T. G. Nieh is currently a Visiting Fellow at Institute for Advanced Study, City University of Hong Kong. He previously worked at Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. (now Lockheed-Martin Corporation), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and then joined Department of Materials Science and Engineering in University of Tennessee in 2004.

Professor Nieh is a world leader in superplasticity and superplastic forming. He is also widely recognized for his work in several material science disciplines, including complex alloys (for example, high entropy alloys and metallic glasses), nanocrystalline materials, lightweight alloys, metal-matrix composites, intermetallics, refractory metals and nanolaminates. He published over 400 papers in archival journals and a textbook on “Superplasticity of metals and ceramics” published by Cambridge University Press. According to Web of Science, his citation number is 17,000 and H-index of 66. He is now serving as Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Intermetallics, and has served as an editor of Materials Letters from 2008 to 2013.

Research Interests

• Metallic glasses (amorphous alloys)
  
• High entropy alloys
  
• Nanostructured materials
  
• High-temperature behavior – processing and properties
  

Professional Service

• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Intermetallics
  
• Board Member, International Advisory Board on Superplasticity
  
• Consulting Professor, University of Science and Technology-Beijing, China
  
• Visiting Chair Professor of National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
  

Awards and Recognitions

• Fellow of TMS (The Materials, Minerals, and Metallurgical Society) - 2004
  
• Fellow of ASM International (American Society of Materials) - 1992
  

Representative Publications

1. Y. Ma, Q. Wang, B.B. Jiang, C.L. Li, J.M. Hao, X.N. Li, C. Dong, and T.G. Nieh, ‘Controlled formation of coherent cuboidal nanoprecipitates in body-centered cubic high-entropy alloys based on Al₂ (Ni,Co,Fe,Cr)₁₄ compositions’, Acta Materialia 147 (2018) 213-225.
   
2. Y.Y. Zhao, H.W. Chen, Z.P. Lu, and T.G. Nieh, ‘Thermal stability and coarsening of coherent particles in a precipitation-hardened (NiCoFeCr)₉₄Ti₂Al₄ high-entropy alloy’, Acta Materialia 147 (2018) 184-194.
   
3. Y.X. Ye, C.Z. Liu, H. Wang, and T.G. Nieh, ‘Friction and wear behavior of a single-phase equiatomic TiZrHfNb high-entropy alloy studied using a nanoscratch technique’, Acta Materialia 147 (2018) 78-89.
4. J.Y. He, H. Wang, H.L. Huang, X.D. Xu, M.W. Chen, Y. Wu, X.J. Liu, T.G. Nieh, K. An, and Z.P. Lu, ‘A precipitation-hardened high-entropy alloy with outstanding tensile properties’, Acta Materialia 102 (2016) 187-196.
5. S.X. Song, H. Bei, J. Wadsworth, and T.G. Nieh, ‘Flow serration in a Zr-based bulk metallic glass in compression at low strain rates’, Intermetallics 16 (2008) 813–818.
6. A.C. Lund, T.G. Nieh, and C.A. Schuh, ‘Tension/compression strength asymmetry in a simulated nanocrystalline metal’, Phys. Rev. B 69 (2004) 012121-1-4.
7. C. A. Schuh and T. G. Nieh, ‘A nanoindentation study of serrated flow in bulk metallic glasses’, Acta Materialia 51 (2003) 87-99.
8. T.G. Nieh, J. Wadsworth, and F. Wakai, ‘Recent advances in superplastic ceramics and ceramic composites’, Inter. Mater. Rev., 36 (1991) 146-161.
9. T.G. Nieh and J. Wadsworth, ‘Hall–Petch relation in nanocrystalline solids’, Scripta Metall. Mater. 25 (1991) 955-958.
10. T.G. Nieh, C.A. Henshall, and J. Wadsworth, ‘Superplasticity at high strain rate in SiC–2124 Al composite,’ Scripta Metall., 18 (1984) 1405-1408.