Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Room E1-486 EITC
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry campus)
Winnipeg, MB R3T 5V6
The University of Manitoba campuses are located on original lands of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Ojibwe-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and on the homeland of the Red River Métis. More
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, R3T 2N2
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Room E1-486 EITC
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry campus)
Winnipeg, MB R3T 5V6
Metal metallurgy; Nanostructures; Structure defects; Metallic glasses; High entropy alloys.
Materials Modeling and Simulation.
I use multiscale simulation tools to investigate the processing-structure-property relationship in metallic materials.
Dr. Deng is currently seeking graduate students. Please contact him for more information..
The complete publication list can be found at:
Some representative publications in recent years include:
Z. Fang, J. Xiao, S. Tan, C. Deng* , G. Wang*, S. X. Mao*. Atomistic processes of grain boundary phase
transformation during in-situ shear-mediated migration. Science Advances, abn3785, 2022
X. Song and C. Deng*. Atomic energy in grain boundaries studied by machine learning. Physical Review
Materials. 6: 043601, 2022
J. Xiao and C. Deng*, Mitigating the Hall-Petch breakdown in nanotwinned Cu by amorphous intergranular
films, Scripta Materialia, 194, 113682, 2021
J. Xiao and C. Deng*, Ultimate strength of nanotwinned face-centered cubic metals, Physical Review
Letters, 125, 266101, 2020
Q. Zhu, G. Cao, J. Wang*, C. Deng*, J. Li, Z. Zhang, S.X. Mao*, In situ atomistic observation of
disconnection-mediated grain boundary migration, Nature Communication, 10, 156, 2019
T. Yu, S. Yang*, C. Deng*, Survey of grain boundary migration and thermal behavior in Ni at low
homologous temperatures, Acta Materialia 177, 151-159, 2019
M. Aramfard and C. Deng*, Mechanically enhanced grain boundary structural phase transformation in
Cu, Acta Materialia, 146, 304-313, 2018
R. Rezaei and C. Deng*, Pseudo-elasticity and shape memory effects in cylindrical FCC metal nanowires,
Acta Materialia, 132, 49-56, 2017
Y. Deng and C. Deng*, Size and rate dependent grain boundary motion mediated by disconnection
nucleation, Acta Materialia, 131, 400-409, 2, 2017