报告题目：Brief Introduction to Materials Informatics 

　　报告人:  张统一 院士

　  Materials Genome Institute, Shanghai University, and  

　　Shanghai Materials Genome Institute, Shanghai 200444, China 

　　时间：2017年6月29日(周四)  09:30 

　　地点：中科院力学所1号楼344室 

　　报告摘要： 

In this presentation, materials informatics is briefly introduced to materials people and community. Materials informatics employs techniques, tools, and theories drawn from the emerging fields of data science, internet, computer science and engineering, and digital technologies to the materials science and engineering to accelerate materials discovery and manufacturing innovations. The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) is launched in 2011, in which there are three types of core techniques, called Computational Tools, Experimental Tools, and Digital Data. The major challenge in materials research and development lies in the countless combination of elements in materials compositions, besides huge variations in materials microstructure, materials fabrication and treatment, materials service environment and loading conditions, and economic performance of materials. In addition to high-throughput experiments, high-throughput computations, materials informatics is playing more and more important role in MGI in order to discover novel materials in half-time and half-cost. Materials informatics integrates data science and materials science and engineering, where materials data are essential. Few recent publications on materials informatics are overviewed here to emphasize important roles of features (descriptors) and failed experiments, especially, the concept of adaptive development of materials. A one-dimensional toy model is also presented here to illustrate the adaptive concept. 

　　报告人简介： 

Tong-Yi Zhang earned Master degree in 1982 and PhD in 1985, majoring in materials physics, from University of Science and Technology Beijing, China. From 1993 to 2015, he worked at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, as Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor, Chair Professor, and Fang Professor of Engineering. He full-time works now at Shanghai University, as the founding dean of the Materials Genome Institute, Shanghai University, and the founding dean of the Shanghai Materials Genome Institute. His research interests include mechanical properties of materials, micro/nanomechanics, surface stress of solids, fracture of piezoelectric materials, thin films, microbridge tests, thermodynamics of materials, diffusion and phase transformation. He has been a vice president of the International Congress on Fracture (ICF) since 2013 and was a vice president of The Far East and Oceanic Fracture Society 2001-2016. He was a recipient of the Second Prize of 2007 State Natural Science Award, China, the Second Prize of 1987 State Natural Science Award, China, and the 1988 National Award for Young Scientists, China. He became ICF Fellow in 2013, Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2012, member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011, Senior Research Fellow of Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong, in 2003, Fellow of ASM International, USA, in 2001. He is Associate Editor-in-Chief of Science China Technological Sciences (2013 – present) and the Fracture and Continuum Mechanics Subject-Editor of the journal, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics (2013 – present).