Academic Education and Professional Experience:
Peking University (China)
Associate Professor in the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Applied Chemistry Program 2024/5-present
Purdue University (United States)
Assistant Professor in the School of Nuclear Engineering (SNE) 2020 – 2024/4
Idaho National Laboratory (United States)
Research Staff 2019 – 2020
Glenn T. Seaborg Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Associate 2018 – 2019
Virginia Tech (United States)
Postdoctoral Research Associate 2017 – 2018
The Ohio State University (United States)
Graduate Research Associate 2012 – 2016
California Institute Technology (United States)
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow 2011
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Nuclear Engineering Program 2012 – 2016
B.Eng., University of Science and Technology of China
Department of Nuclear Engineering and Technology 2008 – 2012
Research Interests:
Developing advanced manufacturing processes, utilizing advanced characterization and testing technologies, and developing key materials suitable for the extreme environments of nuclear energy systems, including high temperature, radiation, and corrosion. These materials include fuels, structural materials, and detector materials. Dedicated to breakthroughs in the irradiation effects on materials and radiation-resistant corrosion in advanced nuclear energy systems, promoting the efficient and safe utilization of nuclear energy resources, and providing a technical foundation for fuel cycles and waste recycling. Leveraging the strengths and advantages of fundamental research in the university, exploring basic scientific mechanisms with significant engineering application value, and focusing on universal and long-standing scientific challenges to support the development of engineering technologies.
Select publications:
- Y. Xie*, E. Medvedovski, L. Joyce, D. Simonton, E. Frishholz, Assessing aluminized and boronized thermal diffusion coating in molten salt and molten sodium environments, Surface and Coatings Technology, in press.
- L. Joyce, P. Wang, R. Umretiya, A. Hoffman, Y. Xie*, Oxide layers in Ni-doped FeCrAl alloy in 320 C radioactive hydrogenated water, Journal of Nuclear Materials (2024) 154987. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2024.154987
- B. Bettes, Y. Xie*, Synthesis and processing of transparent polycrystalline doped yttrium aluminum garnet: a review, Materials Research Letter 11 (2023) 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/21663831.2022.2109441
- Y. Xie*, S.C. Vogel, J.M. Harp, M.T. Benson, L. Capriotti, Microstructure evolution of U-Zr system in a thermal cycling neutron diffraction experiment: extruded U-10Zr (wt. %), Journal of Nuclear Materials 544 (2020) 152665. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2020.152665
- C. Jiang, Y. Xie*, Efficient computational search for lanthanide-binding additive dopants for advanced U-Zr based fuels, Materialia 10 (2020) 100653. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2020.100653
- Y. Xie, J. Zhang, T. Aldemir, R. Denning, Multi-state Markov model of pitting corrosion in stainless steel exposed to chloride-containing environment, Reliability Engineering & System Safety 172 (2018) 239-248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2017.12.015
- Y. Xie, M.T. Benson, J.A. King, R.D. Mariani, J. Zhang, Characterization of U-Zr Fuel with alloying additive Sb for stabilizing fission product lanthanides, Journal of Nuclear Materials 498 (2018) 332-340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2017.10.039
- Y. Xie, Y. Wu, J. Burns, J. Zhang, Characterization of stress corrosion cracks in Ni-based weld alloys 52, 52M and 152 grown in high-temperature water, Materials Characterization 112 (2016) 87-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2015.12.005
- Y. Xie, J. Zhang, Chloride-induced stress corrosion cracking of used nuclear fuel welded SS canisters: A review, Journal of Nuclear Materials 466 (2015) 85-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2015.07.043
