Wenjie Xia
Email: wxia@iastate.edu
Phone: 515-294-6491
Title(s):
Associate Professor [AER E]
Office
2245 Howe
537 Bissell Rd.
Ames, IA 50011-1096
Information
Research Website
Education
Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, 2016
Interest Areas
- Multiscale Modeling
- Structural Mechanics & Materials
- Polymers and Nanocomposites
- Computational Design & Optimization
- Biological and Bioinspired Materials
- Machine Learning & Data-Driven Modeling
Awards and Honors
- ASME Rising Stars of Mechanical Engineering Award, 2024
- NSF CAREER Award, 2023
- ACS PMSE Young Investigator Award, 2023
- Advanced Materials Rising Star, 2023
- NDSU College of Engineering Early Career Research Excellence Award, 2022
- ND-ACES Early Career Faculty Award, 2021
- NIST-MML Accolade for Technical Excellence, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2019
- Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) Fellowship, 2016
- APS Frank J. Padden Award Finalist, 2016
- Walter Murphy Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2011
- CWRU Crag J. Miller Award for “Outstanding Academic Achievement”, 2011
Publications
For the full list of publications, please see Dr. Xia’s Google Scholar profile.
Selected Publications (over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles; 1 book edited; 5 book chapters; h-index = 30)
- Y. Liao, Z. Li, L. Chen, A. B. Croll, W. Xia, “Crumpling Defective Graphene Sheets”, Nano Letters, 2023, 23(8), 3637-3644. (Cover Article)
- Z. Cao, S. A. Tobla, Z. Li, G. T. Mason, Y. Wang, C. Do, S. Rondeau-Gagné, W. Xia, X. Gu, “Molecular Structure and Conformational Design of Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymers to Enable Predictable Optoelectronic Property”, Advanced Materials, 2023, 35, 41, 2302178.
- S. A. Tolba, W. Xia, “Molecular Insights into the Hydration of Zwitterionic Polymers”, Molecular Systems Design & Engineering, 2023, 8, 1040-1048.
- X. Zheng, Y. Guo, J. Douglas, W. Xia, “Competing Effects of Cohesive Energy and Cross-link Density on the Segmental Dynamics and Mechanical Properties of Cross-linked Polymers”, Macromolecules, 2022, 55(22), 9990-10004.
- A. Croll, Y. Liao, Z. Li, W. Jayawardana, T. Elder, W. Xia, “Sticky Crumpled Matter”, Matter, 2022, 5(6), 1792-1805. (Cover Article)
- A. Alesadi, Z. Cao, Z. Li, S. Zhang, H. Zhao, X. Gu, W. Xia, “Machine Learning Prediction of Glass Transition Temperature of Conjugated Polymers from Chemical Structure”, Cell Reports Physical Science, 2022, 3, 10091.
- Z. Li, Y. Liao, Y. Zhang, Yida Zhang, W. Xia, “Microstructure and Dynamics of Nanocellulose Films: Insights into the Deformational Behavior”, Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2022, 50, 101519.
- S. Ghazanfari, H.M.N. Fasial, K. Katti, D. Katti, W. Xia, “A Coarse-Grained Model for the Mechanical Behavior of Na-Montmorillonite Clay”, Langmuir, 2022, 38(16), 4859-4869. (Cover Article)
- A. Alesadi, W. Xia, “Understanding the Role of Cohesive Interaction in Mechanical Behavior of a Glassy Polymer”, Macromolecules, 2020, 53(7), 2754-2763.
- W. Xia, N. Hansoge, W.-S. Xu, F. Phelan, S. Keten, J. F. Douglas, “Energy Renormalization for Coarse-Graining Polymers Having Different Segmental Structures”, Science Advances, 2019, 5(4), eaav4683.
- W. Xia, V.F. Lara, S. Keten, J. Douglas, “Structure and Dynamics of a Graphene Melt”, ACS Nano, 2018, 12(6), 5427-5435.
- W. Xia, X. Qin, Y. Zhang, R. Sinko, S. Keten, “Achieving Enhanced Interfacial Adhesion and Dispersion in Cellulose Nanocomposites via Amorphous Interfaces”, Macromolecules, 2018, 51(24), 10304-10311.
Book
W. Xia, L. Ruiz Pestana, “Fundamentals of Multiscale Modeling of Structural Materials”, Edited by W. Xia, L. Ruiz Pestana, Elsevier Inc. 2023, ISBN: 9780128230213.
Primary Strategic Research Area
Advanced Materials & Manufacturing
Departments
Affiliations
Interests
Advanced materialsComputational Materials ScienceComputational MechanicsData-Driven Eng and SciFunctional polymers and compositesHigh Performance ComputingMachine LearningNanotechnologyPolymersSoft matter