{"id":25,"date":"2019-11-16T17:39:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T22:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:43:17","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;font-size: 12pt\">Research interests<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Dr. Chen\u2019s group is interested in structural materials that can sustain load under extreme environments, such as radiation, and high temperature. The research includes advanced manufacturing and t<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">he fundamental relationship between materials structure and property across multiple length scales: from the atomic scale to the macroscopic scale. These materials are generally for energy applications.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Structural characterization of novel materials<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Advanced nanoindentation for strength, creep, and fatigue properties<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Radiation tolerance of structural materials for advanced nuclear energy<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Small-scale mechanical behavior<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In situ and ex-situ electron microscopy<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Additive manufacturing of metals, ceramics, and composites<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Materials Removal Mechanisms during Precision Machining<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">More experiments are upcoming... ...<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2076\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/files\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-11-at-11.45.21-PM-1.png\" alt=\"The overview of research in Chen's group\" class=\"wp-image-262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/files\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-11-at-11.45.21-PM-1.png 2076w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/files\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-11-at-11.45.21-PM-1-300x81.png 300w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/files\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-11-at-11.45.21-PM-1-1024x275.png 1024w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/files\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-11-at-11.45.21-PM-1-768x206.png 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/files\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-11-at-11.45.21-PM-1-1536x413.png 1536w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/files\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-11-at-11.45.21-PM-1-2048x550.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2076px) 100vw, 2076px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research interests Dr. Chen\u2019s group is interested in structural materials that can sustain load under extreme environments, such as radiation, and high temperature. The research includes advanced manufacturing and the fundamental relationship between materials structure and property across multiple length &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/research\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":264,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}