A. Zahiri, E. Vitral, J. Ombogo, M. Lotfpour, and L. Cao*, "The role of mechanical loading in bcc-hcp phase transition: tension-compression asymmetry and twin formation”, Acta Materialia, 241, 118337 (2022).[PDF]
A. Zahiri, L. Carneiro, J. Ombogo, and L. Cao*, "On the formation of {11-22} boundary via {10-12}-{01-12} twin–twin interaction in magnesium," Computational Materials Science, 201 (2022) 110887. [PDF]
A. Zahiri, J. Ombogo, and L. Cao*, "Formation of {11-22} contraction twins in titanium through reversible martensitic phase transformation," Scripta Materialia, 195, 113694 (2021).[PDF]
A. Zahiri, J. Ombogo, T. Ma, P. Chakraborty, and L. Cao*, "Transformation-induced plasticity in omega titanium," Journal of Applied Physics, 129, 015105 (2021).[PDF]
A. Zahiri, M. Lotfpour, J. Ombogo, E. Vitral, and L. Cao*, "The anisotropy of deformation twinning in bcc materials: Mechanical loading, temperature effect, and twin–twin interaction”, Acta Materialia, 266, 119681 (2024).[PDF]
(Invited Review Paper) A. Zahiri, J. Ombogo, M. Lotfpour, and L. Cao*, "Twinning in Hexagonal Close-Packed Materials: The Role of Phase Transformation”, Metals, 13, 525 (2023).[PDF]
A. Zahiri, E. Vitral, J. Ombogo, M. Lotfpour, and L. Cao*, "The role of mechanical loading in bcc-hcp phase transition: tension-compression asymmetry and twin formation”, Acta Materialia, 241, 118337 (2022).[PDF]
T. Ma, H. J. Kim, N. Mathew, D. J. Luscher, L. Cao, and A. Hunter, "Dislocation transmission across Σ3{112} incoherent twin boundary: a combined atomistic and phase-field study”, Acta Materialia, 223, 117447 (2022).[PDF]
A. Zahiri, L. Carneiro, J. Ombogo, and L. Cao*, "On the formation of {11-22} boundary via {10-12}-{01-12} twin–twin interaction in magnesium," Computational Materials Science, 201 (2022) 110887.[PDF]
P. Chakraborty, T. Ma, Y. Cui*, A. Hunter*, and L. Cao*, "Elastic-interaction-induced anisotropic growth of dislocation loop arrays," Journal of Materials Research, 36 (17), 3426-3435 (2021).
A. Zahiri, J. Ombogo, and L. Cao*, "Formation of {11-22} contraction twins in titanium through reversible martensitic phase transformation," Scripta Materialia, 195, 113694 (2021).[PDF]
A. Zahiri, J. Ombogo, T. Ma, P. Chakraborty, and L. Cao*, "Transformation-induced plasticity in omega titanium," Journal of Applied Physics, 129, 015105 (2021).[PDF]
J. Ombogo, A. Zahiri, T. Ma, and L. Cao*, "Nucleation of {1012} Twins in Magnesium through Reversible Martensitic Phase Transformation," Metals 10 (8), 1030 (2020).[PDF]
P. Chakraborty, Y. Liu, T. Ma, X. Guo, L. Cao, R. Hu*, and Y. Wang*, "Quenching Thermal Transport in Aperiodic Superlattices: A Molecular Dynamics and Machine Learning Study,” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2020) 12 (7), 8795-8804.
T. Ma, P. Chakraborty, X. Guo, L. Cao, and Y. Wang*, "First-principles Modeling of Thermal Transport in Materials: Achievements, Opportunities, and Challenges,” International Journal of Thermophysics (2020) 41: 9.
A. Zahiri, P. Chakraborty, Y. Wang, and L. Cao*, "Strong strain hardening in ultrafast melt-quenched nanocrystalline Cu: the role of fivefold twins," Journal of Applied Physics, 126, 075103 (2019).
P. Chakraborty, T. Ma, L. Cao, and Y. Wang*, "Significantly enhanced convective heat transfer through surface modification in nanochannels," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 136 (2019), 702-708.
P. Chakraborty, G. P. Xiong, L. Cao*, and Y. Wang*, "Lattice thermal transport in superhard hexagonal diamond and wurtzite boron nitride: A comparative study with cubic diamond and cubic boron nitride," Carbon vol. 139, pp. 85-93, (2018).
(Invited Review Paper) P. Chakraborty, T. Ma, A. Zahiri, L. Cao, and Y. Wang*, "Carbon-Based Materials for Thermoelectrics," Advances in Condensed Matter Physics, vol. 2018, Article ID 3898479, 29 pages, 2018.
Lei Cao, Arkaprabha Sengupta, Daniel Pantuso, and Marisol Koslowski*, "Effect of texture and grain size on the residual stress of nanocrystalline thin films," Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering 25, no. 7 (2017): 075004.
Pranay Chakraborty, Lei Cao, and Yan Wang*, "Ultralow lattice thermal conductivity of the random multilayer structure with lattice imperfection," Scientific Reports 7 (1), 8134 (2017)
Lei Cao and Marisol Koslowski*, "Rate-limited plastic deformation in nanocrystalline Ni," Journal of Applied Physics 117, 244301 (2015).
Zhiyang Lin, Lei Cao, Marisol Koslowski*, "2D cluster analysis (2015).
