Dr. Shuai Wei

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsThermodynamics and Kinetics as well as Properties of Phases and Microstructure of Materials,Synthesis and Properties of Functional Materials
Keywordsphase-change materials, supercooled liquid, glass transition, metallic glasses
Honours and awards

2022: Novo Nordisk Science and Technology Grant

2022: VILLUM Young Investigator

2020: RWTH Innovation 1st Prize

2019: DFG Grant

2017: Place-to-Be RWTH Start-up Seed fund

2013: MRS Graduate Student Award

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityAachen
InstitutionRheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH)
InstitutePhysikalisches Institut
Homepagehttp://www.institut-1a.physik.rwth-aachen.de/cms/INSTITUT-1A/Das-Institut/~huil/Team/lidx/1/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Pierre LucasDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2014

Programme(s)

2014Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2019Peter Zalden, Florian Quirin, Mathias Schumacher, Jan Siegel, Shuai Wei, Azize Koc, Matthieu Nicoul, Mariano Trigo, Pererik Andreasson, Henrik Enquist, Michael J Shu, Tommaso Pardini, Matthieu Chollet, Diling Zhu, Henrik Lemke, Ider Ronneberger, Jörgen Larsson, Aaron M Lindenberg, Henry E Fischer, Stefan Hau-Riege, David A Reis, Riccardo Mazzarello, Matthias Wuttig, Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten: Femtosecond x-ray diffraction reveals a liquid–liquid phase transition in phase-change materials. In: Science, 2019, 1062-1067
2018Shuai Wei, Zach Evenson, Moritz Stolpe, Pierre Lucas, C. Austen Angell: Breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein relation above the melting temperature in a liquid phase-change material. In: Science Advances, 2018, eaat8632
2017Shuai Wei, Garrett Coleman, Pierre Lucas, C. Austen Angell: Glass Transitions, Semiconductor-Metal Transitions, and Fragilities in Ge-V-Te (V=As, Sb) Liquid Alloys: The Difference One Element Can Make. In: Physical Review Applied, 2017, 034035
2017Shuai Wei, Moritz Stolpe, Oliver Gross, Will Hembree, Simon Hechler, Jozef Bednarcik, Ralf Busch, Pierre Lucas: Structural evolution on medium-range-order during the fragile-strong transition in Ge15Te85. In: Acta Materialia, 2017, 259-267
2016Moritz Stolpe, Isabell Jonas, Shuai Wei, Zach Evenson, William Hembree, Fan Yang, Andreas Meyer, Ralf Busch: Structural changes during a liquid-liquid transition in the deeply undercooled Z r 58.5 C u 15.6 N i 12.8 A l 10.3 N b 2.8 bulk metallic glass forming melt. In: Physical Review B, 2016, 014201
2015Shuai Wei, Moritz Stolpe, Oliver Gross, Zach Evenson, Isabella Gallino, William Hembree, Jozef Bednarcik, Jamie J Kruzic, Ralf Busch: Linking structure to fragility in bulk metallic glass-forming liquids. In: Applied physics letters, 2015, 181901
2015Shuai Wei · Pierre Lucas · C. Austen Angell: Phase change alloy viscosities down to Tg using Adam-Gibbs-equation fittings to excess entropy data: A fragile-to-strong transition. In: Journal of Applied Physics, 2015, 034903
2015Zach Evenson, Tönjes Koschine, Shuai Wei, Oliver Gross, Jozef Bednarcik, Isabella Gallino, Jamie J Kruzic, Klaus Rätzke, Franz Faupel, Ralf Busch: The effect of low-temperature structural relaxation on free volume and chemical short-range ordering in a Au 49 Cu 26.9 Si 16.3 Ag 5.5 Pd 2.3 bulk metallic glass. In: Scripta Materialia, 2015, 14-17