General

Wenhou Wei, Ph.D., Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

E-mail: weiwenhou@cigit.ac.cn


CV

Dr. Wenhou Wei is currently an Associate Professor in Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Wei obtained his Ph.D. degree from Chongqing University (finished thesis at Australian National University) in 2014. Dr. Wei’s research interests focus on advanced metal-matrix composites and additive manufacturing. He has published over 40 academic papers in prestigious scientific journals such as Scripta Materialia, Virtual and Physical Prototyping, and Materials Science and Engineering A, with above 900 SCI citations and 15 H-index. He also gave 5 talks at international conferences. He hosted many foundations in the past 5 years including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing, the West Light Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Support Program for Chongqing Overseas Returned Scholars.

Research Interests
   Dr. Wei proposed a novel laser additive manufacturing method to manufacture the agglomeration-free nanoscale reinforcements reinforced titanium-matrix composites by in-situ compounding the reinforcement via gas–liquid reaction, more importantly, a good combination of high strength and relatively good ductility were achieved in the composites. This new method is promising not only for applying on additive manufacturing of functionally graded material parts with continuously varying microstructures and properties by gradually controlling concentration change of gaseous source, but also could be extended to in-situ additive manufacturing of high-performance parts for a very wide range of metal matrix nanocomposites and accelerate the developments and applications of additive manufacturing of composites.


Selected Publications

(1) Jiyuan Zhang, YongYang , Qiuju Zheng, Shiwei Wu, Wenhou Wei*, Shoufeng Yang  Effect of nitrogen concentration on microstructure and mechanical properties of AlSi10Mg matrix composites fabricated by laser powder bed fusion, Virtual and Physical Prototyping, 21 (2026) e2609346. （SCI）

(2) Qiuju Zheng*, Jing Wu, Ruxin Cao, Tian Chen, Wenhou Wei*, Shoufeng Yang, Recent advances in grain refinement of aluminum alloys: Nucleant particles and solute effects, Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 39 (2025) 5720–5750.

(3) Yong Yang, Jiyuan Zhang, Wenhou Wei*, Microstructure and mechanical properties of TiC/Ti6Al4V nanocomposites fabricated by gas–liquid reaction laser powder bed fusion, Materials Science and Engineering A, 2023, 869: 144829.

(4) Wenhou Wei, Qi Zhang, Wenjie Wu, Hongzhong Cao, Jun Shen, Shuqian Fan*, Xuanming Duan*, Agglomeration-free nanoscale TiC reinforced titanium matrix composites achieved by in-situ laser additive manufacturing, Scripta Materialia, 2020, 187: 310–316.

(5) Wenhou Wei, Wenjie Wu, Shuqian Fan*,Xuanming Duan*, In-situ laser additive manufacturing of Ti6Al4V matrix composites by gas–liquid reaction in dilute nitrogen gas atmospheres, Materials & Design，2021, 202: 109578.

(6) Wenhou Wei, Lei Zhu, Wenjie Wu, Shuqian Fan*, TiC/Ti6Al4V functionally graded composite fabricated by in-situ laser additive manufacturing via gas–liquid reaction, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2022, 900: 163406.

(7) Wen-Hou Wei*, Structural, thermal and optical properties and transition threshold in Ge-Sb-Se glassy system, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 2020, 536: 119991.

(8) Lin-Zhi Wang, Wen-Hou Wei*, Selective Laser Melting of 30CrMnSiA Steel: Laser Energy Density Dependence of Microstructural and Mechanical Properties, Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters), 2018, 31(8): 807–814.

(9) Wen-Hou Wei, Lin-Zhi Wang*, Tian Chen, Xuan-Ming Duan, Wei Li, Study on the flow properties of Ti-6Al-4V powders prepared by radio-frequency plasma spheroidization, Advanced Powder Technology, 2017, 28(9): 2431–2437.

(10) Wen-Hou Wei, Rong-Ping Wang*, Xiang Shen, Liang Fang, Barry Luther-Davies, Correlation between structural and physical properties in Ge-Sb-Se Glasses, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2013, 117: 16571–16576.