Researches

Research scholarship
 NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Program 
and Women in Science and Engineering  
 
Phases Lab monitored by Professor Zi-Kui Liu -

Professor Liu’s research interests focus on the modeling and design
 of a wide range of materials chemistry and processing through integrating first-principles calculations, statistic mechanics, thermodynamic/kinetic modeling, and critically designed experiments for structural and functional applications.


Recent studies in Professor Liu’s Phases Research Lab concentrate on aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys, Ni-base superalloys, titanium alloys, ion transport membranes, ferroelectrics, and Li-ion battery materials. The primary emphasis is on fundamentals of phase stability, defect chemistry, and their applications in understanding and predicting relationships among materials chemistry, processing, and properties.

http://www.phases.psu.edu/