Employment：

Nov. 2024 to present        Professor, Materials Genome Institute, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

Jan. 2023 to Nov. 2024      Associate Professor, Materials Genome Institute, Shanghai University,     Shanghai, China

Apr. 2021 to Dec. 2022      Scientist II, Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, Singapore

Nov. 2016 to Mar. 2021      Scientist I, Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR,     Singapore

Education：

Sep. 2011 to Oct. 2016      Ph.D., State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Tsinghua University, Beijing,     China

Sep. 2007 to Jun. 2011      B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing,     Beijing, China

Significant     Recognition：

2024, NSFC Excellent     Young Scholars (Overseas)

2022, Shanghai     Leading Talents (Overseas)

Research Interests

(1) Micro-/nano-mechanics     and multi-scale mechanics of multi-principal elemental alloys；

(2) Metallic     material design based on mechanoinformatics；

(3) Mechanical     behavior and mechanism of surface/interface of low-dimensional materials。

Selected Publications

Micro-/nano-mechanics     and multi-scale mechanics of multi-principal elemental alloys：

[1]        S.     Chen,     P. Liu, Q. Pei, Z. G. Yu, Z. H. Aitken, W. Li, Z. Wu, R. Banerjee, D. J. Srolovitz^*, P. K.     Liaw^*, Y.-W.     Zhang^*. Ideal     Plasticity and Shape Memory of Nanolamellar High-Entropy Alloys. Sci.     Adv. 2023, 9, eadi5817.

[2]        S.     Chen,     T. Wang, X. Li, Y. Cheng^*, G. Zhang^*, H. Gao^*.     Short-Range Ordering and its Impact on Thermodynamic Property of     High-Entropy Alloys. Acta Mater. 2022, 238,     118201.

[3]        S.     Chen, Z. H. Aitken,     S. Pattamatta,     Z. Wu,     Z. G. Yu,     D. J. Srolovitz^*, P. K. Liaw^*, Y.-W.     Zhang^*.     Simultaneously Enhancing the Ultimate Strength and Ductility of     High-Entropy Alloys via Short-Range Ordering. Nat. Commun. 2021,     12, 4953. Featured article. ESI highly cited paper.

[4]        S.     Chen, Z. H. Aitken,     S. Pattamatta,     Z. Wu,     Z. G. Yu,     D. J. Srolovitz^*, P. K. Liaw^*, Y.-W.     Zhang^*. Crack     Tip Dislocation Activity in Refractory High-Entropy Alloys. Inter. J.     Mech. Sci. 2024, 262, 108753.

[5]        S.     Chen, Z. H. Aitken,     S. Pattamatta,     Z. Wu,     Z. G. Yu,     D. J. Srolovitz^*, P. K. Liaw^*, Y.-W.     Zhang^*. Short-Range     Ordering Alters the Dislocation Nucleation and Propagation in Refractory     High-Entropy Alloys. Mater. Today 2023, 65, 14–25.

[6]        S. Chen, Z. H. Aitken^*, Z. Wu, Z. Yu, R. Banerjee,     Y.-W. Zhang.     Hall-Petch     and Inverse Hall-Petch Relations in High-Entropy CoNiFeAl_xCu_1-x     Alloys. Mater. Sci. Eng. A 2020, 773, 138873.

Metallic     material design based on mechanoinformatics：

[1]    J.-M.     Pu, S. Chen^*, T.-Y. Zhang^*.     Machine Learning Assisted Crystallographic Reconstruction from Atom Probe     Tomographic Images. J. Phys. Condens. Matter. 2025, 37,     035901.

[2]        J.     Zhang, H. Zhang^*, J. Xiong, S. Chen^*, G.     Zhang^*.     Tuning Lattice Thermal Conductivity in NbMoTaW Refractory High-Entropy     Alloys: Insights from Molecular Dynamics using Machine Learning Potential. J.     Appl. Phys. 2024, 136, 155106.

[3]        S.     Chen, Z. H. Aitken,     V.     Sorkin,     Z. G. Yu,     Z. Wu,     Y.-W. Zhang^*.     Modified Embedded-Atom Method Potentials for the Plasticity and Fracture     Behaviors of Unary HCP Metals. Adv. Theory Simul. 2021, 2100377.     Special     issue.

[4]        S.     Chen, Y. Cheng^*, H. Gao^*. Machine     Learning for High-Entropy Alloys. In: Y. Cheng, T. Wang, G. Zhang (eds)     Artificial Intelligence for Materials Science. Springer Series in     Materials Science 2021, 312, 21–58. Springer, Cham. (Book     chapter).

[5]        S.     Chen, Z. H. Aitken,     S. Pattamatta,     Z. Wu,     Z. G. Yu,     D. J. Srolovitz^*, P. K. Liaw^*, Y.-W.     Zhang^*.     Chemical-Affinity Disparity and Exclusivity Drive Atomic Segregation,     Short-Range Ordering, and Cluster Formation in High-Entropy Alloys. Acta     Mater. 2021, 206, 116638.

Mechanical     behavior and mechanism of surface/interface of low-dimensional materials：

[1]        S. Chen, J. Gao, M.     S. Bharathi,     G. Zhang,     V. Sorkin,     H. Ramanarayan,     Y.-W. Zhang^*. Origin     of Ultrafast Growth of Monolayer WSe₂ via Chemical Vapor     Deposition. npj Comput. Mater. 2019, 5, 28.

[2]        S. Chen, J. Gao, M.     S. Bharathi,     G. Zhang,     V. Sorkin,     H. Ramanarayan, Y.-W. Zhang^*. A     Kinetic Monte Carlo Model for the Growth and Etching of Graphene during     Chemical Vapor Deposition. Carbon 2019, 146, 399–405.

[3]        S. Chen, J. Gao, M.     S. Bharathi,     G. Zhang,     Y.-W. Zhang^*. Etching     Mechanisms, Kinetics and Pattern Formation in Multilayered WSe₂.     Mater. Today Adv. 2020, 7, 100075.

[4]        S. Chen, J. Gao, M.     S. Bharathi,     G. Zhang,     M. Yang,     J. Chai,     S. Wang,     D. Chi,     Y.-W. Zhang^*.     Revealing the Grain Boundary Formation Mechanism and Kinetics during     Polycrystalline MoS₂ Growth. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2019,     11, 46090–46100.

[5]        S. Chen, J. H.     R. Yune,     Z.-Q. Zhang,     Z. Liu,     N. Sridhar,     L. Y. L. Wu,     S. Chng,     J. Liu^*.     Multiscale Modeling to Predict the Hydrophobicity of an Experimentally     Designed Coating. J. Phys. Chem. C 2020, 124,     9866–9875.

[6]        S. Chen, J. Gao, M.     S. Bharathi,     G. Zhang,     V. Sorkin,     H. Ramanarayan, Y.-W. Zhang^*.     Unveiling the Competitive Role of Etching in Graphene Growth during     Chemical Vapor Deposition. 2D Mater. 2019, 6, 015031.

^*Corresponding     author.

This page is updated on 2024.12.09.