Laboratory for Extreme Mechanics & Additive Manufacturing
Zou's Research Group
Journal Publications (a complete list in Google Scholar):
"Revealing new depths of information with indentation mapping of microstructures: E. Rossi et al."
E Rossi, C Tromas, Z Liu, Y Zou, JM Wheeler
MRS bulletin, 1-11, 2025
Available at: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1557/s43577-025-00919-6.pdf
"Metal powder atomization preparation, modification, and reuse for additive manufacturing: A review"
P Ren, Y Ouyang, J Mu, S Luo, Z Tang, Y Wu, CLA Leung, JP Oliveira, Y Zou, H Wang, H Wang
Progress in Materials Science, 101449, 2025
Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmatsci.2025.101449
“Submicrometer Scale Mapping of Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Cold Sprayed Copper”
L Zheng, MJR Haché, D Poirier, JG Legoux, JD Giallonardo, Y Zou, JY Howe, U Erb
Materials Science and Engineering: A, 147556, 2024
Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921509324014874
“Cyclic deformation behavior of an overaged high-pressure die-cast aluminum alloy"
SS Dash, ZY Liu, Y Zou, DJ Li, XQ Zeng, DY Li, DL Chen
Materials Science and Engineering: A, 147246, 2024
Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921509324011778
"Microstructural evolution in laser powder bed fusion of water-atomized high-carbon low-alloy steel: Analysis of melting mode effects"
M Yang, MK Keshavarz, S Patel, W Wang, Y Zou, M Vlasea
Journal of Manufacturing Processes 127, 160-173, 2024
Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1526612524007527
"Accelerated Discovery of (TiZrHf) x (NbTa) 1-x High-Entropy Alloys with Superior Thermal Stability and a New Crystallization Mechanism"
C Cheng, R Feng, T Lyu, Y Zou
Advanced Materials, e2403632, 2024
Available at: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/adma.202403632
"Anisotropic co-deformation behavior of nanolamellar structures in additively manufactured eutectic high entropy alloys"
H Chen, L Lang, X Shang, SS Dash, Y He, G King, Y Zou
Acta Materialia 271, 119885, 2024
Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359645424002386
"Thermal stability of electrodeposited nanostructured high-entropy alloys"
MJR Haché, Y Zou, U Erb
Surface and Coatings Technology 482, 130719, 2024
"Melting mode driven tuning of local microstructure and hardness in laser powder bed fusion of 18Ni-300 maraging steel"
T Lyu, MK Keshavarz, S Patel, MJR Haché, C Cheng, X Shang, M Vlasea, Y Zou
Materialia, 102113, 2024
Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589152924001108
"Continuous synthesis of high-entropy alloy nanoparticles by in-flight alloying of elemental metals"
Keun Su Kim,..., H Shin, D Poitras, C Cheng, O Naboka, D Ruth, M Plunkett, L Chen, L Gaburici, T Lacelle, M Nganbe, Y Zou
Nature Communications 15 (1), 1450, 2024
Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45731-z
"Steady-state nanoindentation creep test on β-Sn: A modified constant contact pressure method"
L Lang, Z Liu, T Lyu, Y Zou
Journal of Materials Research 39 (6), 881-890, 2024
"Additive manufacturing of metals and alloys to achieve heterogeneous microstructures for exceptional mechanical properties"
H Chen, Y He, SS Dash, Y Zou
Materials Research Letters 12 (3), 149-171, 2024
Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21663831.2024.2305261
”A data-driven framework to improve the wear resistance of a low-alloy steel fabricated by laser powder bed fusion“
J Zhang, S Patel, Z Liu, T Lyu, Y Wang, Y Hua, W Wang, J Hattrick-Simpers, M Vlasea, Y Zou
Journal of Manufacturing Processes 115, 56-67, 2024
”Scalable Production of Robust and Tough Biomimetic Composite by Rapid In‐Situ Mineralization“
Z Qiu, L Lang, Z Yu, J Zhu, Y Ye, Y Zou, Y Xie, F Jiang
Advanced Functional Materials 34 (7), 2310096, 2024
Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/adfm.202310096
”Phase formability and nanomechanical properties in nanostructured multi-principal element alloys: Combinatorial and data-driven studies“
