Dr Zhongping Que
Lecturer in Solidification
Summary
Dr. Zhongping Que, lecturer of solidification, joined in BCAST in 2014. Prior to that she was an associate professor at Taiyuan University of Technology in R.P. China (2011-2014). Her expertise is in sustainable aluminium alloys development. She has worked (11yrs) and is working in development of resilient aluminium alloys with high performance and high impurity tolerance and delivering the pathways to overcome the recycling challenges. She has published more than 50 papers in scientific reports, JAC, MMTA etc. and holds 4 patents. She as PI, has full-industrial fund (£77K), iCASE studentship in sustainable aluminium. She is currently active in achieving more grants in development of sustainable aluminium. She has supervised 10 students (post-doctoral, PhD, graduate and under-graduate) as supervisor or co-supervisor. She is the guest editor of Crystals and the regular reviewer for multiple international journals (JAC, Materials today communications, material characterization, etc.) She has strong all-round research abilities in thermodynamic calculation, casting, crystallography examination and simulation, etc. Her research skills covered in most of the characterization such as DSC, SEM, XRD, TEM, tensile test, etc.
Qualifications
Dr. Que received the B.Sc. degree from Jiangsu University of Science and Technology in P.R. China in 2005 and the M.Sc. degree of Science in 2008. She received the Ph.D. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Changwon National University in South Korea in 2011. She was awarded Fellow (FIMMM) of IOM3 on Febuary 2025.
Newest selected publications
Fang, C., Que, Z. and Fan, Z. (2021) 'Crystal chemistry and electronic structure of the β-AlFeSi phase from first-principles'. Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 299. pp. 1 - 8. ISSN: 0022-4596 Open Access Link
Fan, Z., Men, H., Wang, Y. and Que, Z. (2021) 'A New Atomistic Mechanism for Heterogeneous Nucleation in the Systems with Negative Lattice Misfit: Creating a 2D Template for Crystal Growth'. Metals, 11 (3). pp. 1 - 19.Open Access Link
Que, Z. and Mendis, C. (2020) 'Effects of native AlN particles on heterogeneous nucleation in an Al-3Fe Alloy'. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science, 52 (2). pp. 553 - 559. ISSN: 1073-5623 Open Access Link
Que, Z., Zhou, Y., Wang, Y., Mendis, CL. and Fan, Z. (2020)
'Effects of Mg addition on the Al
Que, Z. and Mendis, CL. (2020) 'Formation of θ-Al13Fe4 and the multi-step phase transformations to α-Al8Fe2Si, β-Al5FeSi and δ-Al4FeSi2 in Al–20Si-0.7Fe alloy'. Intermetallics, 127. pp. 1 - 11. ISSN: 0966-9795 Open Access Link