Faculty
Research Areas：
◆Metallic materials design, manufacturing, microstructure and multifunction.
◆Mechanical property and severe plastic deformation
◆Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion
◆Grain boundary engineering and phase transformation
◆Additive manufacturing
◆High temperature superalloys
◆Lightweight alloys
◆Advanced scanning/transmission electron microscopy (S/TEM)
◆In-situ TEM
◆Correlative microscopy (TEM/APT/Cryo-microscopy)
Work Experience:
◆2022.06-PresentDepartment of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology |Associate Professor
◆2020.11-2022.05Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology | Assistant Professor
◆2015.10-2020.9Postdoctoral researcher, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Dusseldorf, Germany | Post-doctoral fellow
Education:
◆2012.10-2015.10
◆2009.10-2012.06
Materials Science and Engineering | Imperial College London | B.Sc.
Awards & Honors：
◆2021 Outstanding Young Scientist Award of International Forum on Advanced Materials
◆2021 Selected Top 2% of scientists in the world
◆2018 Journal Outstanding Reviewer of《Journal of Alloys and Compounds》
◆2015 Max-Planck-scholarship
2012 TATA Steel Scholarship
Social work：
1)Young editorial board member of the journal 《Powder Metallurgy Materials Science and Engineering》
2)Young editorial board member of the journal《Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China》
3)《2021第三届先进结构材料实验设计与计算模拟论坛》大会-高温合金和核材料专题学术委员
5)Young editorial board member of the journal《 Journal of Iron and Steel Research International》
6)Acta Materialia/Reviewer
7)Scripta Materialia/Reviewer
8)Materialia/Reviewer
9)Materials Characterization/Reviewer
10)Journal of alloys and compounds /Reviewer
11)Materials and Design /Reviewer
12)Thin Solid Films/Reviewer
13)Corrosion Science/Reviewer
Publication Highlights:
1.Z.G. Zhu, F.L. Ng, H.L. Seet, W.J. Lu*, C.H. Liebscher, Z.Y. Rao, D. Raabe, S. Mui Ling Nai*, Superior mechanical properties of a selective-laser-melted AlZnMgCuScZr alloy enabled by a tunable hierarchical microstructure and dual-nanoprecipitation, Materials Today, Vol. 52, pp. 90 (2022).(JCR一区，影响因子：30.731)
2.G. Wu, C. Liu, A. Brognara, M. Ghidelli, Y. Bao, S. Liu, X. Wu, W. Xia, H. Zhao, J. Rao, D. Ponge, V. Devulapalli*, W.J. Lu*, G. Dehm, D. Raabe*, Z. Li*, Symbiotic crystal-glass alloys via dynamic chemical partitioning, Materials Today, Vol. 51, pp. 6 (2021).(JCR一区，影响因子：30.731)
3.G. Wu, S. Balachandran, B. Gault, W.Z. Xia, C. Liu, Z.Y. Rao, Y. Wei, S.F. Liu, J. Lu, M. Herbig, W.J. Lu*, G. Dehm, D. Raabe*, Z.M. Li*, Ductile crystal-glass high-entropy nanocomposites with near theoretical strength; Advanced Materials, Vol.32, pp. 2002619 (2020) (JCR一区，影响因子：27.398)
4.Z.W. Wang*, W.J. Lu*, H. Zhao, C. H. Liebscher, J.Y. He, D. Ponge, D. Raabe, Z.M. Li*, Ultrastrong lightweight complex concentrated steels via dual-nanoprecipitation; (Accepted) Science Advances, (2020) (JCR一区，影响因子：13.116)
5.H. Zhao*, L. Huber, W.J. Lu*, N.J. Peter, D.Y. An, F. D. Geuser, G. Dehm, D. Ponge, J. Neugebauer, B. Gault*, D. Raabe, Interplay of Chemistry and Faceting at Grain Boundaries in a model Al-alloy, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 124, pp. 106102（2020） (JCR一区，影响因子：8.385)
6.Z.Y. Rao, B. Dutta, F. Körmann, W.J. Lu*, X.Y. Zhou, C. Liu, A. Kwiatkowski da Silva, U. Wiedwald, M. Spasova, M. Farle, D. Ponge, B. Gault, J. Neugebauer, D. Raabe, Z.M. Li*, Beyond solid solution high-entropy alloys: tailoring magnetic properties via spinodal decomposition; (Accepted) Advanced Functional Materials, (2020) (JCR一区，影响因子：16.836)
