Jie Lian Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

1. Jie LianAssistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • Primary Research Interest: • Nanostructured Materials with Extended Performance under Extreme Environments • Advanced Composite Fuels and Nuclear Waste Forms • Advanced Absorbents for Effective Waste Management • Nanostructured Materials for Energy Storage • Primary Broader Impact Activity: • Accident Tolerant Materials for Current and Future Reactor Systems • Nanostructured Materials for Nuclear Applications • Bridging Materials and Nuclear Communities under the Scope of “Advanced Materials, Nanotechnologies and Environments” • Interests in New Collaborations: • Advanced Modeling on Prediction of Materials Behaviors under Extremes of high Temperature, pressure, radiation • Design Principles for Stabilized Nanostructured Materials against Radiation and thermal-induced Densification and Grain Coarsening • Oxide-Carbon Interaction • Radiation-interaction with Nanomaterials • Structural Integrity of Nanomaterialsunder Extreme Environments • State-of-the-art Nanofabrication for Designing Advanced Nuclear Materials • Radiation Stabilized Nanostructured Materials for Nuclear Application • Meso-porous Structures and Engineered Microstructures for Nuclear Fuels • Graphene-based Nanocomposites for Accident tolerant Fuel Materials and Advanced Adsorbents for Effective Nuclear Waste Management • Assembly of Heterogeneous Nanostructures with 3D Architecture for Energy Storage and Catalytic Applications • Adsorption & Catalytic Activities and Electrochemical Performance