E. Ma

55.2k total citations · 36 hit papers
417 papers, 46.6k citations indexed

About

E. Ma is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, E. Ma has authored 417 papers receiving a total of 46.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 294 papers in Materials Chemistry, 270 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 61 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in E. Ma's work include Microstructure and mechanical properties (129 papers), Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (124 papers) and Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties (56 papers). E. Ma is often cited by papers focused on Microstructure and mechanical properties (129 papers), Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (124 papers) and Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties (56 papers). E. Ma collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. E. Ma's co-authors include Yongqiang Cheng, H. W. Sheng, Xiaolei Wu, K.T. Ramesh, Jun Ding, Sheng Cheng, Zhiwei Shan, Ju Li, Ting Zhu and Jian Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

E. Ma

409 papers receiving 45.6k citations

Hit Papers

Atomic packing and short-to-medium-range order in metalli... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2006 2010 2013 2003 2007 500 1000 1.5k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Atomic packing and short-to-medium-range order in metallic glasses
    2006 1.7k citations E. Ma et al. Nature profile →
  2. Atomic-level structure and structure–property relationship in metallic glasses
    2010 1.4k citations Yongqiang Cheng, E. Ma profile →
  3. Shear bands in metallic glasses
    2013 1.3k citations Yongqiang Cheng, E. Ma et al. profile →
  4. Deformation Twinning in Nanocrystalline Aluminum
    2003 1.0k citations Mingwei Chen, E. Ma et al. Science profile →
  5. Toward a quantitative understanding of mechanical behavior of nanocrystalline metals
    2007 966 citations E. Ma et al. Acta Materialia profile →
  6. Nanostructured high-strength molybdenum alloys with unprecedented tensile ductility
    2013 926 citations Xiangdong Ding, Jun Sun et al. Nature Materials profile →
  7. Towards strength–ductility synergy through the design of heterogeneous nanostructures in metals
    2017 886 citations E. Ma, Ting Zhu Materials Today profile →
  8. Three strategies to achieve uniform tensile deformation in a nanostructured metal
    2004 819 citations E. Ma et al. Acta Materialia profile →
  9. Atomic Level Structure in Multicomponent Bulk Metallic Glass
    2009 767 citations E. Ma et al. profile →
  10. Effect of nanocrystalline and ultrafine grain sizes on the strain rate sensitivity and activation volume: fcc versus bcc metals
    2004 765 citations E. Ma et al. profile →
  11. Simultaneously Increasing the Ductility and Strength of Nanostructured Alloys
    2006 749 citations Xiaozhou Liao, E. Ma et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  12. Designing crystallization in phase-change materials for universal memory and neuro-inspired computing
    2019 698 citations Wei Zhang, Riccardo Mazzarello et al. profile →
  13. Strengthening in multi-principal element alloys with local-chemical-order roughened dislocation pathways
    2019 602 citations E. Ma et al. profile →
  14. Direct observation of chemical short-range order in a medium-entropy alloy
    2021 580 citations E. Ma et al. Nature profile →
  15. Strong crystal size effect on deformation twinning
    2010 576 citations Zhiwei Shan, Ju Li et al. Nature profile →
  16. Reducing the stochasticity of crystal nucleation to enable subnanosecond memory writing
    2017 516 citations Feng Rao, Keyuan Ding et al. Science profile →
  17. Tensile ductility and necking of metallic glass
    2007 499 citations E. Ma et al. Nature Materials profile →
  18. Interactions between non-screw lattice dislocations and coherent twin boundaries in face-centered cubic metals
    2008 464 citations E. Ma et al. Acta Materialia profile →
  19. Dynamically reinforced heterogeneous grain structure prolongs ductility in a medium-entropy alloy with gigapascal yield strength
    2018 460 citations E. Ma et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  20. Tailoring heterogeneities in high-entropy alloys to promote strength–ductility synergy
    2019 447 citations E. Ma et al. profile →
  21. Bulk metallic glass formation in the binary Cu–Zr system
    2004 445 citations E. Ma et al. profile →
  22. Optimizing the strength and ductility of fine structured 2024 Al alloy by nano-precipitation
    2007 433 citations E. Ma et al. Acta Materialia profile →
  23. Local order influences initiation of plastic flow in metallic glass: Effects of alloy composition and sample cooling history
    2008 387 citations E. Ma et al. Acta Materialia profile →
  24. Grain rotation mediated by grain boundary dislocations in nanocrystalline platinum
    2014 362 citations Lihua Wang, Jiao Teng et al. profile →
  25. Soft spots and their structural signature in a metallic glass
    2014 358 citations Jun Ding, Yongqiang Cheng et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  26. Large plasticity in magnesium mediated by pyramidal dislocations
    2019 351 citations Boyu Liu, Fei Liu et al. Science profile →
  27. Correlation between the elastic modulus and the intrinsic plastic behavior of metallic glasses: The roles of atomic configuration and alloy composition
    2009 343 citations Yongqiang Cheng, E. Ma et al. Acta Materialia profile →
  28. Phase-change heterostructure enables ultralow noise and drift for memory operation
    2019 328 citations Keyuan Ding, Jiangjing Wang et al. Science profile →
  29. Dynamic shear deformation of a CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy with heterogeneous grain structures
    2018 319 citations E. Ma et al. Acta Materialia profile →
  30. Tailoring planar slip to achieve pure metal-like ductility in body-centred-cubic multi-principal element alloys
    2023 215 citations Jun Ding, Ke Jin et al. Nature Materials profile →
  31. Unusual dislocation behavior in high-entropy alloys
    2020 211 citations E. Ma Scripta Materialia profile →
  32. An organic electrochemical transistor for multi-modal sensing, memory and processing
    2023 203 citations Shijie Wang, Xi Chen et al. Nature Electronics profile →
  33. Tracking the sliding of grain boundaries at the atomic scale
    2022 192 citations Lihua Wang, Yin Zhang et al. Science profile →
  34. Uniting tensile ductility with ultrahigh strength via composition undulation
    2022 168 citations Heng Li, Hongxiang Zong et al. Nature profile →
  35. Chemical inhomogeneities in high-entropy alloys help mitigate the strength-ductility trade-off
    2024 89 citations E. Ma et al. profile →
  36. Machine-learning design of ductile FeNiCoAlTa alloys with high strength
    2025 21 citations Dezhen Xue, Shaohua Gao et al. Nature profile →

