Zi‐Kui Liu

38.3k citations

741 papers · 29.8k · 3 hit papers · h-index 85

Impact in

Mechanical Engineering top 0.01%
- Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties
- Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties
- High Entropy Alloys Studies
- High Temperature Alloys and Creep
- Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes
General Materials Science top 0.01%

Papers in

Materials Chemistry 402
- Microstructure and mechanical properties 49
Mechanical Engineering 377
- Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties 156
- High Temperature Alloys and Creep 70
- Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties 60

Co-authors: Shun‐Li Shang (251 shared papers)Yi Wang (172 shared papers)Long‐Qing Chen (99 shared papers)Raymundo Arróyave (21 shared papers)Dongwon Shin (15 shared papers)Richard Otis (27 shared papers)Yulan Li (12 shared papers)William Yi Wang (55 shared papers)
Journals: Calphad (69 papers)Acta Materialia (67 papers)Computational Materials Science (38 papers)Journal of Alloys and Compounds (34 papers)Applied Physics Letters (27 papers)
Partner nations: United States China Germany

In The Last Decade

Zi‐Kui Liu

716 papers receiving 29.2k citations

Zi‐Kui Liu's Hit Papers

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Functionally graded material of 304L stainless steel and inconel 625 fabricated by directed energy deposition: Characterization and thermodynamic modeling 2016 · 525 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 Acta Materialia
2013 Calphad
2009 Computational Materials Science

