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Evan Ma is affiliated with Xi'an Jiaotong University in China and specializes in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their research output shows a significant focus on subfields such as Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's primary research topics include High Entropy Alloys Studies, Phase-change materials and chalcogenides, High-Temperature Coating Behaviors, Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes, Microstructure and mechanical properties, Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys, and Advanced Memory and Neural Computing.

Recent significant publications include:

  • Direct observation of chemical short-range order in a medium-entropy alloy (2021, Nature)
  • Tailoring planar slip to achieve pure metal-like ductility in body-centred-cubic multi-principal element alloys (2023, Nature Materials)
  • An organic electrochemical transistor for multi-modal sensing, memory and processing (2023, Nature Electronics)
  • Unusual dislocation behavior in high-entropy alloys (2020, Scripta Materialia)
  • Tracking the sliding of grain boundaries at the atomic scale (2022, Science)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Evan Ma include:

  • Wei Zhang
  • Jun Ding
  • Jiangjing Wang
  • Riccardo Mazzarello
  • Zhiwei Shan

The scientist's work is published frequently in venues such as Acta Materialia, arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Material Science and Technology, Advanced Materials, and Advanced Science.

Best Publications

  • Atomic-level structure and structure–property relationship in metallic glasses

    Y.Q. Cheng;E. Ma

  • Shear bands in metallic glasses

    A.L. Greer;A.L. Greer;Y.Q. Cheng;E. Ma

  • Toward a quantitative understanding of mechanical behavior of nanocrystalline metals

    M. Dao;L. Lu;R. J. Asaro;J. T. M. De Hosson

  • Three strategies to achieve uniform tensile deformation in a nanostructured metal

    Y.M. Wang;E. Ma

  • Nanostructured high-strength molybdenum alloys with unprecedented tensile ductility

    G. Liu;G. J. Zhang;G. J. Zhang;F. Jiang;X. D. Ding

  • Towards strength–ductility synergy through the design of heterogeneous nanostructures in metals

    Evan Ma;Ting Zhu

  • Effect of nanocrystalline and ultrafine grain sizes on the strain rate sensitivity and activation volume: fcc versus bcc metals

    Q Wei;S Cheng;K.T Ramesh;E Ma

  • Atomic level structure in multicomponent bulk metallic glass.

    Y. Q. Cheng;E. Ma;H. W. Sheng

  • Designing crystallization in phase-change materials for universal memory and neuro-inspired computing

    Wei Zhang;Riccardo Mazzarello;Matthias Wuttig;Matthias Wuttig;Evan Ma

  • Strong crystal size effect on deformation twinning

    Qian Yu;Zhi-Wei Shan;J u Li;Xiaoxu Huang

  • Strengthening in multi-principal element alloys with local-chemical-order roughened dislocation pathways

    Qing Jie Li;Howard Sheng;Evan Ma

  • Bulk Metallic Glasses: At the Cutting Edge of Metals Research

    A. L. Greer;E. Ma

  • Tensile ductility and necking of metallic glass

    H. Guo;P. F. Yan;Y. B. Wang;J. Tan

  • Effects of nanocrystalline and ultrafine grain sizes on constitutive behavior and shear bands in iron

    D. Jia;K.T. Ramesh;E. Ma

  • Bulk metallic glass formation in the binary Cu–Zr system

    D. Wang;Y. Li;B. B. Sun;M. L. Sui

  • Reducing the stochasticity of crystal nucleation to enable subnanosecond memory writing

    Feng Rao;Feng Rao;Keyuan Ding;Keyuan Ding;Yuxing Zhou;Yonghui Zheng

  • Tensile properties of in situ consolidated nanocrystalline Cu

    S. Cheng;E. Ma;Y.M. Wang;L.J. Kecskes

  • Deformation behavior and plastic instabilities of ultrafine-grained titanium

    D. Jia;Y. M. Wang;K. T. Ramesh;E. Ma

  • Optimizing the strength and ductility of fine structured 2024 Al alloy by nano-precipitation

    S. Cheng;Y.H. Zhao;Y.T. Zhu;E. Ma

  • Relationship between structure, dynamics, and mechanical properties in metallic glass-forming alloys

    Y. Q. Cheng;H. W. Sheng;E. Ma

  • Eight routes to improve the tensile ductility of bulk nanostructured metals and alloys

    E. Ma

  • Metastable, Mechanically Alloyed and Nanocrystalline Materials (Proceedings of ISMANAM-2001)

    E. Ma;M. Atzmon;C.C. Koch

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhi-Wei Shan
Zhi-Wei Shan Xi'an Jiaotong University
Yongqiang Cheng
Yongqiang Cheng Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jun Sun
Jun Sun Xi'an Jiaotong University
Ze Zhang
Ze Zhang Zhejiang University
K.T. Ramesh
K.T. Ramesh Johns Hopkins University
Wei Zhang
Wei Zhang Wuhan University of Science and Technology
Yinmin Wang
Yinmin Wang Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Xiaodong Han
Xiaodong Han Beijing University of Technology
Xiaolei Wu
Xiaolei Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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