Wenjie Xia

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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 Star of Mechanical Engineering Award, 2024 
• NSF CAREER Award, 2023
• ACS PMSE Young Investigator Award, 2023
• Advanced Materials Rising Star Award, 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 = 32) 

1. Y. Liao, Z. Li, L. Chen, A. B. Croll, W. Xia, “Crumpling Defective Graphene Sheets”, Nano Letters, 2023, 23(8), 3637-3644. (Cover Article)
2. 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.
3. S. A. Tolba, W. Xia, “Molecular Insights into the Hydration of Zwitterionic Polymers”, Molecular Systems Design & Engineering, 2023, 8, 1040-1048. 
4. 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.
5. A. Croll, Y. Liao, Z. Li, W. Jayawardana, T. Elder, W. Xia, “Sticky Crumpled Matter”, Matter, 2022, 5(6), 1792-1805. (Cover Article)
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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)
9. A. Alesadi, W. Xia, “Understanding the Role of Cohesive Interaction in Mechanical Behavior of a Glassy Polymer”, Macromolecules, 2020, 53(7), 2754-2763.
10. 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.
11. W. Xia, V.F. Lara, S. Keten, J. Douglas, “Structure and Dynamics of a Graphene Melt”, ACS Nano, 2018, 12(6), 5427-5435.
12. 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.

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Advanced Materials & Manufacturing

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