Texas Institute for Intelligent Bio-Nano Materials and Structures for
Aerospace Vehicles (TiiMS), Department of Aerospace Engineering
Texas A&M University, 77843 College Station, TX, USA
Tel: 1-979-862-1875 (office), 1-979-422-9902 (home)
E-mail: jywxwsz@hotmail.com
July 2008 – present TEES Postdoctoral Research Associate
Texas Institute for Intelligent Bio-Nano Materials and Structures for Aerospace Vehicles (TiiMS),
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
Hosts: Prof. Dimitris Lagoudas [lagoudas@aero.tamu.edu, 1-979-845-1604]
Project title: Size effect of shape memory alloys
October 2006 – June 2008 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
Institute for Materials of the RuhrUniversität Bochum, Germany
Host: Prof. Gunther Eggeler [gunther.eggeler@rub.de, 49-234-32-23022]
Project title: Nanoindentation characterization of shape memory alloys.
February 2006 – July 2006 Guest Scientist
Institute for Energy Research (IEF-1) of the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
Host: Prof. Detlev Stöver [d.stoever@fz-juelich.de, 49-2461-61-4010]
Project title: Powder metallurgical production of ternary shape memory alloys.
April 2002 – January 2006
Dr. Degree at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, Shanghai, China, Major in Materials Processing Engineering
Supervisor: Prof. Jianguo Li [lijg@sjtu.edu.cn, 86-21-54744119]
Dr.-thesis: Martensitic transformation of Ni-Fe-Ga magnetic shape memory alloys.
September 1999 – March 2002
Engineering Master Degree at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the
Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, China, Major in Materials Physics and Chemistry
Supervisor: Prof. Xuefeng Guo [guoxuef@xaut.edu.cn, 86-29-82310505]
Master-thesis: Rapid solidification of highly undercooled Ni-Pb monotectic alloy melts.
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September 1995 – July 1999
Engineering Bachelor Degree at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the
Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, China, Major in Materials Science and Engineering.
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2008 Science and Technology Prize of Shaanxi Province (Second), China, Project title:
High undercooling of immiscible alloys in amorphous coated mould and the preparation of homogeneous materials
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2006 Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowship, Germany
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2004 Shanghai Jiao Tong University International Maritime Scholarship, China
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2003 Shanghai Jiao Tong University National Excellent Scholarship, China
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Shape Memory Materials (bulk materials, nanowires and nanofilms)
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Mechanics and structural Characterization (from macro- to nanoscale)
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Rapid Solidification Non-equilibrium Processing
1 Hongxing Zheng, Janine Pfetzing, Jan Frenzel, Gunther Eggeler, Nanoindentation of
Ti
50
Ni
48
Fe
2
and Ti
50
Ni
40
Cu
10
shape memory alloys, International Journal of Materials
Research , 2009, 4: 594-602.
2 Hongxing Zheng, Juliane Mentz, Marti n Bram, Hans Peter Buchkremer, Detlev Stöver,
Powder metallurgical production of TiNiNb and TiNiCu shape memory alloys by combination of pre-alloyed and elemental powders, Journal of Alloys and Compounds,
2008, 463: 250-256.
3 Hongxing Zheng, Jiancun Rao, Janine Pfetzing, Jan Frenzel, Christoph Somsen, Gunther
Eggeler, TEM observation of stress induced martensite after nanoindentation of pseudoelastic Ti
50
Ni
48
Fe
2
, Scripta Materialia , 2008, 58(9): 743-746.
4 Hongxing Zheng, Xuefeng Guo, Jianguo Li, Dendritic growth in undercooled Ni-25wt%Pb alloy melts, Materials and Design , 2007, 28(2): 558-561.
5 Hongxing Zheng, Mingxu Xia, Jian Liu, Yanlu Huang, Jianguo Li, Martensitic transformation of (Ni
55.3
Fe
17.6
Ga
27.1
)
100x
Co x
magnetic shape memory alloys, Acta Materialia , 2005, 53(19):
5125-5129.
6 Hongxing Zheng, Mingxu Xia, Jian Liu, Jianguo Li, Martensitic transformation of highly
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undercooled Ni-Fe-Ga magnetic shape memory alloys, Journal of Alloys and Compounds ,
2005, 388(2): 172-176.
7 Hongxing Zheng, Jian Liu, Mingxu Xia, Jianguo Li, Martensitic transformation of Ni-Fe-Ga-
(Co,Ag) magnetic shape memory alloys, Journal of Alloys and Compounds , 2005, 387(1-2):
265-268.
8 Hongxing Zheng, Jian Liu, Mingxu Xia, Jianguo Li, Intermartensitic transformation of Ni-Fe-
Ga magnetic shape memory alloys, Acta Physica Sinica , 2005, 54(4): 1719-1721.
9 Hongxing Zheng, Mingxu Xia, Jian Liu, Jianguo Li, Martensitic transformation of Ni-Fe-Ga magnetic shape memory alloys, Journal of Alloys and Compounds , 2004, 385(1-2): 144-
147.
10 Hongxing Zheng, Weizeng Ma, Yuying Lu, Mingxu Xia, Jianguo Li, New approach to preparing unidirectional NiMnFeGa magnetic shape memory alloy, Journal of Materials
Science , 2004, 39(7): 2557-2559.
