Jan Schroers

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Jan Schroers
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)Physicist
Known For: Metallic Glasses, Nanofabrication, Combinatorial Materials Science
AwardsLee Hsun Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cologne
RWTH Aachen University
Academic work
InstitutionsYale University, California Institute of Technology, RWTH Aachen University

Jan Schroers (born 19 July 1967) is a German physicist who is the Robert Higgin Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Yale University. His research focuses on materials science and materials discovery.[1]

Early life and education[edit]

Schroers was born on 19 July 1967 in Cologne, Germany. He earned his BS and MS at University of Cologne, Germany, in Physics in 1994 before attending RWTH Aachen University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1997. Schroers conducted his postdoctoral fellowship at California Institute of Technology in Materials Science from 1998 to 2002.[1]

Career[edit]

Schroers joined the faculty of Materials Science and Engineering at Yale University in 2006 as an Associate Professor. In 2012 he was promoted to full professor with tenure. His focus has been on metallic glasses, specifically he discovered and explained ductile metallic glasses,[2] and developed bulk glasses based on gold,[3] and high temperature metallic glasses.[4]

Schroers has also developed nanofabrication methods enabling nanomolding of metallic glasses[5] and recently novel methods that are ubiquitously applicable to all metals and many other materials.[6][7] His focus on processing of advanced materials includes blow-molding of metallic glasses which allows to shape metallic glasses like plastics.[8]

In 2023, Schoers was named Robert Higgin Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at School of Engineering & Applied Science, Yale University.[9]

Schroers has also been involved in commercial enterprises including Liquidmetal Technologies,[10] Supercool Metals[11] and Desktop Metal.[12]


Awards and honors[edit]

  • 2017 – Lee Hsun Award, Chinese Academy of Science[13]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Jan Schroers – Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science | Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science". seas.yale.edu.
  2. ^ Schroers, J.; Johnson, W. L. (2004). "Ductile bulk metallic glass". Physical Review Letters. 93 (25): 255506. Bibcode:2004PhRvL..93y5506S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.255506. PMID 15697909.
  3. ^ Schroers, Jan; Lohwongwatana, Boonrat; Johnson, William L.; Peker, Atakan (2005). "Gold based bulk metallic glass". Applied Physics Letters. 87 (6): 061912. Bibcode:2005ApPhL..87f1912S. doi:10.1063/1.2008374.
  4. ^ Li, Ming-Xing; Zhao, Shao-Fan; Lu, Zhen; Hirata, Akihiko; Wen, Ping; Bai, Hai-Yang; Chen, MingWei; Schroers, Jan; Liu, YanHui; Wang, Wei-Hua (17 May 2019). "High-temperature bulk metallic glasses developed by combinatorial methods". Nature. 569 (7754): 99–103. Bibcode:2019Natur.569...99L. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1145-z. PMID 31043727. S2CID 141503042 – via www.nature.com.
  5. ^ Kumar, Golden; Tang, Hong X.; Schroers, Jan (17 February 2009). "Nanomoulding with amorphous metals". Nature. 457 (7231): 868–872. Bibcode:2009Natur.457..868K. doi:10.1038/nature07718. PMID 19212407. S2CID 4337794 – via www.nature.com.
  6. ^ Liu, Z.; Han, G.; Sohn, S.; Liu, N.; Schroers, J. (2019). "Nanomolding of Crystalline Metals: The Smaller the Easier". Physical Review Letters. 122 (3): 036101. Bibcode:2019PhRvL.122c6101L. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.036101. PMID 30735412.
  7. ^ Liu, Naijia; Xie, Yujun; Liu, Guannan; Sohn, Sungwoo; Raj, Arindam; Han, Guoxing; Wu, Bozhao; Cha, Judy J.; Liu, Ze; Schroers, Jan (2020). "General Nanomolding of Ordered Phases". Physical Review Letters. 124 (3): 036102. Bibcode:2020PhRvL.124c6102L. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.036102. PMID 32031828. S2CID 211064432.
  8. ^ "Bulk metallic glasses: A tough new material for manufacturing" – via www.youtube.com.
  9. ^ "Jan Schroers named Robert Higgin Professor at SEAS". YaleNews. 9 June 2023. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  10. ^ "Schroers". IEEE Xplore. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  11. ^ Shelton, Jim (4 September 2014). "Yale professor makes the case for Supercool Metals". YaleNews. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  12. ^ "At last, a simple 3D printer for metal". Elsevier. 4 September 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  13. ^ "Jan Schroers Honored By Chinese Academy of Sciences". Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science.
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