Bai Cui

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Bai Cui

Professor Mechanical & Materials Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Contact

Address
NH W331
Lincoln NE 68588-0526
Phone
402-472-5740 On-campus 2-5740
Email
bcui@unl.edu

Experience

Employment History
 

  • Professor, MME, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2024.9-
  • College of Engineering R. Vernon McBroom Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2022-present 
  • Associate Professor, MME, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2020-present
  • Assistant Professor, MME, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2014-2020
  • Research Associate, MSE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011-2014  

Education

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D., Materials, Imperial College London, 2011
  • M. Eng, Materials, Tsinghua University, 2008
  • B. Eng, Materials, Tsinghua University, 2006

Areas of Research and Professional Interest

  • Materials for extreme environments: high-entropy ceramics, high-entropy alloys, ODS alloys, ultra-high temperature ceramics, MAX phases. 
  • Advanced Manufacturing: laser shock processing, selective laser sintering, pulsed electric current sintering, additive manufacturing. 
  • Corrosion: stress corrosion cracking, high-temperature oxidation.
  • Irradiation damage: irradiation defects, irradiation-assisted stress corrosion cracking
  • Microstructural characterizations: in-situ TEM deformation, irradiation, heating, and electrical experiements

About Bai Cui

Bai leads the Materials for Extreme Environments Laboratory. His lab aims to develop advanced materials that can withstand extreme environments, such as high temperature, irradiation, and corrosive gas or liquid, in next-generation nuclear energy, petroleum, and aeronautic systems. It also develops novel advanced manufacturing processes for these materials and reveal the fundamental mechanisms in manufacturing processes. His work has appeared in top journals such as Acta Materialia and Journal of American Ceramic Society. He was recognized by the Global Star Awards from Engineering Ceramics Division, American Ceramic Society (ACerS, 2022), Faculty Research & Creative Activity Award from UNL College of Engineering (2021), and the Richard Brook Prize for Best Ph.D. in Ceramics in the UK (2012). 

Bai received his Ph.D. from Imperial College London, UK (advisor: Prof. Bill Lee), and was a Postdoc at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (advisor: Prof. Ian Robertson). 

Honors and Awards

Global Ambassador Award, American Ceramic Society, 2023. 

Global Star Award, Engineering Ceramics Division, American Ceramic Society, 2022. 

Faculty Research & Creative Activity Award, UNL College of Engineering, 2021

Journal of the American Ceramic Society’s top cited article, 2020-2021. 

International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing: outstanding contribution during 2020.

Journal of the American Ceramic Society’s top cited article, 2018-2019.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Faculty Development Grant, 2018 .

Honoree of College of Engineering Research Celebration, UNL, 2018, 2020.  

Richard Brook Prize for Best PhD in Ceramics in the UK, 2012 

Guastv Eirich Award, European Centre for Refractories, 2012

Tony Evans Prize for Best Ceramics Thesis, Imperial College London, 2012

Lee Family Scholarship, Imperial College London, 2008-2011

Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award, Tsinghua University, 2008