C Cheng, R Feng, MJR Haché, X Zhang, Y Zou
Materials Today Nano 24, 100403, 2023
”Tailoring the mechanical properties of 3D microstructures: A deep learning and genetic algorithm inverse optimization framework“
X Shang, Z Liu, J Zhang, T Lyu, Y Zou
Materials Today 70, 71-81, 2023
Available at: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.05634
”Solid-particle erosion of a dual-phase AlCoFeNi2 high-entropy alloy“
W Wang, MJR Haché, C Cheng, T Lyu, Z Liu, M Papini, Y Zou
Wear 528, 204971, 2023
Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370903578_Solid-particle_erosion_of_a_dual-phase_AlCoFeNi2_high-entropy_alloy
”Electrodeposited NiFeCo-(Mo, W) high-entropy alloys with nanocrystalline and amorphous structures“
MJR Hache, J Tam, U Erb, Y Zou
Journal of Alloys and Compounds 952, 170026, 2023
”Small-depth nanoindentation studies of an additively manufactured titanium alloy: Anisotropic nanomechanical properties and correlation with microscopic mechanical behaviour“
Z Liu, L Lang, S Mohammed, D Chen, B He, Y Zou
Materialia 30, 101802, 2023
”Harnessing dislocation motion using an electric field“
M Li, Y Shen, K Luo, Q An, P Gao, P Xiao, Y Zou
Nature Materials 22 (8), 958-963, 2023
Available at: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.14933
”Strengthening mechanisms and work hardening in a heterostructured cast aluminum alloy under compressive loading: Correlation with nanomechanical properties“
SS Dash, ZY Liu, Y Zou, DJ Li, XQ Zeng, DY Li, DL Chen
Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 171844, 2023
”A high-fidelity comprehensive framework for the additive manufacturing printability assessment“
L Guo, H Liu, H Wang, Q Wei, J Zhang, Y Chen, CLA Leung, Q Lian, Y Wu, Y Zou, H Wang
Journal of Manufacturing Processes 105, 219-231, 2023
”Large piezoelectric response in a Jahn-Teller distorted molecular metal halide“
S Wang, AA Khan, S Teale, J Xu, DH Parmar, R Zhao, L Grater, P Serles, Y Zou, T Filleter, DS Seferos, D Ban…
Nature Communications 14 (1), 1852, 2023
Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37471-3
”Near-superplastic behavior of a body-centered cubic Zr50Ti35Nb15 multi-principal element alloy via dynamic recrystallization“
X Yan, Y Zhang, Y Zou
Scripta Materialia 227, 115308, 2023
"High-Entropy Alloy Coatings Deposited by Thermal Spraying: A Review of Strengthening Mechanisms, Performance Assessments and Perspectives on Future Applications"
R Bhaskaran Nair, R Supekar, S Morteza Javid, W Wang, Y Zou, A McDonald, J Mostaghimi, P Stoyanov
Metals 13 (3), 579, 2023
Available at: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/13/3/579
"Evolution of precipitate and precipitate/matrix interface in Al-Zn-Mg-Cu (-Ag) alloys"
X Zhang, Z Han, L Xu, H Ni, X Hu, H Zhou, Y Zou, J Wang
Journal of Materials Science & Technology 138, 157-170, 2023
"Fatigue crack growth behaviour of an additively manufactured titanium alloy: Effects of spatial and crystallographic orientations of α lamellae"
Z Liu, SS Dash, J Zhang, T Lyu, L Lang, D Chen, Y Zou
International Journal of Plasticity, 103819, 2023
"Mechanically robust pyrolyzed carbon produced by two photon polymerization"
P Serles, M Haché, J Tam, A Maguire, T Li, G Wang, K Sebastian, J Lou, C Jia, PM Ajayan, J Howe, Y Zou…
Carbon 201, 161-169, 2023
Available at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VXPc21YwFQ4tEVN3gulslYmVFOggNTPE/view
"Effects of boron and carbon on the oxidation behavior of a NbMoTaW refractory high entropy alloy"
L Shao, Z Liu, Y Zou
Journal of Alloys and Compounds 927, 166946, 2022
"High-entropy alloy catalysts: high-throughput and machine learning-driven design"
L Chen, Z Chen, X Yao, B Su, W Chen, X Pang, KS Kim, CV Singh, Y Zou
J. Mater. Inform 2 (19), 10.20517, 2022
Available at: https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/jmi.2022.23
"Tuning microstructure and improving the corrosion resistance of a Ti-6Al-3Nb-2Zr-1Mo alloy via solution and aging treatments"
