dr. Gao.
Aug 16, 2024, Hang Wang passed his thesis defense! Congratulations! Dr. Wang.
Aug 4, 2024, Zhibo Zhang passed his thesis defense! Congratulations! Dr. Zhang.
April 12-15, 2024, 第五屆非晶態物理和材料春季學術會議在江蘇溧陽召開.
Aug 31, 2023, Minhyuk Park passed his thesis defense! Congratulations! Dr. Park.
Aug. 1, 2022, Prof Yang is guest-editing with two other guest editors the collection of papers on Glasses and Amorphous Materials for Scientific Reports.
July 22, 2022, Prof Yang will give an invited talk on the "fabrication and characterization of low dimensional metals/ceramics for manufacturing of small-scale structures and devices" in the session of the international conference on green materials manufacturing and testing 2022, held by Hong Kong Metropolis University (HKMU).
July 12-15, 2022, Prof Yang will give a talk on the "Novel heterogeneous lattice strain strengthening in severely distorted crystalline solids " in the first international conference on heterostructured materials (HSM I). Prof. Yang is also a member of the local organization committee for the event.
June 25-July 02, 2022, 12th European Advanced Materials Congress is held in Genoa, Italy. Prof Yang will give an invited lecture on the "Abnormal Elasticity in Highly Distorted High Entropy Alloy" on June 26, 2022 from 17:40-18:00 Hong Kong time or 11:40-12:00 central european summer time.
June 26-28, 2022: IUTAM Symposium on Multiscale Architecting of Microstructures of Solids: Mechanics and Manufacturing will be held online by Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. Yang will give an invited talk on "abnormal elasticity in highly distorted high entropy alloys" on June 28, 2022, from 14:00 to 14:30.
June 20 2022, Jingyang held his PhD thesis defense with the title Development of strong yet ductile chemically complex metallic films based on structural and chemical design at the nanoscale.
June 15 2022, Ziqing successfully defended his PhD thesis with the title Machine Learning Guided Phase Design for Compositionally Complex Alloys: From High Entropy Alloys to Metallic Glasses. Congratulations! Dr. Zhou
Due to Covid, the International Conference on Frontier Materials 2021 has been put off to Mar 28 to April 1, 2022, in Zhuhai, China. Update: due to the widespread of Omicron in mainland, the ICFM2022 has finally been rescheduled to May 29-30 2022, and all on-site presentations have been changed to an online mode. Tough time for all events host in mainland China!
14-Sept-2021: Farewell dinner with Quanfeng at M&C Duck, TKO (將軍澳美中鴨子) before Quanfeng leaves CityU for Huawei. A bright future ahead!
People (from left to right): Zhaoqi Chen (Year 1 PhD student), Jingyang Zhang (Year 4 PhD student), Ziqing Zhou (Year 4 PhD student), Jiali Jiang (Guest, Year 1 PhD student at CityU), Prof. Baisong Guo (Visiting Scholar), Dr. Quanfeng He, me, Minyuk Park (Year 2 PhD student), Zhibo Zhang (Year 1 PhD student), Xiang Gao (Year 1 PhD student) and Hang Wang (Year 1 PhD student)
13-August-2021: Shuo held and passed the oral defense of his thesis on Development of Corrosion-Resistant Multi-Principal Element Alloys through Zoom. Congrats. Dr. Shuang!
Thesis defense of Shuo via zoom. Examiners: me (top middle), Prof. Jun Fan, chair of the exam (top right) , Prof. Xiongjun Liu (bottom left) and Prof. Kaili Zhang (bottom middle). Anne, staff from SGS (top left) and Shuo (bottom right).
4-August-2021: Tianyu held and passed the oral defense of his thesis on Scalable Fabrication of Metallic Nanostructures Based on Polymer Surface Buckling Enabled Exfoliation: From 2D Nanosheets to Helical Tubes through Zoom. Congrats! Dr. Wang!
