Group Leader: Dr. Ruifeng Zhang

Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China, 2014；

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA, 2013；

Los Alamos Director's Postdoctoral Fellow, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA, 2009；

Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Technical University Munich, Garching, Germany, 2005; 

“Excellent PhD Graduate” and “Excellent PhD Thesis” of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2005.

Summary of achievements: 

The scientific works include the micromechanical mechanisms and regulation schemes, the high-throughput screening and combinational design of a variety of advanced materials, such as high-performance alloys, hard coatings, and flexible low-dimensional materials, as well as the development of "integrated thermodynamics/kinetics computational platform" and "high-throughput calculation and simulation integrated platform" and "materials database/modelbase development and intelligent design platform". The representative scientific achievements are as follows: put forward the rational design principle of multi-functional flexible MXene materials, which leads the mechanical-chemical coupling theoretical design of flexible materials; proposed the design principle of strong solids by multi-dimensional mechanical parameters, which successfully guide the discovery of a variety of new superhard materials and high-strength alloys; developed various advanced computation and simulation algorithms, which are broadly applied to reveal the interface facilitated micromechanical mechanism and extreme service behavior of various nanocomposites. More than 150 papers are published in high impact journals such as Chem. Rev., Phys. Rep., PNAS, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2), Adv. Mater. (3), Acta Mater. (17),  Adv. Funct. Mater. (4), Phys. Rev. B/M (24/2), Appl. Phys. Lett. (10), Compt. Phys. Comm. (7), Int. J. Plasticity (3), Scr. Mater. (6), Carbon (2), Energy Storage Mater. (4), Corr. Sci., Nature Comm., J. Amer. Chem. Soc., Nano Lett., Adv. Energy Mater., etc, with >5000 citations, H-index=50 and >50 international talks.  Several softwares in field of computational materials science are released in public, e.g. Database/Modelbase and Thermodynamic/Kinetic softwares: SDaMS, Miedema calculator, Pourbaix calculator, EPCK analyzer; Atomistic calculation/simulation software: SPaMD, VASPMATE, AACSD, AADIS, AELAS, ADAIS, PNADIS; Interatomic Potential construction software: EAPOTs, EAPOTc, EACHK.