Jianqi Xi

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Education

• Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 2017

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Nuclear Materials, 01/2024-Present
• Scientist III, ThermoFisher Scientific, Ion Beam Radiation, 01/2023-12/2023
• Scientist, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nuclear Materials, 07/2021-01/2023
• Postdoc, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nuclear Materials, 11/2017-07/2021
• Postdoc, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Nuclear Materials, 08/2017-11/2017

Other Professional Employment

• Session Chair of Conference Symposium “Ceramics Modeling, Genome and Informatics”, ICACC-2019

Research Interests

• Synergistic effects of radiation and corrosion on structural materials
• Chemical degradation of claddings in corrosive environments (e.g., molten salt, high-temperature water, and air)
• Multiscale modeling of microstructure evolutions of materials under irradiation
• Data-driven/ML material design with desirable radiation/corrosion-resistant properties

Chapters in Books

• Code for nuclear materials

Selected Articles in Journals

• J. Xi, H. Zhang, R. Su, S. Wei, X. Hu, B. Queylat, T. Kim, A. Couet, I. Szlufarska, "Coupling of radiation and grain boundary corrosion in SiC", NPJ Mater. Degrad. 8, 16 (2024)
• X. Hu, N. Liu, V. Jambur, S. Attarian, R. Su, H. Zhang, J. Xi, H. Luo, J. Perepezko, I. Szlufarska, "Amorphous shear bands in crystalline materials as drivers of plasticity", Nat. Mater. 22, 1071-1077 (2023)
• J. Xi, I. Szlufarska, "Control of surface chemical reactions through solid stiffness", Phys. Rev. Lett., 129, 106101 (2022)
• J. Xi, C. Liu, D. Morgan, I. Szlufarska, "Deciphering water-solid reactions during hydrothermal corrosion of SiC", Acta Mater., 209, 116803 (2021)
• J. Xi, H. Jiang, C. Liu, D. Morgan, I. Szlufarska, "Corrosion of Si, C, and SiC in molten salt", Corr. Sci., 146, 1-9 (2019)

Honors

• Outstanding Reviewer in the Journal of Semiconductor Science and Technology (2018 )
• Joseph E. Spruiell Award for Excellence in Research, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2017 )