Rong Yuan                                                          

EDUCATION

University of California at Berkeley

M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering,  expected May 2002

• Tsinghua University
B.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering, July 1999

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Assistant, University of California at Berkeley, Advisor: R. O. Ritchie,

  "Fatigue of Silicon Carbide at elevated temperature", 2000 - present

Research Assistant,  State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing,

                               Dept. of Eng.,Tsinghua University,Beijing 100084,China

   "Alumina beads of millimeter diameter by gelcasting", August 1999-May 2000

   B. Sc.: "Preparation of ZTA powder and study on rheological properties"

PUBLICATIONS

Xiaolin Liu, Yong Huang, Rong Yuan, "Colloidal Characteristics of Alumina-Zirconia Composite Powder Prepared by Surface-Induced Precipitation", J. Am. Ceram. Soc., submitted January 2000

LIU Xiao-Lin, HUANG Yong, YUAN Rong, "Preparation of AL2O3-ZrO2(15vol%)Nanometer Composite Powder by Surface-Induced Precipitation", Journal of Inorganic Materials, accepted and to be published in Dec.2000,Vol 15, No 6