2024
Congratulations to former postdoc Xing Liu on starting as an assistant professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology!
2023
Dr. Zhu received the ASME Materials Division Centennial Mid-Career Award.
Dr. Zhu received the Georgia Tech College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Achievement in Research Award (Midcareer).
2022
The paper on 3D-printed high-entropy alloys is published in Nature.
Media hits: Georgia Tech News
The paper on atomic-scale grain boundary sliding is published in Science.
Media hits: Georgia Tech News, phys.org, Popular Science
2020
Congratulations to the former group member, Feifei Fan, for receiving the NSF CAREER Award!
2019
October 2019
The paper on high-entropy alloys is published in Nature.
Media hits: Georgia Tech News, phys.org
2017
November 2017
The paper on 3D-printing of stainless steel is published in Nature Materials. This paper is highlighted by a News/Views article.
2016
September 2016
The paper on Si amorphization is published in Nature Nanotechnology. This paper is highlighted by a News/Views article.
2015
September 2015
The Si electrode paper is published in Nature Communications.
Media hits: Georgia Tech News, Georgia Tech ME News, phys.org
July 2015
Congratulations to Zhi Zeng on receiving the Best Poster Award at the ASME 2015 Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference.
April 2015
Congratulations to Feifei Fan on accepting a faculty position in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Nevada, Reno, starting this fall.
March 2015
The tungsten twinning paper is published in Nature Materials.
Media hits: Georgia Tech News, Georgia Tech ME News, theEngineer (UK)
2014
April 2014
The graphene fracture paper is published in Nature Communications.
Media hits: Georgia Tech News, Georgia Tech ME News, mrs.org, phys.org, Live Science
2013
November 2013
Dr. Zhu is selected to receive the Young Investigator Medal at the 51st Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES).
November 2013
Dr. Zhu received the Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award at the Annual Congress of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in San Diego, CA.