北京化工大学 Xin Liang个人主页-Professor-材料科学与工程学院

Introduction

Xin Liang is currently a full-professor at Colloege of Materials Science and Engineering at Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT). He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Materials Physics from Univeristy of Science and Technology Beijing, Master's degree in Materials Engineering from McMaster Univerity (Advisors: Professor J. David Embury and Hatem S. Zurob), and then Master's degree and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University (Advisor: Professor David R. Clarke). He then worked as a post-doc fellow at Harvard University and then Brown University. Prior to join BUCT, he was a full-professor at Changzhou University and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor Xin Liang's research group primarily focuses on thermal and electrical transport properties and mechanical behavior of inorganic materials, covering ceramics, semiconductors, metals and alloys, composite materials, and amorphous materials. He has published 39 peer-reviewed journal papers including Acta Mater. (9), App. Phys. Lett. (8), Phys. Rev. B, and J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (2). He wrote one chapter on thermal conductivity of ZnO based materials in Elsevier published scientific book. He has accomplished several research projects funded by governmental fundamental science funding like National Science Fundation of China (NSFC) and Chinese Academy of Sciences as well as by industry (CRRC). He was awarded the Jiangsu Province Distinguished Professor. He serves as a reviewer for about 40 peer-reviewed scientific journals including Acta Materialia, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Nano Letters, Materials Today, Applied Physics Letters, Chemical Science, Small, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Nano-Micro Letters, Composites Part B: Engineering, and Chemical Communications etc.

Education

Work Experience

Social Position

Social Activities

Research

Professor Xin Liang's group currently focus on the following research directions:

(1) Thermal transport properties and physics of inorganic materials, including the form of bulk, thin films,, 2D materials, and nanowires;

(2) Development of micro/nano-scale physical property measurement with high spatial and time resolution;

(3) Plasticity and deformation mechanisms in inorganic duticle semiconductors;

(4) Electrical transport properties of Cu based engineering materials.

Teaching

Undergraduate courses:

(1) Functional Materials

(2) Practice of Applied Scientific Softwares

Graduate Courses:

(1) Metallic Materials, Master Course

(2) Advanced Materials Design and Product Engineering, PhD Course, co-teaching

(3) Advanced Materials Design and Product Engineering, Master Course, co-teaching

Postgraduates

Funding

In-situ micro/nano-scale measurement of electrical transport properties across the Cu/Graphene interface, CRRC, 2023-2025

Vertical Project

Horizontal Project

Publications

Selected publications:

N. Shen, X. Wu, L. Li, X. Liang*, Amorphous silicon nitride thin film withstanding up to 1700 °C: Structure and thermal conductivity, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2025, 16, 6385.
X. Liang*, S. Yang, Thermal transport properties of ultra-high-temperature ceramic superlattices, Applied Physics Letters 2025, 126, 153904. (Chosen as Featured article)
S. Yang, H. Bu, Y. Shao, X. Liang*, Energy transport mechanisms and characteristic vibration energy regimes for thermal conduction in bulk metallic glass, Applied Physics Letters 2024, 124, 053901.
X. Liang* and C. Wang, Anomalous behavior of strain modulated lattice thermal transport in piezoelectric crystals and the effect of polarization, Acta Materialia 2022, 241, 118406.
X. Liang* and C. Wang, Insights into strain dependent lattice thermal conductivity of tin oxide, Acta Materialia, 2022, 239, 118289.
X. Liang* and C. Chen, Ductile inorganic amorphous compounds with phonon-glass electron-crystal transport behavior and excellent stability of high thermoelectric performance on plastic deformation, Acta Materialia, 2021, 218, 117231.
X. Liang*, H. Wang, and C. Wang, Lattice thermal conductivity of transition metal carbides: evidence of a strong electron-phonon interaction above room temperature, Acta Materialia, 2021, 216, 117160.
X. Liang*, C. Chen, and F. Dai, Effect of plastic deformation on phonon thermal conductivity of α-Ag₂S, Applied Physics Letters, 2020. 117(25): p. 253901. (Editor’s Pick)
X. Liang*, C. Wang, and D. Jin, Influence of nonstoichiometry point defects on electronic thermal conductivity, Applied Physics Letters, 2020. 117(21): p. 213901.
X. Liang* and C. Wang, Electron and phonon transport anisotropy of ZnO at and above room temperature, Applied Physics Letters, 2020, 116(4), 043903. (Chosen as Featured article, highlighted in AIP Scilight)
X. Liang*, and F. Dai, Epoxy nanocomposites with reduced graphene oxide constructed 3D networks of single wall carbon nanotube for enhanced thermal management capability with low filler loading, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2020, 12(2), 3051-3058.
X. Liang*, L. Shen, and C. Wang, Origin of anisotropy and compositional dependence of phonon and electron transport in ZnO based natural superlattices and role of atomic layer interfaces, Nano Energy, 2019, 59, 651-666.
X. Liang* and F. Dai, Reduction of the Lorenz number in copper at room temperature due to strong inelastic electron scattering brought about by high-density dislocations, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2019, 10, 507-512.
X. Liang* and L. Shen, Interfacial thermal and electrical transport properties of pristine and nanometer-scale ZnS modified grain boundary in ZnO polycrystals, Acta Materialia, 2018, 148, 100-109.
X. Liang*, Impact of grain boundary characteristics on lattice thermal conductivity: A kinetic theory study on ZnO, Physical Review B, 2017, 95, 155313.

教师个人主页

Xin Liang