Nan Wang
Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering Program
Office: R322, North Campus
Nan Wang received his Ph.D. in Physics from Northeastern University (U.S.A.) in 2011 and worked as a postdoc in nuclear engineering and materials science at Purdue University and The Pennsylvania State University. He was a research associate in the Center for Physics of Materials at McGill University (Canada) before joining GTIIT.
Prof. Nan Wang’s research focuses on understanding defects and interfaces related materials behavior using theories and computational methods. He has accumulated expertise in materials science, thermodynamics, condensed matter physics, programming and numerical methods from his interdisciplinary experience. His works have been published in top journals in both materials science and physics. Currently, he is working on computational microstructure optimization for 3D printed alloy materials, structural evolution and stability of nanoelectronic devices.
- Understanding confinement effect in phase transformation
- Developing semi-quantitative and quantitative meso-scale materials modeling methods
- Investigating growth and stability issues in nano materials
- Computational optimization of materials microstructure
- Developing commercial software for simulation of solidification process
N. Wang, K. H. Bevan and N. Provatas, “Phase-field-crystal model for electromigration in metal interconnects“, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 155901 (2016)
N. Wang and N. Provatas, “Role of stress driven interfacial instability in the failure of confined electric interconnects “, Phys. Rev. Applied 7, 024032 (2017).
N. Wang, Y. Ji, Y. Wang, Y. Wen, L. Q. Chen, “Two modes of grain boundary pinning by coherent precipitates“, Acta Materialia 135, 226-232 (2017).
N. Wang, N. Smith and N. Provatas, “Investigating gas-phase defect formation in late stage solidification using a novel phase-field-crystal alloy model“, Phys. Rev. Materials 1, 043405 (2017).
Nan Wang, Moneesh Upmanyu, and Alain Karma, “Phase-field model of vapor-liquid-solid nanowire growth”, Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 033402 (2018).
Nan Wang, Hong Guo, Nikolas Provatas. “Connecting the phase-field-crystal model of electromigration with electronic and continuum theories”, Phys. Rev. Materials 5, 115002 (2021).
Nan Wang and Alain Karma, “Fragmentation of faceted crystalline wires”. Phys. Rev. Materials 6, 106002 (2022).