7.W.J. Lu, C. H. Liebscher, G. Dehm, D. Raabe, Z.M. Li*, Bidirectional transformation enables hierarchical nanolaminate dual-phase high-entropy alloys, Advanced Materials, Vol. 30, pp. 1804727 (2018) (JCR一区，影响因子：27.398)
8.Z.W. Wang*, W.J. Lu*, H. Zhao, J.Y. He, K. Wang, B.C. Zhou, D. Ponge, D. Raabe, Z.M. Li*, Formation mechanism of κ-carbides and deformation behavior in Si-doped FeMnAlC lightweight steels with near GPa yield strength, Acta Materialia, Vol. 198, pp. 258-270 (2020) (JCR一区，影响因子：7.656)
9.X.D. Tan*, D. Ponge*, W.J. Lu*, Y.B. Xu, H.S. He, J. Yan, D. Wu, D. Raabe, Joint investigation of strain portioning and chemical portioning in ferrite-containing TRIP-assisted steels, Acta Materialia, Vol. 186, pp. 374 (2020) (JCR一区，影响因子：7.656)
10.W.J. Lu, C.H. Liebscher, F.K. Yan, X.F. Fang, L.L. Li, J.J. Li, W.Q. Guo, G. Dehm, D. Raabe, Z.M. Li*, Interfacial nanophases stailize nanotwins in high-entropy alloys, Acta Materialia, Vol. 185, pp. 218 (2020) (JCR一区，影响因子：7.656)
11.W.Q. Guo, J. Su, W.J. Lu*, C.H. Liebscher*, C. Kirchlechner, Y. Ikeda, F. Kormann, X. Liu, Y.F. Xue, G. Dehm*, Dislocation-induced breakthrough of strength and ductility trade-off in a non-equiatoic high-entropy alloy, Acta Materialia, Vol. 185, pp. 45 (2020) (JCR一区，影响因子：7.656)
12.W.J. Lu, M. Herbig*, C. H. Liebscher, L. Morsdorf, R.K.W. Marceau, G. Dehm, D. Raabe, Formation of eta carbide in ferrous martensite by room temperature aging, Acta Materialia, Vol. 158, pp. 297-312 (2018) (JCR一区，影响因子：7.656)
13.Z.G. Zhu, W.L. Li,1, Q. B. Nguyen, X.H. An*, W.J. Lu*, Z.M. Li, F. L. Ng, S. M. L. Nai,*, J. Wei, Enhanced strength–ductility synergy and transformation-induced plasticity of the selective laser melting fabricated 304L stainless steel, Additive Manufacturing, Vol. 35, pp. 101300 (2020) (JCR一区，影响因子：7.002)
14.X.K. Zhong*, W.J. Lu*, B.K. Liao, B. Medgyes, J.Y. Hu, Y. Zheng, D.Z. Zeng, Z. Zhang, Evidence for Ag participating the electrochemical migration of 96.5Sn-3Ag-0.5Cu alloy, Corrosion Science, Vol. 156, pp. 10 (2019) (JCR一区，影响因子：6.479)
15.J.J. Li, W.J. Lu*, J. Gibson, S.Y. Zhang, S. Korte-Kerzel, D. Raabe*, Compatible deformation and extra strengthening by heterogeneous nanolayer composites, Scripta Materialia, Vol. 179, pp. 30 (2020) (JCR一区，影响因子：5.079)
16.H. Chang, S.Y. Zhang*, C. Liebscher, D. Dye, D. Ponge, C. Scheu, G. Dehm, D. Raabe, B. Gault*, W.J. Lu*, Could face-centered cubic titanium in cold-rolled commercially-pure titanium only be a Ti-hydride? Scripta Materialia, Vol. 178, pp. 39. (2020) (JCR一区，影响因子：5.079)
17.H. Luo, S. S. Sohn, W.J. Lu, L.L. Li, X.G. Li*, K. Chandrahaasan, Z.M. Li*, D. Raabe*, A strong and ductile medium-entropy alloy resists hydrogen 1 embrittlement and corrosion, Nature Communications, Vol. 11, pp. 3081 (2020) (JCR一区，影响因子：11.878)
18.H. Luo, W.J. Lu, X.F. Fang, D. Ponge, Z.M. Li*, D. Raabe*, Beating hydrogen with its own weapon: Nano-twin gradients enhance embrittlement resistance of a high-entropy alloy, Materials Today, Vol. 21, pp. 1003-1009 (2018) (JCR一区，影响因子：24.372)
19.Y.H. Chang, W.J. Lu, J. Guénolé, L. Stephenson, A. Szczpaniak, P. Kontis, A. Ackerman, F. Dear, I. Mouton, X.K. Zhong, S.Y. Zhang, D. Dye, C. Liebscher, D. Ponge, S. Korte-Kerzel, D. Raabe, B. Gault*, Ti and its alloys as examples of cryogenic focused ion beam milling of environmentally-sensitive materials, Nature Communications, Vol. 10, pp. 942 (2019) (JCR一区，影响因子：11.878)
20.S.S. Sohn*, A. Kwiatkowski da Silva, Y. Ikeda1, F. Körmann, W.J. Lu, W. Seok Choi, B. Gault, D. Ponge, J. Neugebauer, D. Raabe, Ultrastrong medium-entropy single-phase alloys designed via severe lattice distortion, Advanced Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201807142 (2018) (JCR一区，影响因子：27.398)