11 Hongxing Zheng, Weizeng Ma, Jianguo Li, A new approach to preparing bulk rapidly solidified metal/glass composites, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials ,
2003, 5(2): 525-527.
12 Hongxing Zheng, Weizeng Ma, Chunsheng Zheng, Xuefeng Guo, Jianguo Li, Rapid solidification of undercooled monotectic alloy melts, Materials Science and Engineering A ,
2003, 355(1-2): 7-13.
13 Jian Liu, Yanqiu Huo, Hongxing Zheng, Jianguo Li, High undercooling effect on magnetic shape memory Co-Ni-Ga alloys, Materials Letters , 2006, 60(13-14): 1693-1696.
14 Jian Liu, Hongxing Zheng, Yanlu Huang, Mingxu Xia, Jianguo Li, Microstructure and magnetic field induced strain of directionally solidified ferromagnetic shape memory CoNiAl alloys, Scripta Materialia , 2005, 53: 29-33.
15 Jian Liu, Hongxing Zheng, Mingxu Xia, Jianguo Li, The microstructure and martensitic transformation of Co-Ni-Ga-Ta ferromagnetic shape memory alloys, Scripta Materialia ,
2005, 52(10): 955-958.
16 Jian Liu, Hongxing Zheng, Mingxu Xia, Yanlu Huang, Jianguo Li, Martensitic transformation and magnetic properties in Heusler CoNiGa magnetic shape memory alloys, Scripta
Materialia , 2005, 52(9): 935-938.
17 Mingxu Xia, Hongxing Zheng, Sen Yuan, Jianguo Li, Crystallization of preformed AZ91D magnesium alloys in the semisolid state, Materials and Design , 2005, 26(4): 343-349.
18 Mingxu Xia, Hongxing Zheng, Jian Liu, Chaoli Ma, Jianguo Li, Thermal stability and glassforming ability of new Ti-based bulk metallic glasses, Journal of Non-crystalline Solids ,
2005, 351: 3747-3751.
19 Mingxu Xia, Chaoli Ma, Hongxing Zheng, Jianguo Li, Preparation and crystallization of
Ti
53
Cu
27
Ni
12
Zr
3
Al
7
Si
3
B
1
bulk metallic glass with wide supercooled liquid region, Materials
Science and Engineering A , 2005, 390(1-2): 372-375.
20 Weizeng Ma, Hongxing Zheng, Mingxu Xia, Jianguo Li, Undercooling and solidification
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behavior of magnetostrictive Fe-20at.%Ga alloys, Journal of Alloys and Compounds , 2004,
379(1-2): 188-192.
1 Francis Phillips, Hongxing Zheng, Dimitris Lagoudas, Fabrication and modeling of InTl shape memory alloy nanowires, The 2009 Joint ASCE-ASME-SES Conference on
Mechanics and Materials, June 24-27, 2009, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
2 Oliver Bertacchini, Justion Schick, Hongxing Zheng, Dimitris Lagoudas, Transformation induced fatigue life of Ni
60
Ti
40
SMA actuators: failure mechanisms and investigations of the interactions between precipitates and nickel-rich NiTi matrix, The 2009 Joint ASCE-ASME-
SES Conference on Mechanics and Materials, June 24-27, 2009, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
3 Hongxing Zheng, Janine Pfetzing, Jan Frenzel, Gunther Eggeler, Reproducibility and irreversibility of nanoindentation in Ti
50
Ni
48
Fe
2
, ICOMAT'08: the 12 nd International
Conference on Martensitic Transformations, SANTA FE, New Mexico, USA, June 2008.
4 Hongxing Zheng, Jian Liu, Mingxu Xia, Jianguo Li, Martensitic transformation of In-doped
Ni
58
Fe
17.5
Ga
27.5
magnetic shape memory alloys, Materials Science and Engineering A ,
2006, (438-440): 1011-1014. ICOMAT'05: the 11 th International Conference on Martensitic
Transformations, Shanghai, China, June 2005, p187.
5 Hongxing Zheng, Yun Yu, Jianguo Li, Microstructural evolution of undercooled Ni-40wt%Pb hypermonotectic alloy, Materials Science Forum , 2005, (475-479): 2651-2654. PRICM-5: the Fifth Pacific Rim International Conference on Advanced Materials and Processing,
Beijing, China, Nov. 2004.
6 Jian Liu, Hongxing Zheng, Jianguo Li, Effect of solidification rate on microstructure and crystal orientation of ferromagnetic shape memory alloys Ni-Co-Al, Materials Science and
Engineering A , 2006, 438-440: 1061-1064. ICOMAT'05: the 11 th International Conference on Martensitic Transformations, Shanghai, China, June 2005, p195.
7 Mingxu Xia, Hongxing Zheng, Sen Yuan, Jianguo Li, Phase and morphological transformation of preformed AZ91D magnesium alloys in remelting, Materials Science
Forum , 2005, (475-479): 473-476. PRICM-5: the Fifth Pacific Rim International Conference on Advanced Materials and Processing, Beijing, China, Nov. 2004.
1 Hongxing Zheng, Yuying Lu, Mingxu Xia, Jian Liu, Jianguo Li, A method to prepare unidirectional materials using in-situ high undercooling technique, Chinese Patent Number:
200310122735 (2006).
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