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Dr. Hongbin Bei
Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge TN 37831
Tel: 865-576-7196 (W), 865-406-9807(Mobile)
Email: Hbei1@utk.edu or beih@ornl.gov
SUMMARY
• Before coming to US at the year of 2000, Dr. Bei is an experienced engineer in aluminum
profile industries. He conducted processing-designs for anodizing production lines for four
factories and gained rich hand-on experiences on aluminum casting, extrusion and final
surface treatments.
• Currently, Dr. Bei is a materials research and development scientist focusing on physical
and mechanical metallurgy. He has more than 15 years of experience in alloy design,
materials synthesis, microstructure control and mechanical behavior of various structural
materials, nonferrous or ferrous, including aluminum alloys, steels, Ni-based superalloys,
metallic glasses, intermetallic compounds and the recently developed high entropy alloys.
• He is also an experienced R & D engineer on mechanical property characterization using
techniques such as nanoindentation, hardness and conventional mechanical testing to
extract local or overall properties of coatings, substrates, thin films, and/or individual
microstructural features, such as precipitates and lamellae, in multi-phase alloys and
composites. He also has hand on experiences on material synthesis and microstructural
controls, including arc melting and casting, single crystal growth and directional
solidification, heat-treatment, and thermo-mechanical processing.
• He is skilled in the use, maintaining and training of various other materials characterization
tools including optical and electron microscopy, X-ray/neutron diffraction, differential
scanning calorimeter, and mechanical testing to investigate the relationships among
processing, microstructure and properties of materials.
EDUCATION
• Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA, 2003
• M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, General Institute for Nonferrous Metals, Beijing, PRC,
1994
• B.S. in Metallic Materials and Heat Treatment, University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Beijing, PRC, 1991
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008–present Research Staff Member, Alloy Behavior and Designing Group, Materials
Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge
• Laboratory supervisor for mechanical testing, metallography and SEM Lab,
responsible for maintaining, training and reviewing safety procedures.
• PI and Co-PI on applied and fundamental research projects of DOE in the
fields of alloy design, microstructure control and mechanical behavior.
• Responsible for attracting research grants, writing/planning/executing
proposals, presenting results at review meetings and national/international

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conferences, writing progress reports and publishing papers in peer-reviewed
journals.
2008–present Adjunct Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science
and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Responsible for training and supervising undergraduate/graduate students,
postdoc researchers and visiting scholars.
2004–2007 Research Associate, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, Oak Ridge
• Synthesized multiphase intermetallic/metallic composites with well-controlled
microstructures and investigated their multi-scale mechanical behaviors.
• Recognized in 2008 with Significant Event Award (SEA) in ORNL for
“Breakthrough approach in gaining new fundamental understanding of the
atomic origins of strength.”
2000–2003 Research Assistant, Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Produced ductile-phase-toughened intermetallic using directional
solidification and investigated microstructure/properties relationships using
various materials characterization tools.
1994–2000 Engineer and Project Leader, Surface Treatment Center, General Research
Institute for Nonferrous Metals, Beijing, PRC
• Research involved surface modification and protection of Mg, Al and Ti alloys
by using anodizing and micro-arc-oxidation.
• Designed and assembled aluminum anodizing production lines for four
factories, including Zhejiang Dongliang New Material Co, which is Top-10
Aluminum Profile Enterprise in China, Stock code: 002208. (Company website:
http://www.dongliang.com.cn/english/en-contacts.htm )
Patents
• H. Bei, US Patent 9150945, "Multi-Component Solid Solution Alloys having High Mixing
Entropy", issued in Oc. 06, 2015
Awards
• 2014 Significant Event Award (SEA) of ORNL - "Energy Dissipation to Defect Evolution, an energy
frontier research center"
• 2008 Significant Event Award (SEA) of ORNL -“Breakthrough approach in gaining new fundamental
understanding of the atomic origins of strength.”
Publications
• Total ~ 115 articles in peer reviewed journals and more than 10 invited presentation at various
national/international conferences. Complete publication is available upon request.
• Total ~ 3796 citation with H-index of 32 in Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0GO7pZgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Updated May 2016