Thesis defense of Tianyu via zoom. Prof. Xinghua Shi (top left), me (top middle), Prof. Chunyi Zhi (top right), Prof. Yang Lu, the chair of exam (bottom left) and Tianyu (bottom middle)
21-August-2020: Amid the pandemic of Covid-19, Dukhyun held and passed the oral defense of his thesis on Fracture of Multi-principal Element Metallic Composites Based on Chemically Complex Intermetallics and FCC through Zoom. Congrat! Dr. Chung !
15-July-2020: Amid the pandemic of Covid-19, Zhaoyi held and passed the oral defense of his thesis on The Design and Development of Eutectic High Entropy Alloys with Excellent Mechanical and Functional Properties through Zoom. Congrat! Dr Ding !
Zhaoyi is presenting his research work on eutectic high entropy alloys via zoom for his PhD defense.
11-Sept-2019: Fucheng passed the oral defense of his thesis on room temperature plasticity in amorphous and amorphous-nanocrystalline alloys. Congrats! Dr. Li!
Fucheng is presenting his research work for his PhD defense.
22-Aug-2019: Quanfeng passed the defense of his thesis on the effect of atomic size and chemical randomness on phase stability of chemically complex alloys . Congrats! Dr. He!
04-June-2019: Dr. Lingting Fan from Mettler-Toledo China gives us a talk on Flash DSC: Technology and application in advanced metal field.
28-Feb-2019: Prof. Kin-Ning Tu from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) gives us a talk on Past, present and future semiconductor technology.
18-Feb-2019: Quanfeng gave a talk on the introduction to the invar and elinvar effect.
Quanfeng is discussing the invar and elinvar effect.
13-Aug-2018: Xiaodi passed the defense of his thesis on the micromechanics of creep in metallic glasses. Congrats! Dr. Liu!
Xiaodi is presenting his research during his thesis defense.
22-May-2018: Prof. Wanliang Shan from University of Nevada, Reno gives us a talk on Soft End-Effectors: Smart Materials, Adhesion Mechanics, and Device Integration.
15-May-2018: Yuanchao passed his thesis defense jointly held by UCAS and CityU. Congrats! Dr. Hu!
Yuanchao is taking questions from the examiners during his thesis defense.
24-April-2018: Prof. Haihui Ruan from Hong Kong Polytechnic University (香港理工大學) gives us a talk on Investigation of nonequilibrium dynamics based on the free vibration of beam.
16-Jan-2018: workshop on "Physics of Supercooled Liquids", as organized by Prof. XL Wang, is going to be held in City University of Hong Kong during 16 Jan to 19 Jan 2018.
25-Nov-2017: The 12th international conference on bulk metallic glasses (BMG XII) is going to be held in Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea from May 27-31, 2018. Our group is invited to make a presentation in this important international event for BMG research.
23-Oct-2017: The seminar on mechanical behavior of bulk metallic glasses given by Prof. Jean-Marc Pelletier from Université de Leyon, France.
Prof. Pelletier is presenting his research on dynamic mechanical analysis of metallic glasses.
15-May-2017: Yumiao passed her thesis defense jointly held by UCAS and CityU. Congrats! Dr. Lyu!
23-March-2017: Yifan passed his thesis defense. Congrats! Dr. Ye！
Yifeng is presenting his PhD work.
22-March-2017: The seminar on Dealloying and Spontaneous Nanoporous Metal Formation, given by Prof. Qing Chen from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong.
15-March-2017: The seminar on An Extension of Civil Infrastructure Materials, given by Prof. Ting Tan from the University of Vermont, USA.
20-Feb-2017: The seminar on Mechanical behavior of irradiated metals, given by Prof. Huiling Duan from the department of mechanics and engineering science, Peking University, Beijing, China.
6-Dec-2016: The seminar on Hierarchical Mg/SiC nanocomposite with simultaneously enhanced strength and ductility, given by Prof. Jinlin Liu from School of mechanics and engineering, Southwest Jiaotong university, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Prof. Liu visits our group while he is attending a conference in Hong Kong.
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