B Su, B Wang, L Luo, L Wang, C Liu, Y Su, Y Xu, H Huang, J Guo, H Fu, Y Zou
Corrosion Science 208, 110694, 2022
"The influence of beam focus during laser powder bed fusion of a high reflectivity aluminium alloy—AlSi10Mg"
S Patel, H Chen, M Vlasea, Y Zou
Additive Manufacturing 59, 103112, 2022
Available at: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.07920
"Enhanced tensile ductility of an additively manufactured AlSi10Mg alloy by reducing the density of melt pool boundaries"
H Chen, S Patel, M Vlasea, Y Zou
Scripta Materialia 221, 114954, 2022
"Enhanced tensile ductility of an additively manufactured near-α titanium alloy by microscale shear banding"
Z Liu, R Li, D Chen, Y Sun, B He, Y Zou
International Journal of Plasticity 157, 103387, 2022
"Tuning microstructure and improving the corrosion resistance of Ti-6Al-3Nb-2Zr-1Mo alloy using the electron beam freeform fabrication"
B Su, B Wang, L Luo, L Wang, B Li, C Liu, Y Su, Y Xu, H Huang, J Guo, H Fu, Y Zou
Chemical Engineering Journal 444, 136524, 2022
"Image segmentation for defect analysis in laser powder bed fusion: deep data mining of X-ray photography from recent literature"
J Zhang, T Lyu, Y Hua, Z Shen, Q Sun, Y Rong, Y Zou
Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation 11 (3), 418-432, 2022
"Controlling the columnar-to-equiaxed transition during Directed Energy Deposition of Inconel 625"
S Li, JY Li, ZW Jiang, Y Cheng, YZ Li, S Tang, JZ Leng, HX Chen, Y Zou, YH Zhao, JP Oliveira, Y Zhang…
Additive Manufacturing 57, 102958, 2022
"Revealing non-uniform work-hardening in a heterogeneous structured steel using high-speed nanoindentation"
H Chen, G Niu, H Wu, Y Zou
JOM 74 (6), 2238-2244, 2022
"Magnetron co-sputtering synthesis and nanoindentation studies of nanocrystalline (TiZrHf) x (NbTa) 1− x high-entropy alloy thin films"
C Cheng, X Zhang, MJR Haché, Y Zou
Nano Research 15 (6), 4873-4879, 2022
"Phase transition and nanomechanical properties of refractory high-entropy alloy thin films: effects of co-sputtering Mo and W to a TiZrHfNbTa system"
C Cheng, X Zhang, MJR Haché, Y Zou
Nanoscale, 2022
"Superior fracture toughness in a high-strength austenitic steel with heterogeneous lamellar microstructure"
G Niu, HS Zurob, RDK Misra, Q Tang, Z Zhang, MT Nguyen, L Wang, H Wu, Y Zou
Acta Materialia, 117642, 2022
"Strength-ductility synergy in a 1.4 GPa austenitic steel with a heterogeneous lamellar microstructure"
G Niu, HS Zurob, RDK Misra, H Wu, Y Zou
Journal of Materials Science & Technology 106, 133-138, 2022
"Electrodeposited nanocrystalline medium-entropy alloys–An effective strategy of producing stronger and more stable nanomaterials"
MJR Haché, J Tam, U Erb, Y Zou
Journal of Alloys and Compounds 899, 163233, 2022
"Tuning microstructure and enhancing corrosion property of Ti-6Al-3Nb-2Zr-1Mo alloy through electron beam surface melting"
B Su, B Wang, L Luo, L Wang, B Li, C Liu, Y Su, Y Xu, H Huang, J Guo, H Fu, Y Zou
Corrosion Science, 110520, 2022
Twin-coupled shear bands in an ultrafine-grained CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy deformed at 77K
X Li, S Sun, Y Zou, Q Zhu, Y Tian, J Wang
Materials Research Letters 10 (6), 385-391, 2022
Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21663831.2022.2053220
Corrosion behaviour of a wrought Ti-6Al-3Nb-2Zr-1Mo alloy in artificial seawater with various fluoride concentrations and pH values
B Su, B Wang, L Luo, L Wang, Y Su, Y Xu, B Li, T Li, H Huang, J Guo, H Fu, Y Zou
Materials & Design 214, 110416, 2022
Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127522000375
Effect of temperature on tensile behavior, fracture morphology and deformation mechanisms of Nickel-based single crystal CMSX-4
T Wang, H Zhang, C Liu, X Gong, Y Pei, Y Zou, Y Liu, Q Wang
Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 165175, 2022
Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2022.165175
Interaction between dislocations, precipitates and hydrogen atoms in a 2000 MPa grade hot-stamped steel
