Email
yzhong@wpi.edu
Office
WB 312
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Interdisciplinary Groups
Energy
Affiliated Department or Office
Education
PhD Materials Science Pennsylvania State University 2005
MS Materials Science and Engineering Sichuan University 2000
Dr. Yu Zhong joined WPI as an Associate Professor. He received his Ph.D. from Penn State (2005). After a short-term working as Research Associate, he joined Saint-Gobain High Performance Research Center in Northborough, MA. He had spent his 8-year career there working as an internal technical consultant focusing on the application of thermodynamics and kinetics to various materials R&D projects. In 2013, He moved to Florida International University (FIU) as Assistant Professor. He received the James Nichols Heald Research Award in 2021, TMS FMD Young Leaders Professional Development Award in 2016, and ONR summer faculty fellowship in 2015, 2016, and 2017. Dr. Zhong has more than 59 peer-reviewed journal papers published/accepted, 2 book chapters, and 2 patents. His research has been supported by Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Lab (NETL), Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP), and Solar Energy Technology Office (SETO), National Science Foundation (NSF), American Chemical Society (ACS), and Advance Casting Research Center (ACRC).
Research Interests
Corrosion simulation
Construction materials, like Cement, Gypsum, etc
The application of machine learning in materials
Molecular Dynamics simulations for molten salt
Scholarly Work
64. Yangyang Fan, Mohammad Asadikiya, Vadym Drozd, Yu Zhong, and Diran Apelian, “Development of an Optimized Two-Step Heat Treatment Schedule of a Novel Castable Al-Mg-Zn alloy”, Metall. Trans. A, Submitted, 2019
63. Fangzhou Xing, Yu Zhong, Lijun Zhang, “Integration of DFT, CALPHAD and numerical simulations for quantitative descriptions of phase transition in lithium battery cathodes and its effects on the capacity fade – A case study in Li-Mn-O system”, Journal of Materials Science & Technology, submitted, 2021
62. Fangzhou Xing, Yu Zhong, Lijun Zhang, “Ionic diffusion-induced phase transition from the spinel LixMn2O4 to t-LiMnO2 and its effect on the evolution of capacity fade: A quantitative numerical study”, Chemistry of Materials, submitted, 2021
61. Fangzhou Xing, Yu Zhong, Lijun Zhang, “Integration of DFT, CALPHAD and numerical simulations for quantitative descriptions of ionic diffusion-induced phase transition from spinel LixMn2O4 to t-LiMnO2 and its effect on the evolution of capacity fade”, Acta Materialia, submitted, 2021
60. Hooman Sabarou, Zigui Lu, Yu Zhong, “A Computational-Assisted Approach to Developing Dual-Phase Composite Materials for Oxygen Transport Membranes (OTMs)”, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, submitted, 2020
59. Vadym Drozd, Mohammad Asadikiya, Songge Yang, Yu Zhong, “Energy and Mechanical Properties Predictions in Fe-Ni Binary System by ab initio Calculations”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Accepted, 2020
58.Mohammad Asadikiya, Yifan Zhang, Libo Wang, Diran Apelian, Yu Zhong, “Design of Ternary High-Entropy Aluminum Alloys (HEAls)”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, accepted, 2021
57. Songge Yang, Yi Wang, Zi-Kui Liu, Yu Zhong, “Ab initio Simulations on the Pure Cr Lattice stability at 0K: Verification with the Fe-Cr and Ni-Cr Binary Systems”, CALPHAD, Accepted, 2021
56. Songge Yang, Yu Zhong, “Ab Initio Modeling of fcc Fe-Co-Cr-Ni High Entropy Alloys with Full Composition Range”, Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion, 42, 2021, pp. 419–427.
55. Yu Zhong, Shadi Darvish, Benjamin Levitas, Tauny Tambolleo, Srikanth Gopalan, Mei Yang, “An Insight from the CALPHAD approach: How to Control the LaMnO3 Perovskite Formation Via the Molten Salt Synthesis”, Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion, Accepted, 2021
54. Mohammad Asadikiya, Songge Yang, Yifan Zhang, Connor Lemay, Diran Apelian, and Yu Zhong, “Design of Aluminum Alloys: A Pathway for Novel Al Alloys“, Journal of Materials Science, 56, 12093–12110(2021)
53. Mei Yang, Bryer C. Sousa, Richard Smith, Hooman Sabarou, Danielle Cote, Yu Zhong, Richard D. Sisson, “Bainitic Transformations and Mechanical Properties of Austempered AISI 5160 Steel”, Materials Performance and Characterization, 10, no. 1 (2021): 110-125.
52. Ali Jammal, Gang Wang, Hanbo Yang, Songge Yang, Yu Zhong, Yiming Rong, “Thermodynamic calculation and characterization of carbide precipitation in laser-deposited material for high speed steel alloy”, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 2020
51. Aditya Moudgal, Sarat Buasai, Yi Jie Wu, Alexander McMahon, Mohammad Asadikiya, Adam Powell, Uday Pal, Yu Zhong, “Finite Element Analysis and Techno-Economic Modeling of Solar SiliconMolten Salt Electrolysis”, JOM, 73, 233–243(2021)
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Professional Affiliations
American Society of Metal (ASM International)
The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS)
The American Ceramic Society (ACERS)
The Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST)
Sigma Xi
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