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1	Efficient stochastic generation of special quasirandom structures Calphad ·Axel van de Walle, Pratyush Tiwary, Maarten de Jong, David L. Olmsted, Mark Asta, A. Dick, Dongwon Shin, Yi Wang, Long‐Qing Chen, Zi‐Kui Liu Hit paper breakdown →	2013	1297
2	Functionally graded material of 304L stainless steel and inconel 625 fabricated by directed energy deposition: Characterization and thermodynamic modeling Acta Materialia ·Beth Carroll, Richard Otis, John Paul Borgonia, Jong-ook Suh, R. Peter Dillon, Andrew A. Shapiro, Douglas C. Hofmann, Zi‐Kui Liu, Allison M. Beese Hit paper breakdown →	2016	525
3	Effect of substrate constraint on the stability and evolution of ferroelectric domain structures in thin films Acta Materialia ·Yulan Li, Shenyang Hu, Zi‐Kui Liu, Long‐Qing Chen	2002	493
4	Thermodynamic properties of Al, Ni, NiAl, and Ni3Al from first-principles calculations Acta Materialia ·Yi Wang, Zi‐Kui Liu, Long‐Qing Chen	2004	444
5	First-principles thermodynamics from phonon and Debye model: Application to Ni and Ni3Al Computational Materials Science ·Shun‐Li Shang, Yi Wang, DongEung Kim, Zi‐Kui Liu Hit paper breakdown →	2009	397
6	Additive manufacturing of a functionally graded material from Ti-6Al-4V to Invar: Experimental characterization and thermodynamic calculations Acta Materialia ·Lourdes D. Bobbio, Richard Otis, John Paul Borgonia, R. Peter Dillon, Andrew A. Shapiro, Zi‐Kui Liu, Allison M. Beese	2017	362
7	Ab initio lattice stability in comparison with CALPHAD lattice stability Calphad ·Yi Wang, Stefano Curtarolo, Chao Jiang, Raymundo Arróyave, T. Wang, Gerbrand Ceder, Long‐Qing Chen, Zi‐Kui Liu	2004	352
8	Optical band gap of BiFeO3 grown by molecular-beam epitaxy Applied Physics Letters ·Jon F. Ihlefeld, Nikolas J. Podraza, Zi‐Kui Liu, Ram Rai, Xiaoshan Xu, T. Heeg, Y. B. Chen, J. Li, R. W. Collins, J. L. Musfeldt, Xiaoqing Pan, J. Schubert, R. Ramesh, Darrell G. Schlom	2008	345
9	First-Principles Calculations and CALPHAD Modeling of Thermodynamics Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion ·Zi‐Kui Liu	2009	314
10	First-principles calculations of pure elements: Equations of state and elastic stiffness constants Computational Materials Science ·Shun‐Li Shang, Arkapol Saengdeejing, Zhi-Gang Mei, D.E. Kim, H. Zhang, S. Ganeshan, Yi Wang, Zi‐Kui Liu	2010	288
11	Phase-field model of domain structures in ferroelectric thin films Applied Physics Letters ·Yulan Li, Shenyang Hu, Zi‐Kui Liu, Long‐Qing Chen	2001	286
12	First-principles study of binary bcc alloys using special quasirandom structures Physical Review B ·Chao Jiang, Chris Wolverton, Jorge O. Sofo, Long‐Qing Chen, Zi‐Kui Liu	2004	281
13	Atomate: A high-level interface to generate, execute, and analyze computational materials science workflows Computational Materials Science ·Kiran Mathew, Joseph H. Montoya, Alireza Faghaninia, Shyam Dwarakanath, Muratahan Aykol, Hanmei Tang, Iek‐Heng Chu, Tess Smidt, Brandon Bocklund, Matthew K. Horton, John Dagdelen, Brandon M. Wood, Zi‐Kui Liu, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Shyue Ping Ong, Kristin A. Persson, Anubhav Jain	2017	277
14	Developing Gradient Metal Alloys through Radial Deposition Additive Manufacturing Scientific Reports ·Douglas C. Hofmann, Scott Roberts, Richard Otis, Joanna A. Kolodziejska, R. Peter Dillon, Jong-ook Suh, Andrew A. Shapiro, Zi‐Kui Liu, John Paul Borgonia	2014	272
15	Effect of electrical boundary conditions on ferroelectric domain structures in thin films Applied Physics Letters ·Yulan Li, Shenyang Hu, Zi‐Kui Liu, Long‐Qing Chen	2002	240
16	First-Principles Calculation of Self-Diffusion Coefficients Physical Review Letters ·Manjeera Mantina, Yi Wang, Raymundo Arróyave, Long‐Qing Chen, Zi‐Kui Liu, Chris Wolverton	2008	238
17	First-principles elastic constants of α- and θ-Al2O3 Applied Physics Letters ·Shun‐Li Shang, Yi Wang, Zi‐Kui Liu	2007	236
18	Elastic constants of binary Mg compounds from first-principles calculations Intermetallics ·S. Ganeshan, Shun‐Li Shang, H. Zhang, Yi Wang, Manjeera Mantina, Zi‐Kui Liu	2008	233
19	First principles impurity diffusion coefficients Acta Materialia ·Manjeera Mantina, Yi Wang, Long‐Qing Chen, Zi‐Kui Liu, Chris Wolverton	2009	227
20	A mixed-space approach to first-principles calculations of phonon frequencies for polar materials Journal of Physics Condensed Matter ·Yi Wang, J J Wang, William Yi Wang, Zhi-Gang Mei, Shun‐Li Shang, Long‐Qing Chen, Zi‐Kui Liu	2010	220

About Zi‐Kui Liu

Zi‐Kui Liu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, Aerospace Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, having authored 741 papers that have together received 29.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties (156 papers), Metallurgical and Alloy Processes (75 papers), High Temperature Alloys and Creep (70 papers), Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (67 papers), Magnesium Alloys: Properties and Applications (61 papers), Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties (60 papers), Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (51 papers) and Microstructure and mechanical properties (49 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Mechanical Engineering (15.4k citations), General Materials Science (1.3k citations), Materials Chemistry (17.0k citations), Ceramics and Composites (1.3k citations) and Condensed Matter Physics (2.6k citations). Zi‐Kui Liu has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Shun‐Li Shang, Yi Wang, Long‐Qing Chen, Raymundo Arróyave, Dongwon Shin, Richard Otis, Yulan Li, William Yi Wang, Shenyang Hu and Yong Du. Their work appears in journals such as Calphad, Acta Materialia, Computational Materials Science, Journal of Alloys and Compounds and Applied Physics Letters.

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