Lei Cao, Abigail Hunter, Irene J Beyerlein, and Marisol Koslowski*, "The role of partial mediated slip during quasi-static deformation of 3D nanocrystalline metals," Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 78, 415-426 (2015)
Martin Hunt, Lei Cao, Alejandro Strachan, and Marisol Koslowski, "NanoPlasticity Lab" (2015).
Sowmya Ramarapu, Soumava Bera, Lei Cao, Marisol Koslowski, Lei Lei, Efosa Ogiesoba, Andrew Robison, Ruixuan Ren, Nikolaus Utomo, and Yuesong Xie, "Micro-Mechanics Simulation Tool: Thin film," (2014).
Marisol Koslowski, Alejandro Strachan, Martin Hunt, and Lei Cao, "Cloud computing in nanoHUB powering education and research," (2014).
Lei Cao and Marisol Koslowski*, "Effect of microstructural uncertainty on the yield stress of nanocrystalline nickel," Acta Materialia 61 (4), 1413-1420 (2013).
Lei Cao and Marisol Koslowski*, "Uncertainty Quantification Of Yield Stress Predictions In Nanocrystalline Nickel," AIP Conference Proceedings (2012).
Lei Cao*, Amir Zahiri, and Jamie Ombogo, “Martensitic Transformation-mediated Twin Nucleation in Hexagonal Close Packed Metals”, TMS 2022, Anaheim, CA, March 2022.
Amir Zahiri*, Jamie Ombogo, and Lei Cao, “Formation of {11-22} Contraction Twins in Titanium through Reversible Martensitic Phase Transformation”, TMS 2022, Anaheim, CA, March 2022.
Amir Zahiri*, Jamie Ombogo, and Lei Cao, “Transformation-induced Plasticity in Omega Titanium”, TMS 2022, Anaheim, CA, March 2022.
Lei Cao*, “Multiscale Modeling of Deformation and Failure Processes”, University of Colorado Colorado Springs seminar series, December 2021.
Amir Zahiri*, Jamie Ombogo, and Lei Cao, “Formation of {11-22} Contraction Twins in Titanium through Reversible Martensitic Phase Transformation”, MS&T 2021.
Amir Zahiri*, Jamie Ombogo, and Lei Cao, “Transformation-induced Plasticity in Omega Titanium”, MS&T 2021.
Amir Zahiri*, Pranay Chakraborty, and Lei Cao, “Strong strain hardening in ultrafast melt-quenched nanocrystalline Cu: the role of fivefold twins”, TMS 2020, San Diego, CA, February 2020.
Pranay Chakraborty*, Tenfei Ma, and Lei Cao, “Dislocation Interactions and the Formation of Low-angle Grain Boundary”, TMS 2020, San Diego, CA, February 2020.
Tenfei Ma*, Nithin Mathew, Lei Cao, and Abigail Hunter, “Screw Dislocation Transmission Across the Σ3{112} Twin Boundary in Face Centered Cubic Copper”, TMS 2020, San Diego, CA, February 2020.
Tengfei Ma and Lei Cao*, “Implementing grain boundaries in phase-field dislocation dynamics,” Materials Science & Technology (MS&T) 2019, Portland, OR, September 2019.
Xixi Guo, Pranay Chakraborty, and Lei Cao* “Phase-field modeling of fracture and amorphization”, TMS 2019, San Antonio, TX, March 2019.
Lei Cao*, “Phase-field modeling of dislocations and amorphization”, SIAM conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, Portland, OR, July 2018.
Lei Cao*, Arkaprabha Sengupta, Daniel Pantuso, and Marisol Koslowski, Heterogeneous Residual Stress in Nanocrystalline Cu, 2017 MRS Spring Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, Apr. 2017.
Lei Cao* and Marisol Koslowski, Adding grain boundaries, stacking faults and cross-slip to phase-field dislocation dynamics, Dislocation 2016, West Lafayette, IN, Sept. 2016.
Lei Cao* and Marisol Koslowski, Rate-limited plastic deformation in nanocrystalline Ni, 1st Midwest Workshop on Mechanics of Materials and Structures, UIUC, Aug. 2015.
Lei Cao* and Marisol Koslowski, Strain rate sensitivity analysis in phase-field dislocation dynamics, The 51st Society of Engineering Science (SES) Technical Meeting, West Lafayette, IN, Oct. 2014.
Lei Cao* and Marisol Koslowski, The effect of the stacking fault energy on deformation processes in nanocrystals, 2014 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2014.
Lei Cao*, Hojin Kim, Alejandro Strachan, and Marisol Koslowski, Phase-field dislocation dynamics and connection to molecular dynamics, 2013 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, San Antonio, TX, Mar. 2013.
M. Tang*, Lei Cao, and R. Cook, Dislocation microstructure analysis of multi-junctions in large scale dislocation dynamics simulations of BCC metals, 2013 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, San Antonio, TX, Mar. 2013.
Lei Cao*, Marisol Koslowski, Hojin Kim, and Alejandro Strachan, Effect of microstructural uncertainty on the mechanical response of nanocrystalline materials, 2012 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Boston, MA, Nov. 2012.
(INVITED) Lei Cao* and Marisol Koslowski, Uncertainty quantification of yield stress predictions in nanocrystalline nickel, 2012 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Orlando, FL, Mar. 2012.
Lei Cao* and Marisol Koslowski, Quantification of uncertainty of the yield stress of nanocrystalline nickel, NNSA PRISM EAB Meeting & Mid-year Review, Purdue, Feb. 2012.