Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · Engineering
Professor Dongchan Jang's research lab specializes in the design, synthesis, and mechanical characterization of advanced nanostructured and hybrid materials, with a focus on understanding structure-property relationships at the nanoscale. Key research directions include the development of flexible and durable hard coatings for next-generation foldable electronics, the role of grain and twin boundaries in nanocrystalline metals, and the mechanical behavior of nanocrystalline and porous materials. The lab combines advanced fabrication techniques—such as e-beam lithography, electroplating, and proximity-field nanopatterning—with high-resolution microscopy and nanoindentation to explore mechanical performance, plasticity, and strengthening mechanisms in materials with tailored microstructures.
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Interfaces play an important role in crystalline plasticity as they affect strength and often serve as obstacles to dislocation motion. Here we investigate effects of grain and nanotwin boundaries on uniaxial strength of 500 nm diameter Cu nanopillars fabricated by e-beam lithography and electroplating. Uniaxial compression experiments reveal that strength is lowered by introducing grain boundaries and significantly rises when twin boundaries are present. Weakening is likely due to the activatio
Plastic deformation of nanocrystalline Fe was investigated by nanoindentation. Samples, synthesized by mechanical attrition, consisted of powder particles with diameters greater than 30 μm. The average grain diameters within the particles of different samples ranged from 10 nm to 10 μm. To avoid potential artifacts, samples were prepared without use of heat treatment, and measurements were conducted at a depth significantly smaller than the powder particle size. Corrections were made for the ind
Grain-boundary relaxation in nanocrystalline Fe was studied by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HREM), and its effect on plasticity was characterized by nanoindentation. Samples with grain size of 9.8nm were synthesized by mechanical attrition and subsequently annealed at low temperatures (80 and 100°C) without affecting the grain size. While the hardness is not significantly affected by annealing, the strain-rate sensitivity peaks as a function of annealing time, suggesting two
Density-strength tradeoff appears to be an inherent limitation for most materials and therefore design of cell topology that mitigates strength decrease with density reduction has been a long-lasting engineering pursue for porous materials. Continuum-mechanics-based analyses of mechanical responses of conventional porous materials with bending-dominated structures often give the density-strength scaling law following the power-law relationship with an exponent of 1.5 or higher, which consequenti
Nanoarchitected materials are considered as a promising research field, deriving distinctive mechanical properties by combining nanomechanical size effects with conventional structural engineering. Despite the successful demonstration of the superiority and feasibility of nanoarchitected materials, scalable and facile fabrication techniques capable of macroscopically producing such materials at a low cost are required to take advantage of the nanoarchitected materials for specific applications.
Highly controlled biomineralization of calcium carbonate is via non-classical mesocrystallization of amorphous precursors. In the present study, a simple in vitro assay was developed to mimic the biological process, which involved stabilized amorphous calcium carbonate and a single crystal substrate of calcite. The microcoating layer formed on the calcite substrate displayed mesocrystalline characteristics, and the layers near the substrate were strongly influenced by the epitaxy to the substrat
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