Research interests Structural-property relationships in engineering materials. Chemo-mechanical coupling effects and interface behavior in energy storage materials. High-performance computing and machine-learning application in multiscale computational modeling designs.   Subject Matter Expertise Atomistic Simulations, Mechanical Properties, Solid-state Battery Materials, Metallic Glass

Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Southern California, 2023

M.S., Computer Science, University of Southern California, 2023

B.S., Electronic Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2017

1. Suyue Yuan, Aoyan Liang, Chang Liu, Aiichiro Nakano, Ken-ichi Nomura, and Paulo S. Branicio, “Uncovering metallic glasses hidden vacancy-like motifs using machine learning”, Materials & Design, 233, 112185 (2023).
2. Suyue Yuan and Paulo S. Branicio, “Atomistic simulations of nanoindentation on nanoglasses: Effects of grain size and gradient microstructure on the mechanical properties”, Intermetallics, 153, 107782 (2023).
3. Chang Liu, Suyue Yuan, Jinwoo Im, Felipe P.J. de Barros, Sami F. Masri, and Paulo S. Branicio, “Mechanical properties, failure mechanisms, and scaling laws of bicontinuous nanoporous metallic glasses”, Acta Materialia, 239, 118255 (2022).
4. Kaifeng Zheng, Suyue Yuan, Horst Hahn, and Paulo S. Branicio, “Excess free volume and structural properties of inert gas condensation synthesized nanoparticles based CuZr nanoglasses”, Scientific Reports, 11, 19246 (2021).
5. Suyue Yuan and Paulo S. Branicio, “Tuning the mechanical properties of nanoglass-metallic glass composites with brick and mortar designs”, Scripta Materialia, 194, 113639 (2021).
6. Chang Liu, Suyue Yuan, and Paulo S. Branicio, “Bicontinuous nanoporous design induced homogenization of strain localization in metallic glasses”, Scripta Materialia, 192, 67 (2021).
7. Suyue Yuan and Paulo S. Branicio, “Gradient microstructure induced shear band constraint, delocalization, and delayed failure in CuZr nanoglasses”, International Journal of Plasticity, 134, 102845 (2020).
8. Suyue Yuan, Xinxiang Song, and Paulo S. Branicio, “Tuning the mechanical properties of shape memory metallic glass composites with brick and mortar designs”, Scripta Materialia, 186, 69 (2020).
9. Wei-Hui Lin, Yun Teng, Zhen-Dong Sha, Su-Yue Yuan, and Paulo Sergio Branicio, “Mechanical properties of nanoporous metallic glasses: Insights from large-scale atomic simulations”, International Journal of Plasticity, 127, 102657 (2020).
10. Gideon Praveen Kumar, Suyue Yuan, Fangsen Cui, Paulo Sergio Branicio, Mehdi Jafary-Zadeh, “Nanoglass-based balloon expandable stents”, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. Part B, Applied Biomaterials, 108, 73 (2020).

 

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• Best graduate oral presentation award in Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Annual Student Research Symposium, University of Southern California, 2021
• Best graduate poster award in Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Annual Student Research Symposium, University of Southern California, 2020