Research Interests

1.High Throughput technology；

2.Serration Behaviors；

3.Collective Phenomena

Education Background

1994/09-1998/12     USTB,   Super alloys               PhD

1991/09-1994/07     USTB,   Materials Science           Master Degree

1987/09-1991/07     Yanshan-U, Materials Science          Bachelor

Work Experience

2004/03-current     USTB          SKLAMM        Professor

2011/11-2012/06  University of Tennessee  Department of Materials,                  Senior Visiting Fellow

2000/01-2004/06    NUS & Singapore-MIT Alliance,    Research Fellow

1998/12-2000/04    Institute of Theoretical physics,    Postdoctoral Fellow

Honors and Awards

1.New Century Excellent Talents, 2005

2.Guest Professor of North China University, 2009

3.Second Prize of the Natural Science Award of Ministry of Education in 2011, Study on the Structure, Strengthening and Toughening of Bulk Amorphous Alloys

4.Second Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of ShanXi Province, 2011, The deformation mechanism of bulk metallic glasses

5.Thousand Talents of Qinghai Province, 2018

6.Second Prize of State Natural Science Award, 2018, Structure and toughening of bulk metallic glasses

7.First Prize of the Natural Science Award of Ministry of Education in 2018, Study on Phase Formation and Microstructure and Properties of High Entropy Alloys

Selected Publications

1.X. Yan, J. Ma, Y. Zhang*, High-throughput screening for biomedical applications in a Ti-Zr-Nb alloy system through masking co-sputtering. Science China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy. 2019, 62(9):996111.

2.X. Yan, J. Li, W. Zhang, Y. Zhang*, A brief review of high-entropy films. 2018, 210:12-19.

3.Y. Zhang*, X. Yan, J. Ma, Z. Lu, Y. Zhao, Compositional gradient films constructed by sputtering in a multicomponent Ti-Al-(Cr, Fe, Ni) system. Journal of Materials Research. 2018, 33(19):3330-3338.

4.Y. Zhang*, X. Yan, W. Liao, K. Zhao, Effects of Nitrogen Content on the Structure and Mechanical Properties of (Al0.5CrFeNiTi0.25)Nx High-Entropy Films by Reactive Sputtering. Entropy. 2018, 20(9):624.

5.W. Zhang, P. Liaw, Y. Zhang*, Science and technology in high-entropy alloys. Science China Materials. 2018, 61(1):2-22.

6.Y. Zhang*, J. Liu, S. Chen, X. Xie, P. Liaw, K. Dahmen, J. Qiao, Y. Wang, Serration and noise behaviors in materials. Progress in Materials Science. 2017, 90:358-460.

7.Y. Zhang, Authored Book, 《High-entropy Materials: A Brief Introduction》. Springer-Nature Publishing. 2019.

Academic Services

1.Reviewers for international academic journals "Nature", "Science", and "Nature Review Materials" et al. Special reviewer for "Acta Physica Sinica" and "Chinese Physics". Reviewer for "Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China", "Acta Metallurgica Sinica", and “Science China”.

2.Editorial board member of the journal “Metal Materials International”, “Metals”, and “International Journal of MMM”.

3.Fellow and Vice Managing director of the Committee on Intermetallic Compounds and Amorphous Alloys.

4.Academic member of the Special Materials Laboratory; Fellow of the Nuclear Materials Society

5.Member of the International High Entropy Alloy Committee