Dr. Fei Xue
    Post-doctoral student

    Current project(s):
    (Co-advised by Prof. David Seidman)

    Phone: 847.491.3571
    Email: fei.xue@northwestern.edu
    Address: 2220 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208

I am from China and finished my B.E. at Northeastern University in 2007 and Ph.D. at University of Science and Technology of Beijing in 2015. Before joined Northwestern University, I did my postdoctoral research in Lehrstuhl WWI at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) and in Rolls-Royces Corporate Lab at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

My research includes a new class of intermetallic-strengthening high-temperature cobalt-based alloys and a solid-state additive manufacturing process cold spray. At Northwestern University working jointly in the Dunand and Seidman research groups, my efforts will keep focusing on the cobalt-base alloys in an attempt to design low-cost, oxidation- and creep-resistance alloys using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and atom probe tomography (APT).

Selected Honors

  1. Excellent Poster Award, IUMRS-ICAM 2013
  2. International Symposium on Superalloys Scholarship, Superalloys 2012
  3. CITIC-CBMM Nb-bearing Steel Graduate Scholarship, 2012
  4. Excellent Graduate Student, NEU, 2007

Publications

  1. W. Sun, A. Bhowmik, A.W.Y. Tan, F. Xue, I. Marinescu, F. Li, E.J. Liu, Strategy of incorporating Ni-based braze alloy in cold sprayed Inconel 718 coating, Surface and Coatings Technology, in press.
  2. H.J. Zhou, F. Xue, H. Chang, Q. Feng, Effect of Mo on microstructural characteristics and coarsening kinetics of γ' precipitates in Co-Al-W-Ta-Ti alloys, Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 34 (2018) 799-805.
  3. F. Xue, C.H. Zenk, L.P. Freund, M. Hoelzel, S. Neumeier, M. Göken, Double minimum creep in the rafting regime of a single-crystal Co-base superalloy, Scripta Materialia, 142 (2018) 129-132.
  4. W.Y. Wang, F. Xue, Y. Zhang, S.L. Shang, Y. Wang, J.S. Li, X.D. Hui, Q. Feng, Z.K. Liu, Atomic and electronic basis for the solutes strengthened (010) anti-phase boundary of L12 Co3(Al, TM), Acta Materialia, 53 (2018) 1204-1216.
  5. Y.H. Chen, F. Xue, S.C. Mao, H.B. Long, B. Zhang, Q.S. Deng, B. Chen, P. Maguire, H.Z. Zhang, X.D. Han, Q. Feng, Elemental preference and atomic scale site recognition in a Co-Al-W-base superalloy, Scientific Reports, 7 (2017) 17240.
  6. H.J. Zhou, W.D. Li, F. Xue, H. Chang, Q. Feng, Alloying effects on microstructural stability and γ' phase nano-hardness in Co-Al-W-Ta-Ti-base superalloys, Superalloys 2016 (Warrendale, PA: TMS, 2016) 981-990.
  7. F. Xue, H.J. Zhou, Q.Y. Shi, X.H. Chen, M.L. Wang, X.F. Ding, Q. Feng, Creep behavior in a γ' strengthened Co-Al-W-Ta-Ti single-crystal alloy at 1000°C, Scripta Materialia, 97 (2015) 37-40.
  8. F. Xue, H.J. Zhou, Q. Feng, Improved high-temperature microstructural stability and creep property of novel Co-base single-crystal alloys containing Ta and Ti, JOM, 66 (2014) 2486-2494.
  9. F. Xue, T. Mi, M.L. Wang, X.F. Ding, X.H. Li, Q. Feng, Effects of Ni on microstructural evolution and γ' dissolution of novel Co-Al-W base alloys, Acta Metallurgica Sinica, 50 (2014) 845-853.
  10. F. Xue, H.J. Zhou, X.H. Chen, Q.Y. Shi, H. Chang, M.L. Wang, X.F. Ding, Q. Feng, Improved microstructural stability and creep behavior by Ta and Ti in γ/γ' Co-Al-W-base single crystal superalloys, Eurosuperalloys 2014, (Les Ulis, France: EDP Sciences, 2014) 15002.
  11. X.F. Ding, T. Mi, F. Xue, H.J. Zhou, M.L. Wang, Microstructure formation in γ-γ' Co-Al-W-Ti alloys during directional solidification, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 599 (2014) 159-163.
  12. F. Xue, H.J. Zhou, X.F. Ding, M.L. Wang, Q. Feng, Improved high temperature γ' stability of Co-Al-W-base alloys containing Ti and Ta, Materials Letters, 112 (2013) 215-218.
  13. F. Xue, M. Wang, Q. Feng, Alloying effects on heat-treated microstructure in Co-Al-W-base superalloys at 1300°C and 900°C, Superalloys 2012 (Warrendale, PA: TMS, 2012) 813-821.
  14. F. Xue, M.L. Wang, Q. Feng, Phase equilibria in Co-Rich Co-Al-W alloys at 1300°C and 900°C, Materials Science Forum, 686 (2011) 388-391.
  15. F. Xue, Z.Q. Li, Q. Feng, Mo effect on the microstructure in Co-Al-W-based superalloys, Materials Science Forum, 654-656 (2010) 420-423.