Program

Day 1: 12 July 2022 (Tuesday)

Time (GMT +8) Activity Modality
9:00 – 9:10 Opening ceremony Onsite
Session 1: Heterostructured materials: Mechanical behavior I
Session Chair: Yuntian Zhu, City University of Hong Kong
9:10 – 10:00
Plenary
Huajian Gao
(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Engineer metals with internal interfaces for enhanced mechanical performance
Online
10:00 – 10:30
Invited
Amit Misra
(University of Michigan, USA)
Plasticity in Laser Processed Al-Si Eutectic Alloys
Online
10:30 – 10:50 Break
10:50 – 11:20
Invited
Xinghang Zhang
(Purdue University, USA)
Mechanical behavior of nanostructured metallic materials with thick grain boundaries
Online
11:20 – 11:50
Invited
Zhaohua Hu
(Ansteel Beijing Research Institute Company, China)
Industrial manufacturing of Heterogeneous Materials: Preliminary investigation and perspectives
Online
11:50 – 12:10 Zhaoxuan Wu
(City University of Hong Kong, China)
The cores of the screw dislocations in BCC transition metals and alloys
Onsite
12:10 – 14:00 Lunch
Session 2: Heterostructured materials: Mechanical behavior II
Session Chair: Yang Lu, City University of Hong Kong
14:00 – 14:40
Keynote
Jacob Huang
(City University of Hong Kong, China)
Quantifying the hetero-deformation induced strengthening in bimodal grain structure
Online
14:40 – 15:20
Keynote
Hao Zhou
(Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China)
Dislocation mechanisms of HDI hardening in heterostructured materials
Online
15:20 – 15:50
Invited
Guohua Fan
(Nanjing Tech University, China)
Deformation behaviors of layered metallic materials revisited from local stress and local strain
Online
15:50 – 16:20
Invited
Xinkun Zhu
(Kunming University of Science and Technology, China)
Strain hardening behavior and microstructure evolution of gradient-structured Cu-Al alloys with low stack fault energy
Online
16:20 – 17:10 Break
17:10 – 17:40
Invited
Heinz Werner Höppel
(Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Understanding the role of heterostructured phase boundaries in copper-based lamellar metallic composites
Online
17:40 – 18:00 Sergey Zherebtsov
(Belgorod State University, Russia)
Microstructure and mechanical properties of Ti-Nb-Zr alloy-based composites, reinforced by boride particles
Online

Day 2, 13 July 2022 (Wednesday)

Time (GMT +8) Activity Modality
Session 3: Design of new heterostructured materials
Session Chair: Yang Ren, City University of Hong Kong
9:00 – 9:40
Keynote
Irene J. Beyerlein
(University of California, USA)
Thick alloy interfaces in metallic nanolaminates
Online
9:40 – 10:10
Invited
Yunzhi Wang
(Ohio State University, USA)
Creating compositional and structural heterogeneities for controlled strain release during deformation
Online
10:10 – 10: 30 Break
10:30 – 11:10
Keynote
Kei Ameyama
(Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
Harmonic Structure: a novel HSM design for outstanding mechanical properties
Online
11:10 – 11:50
Keynote
Suveen Mathaudhu
(Colorado School of Mines, USA)
Synthesis and nanoscale heterogeneity mapping of amorphous/crystalline laminated metals
Online
11:50 – 12:20
Invited
Andrea Hodge
(University of Southern California, USA)
Heterogeneous nanostructured in nanotwinned inconel alloys
Online
12:20 – 14:00 Lunch
Session 4: Trends in heterostructured materials
Session Chair: Yong Yang, City University of Hong Kong
14:00 – 14:40
Keynote
Yuri Estrin
(Monash University, Australia)
Architectured materials: trends and perspectives
Online
14:40 – 15:20
Keynote
Xiuyan Li
(Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, China)
Schwarz crystal in metals
Online
15:20 – 15:50
Invited
Guilin Wu
(University of Science and Technology Beijing, China)
Achieving high strength and large elongation in steels via heterogeneous structure design
Online
15:50 – 16:10 Break
Session 5: Multifunctional heterostructured materials
Session Chair: Yong Yang, City University of Hong Kong
16:10 – 16:50
Keynote
Xiangyi Zhang
(Yanshan University, China)
Engineering ordered heterostructured materials with ultrahigh energy density
Online
16:50 – 17:10 Anding Wang
(Dongguan University of Technology, China)
Heterostructured Fe-Based alloys with unprecedented soft-magnetic properties and manufacturability
Online
17:10 – 17:30 Jianguo Li
(Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
Investigations on ballistic impact performance of gradient structured AZ31 Mg alloy with enhanced strength and plasticity
Online
Evening Banquet

Day 3, 14 July 2022 (Thursday)