W Chen, W Zhao, P Gao, F Li, S Kuang, Y Zou, Z Zhao
Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 2022
Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2238785422005944
Microstructure and mechanical properties of a novel ultrahigh strength hot‐stamped steel with high hardenability
W Chen, X Chu, F Li, J Liu, H Lu, S Kuang, Y Zou, Z Zhao
steel research international, 2022
Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/srin.202200232
Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing: Microstructure Evolution and Bonding Features
Y Zou
Accounts of Materials Research, 2021
Available at: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/accountsmr.1c00138
Effect of particle size distribution on the flowability of plasma atomized Ti-6Al-4V powders
M Habibnejad-korayem, J Zhang, Y Zou
Powder Technology 392, 536-543, 2021
Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032591021006100
A Computer Vision Approach to Evaluate Powder Flowability for Metal Additive Manufacturing
J Zhang, M Habibnejad-korayem, Z Liu, T Lyu, Q Sun, Y Zou
Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation 10 (3), 429-443, 2021
Recognition and classification of single melt tracks using deep neural network: A fast and effective method to determine process windows in selective laser melting
W Xing, T Lyu, X Chu, Y Rong, CG Lee, Q Sun, Y Zou
Journal of Manufacturing Processes 68, 1746-1757, 2021
High-speed nanoindentation mapping of a near-alpha titanium alloy made by additive manufacturing
Z Liu, J Zhang, B He, Y Zou
Journal of Materials Research 36 (11), 2223-2234, 2021
A review on additive manufacturing of titanium alloys for aerospace applications: Directed energy deposition and beyond Ti-6Al-4V
Z Liu, B He, T Lyu, Y Zou
JOM 73, 1804-1818, 2021
Probing the small-scale plasticity and phase stability of an icosahedral quasicrystal i-Al-Pd-Mn at elevated temperatures
C Cheng, Y Xiao, MJR Haché, Z Liu, JM Wheeler, Y Zou
Physical Review Materials 5 (5), 053602, 2021
Selective laser melting of maraging steels using recycled powders: A comprehensive microstructural and mechanical investigation
H Sun, X Chu, Z Liu, A Gisele, Y Zou
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 52 (5), 1714-1722, 2021
Selective laser melting for joining dissimilar materials: investigations of interfacial characteristics and in situ alloying
H Sun, X Chu, C Luo, H Chen, Z Liu, Y Zhang, Y Zou
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 52 (4), 1540-1550, 2021
Post-deposition crack evolution in Cr (III) alloy electrodeposits: Phenomenology
MJR Haché, Y Zou, U Erb
Surface and Coatings Technology 406, 126648, 2021
Laser deposition of graded γ-TiAl/Ti2AlNb alloys: Microstructure and nanomechanical characterization of the transition zone
H Chen, Z Liu, X Cheng, Y Zou
Journal of Alloys and Compounds 875, 159946, 2021
Micro-compression studies of face-centered cubic and body-centered cubic high-entropy alloys: Size-dependent strength, strain rate sensitivity, and activation volumes
Y Xiao, R Kozak, MJR Haché, W Steurer, R Spolenak, JM Wheeler, Y Zou
Materials Science and Engineering: A 790, 139429, 2020
Prediction of heterogeneous microstructural evolution in cold sprayed copper coatings using local Zener-Hollomon parameter and strain
Z Liu, H Wang, MJR Haché, X Chu, E Irissou, Y Zou
Acta Materialia 193, 191-201, 2020
Available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=3542971
Formation of refined grains below 10 nm in size and nanoscale interlocking in the particle–particle interfacial regions of cold sprayed pure aluminum
Z Liu, H Wang, M Haché, E Irissou, Y Zou
Scripta Materialia 177, 96-100, 2020
Fast and High‐Throughput Synthesis of Medium‐and High‐Entropy Alloys using Radio Frequency Inductively Coupled Plasma
B Zhu, S Alavi, C Cheng, H Sun, H Zhao, K Su Kim, J Mostaghimi, Y Zou
Advanced Engineering Materials, 2020
Nanostructured high-entropy materials
MJR Haché, C Cheng, Y Zou
Journal of Materials Research, 1-25, 2020
