Current Professional Societies

International Stereology Society (ISS), Chinese Materials Research Society (CMRS), Associate Editor of Int. J. Refract. Met. Hard Mater.

Research Areas

1.Metallic Nanomaterials and Computational Materials Science, aiming at designing, preparation, and investigation of microstructures;

2.Properties of metallic nanomaterials, including rare-earth materials, hard metals and cermets.

Honors

Humboldt Fellow, Distinguished Professor, Winner of China National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and Talents of Outstanding Contribution of Beijing. She was awarded First Prize of the “Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award” and three Second Prizes of the “Municipal Natural Science and Technology Invention Award”

Publications

She has published over 300 papers in peer reviewed journals including Sci. Adv., Adv. Mater., Adv. Sci., ACS Nano, and Acta Mater., and has over 60 patents authorized. Some of her patents have been industrialized and led to more than 10 kinds of high-grade engineering products.

Personal Statement

Prof. Xiaoyan Song is team leader of Metallic Nanomaterials and Computational Materials Science at College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, and the Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials, in Ministry of Education,China.

Her group carried out a series of modelling and experimental studies, using compounds, solid solution alloys, and cermets as representative materials. Concerning the thermal stability and phase stability of metallic nanomaterials, the influencing factors, evolution laws, and micro-mechanisms have beendisclosed. Guided by these findings, new-type nanomaterials with high and stable comprehensive properties have been developed. Systematic principles for composition design, phase structure stabilization, and strategies of tailoring relationship between phase/microstructure and properties were proposed for multicomponent materials. The advanced cemented carbide materials, which have high strength and toughness together with high resistance against wear and corrosion, have been scaled up in production and applied in high-end engineering.