Time (GMT +8) Activity Modality
Session 6: Simulation of heterostructured materials
Session Chair: Yuntian Zhu, City University of Hong Kong
9:00 – 9:20 Marc Andre Meyers
(University of California San Diego, USA)
The role of pre-existing heterogeneities in copper under shock
Online
9:20 – 9:50
Invited
Caizhi Zhou
(University of South Carolina, USA)
Atomistic analysis of shear band formation in metallic nanolayered composites
Online
9:50 – 10:50 Break
10:50 – 11:10 Hyoung Seop Kim
(Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea)
Microstructural features in bimodal structure-property linkage
Online
11:10 – 11:30 Jianfeng Zhao
(China Academy of Engineering Physics, China)
Multiscale modeling of heterostructured materials
Online
11:30 – 11:50 Xu Zhang
(Southwest Jiaotong University, China)
Multiscale discrete dislocation dynamics study of gradient nano-grained materials
Online
11:50 – 13:30 Lunch
Session 7: High/medium entropy alloys-1
Session Chair: Zhaoxuan Wu, City University of Hong Kong
13:30 – 13:50 Xiaozhou Liao
(University of Sydney, Australia)
Manipulation of gradient structure profile in a CrMnFeCoNi high-entropy alloy for superior mechanical properties
Online
13:50 – 14:20
Invited
Jae Bok Seol
(Gyeongsang National University, South Korea)
Thermally and mechanically induced hererogenity in high-entropy alloy: short – range order
Online
14:20 – 14:40 Xiaochong Lu
(Sichuan University, China)
Gradient structured high entropy alloy with improved synergy of strength and ductility: experiments and crystal plasticity simulations
Online
14:40 – 15:00 Guodong Li
(Beihang University, China)
Simultaneously enhanced strength and strain hardening capacity in high-entropy alloy via harmonic structure design
Online
15:00 – 15:20 Yong Yang
(City University of Hong Kong, China)
Novel heterogeneous lattice strain strengthening in severely distorted crystalline solids
Online
15:20 – 15:40 Feng He
(Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
Strain partitioning enables excellent tensile ductility in precipitated heterogenous high-entropy alloys with gigapascal yield strength
Online
15:40 – 16:00 Break
Session 8: High/medium entropy alloys-2
Session Chair: Zhaoxuan Wu, City University of Hong Kong
16:00 – 16:30
Invited
Zhangwei Wang
(Central South University, China)
Characterize microstructures of heterostructured high-entropy alloys via correlative EBSD and ECCI
Online
16:30 – 17:00
Invited
Fuping Yuan
(University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Mechanical properties and deformation mechanisms in high entropy alloys with dual heterogeneous/graded structures
Online
17:00 – 17:20 Yang Lu
(City University of Hong Kong, China)
High-entropy alloy microlattice metamaterials
Onsite
17:20 – 17:40 Qingsong Pan
(Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, China)
Gradient-cell-structured high-entropy alloy with exceptional strength and ductility
Online
17:40 – 18:00 Tao Yang
(City University of Hong Kong, China)
Heterogenous columnar-grained high-entropy alloys produce exceptional resistance to intermediate-temperature intergranular embrittlement
Online
18:00 – 18:40
Keynote
Ruqing Cao
(Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Preparation and characterization of gradient grained nickel
Online

Day 4, 15 July 2022 (Friday)

Time (GMT +8) Activity Modality
Session 9: Microstructural mechanism of heterostructured materials-1
Session Chair: Yong Yang, City University of Hong Kong
9:00 – 9:50
Plenary
David Srolovitz
(University of Hong Kong, China)
Predictive Microstructure Evolution
Onsite
9:50 – 10:30
Keynote
Darcy A. Hughes
(Fremont, USA)
Gradient bulk nanostructures with exceptional strength
Online
10:30 – 10:50 Break
10:50 – 11:30
Keynote
Xiaoxu Huang
(Chongqing University, China)
Heterostructured metallic materials: multiscale and multidimensional characterization and tailoring of the microstructure and properties
Online
11:30 – 12:10
Keynote
Gang Liu
(Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
Freezing solute atoms in nanograined aluminum alloys via high-density vacancies
Online
12:10 – 13:50 Lunch
Session 10: Microstructural mechanism of heterostructured materials-2
Session Chair: Liliana Romero Reséndiz, City University of Hong Kong
13:50 – 14:30
Keynote
Yang Ren
(City University of Hong Kong, China)
On the structural origins of novel properties of some heterostructured materials
Onsite
14:30 – 15:00
Invited
Hongwang Zhang
(Yanshan University, China)
Ultrahard twinned substructure induced by martensitic transformation in steels
Online
15:00 – 15:30
Invited
Andy Godfrey
(Tsinghua University, China)
In-situ investigation of local plastic deformation in aluminum with nearmicrometer grain size and heterogeneous grain-size distribution and arrangement
Online
15:30 – 15:50 Break
Session 11: Effects of interfaces in heterostructured materials
Session Chair: Yuntian Zhu, City University of Hong Kong
15:50 – 16:30
Keynote
Yueguang Wei
(Peking University, China)
The effects of interface and plastic strain gradient in heterostructured metals
Online
16:30 – 17:10
Keynote
Yuntian Zhu
(City University of Hong Kong, China)
Effects of hetero-zone interaction on strain accommodation in heterostructured materials
Online
17:10 – 17:40
Invited
Deliang Zhang
(Northeast University, China)
The nature and roles of heterogeneous structures in sustaining high strength-ductility synergy in PM titanium and titanium alloys
Online
17:40 – 18:00 Yuanshen Qi
(Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, China /
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Manipulating three- and zero-dimensional defects in heterostructured gradient materials
Online