• Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
  • Eugene Webb Faculty Fellow
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Kelvin Xie

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Sydney - 2013
  • B.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Sydney - 2009
  • B.Com., Finance, University of Sydney - 2009

Research Interests

    • Advanced transmission electron microscopy
    • Small-scale mechanics
    • Atom probe tomography
    • Ceramic engineering (boron carbide, silicon carbide, silicon oxycarbide, etc)
    • Physical metallurgy (Mg alloys, Ti alloys, steels, high entropy alloys, etc)

Awards & Honors

  • First Prize in Best Poster Competition for Characterization of Minerals, Metals and Material, TMS 2016, Nashville, TN, USA, 2016
  • Best poster award, MACH Conference, Annapolis, MD, USA, 2015
  • Postgraduate Research Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement, USYD, Australia, 2011
  • Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) Scholarship, Australia, 2009
  • First class honors and Dean's list, USYD, Australia, 2009
  • Taste of Research Scholarship at the UNSW, Australia, 2007

Selected Publications

  • R. Patel, S. Zhang, J. Dong, M.H. Hansen, W. Chen, K.Y. Xie, Laser-Directed Energy Deposition as a Promising Dissimilar Joining Technique: A Case Study on SS316L and IN718 with CoCrFeNi-based Fillers, Materialia (2025) 102381.
  • P. Evans, G. Turner, R. Patel, M. Moghadasi, Q. Yang, Z. Pei, C. Ma, J.D. Paramore, B.G. Butler, K.Y. Xie, Shrinkage, microstructure, and mechanical properties of sintered 3D‐printed silica via stereolithography, International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology 21(3) (2024) 1638-1647.
  • Y. Zhang, B.L. Hackett, J. Dong, K.Y. Xie, G.M. Pharr, Evolution of dislocation substructures in metals via high-strain-rate nanoindentation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(50) (2023) e2310500120.
  • J. Ren, Y. Zhang, D. Zhao, Y. Chen, S. Guan, Y. Liu, L. Liu, S. Peng, F. Kong, J.D. Poplawsky, Strong yet ductile nanolamellar high-entropy alloys by additive manufacturing, Nature 608(7921) (2022) 62-68.
  • X. Ma, W. Higgins, Z. Liang, D. Zhao, G.M. Pharr, K.Y. Xie, Exploring the origins of the indentation size effect at submicron scales, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(30) (2021) e2025657118.
  • K.Y. Xie, K. Hazeli, N. Dixit, L. Ma, K. Ramesh, K.J. Hemker, Twin boundary migration mechanisms in quasi-statically compressed and plate-impacted Mg single crystals, Science advances 7(42) (2021) eabg3443.
  • S. Xiang, L. Ma, B. Yang, Y. Dieudonne, G.M. Pharr, J. Lu, D. Yadav, C. Hwang, J.C. LaSalvia, R.A. Haber, Tuning the deformation mechanisms of boron carbide via silicon doping, Science Advances 5(10) (2019) eaay0352.
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