Education :

• B.S. in Nuclear Engineering and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2007)
• M.S. in Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT (2009)
• Ph.D. in Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT (2014)

Projects :

Materials design through interface engineering

“I grew up on the bank of longest river in China, and came to MIT after I finished my bachelor degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2007. After spending two years to get a master degree in nuclear reactor engineering, I started my PhD on the project of stability of multilayer nanocomposites under irradiation with Prof. Demkowicz.”

Selected publications :

L. Zhang, E. Martinez, A. Caro, X. Y. Liu, and M. J. Demkowicz, “LIquid-phase thermodynamics and structure in the Cu-Nb binary system,” Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering 21, 025005 (2013)

L. Zhang and M. J. Demkowicz, “Morphological stability of Cu-Nb nanocomposites under high-energy collision cascades,” Applied Physics Letters 103, 061604 (2013)

L. Zhang and M. J. Demkowicz, “Radiation-induced mixing between metals of low solid solubility,” Acta Materialia 76, 135 (2014)