Microscale interaction between laser and metal powder in powder-bed additive manufacturing: Conduction mode versus keyhole mode
H Wang, Y Zou
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 142, 118473, 2019
Nanomechanical studies of high-entropy alloys
Y Zou
Journal of Materials Research 33 (19), 3035-3054, 2018
Available at: https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/bitstreams/0d2aa2eb-e039-4ed0-b09c-95f6a9de402a/download
Thermophysical phenomena in metal additive manufacturing by selective laser melting: Fundamentals, modeling, simulation and experimentation
C Meier, RW Penny, Y Zou, JS Gibbs, AJ Hart
arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.09510, 2017
Available at: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.09510
Fracture properties of a refractory high-entropy alloy: In situ micro-cantilever and atom probe tomography studies
Y Zou, P Okle, H Yu, T Sumigawa, T Kitamura, S Maiti, W Steurer, R Spolenak
Scripta Materialia 128, 95-99, 2017
Available at: https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/bitstreams/5b49538a-5b02-49ca-98c6-b0c552c93e02/download
Nanocrystalline High-Entropy Alloys: A New Paradigm in High-Temperature Strength and Stability.
Y Zou, JM Wheeler, H Ma, P Okle, R Spolenak
Nano Letters 17 (3), 1569-1574, 2017
Available at: https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/bitstreams/d8d6d36c-2645-4d96-a7ad-da1b27deb2f1/download
Materials selection in micro-or nano-mechanical design: Towards new Ashby plots for small-sized materials
Y Zou
Materials Science and Engineering: A 680, 421-425, 2017
Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2016.10.123
Bridging room-temperature and high-temperature plasticity in decagonal Al–Ni–Co quasicrystals by micro-thermomechanical testing
Y Zou, JM Wheeler, AS Sologubenko, J Michler, W Steurer, R Spolenak
Philosophical Magazine 96 (32-34), 3356-3378, 2016
Available at: https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/bitstreams/40649598-7a22-4122-a546-40e70a66377a/download
Disappearance of plastic anisotropy in decagonal quasicrystals at small scales and room temperature
Y Zou, P Kuczera, W Steurer, R Spolenak
Extreme Mechanics Letters 8, 229-234, 2016
Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/am/pii/S2352431616300293
Superior room-temperature ductility of typically brittle quasicrystals at small sizes
Y Zou, P Kuczera, A Sologubenko, T Sumigawa, T Kitamura, W Steurer, R Spolenak
Nature communications 7 (1), 12261, 2016
Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12261.pdf
Copper thin films by ion beam assisted deposition: Strong texture, superior thermal stability and enhanced hardness
H Ma, Y Zou, AS Sologubenko, R Spolenak
Acta Materialia 98, 17-28, 2015
Available at: https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/bitstreams/c9586d65-cd07-4a5b-a0da-db5a83af8833/download
Ultrastrong ductile and stable high-entropy alloys at small scales
Y Zou, H Ma, R Spolenak
Nature communications 6 (1), 7748, 2015
Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms8748.pdf
Size-dependent plasticity in KCl and LiF single crystals: influence of orientation, temperature, pre-straining and doping
Y Zou, R Spolenak
Philosophical Magazine 95 (16-18), 1795-1813, 2015
Available at: https://drive.google.com/file/u/0/d/12ReCISIMKDLpF6l1V7B3YF0Pt7uCh_kK/view
Size-dependent plasticity in an Nb 25 Mo 25 Ta 25 W 25 refractory high-entropy alloy
Y Zou, S Maiti, W Steurer, R Spolenak
Acta Materialia 65, 85-97, 2014
Available at: https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/bitstreams/130b5a4e-fa7a-4433-a561-fe7a8a88ba05/download
Size-dependent plasticity in micron-and submicron-sized ionic crystals
Y Zou, R Spolenak
Philosophical Magazine Letters 93 (7), 431-438, 2013
Available at: https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/bitstreams/688f4865-373a-4929-aad8-6d9e56ab9dee/download
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