Ph.D. State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China

1. Composition-structure-property relationship of multicomponent alloys

2. Growth-morphology-property relationship of two-dimensional materials

3. Wetting and material transport mechanism of solid-liquid interface

1. 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.

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^*. Chemical-Affinity Disparity and Exclusivity Drive Atomic Segregation, Short-Range Ordering, and Cluster Formation in High-Entropy Alloys. Acta Mater. 2021, 206, 116638.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. S. Chen, Y. Cheng, G. Zhang^*, Y.-W. Zhang. Spontaneous Directional Motion of Water Molecules in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube with a Stiffness Gradient. Nanoscale Adv. 2019, 1, 1175–1180.

13. S. Chen, J. Gao, M. S. Bharathi, Y.-W. Zhang^*.A Kinetic Monte Carlo Study for Mono- and Bi-layer Growth of MoS₂ during Chemical Vapor Deposition. Acta Phys. -Chim. Sin. 2019, 35, 1119–1127. Special issue.

14. S. Chen, Y. Cheng, G. Zhang^*, Q. Pei, Y.-W. Zhang. Anisotropic Wetting Characteristics of Water Droplets on Phosphorene: Roles of Layer and Defect Engineering. J. Phys. Chem. C 2018, 122, 4622–4627.

15. 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)

^# Co-first author. ^*Corresponding author.