Nan Wang received his Ph.D. in Physics from Northeastern University (U.S.A.) in 2011 and worked as a postdoc in nuclear engineering and materials science at Purdue University and The Pennsylvania State University. He was a research associate in the Center for Physics of Materials at McGill University (Canada) before joining GTIIT.  

Prof. Nan Wang’s research focuses on understanding defects and interfaces related materials behavior using theories and computational methods. He has accumulated expertise in materials science, thermodynamics, condensed matter physics, programming and numerical methods from his interdisciplinary experience. His works have been published in top journals in both materials science and physics. Currently, he is working on computational microstructure optimization for 3D printed alloy materials, structural evolution and stability of nanoelectronic devices.   

• Understanding confinement effect in phase transformation. 

• Developing semi-quantitative and quantitative meso-scale materials modeling methods. 

• Investigating growth and stability issues in nano materials. 

• Computational optimization of materials microstructure. 

• Developing commercial software for simulation of solidification process. 

Papers

N. Wang, M. Upmanyu, and A. Karma, “Phase-field model of vapor-liquid-solid nanowire growth”, Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 033402 (2018). 

F. Xue, N. Wang, X. Wang, Y. Ji, S. W. Cheong, and L. Q. Chen, “Topological dynamics of vortex-line networks in hexagonal manganites”, Phys. Rev. B. 97 (2018), 020101. 

N. Wang, N. Smith and N. Provatas, "Investigating gas-phase defect formation in late stage solidification using a novel phase-field-crystal alloy model", Phys. Rev. Materials 1, 043405 (2017). 

N. Wang, Y. Ji, Y. Wang, Y. Wen, L. Q. Chen, "Two modes of grain boundary pinning by coherent precipitates", Acta Materialia 135, 226-232 (2017).  

N. Wang and N. Provatas, "Role of stress driven interfacial instability in the failure of confined electric interconnects ", Phys. Rev. Applied 7, 024032 (2017). 

N. Wang, K. H. Bevan and N. Provatas, "Phase-field-crystal model for electromigration in metal interconnects", Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 155901 (2016). 

Y. Gu, N. Wang, F. Xue, and L. Q. Chen, “Origin of Interfacial Polar Order in Incipient Ferroelectrics”, Phys. Rev. B 91, 174103 (2015). 

N. Wang, Y. Wen, and L. Q. Chen, “Pinning force from multiple second-phase particles in grain growth”, Comp. Mater. Sci. 93, 81-85 (2014). 

N. Wang, R. Spatschek and A. Karma, “Multi-phase-field analysis of short-range forces between diffuse interfaces”, Phys. Rev. E.81, 051601 (2010). 

Book Chapters

N. Wang and L. Q. Chen, Chapter 4, Phase field methods, Multiscale Paradigms in Integrated Computational Materials Science and Engineering, Springer Series in Materials Science 226.