RESEARCH INTERESTS

Nie's research interests include physical metallurgy of light alloys, structure/property relationships in metallic alloys, crystallography of phase transformations in solids and application of electron microscopy and diffraction.

His current projects include:

• Development of high strength and creep-resistant magnesium alloys
• Creep deformation mechanisms in magnesium alloys
• Strengthening mechanisms in magnesium and aluminium alloys
• Heterogeneous nucleation of strengthening precipitates in magnesium alloys
• Effects of microalloying elements on precipitate nucleation and light alloy design
• Structure and migration of interphase boundaries

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