H.W. Kui's Home Page

• Education
• Position
• Research Fields
• Current Research Interests
• Research Grants
• Recent Representative Publications
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Education

1. BS, California Institute of Technology, 1981
2. MS, Harvard Univeristy, 1986
3. PhD, Harvard University, 1986

Position

1. 1996-now, Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics, CUHK
2. 1987-1996, Lecturer, Department of Physics , CUHK

Research Fields

1. Materials science

Current Research Interests

1. Undercooled melts
2. Bulk nanostructures
3. Amorphous materials
4. Bulk metallic glasses

Research Grants

1. Direct Grant (93/94): Stress Effect on the Nucleation Frequency of Oxide Coated Small Droplet
2. Earmarked Grant (93/94): Structural Modification of Highly Undercooled Semiconductors and Metals
3. Earmarked Grant (94/95): Specific Volumes and Glass Formation of Metallic Systems
4. Earmarked Grant (96/97): Properties of Undercooled Molten Eutectic Alloys
5. Earmarked Grant (00/01): Mechanical Behavior of Bulk Nanostructured Alloys Synthesized by Rapid Solidification
6. Earmarked Grant (01/02): Thermal Stability of Nanostructured Alloys Prepared by Metastable Liquid Spindoal Decomposition and the Search for High-temperature Nanostructures
7. Earmarked Grant (03/04): Complex Fluoride Crystals of Alkali and Rare-earth Elements for TL Dosimetry and VUV/Deep UV Up-conversion
8. Direct Grant (04/05): Crystallization Kinetics in Undercooled Liquid Mixture
9. Earmarked Grant (06/07): Mechanical Behavior of Fe(80)C(20) Nanocomposites

Recent Representative Publications

1. H.W. Kui
   "Formation of bulk nanostructured alloys", Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology vol.3, pp.485-495 (2004).
   
   
2. K.L. Ng and H.W. Kui
   "Formation of large nanostructured Pd(82)Si18 alloy rods", Philosophical Magazine B vol.82, pp.1777-1784 (2002).
   
   
3. H.W. Ngai, C.C. Leung, W.H. Guo and H.W. Kui
   "Crystallization Kinetics of Amorphous Nanostructured Pd40.5Ni40.5P19 Alloys", Journal of Materials Research vol.16 no.3, pp.797-802. USA, 2001.03.
   
   
4. C.C. Leung, W.H. Guo and H.W. Kui
   "Formation of Amorphous Nanostructured Materials by Liquid State Spinodal Decomposition", Applied Physics Letters vol.77 no.1, pp.64-66. USA, 2000.
   
   
5. W.H. Guo and H.W. Kui
   "Bulk nanostructured alloy formation with controllable grain size", Acta Materialia vol.48, pp.2117-2121, 2000.07.
   
   

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