Ji-Cheng Zhao

Dean, College of Engineering

Professor

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Education

• Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, October 1995
• M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Hunan, China, June 1988
• B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Hunan, China, June 1985

Awards and Honors

• Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Class of 2023. Citation: For contributions to computational alloy design, integrated computational materials engineering, and high-throughput methods leading to impactful industrial products.
• Clark Distinguished Chair Professor (2023-Present)
• Fellow of TMS (The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society), Class of 2023. Citation: For contributions to high-throughput research and diffusion studies in metals and early implementation of computational alloy design in turbine industry leading to high-impact alloy deployment.
• 2023 J. Willard Gibbs Phase Equilibria Award from ASM International. Citation: For developing highly efficient methods that employ combinatorial principles, and successfully applying them to the determination of phase diagrams, diffusion coefficients, and physical properties in alloy systems.
• Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Class of 2022
• Fellow of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Class of 2022
• Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Stiftung), 2022 https://www.mpie.de/4775573/ji-cheng-zhao-humboldt-award
• 2021 William Hume-Rothery Award from TMS – “This award is presented annually to recognize a scientific leader for exceptional scholarly contributions to the science of alloys.” A 3-day symposium was held in his honor on March 15-17, 2021 during the 150th TMS Annual Meeting. Citation: For development of groundbreaking methodologies for systematic
  measurements of phase-based properties for the understanding of a very large number of alloy systems.

Publications

• Hua Xie, Ning Liu, Qian Zhang, Hongtao Zhong, Liqun Guo, Xinpeng Zhao, Daozheng Li, Shufeng Liu, Zhennan Huang, Aditya Dilip Lele, Alexandra H. Brozena, Xizheng Wang, Keqi Song, Sophia Chen, Yan Yao, Miaofang Chi, Wei Xiong, Jiancun Rao, Minhua Zhao, Mikhail N. Shneider, Jian Luo, Ji-Cheng Zhao,* Yiguang Ju,* Liangbing Hu*, “A Stable Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma for Extreme-Temperature Synthesis”, Nature, (Ms. 2023-01-00453B), Accepted on September 28, 2023 and galley-proofed for publication.
• Chuangye Wang, Wei Zhong, Jess Garnett, Ji-Cheng Zhao, “High-Throughput Evaluation of Hardening Coefficients of Eight Alloying Elements in Magnesium”, Advanced Engineering Materials, vol. 25, 2300847, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202300847
• Noah Kohlhorst, Kevin Faraone, Roger Miller, Govindarajan Muralidharan, George Ulrich, and Ji-Cheng Zhao, “A Technique for the Quantitative Characterization of Weld 9 Microstructure and Application to Mo Welds”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, vol. 54, pp. 1434-1448, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-023-02771-y
• Michael Marshall, Meysam Akbari, Ji-Cheng Zhao, Kevin Hoopes, “Design of an Additively Manufactured Recuperator with 800 °C Inlet Temperature for sCO2 Power Cycle”, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, vol. 145, 021012, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4055723
• Wei Zhong and Ji-Cheng Zhao, “Vacancy Wind Factor of Diffusion of 13 Binary Metallic Solid Solutions”, Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion, vol. 43, pp. 629-633, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11669-022-01013-z
• Yaxian Wang, Zhangqi Chen, Wolfgang Windl, and Ji-Cheng Zhao, “Nonlinear Arrhenius Behavior of Self-Diffusion in β-Ti and Mo”, Physical Review Materials, vol. 6, 063402, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.063402
• Chuangye Wang, Wei Zhong, Ji-Cheng Zhao, “Insights on Phase Formation from Thermodynamic Calculations and Machine Learning of 2436 Experimentally Measured High Entropy Alloys”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, vol. 915, 165173, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2022.165173
• Girfan Shamsutdinov, Peng Zhao, Sreenivas Bhattiprolu, Ji-Cheng Zhao, and Boris Nadgorny, “Magnetization–Structure–Composition Phase Diagram Mapping in Co-Fe-Ni Alloys using Diffusion Multiples and Scanning Hall Probe Microscopy”, Scientific Reports, vol. 12, 1957, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05121-1
• Miao Guo, Qi Dong, Hua Xie, Chengwei Wang, Yunhao Zhao, Xizheng Wang, Wei Zhong, Zhihan Li, Ruiliu Wang, Shuaiming He, Wei Xiong, Ji-Cheng Zhao, Liangbing Hu, “Ultrafast High-Temperature Sintering to Avoid Metal Loss Toward High-Performance and Scalable Cermets”, Matter, vol. 5, pp. 594-604, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2021.11.008
• Wei Zhong, Ji-Cheng Zhao, “Recommendations for Simplified and Robust Assessments of Atomic Mobilities and Diffusion Coefficients of Ternary and Multicomponent Solid Solutions”, Scripta Materialia, vol. 207, 114227, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2021.114227