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​Email: xie.yi@pku.edu.cn
Tel: +86-10-62759991
Office: 419 Technical Physics Building
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3668-733X

Yi Xie
Associate Professor of Applied Chemistry

Biography

Professional Experience

  • Associate Professor, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University (2024-now)

  • Assistant Professor, School of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University (U.S.) (2020-2024)

  • Staff, Idaho National Laboratory (U.S.) (2019-2020)

  • Glenn T. Seaborg Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Associate, Idaho National Laboratory (U.S.) (2018-2019)

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Virginia Tech (U.S.) (2017-2018)

  • Graduate Research Associate, The Ohio State University (U.S.) (2012-2016)

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Science and Technology of China (2009-2012)

  • Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, California Institute Technology (U.S.) (2011)


Academic Education

  • Ph.D., The Ohio State University (U.S.) (2012-2016)

  • B.Eng., University of Science and Technology of China (2008-2012)

Research Interests

  • Materials applied for extreme environments

  • Radiation synthesis

  • Advanced fabrication and manufacturing


Awards

  • Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, Purdue University (2024)

  • Virtual Labs Faculty Fellow, Purdue University (2022)

  • Paul C. Zmola Scholar, Purdue University (2020-2024)

  • Glenn T. Seaborg Distinguished Postdoc Fellowship, INL (2018-2019)

  • Nuclear Engineering Achievement Award, The Ohio State University (2016)

  • Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, California Institute of Technology (2011)

  • National Undergraduate Innovation Research Program Scholarship (2010)

  • Outstanding Freshman Fellowship, University of Science and Technology of China (2008)


Selected Publications

  1. Y. Xie*, E. Medvedovski, L. Joyce, D. Simonton, E. Frishholz, Assessing aluminized and boronized thermal diffusion coating in molten salt and sodium, Surface and Coatings Technology 487 (2024) 130973. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2024.130973

  2. L. Joyce, P. Wang, R. Umretiya, A. Hoffman, Y. Xie*, Oxide layers in Ni-doped FeCrAl alloy in 320 C radioactive hydrogenated water, Journal of Nuclear Materials (2024) 154987. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2024.154987

  3. B. Bettes, Y. Xie*, Synthesis and processing of transparent polycrystalline doped yttrium aluminum garnet: a review, Materials Research Letter 11 (2023) 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/21663831.2022.2109441

  4. Y. Xie*, S.C. Vogel, J.M. Harp, M.T. Benson, L. Capriotti, Microstructure evolution of U-Zr system in a thermal cycling neutron diffraction experiment: extruded U-10Zr (wt. %), Journal of Nuclear Materials 544 (2020) 152665. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2020.152665

  5. A. Ronne, L. He, D. Dolzhnikov, Y. Xie, M. Ge, P, Halstenberg, Y. Wang, B. Manard, X. Xiao, W.-K. Lee, K. Sasaki, S. Dai, S. Mahurin, Y. Chen-Wiegart, Revealing 3D morphological and chemical evolution mechanisms of metals in molten salt by multimodal microscopy, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12 (2020) 17321-17333. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b19099

  6. C. Jiang,Y. Xie*, Efficient computational search for lanthanide-binding additive dopants for advanced U-Zr based fuels, Materialia 10 (2020) 100653. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2020.100653

  7. Y. Xie, M.T. Benson, L. He, J.A. King, R.D. Mariani, D.J. Murray, Diffusion behaviors between metallic fuel alloys with Pd addition and Fe, Journal of Nuclear Materials 525 (2019) 111-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2019.07.028

  8. Y. Xie, J. Zhang, X. Li, J.P. Isler, M.T. Benson, R.D. Mariani, C. Unal, Lanthanide migration and immobilization in metallic fuels, Progress in Nuclear Energy 109 (2018) 233-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnucene.2018.08.019

  9. Y. Xie, J. Zhang, T. Aldemir, R. Denning, Multi-state Markov model of pitting corrosion in stainless steel exposed to chloride-containing environment, Reliability Engineering & System Safety 172 (2018) 239-248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2017.12.015

  10. Y. Xie, M.T. Benson, J.A. King, R.D. Mariani, J. Zhang, Characterization of U-Zr Fuel with alloying additive Sb for stabilizing fission product lanthanides, Journal of Nuclear Materials 498 (2018) 332-340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2017.10.039

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