报告人: 陈弦（香港科技大学）

时  间：8月8日(周四)15:00-17:00

地  点：新葡萄8883国际官网新奥工学大楼3048

内容简介：

Functional materials that undergo solid-solid phase transformations are widely exploited in various applications such as biomedical devices, microelectronics, caloric cooling, and energy harvesting. As nanotechnologies are widely used in manufacturing of small scale devices, the analysis of mechanical behaviors and microstructure become very important. In this presentation, I will briefly discuss the continuum mechanics theories used to predict the microstructure formation in these materials, which is crucial to the transformability and fatigue properties under stress-induced phase transformations. To verify the theories, I will demonstrate how to carry out nanomechanical experiments for phase-changing materials, including the focused ion beam techniques for miniaturized sample preparation as well as the ex/in situ nanomechanical tensile and compression tests on transforming alloys and ceramics. I will show that our experimental results validate the underlying mechanics theories, reveal the size effect and scaling law, which eventually provide valuable insights for designing low-fatigue alloys and multiferroic ceramics.

报告人简介：

Dr. Chen is an Associate Professor at Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics, supervised by Prof. Richard D. James, at the University of Minnesota. She worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as the ALS Fellow, then worked at the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech on nanomechanics of shape memory alloys with Kaushik Bhattacharya and Julia Greer. Dr. Chen received the Early Career Award from RGC, Hong Kong in 2017. She was awarded the Simon Fellowship by Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK in 2019. Her research interests are the continuum mechanics, nanomechanics, advanced structural characterization and machine learning algorithms for phase-transforming materials. She developed in situ nanomechanics experiments and theoretical approaches for phase transforming polycrystals with much enhanced fatigue resistance. These materials have emerging applications in medical devices, microelectronics and energy conversion devices.

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