Dr. Wenhou Wei is an Associate Professor in Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Wei obtained his Ph.D. degree from Chongqing University in 2014. He was a visiting student at Australian National University from 2011 to 2013. Dr. Wei’s research interests focus on advanced metal-matrix composites and additive manufacturing. He has published over 40 academic papers in prestigious scientific journals such as Scripta Materialia, Materials Science and Engineering A, and Materials & Design. He also gave 2 talks at international conferences. He hosted many foundations in the past 5 years including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing, the West Light Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Support Program for Chongqing Overseas Returned Scholars.

Additive manufacturing, Metal-matrix composites

The paper titled“Microstructure and mechanical properties of TiC/Ti6Al4V nanocomposites fabricated by gas–liquid reaction laser powder bed fusion”was selected as a key scientific article contributing to research excellence by Advances in Engineering (AIE), a well-known international science and technology organization, on Nov. 20, 2023. No more than 0.1% published articles around the world can receive this honor.

(1) Yong Yang, Jiyuan Zhang, Wenhou Wei*, Microstructure and mechanical properties of TiC/Ti6Al4V nanocomposites fabricated by gas–liquid reaction laser powder bed fusion, Materials Science and Engineering A, 2023, 869: 144829.

(2) Wenhou Wei, Qi Zhang, Wenjie Wu, Hongzhong Cao, Jun Shen, Shuqian Fan*, Xuanming Duan*, Agglomeration-free nanoscale TiC reinforced titanium matrix composites achieved by in-situ laser additive manufacturing, Scripta Materialia, 2020, 187: 310–316.

(3) Wenhou Wei, Wenjie Wu, Shuqian Fan*, Xuanming Duan*, In-situ laser additive manufacturing of Ti6Al4V matrix composites by gas–liquid reaction in dilute nitrogen gas atmospheres, Materials & Design, 2021, 202: 109578.

(4) Wenhou Wei, Lei Zhu, Wenjie Wu, Shuqian Fan*, TiC/Ti6Al4V functionally graded composite fabricated by in-situ laser additive manufacturing via gas–liquid reaction, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2022, 900: 163406.

(5) Wen-Hou Wei*, Structural, thermal and optical properties and transition threshold in Ge-Sb-Se glassy system, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 2020, 536: 119991.

(6) Lin-Zhi Wang, Wen-Hou Wei*, Selective Laser Melting of 30CrMnSiA Steel: Laser Energy Density Dependence of Microstructural and Mechanical Properties, Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters), 2018, 31(8): 807–814.

(7) Wen-Hou Wei, Lin-Zhi Wang*, Tian Chen, Xuan-Ming Duan, Wei Li, Study on the flow properties of Ti-6Al-4V powders prepared by radio-frequency plasma spheroidization, Advanced Powder Technology, 2017, 28(9): 2431–2437.

(8) Lei, Zhu, Kaiwang, Zhang*, Shuqian Fan, Wenhou Wei*, Ti6Al4V matrix composites fabricated by laser powder bed fusion in dilute nitrogen, Materials Science and Technology, 2022, 38(4): 207–214.

(9) Wen-Hou Wei, Xiang Shen, Si-Wei Xu, Liang Fang, Rong-Ping Wang*, Structural investigations of GexSb10Se90-x glasses using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Journal of Applied Physics, 2014, 115: 183506.

(10) Wen-Hou Wei, Rong-Ping Wang*, Xiang Shen, Liang Fang, Barry Luther-Davies, Correlation between structural and physical properties in Ge-Sb-Se Glasses, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2013, 117: 16571–16576.