Innovative findings on high entropy alloys for both functional and structural applications by the HKIAS Materials Science Cluster and researchers at CityU were featured on various leading scientific journals, including Science, Advanced Materials, Nature Communications, Acta Materialia, Materials Today, and Materials Research Letters.

A research team comprising experts from City University of Hong Kong, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology and Zhejiang University discovered for the first time the deformation transitions of multiscale nanotwins (NTs) in austenitic stainless steel, which will help develop materials with higher strength and ductility. HKIAS Senior Fellow Professor Jian Lu and his team has discovered the marginal scale of nanotwin deformation transition mechanisms of austenitic stainless steel combining in situ tensile tests with theoretical modeling and atomistic simulations.

由香港城市大學、上海理工大學、浙江大學的專家組成的研究團隊探索納米孿晶的變形行為，首次揭示奧氏體不鏽鋼中多尺度納米孿晶的變形轉變，有助研發更高強度和延展性的材料。香港高等研究院資深院士呂堅教授及其團隊，透過原位拉伸試驗，配合理論模型及分子動力學模擬，發現奧氏體不鏽鋼的納米孿晶變形轉變機制的臨界尺度。

“Origami and 4D Printing of Ceramic Structures”, invented by HKIAS Senior Fellow Professor Jian Lu and his research team, won a Silver Medal at the 47th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, held in Switzerland.

由香港高等研究院資深院士呂堅教授及其研究團隊發明的「摺紙陶瓷和4D打印陶瓷」，於瑞士舉行的第47屆日內瓦國際發明展榮獲銀獎。

據新華社報道，8月17日發表在新一期美國《科學進展》雜誌上的研究顯示，中國香港城市大學高等研究院資深院士呂堅教授研究組首次實現陶瓷4D列印。這種新技術有望應用於太空探索、電子產品和航空發動機製造等領域。

A research team at City University of Hong Kong has achieved a ground-breaking advancement in materials research by successfully developing the world's first-ever 4D printing for ceramics, which are mechanically robust and can have complex shapes. This could turn a new page in the structural application of ceramics. The team was led by IAS Senior Fellow Professor Jian Lu who is a distinguished materials scientist with research interests ranging from fabricating nanomaterials and advanced structural materials to the computational simulation of surface engineering.

The 12th Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award was awarded on 30 May to IAS Senior Fellow Professor Lu Jian, a materials scientist focusing on structural metallic materials at City University of Hong Kong (CityU). The Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology (EST) Prizes, composed of "Guanghua EST Achievement Award" and "Guanghua EST Award", are regarded as “the most prestigious award for engineering and technology achievement in China”. “I am very honoured to receive this top award in the engineering and technology sector in China,” said Professor Lu, who is also Vice-President (Research and Technology) and Dean of Graduate Studies at CityU.

香港城市大學（城大）副校長（研究及科技）兼研究生院院長、城大高等研究院資深院士、金屬結構材料科學家呂堅教授，於5月30日榮獲中國工程院頒發第十二屆光華工程科技獎。光華工程科技獎被視為中國工程科技領域的最高獎項，設有「光華工程科技成就獎」和「光華工程科技獎」兩個獎項。呂教授說︰「能夠獲頒這個國內工程科技界的頂級獎項，我深感榮幸。」

Really, really small, but very, very strong: this sums up the very specific advanced material that scientists led by IAS Senior Fellow Professor Jian Lu at CityU have created.

5月4日出版的《自然》紙質版雜誌的封面主題是“POWERFUL ALLOY”（“超強合金”），這是一項由香港城市大學副校長、香港城市大學深圳研究院院長、先進結構材料研究中心主任呂堅率領的科研團隊取得的科研成果。這也是近年來，中國研究單位在物理、材料科學等領域的成果首次被選為這本權威科學期刊的封面故事。

2017年5月4日，國際頂尖的科學學術期刊《自然》發表了一篇題為“雙相納米結構鑄就最強鎂合金”的封面文章，這是中國結構材料界本世紀首次在《自然》雜誌上發表封面文章，引發業界廣泛關注。新材料線上®第一時間對論文通訊作者，法國國家技術科學院院士、香港城市大學副校長呂堅進行了獨家專訪。

The cover of Nature (4 May 2017, Volume 545, Number 7652) shows the microstructure of an exceptionally strong thin-film magnesium alloy captured using transmission electron microscopy. Produced by dual-phase nanostructuring, this alloy has a strength that approaches the ideal theoretical limit. Nanostructuring of crystalline metal alloys can yield high-strength materials, but these tend to soften as the strain is increased. In this latest work, IAS Senior Fellow Professor Jian Lu and his team combine the benefits of nanocrystallinity with those of single-phase amorphous metallic glasses to yield a dual-phase material --- MgCu₂ nanocrystalline grains (6 nm) enclosed in an amorphous glassy shell (2 nm) --- that resulted in the strongest thin-film magnesium alloy to be made so far. Cover image: Susanna Siu & Ge Wu/City University of Hong Kong.

香港城市大學（城大）團隊最近在材料研究取得重大突破，成功研製全球首創的超納鎂合金材料。這類尖端新型材料的強度較現有超強鎂合金晶體材料高出十倍，變形能力較鎂基金屬玻璃高兩倍，並可發展成生物降解植入材料。

A research team at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has achieved a ground-breaking advancement in materials research by successfully developing the first-ever supra-nano magnesium alloy.

The French government has bestowed the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur on Professor Jian Lu, Vice-President (Research and Technology) (VPRT) and Dean of Graduate Studies at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) since November 2013.
The Légion d’Honneur is the highest national order led by the President of France who services as grand master of the order.

香港城市大學（城大）副校長（研究及科技）兼研究生院院長呂堅教授榮獲法國政府授予國家榮譽軍團勳章（騎士勳位）。國家榮譽軍團勳章是法國總統頒授的最高級別國家勳章。