Miaofang Chi

Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Chi's research interest is on designing better materials by advancing our knowledge of the behavior of atoms, electrons, and ions in materials using novel electron microscopy, for applications in energy, sustainability, and microelectronics.

Appointments and Affiliations

  • Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Contact Information

Education

  • Ph.D. University of California, Davis, 2008

Courses Taught

  • ME 758S: Curricular Practical Training
  • ME 555: Advanced Topics in Mechanical Engineering

Representative Publications

  • Ni, Haoyang, Fehmi S. Yasin, Andrew F. May, Miaofang Chi, and Jian-Min Zuo. “Magnetic Phase Diagram of 2D Magnet Fe5-xGeTe2 Revealed by Cryogenic Lorentz 4D-STEM.” Nano Letters 25, no. 39 (October 2025): 14256–63. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c02690.
  • Smith, Jacob, Hwangsun Kim, Ke An, Yan Chen, Ondrej Dyck, Kate Reidy, and Miaofang Chi. “Unraveling Materials Synthesis Mechanisms Using In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy and Neutron Scattering.” Chemical Reviews 125, no. 18 (September 2025): 8731–63. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.5c00063.
  • Ghanbari, Reza, Harikrishnan Kp, Kinnary Patel, Hua Zhou, Tao Zhou, Rui Liu, Liyan Wu, et al. “Strain-induced lead-free morphotropic phase boundary.” Nature Communications 16, no. 1 (August 2025): 7766. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63041-w.
  • Yang, W., H. Zhou, X. Yu, Z. Huang, M. Chi, Z. Wu, and Y. Li. “Atom Efficiency of Pd Sites for Methane Combustion: Single Atom Catalysts Versus Nanocatalysts.” ACS Es and T Engineering 5, no. 7 (July 11, 2025): 1706–14. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.5c00042.
  • Zhang, Zhiyuan, Christopher Kondratowicz, Jacob Smith, Pavel Kucheryavy, Junjie Ouyang, Yijie Xu, Elizabeth Desmet, et al. “Plasma-Assisted Surface Nitridation of Proton Intercalatable WO3 for Efficient Electrocatalytic Ammonia Synthesis.” ACS Energy Letters 10, no. 7 (July 2025): 3349–58. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c01034.