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Tao Sun

Adjunct Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
Contact
Office
(434) 243-6338
Location
Wilsdorf Hall, Room 218 395 McCormick Road
Northwestern University, Mechanical Engineering Google Scholar

About

Supervised by Prof. Vinayak Dravid and Dr. Jin Wang, my doctoral research at Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory was focused on fabrication and characterization of nanostructured oxides. In 2010, I started my postdoc research at the X-ray Science Division (XSD) at Argonne, working on coherent electron scattering (with Dr. Murray Gibson) and coherent x-ray scattering (with Dr. Jin Wang) techniques. In 2012, I joined the Imaging Group of XSD as a staff scientist, developing and applying high-speed x-ray imaging/diffraction techniques for studying highly dynamic irreversible/non-repeatable material processes. In 2019, I started my academic career as an associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of UVA.


 

Education

B.S. Materials Science & Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2002

M.S. Materials Science & Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2004

Ph.D. Materials Science & Engineering, Northwestern University, 2009

"If you look 'fast' enough, you will find many fascinating phenomena in 3D printing."

Research Interests

Additive manufacturing processes and materials
Synchrotron x-ray imaging and scattering
Materials characterization
Highly dynamic processes in hard and soft condensed matters

Selected Publications

Machine learning–aided real-time detection of keyhole pore generation in laser powder bed fusion ZHONGSHU REN, LIN GAO, SAMUEL J. CLARK, KAMEL FEZZAA, PAVEL SHEVCHENKO, ANN CHOI, WES EVERHART, ANTHONY D. ROLLETT, LIANYI CHEN, TAO SUN, SCIENCE, 379, (2023) 89
Critical instability at moving keyhole tip generates porosity in laser melting CANG ZHAO, NIRANJAN D. PARAB, XUXIAO LI, KAMEL FEZZAA, WENDA TAN, ANTHONY D. ROLLETT, TAO SUN, SCIENCE, 370, (2020), 1080
Keyhole threshold and morphology in laser melting revealed by ultrahigh-speed x-ray imaging ROSS CUNNINGHAM*, CANG ZHAO*, NIRANJAN PARAB, CHRISTOPHER KANTZOS, JOSEPH PAUZA, KAMEL FEZZAA, TAO SUN, ANTHONY ROLLETT, SCIENCE, 363, (2019) 849 (*EQUAL CONTRIBUTION)
Bulk-Explosion-Induced Metal Spattering During Laser Processing CANG ZHAO, QILIN GUO, XUXIAO LI, NIRANJAN PARAB, KAMEL FEZZAA, WENDA TAN, LIANYI CHEN, TAO SUN, PHYSICAL REVIEW X, 9, (2019) 021052
Universal scaling laws of keyhole stability and porosity in 3D printing of metals ZHENGTAO GAN, ORION KAFKA, NIRANJAN PARAB, CANG ZHAO, LICHAO FANG, OLLE HEINONEN, TAO SUN, WING KAM LIU, NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 12, (2021) 2379

Courses Taught

MSE 4592/6592: X-ray Scattering Techniques in Materials Science SPRING 2020, SPRING 2021, SPRING 2022, SPRING 2023
MSE 6120: Characterization of Materials FALL 2020
ENGR 1624: Introduction to Engineering FALL 2022

Awards

TMS Young Innovator in the Materials Science of Additive Manufacturing Award
TMS Structural Materials Division JOM Best Paper Award