Many congratulations on Shuyang’s graduation. Shuyang received PhD degree, and his study focused on fundamental understanding of mechanical behavior of SrNi2P2 intermetallic compound. This material exhibits superplasticity via double lattice collapse and expansion process, and this discovery was published at Nano Letters. Shuyang also studied the temperature effect, the cyclic loading effect, and the solute effect on superplasticity. He also discovered the tension-compression asymmetry in superplasticity mechanism. Due to this asymmetry, SrNi2P2 exhibits relatively large temperature changes during cyclic loading and demonstrates a strong potential as an elastocaloric material!
Shuyang will come back to China and start to work on SiEn integrated circuit Co., Ltd. We hope he makes a great contribution to developing a future semiconductor technology. Many congratulations on all your outstanding achievements at UConn!!!