Peers

E. Ma
Comparison fields: 5 of 140
  • Mechanical Engineering 34.3k
  • Materials Chemistry 32.4k
  • Mechanics of Materials 7.0k
  • Ceramics and Composites 6.6k
  • Aerospace Engineering 6.2k
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J. Eckert Germany
Akihisa Inoue Japan
K. Lu China
Christopher A. Schuh United States
David J. Srolovitz United States
H. Gleiter Germany
J. P. Hirth United States
K. Hono Japan
A.L. Greer United Kingdom
J. Th. M. De Hosson Netherlands
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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Interstitial oxygen solutes promote atomic-scale heterogeneities to achieve superior irradiation tolerance in body-centered cubic multi-principal element alloys
2025 ·Journal of Material Science and Technology ·Zhengxiong Su, (unknown), Xiaoyang Zhou, Ling Jin, (unknown), Chen Zhang, Tan Shi, Ke Jin, (unknown), (unknown), Xiaoyong Wu, E. Ma, Chenyang Lu
7
2
Amplifying Suzuki segregation and hardening in a concentrated solid solution alloy
2025 ·Journal of Material Science and Technology ·Qing Cheng, (unknown), (unknown), W.Q. Ming, Jun Ding, (unknown), Mingwei Chen, Jianghua Chen, Xiandong Xu, E. Ma
2
3
Quantifying the local compositional fluctuation and Shannon entropy inherent in multi-principal element alloys
2025 ·Scripta Materialia ·(unknown), Bozhao Zhang, Jun Ding, E. Ma
3
4
Role of Seed Layer in Growing Atomically Flat TiTe 2 /Sb 2 Te 3 Heterostructure Thin Films at the Wafer Scale
2025 ·Advanced Materials Interfaces ·Chao Nie, Xueyang Shen, Junying Zhang, Chenyu Wen, Yingge Du, (unknown), E. Ma, Xiaozhe Wang, Riccardo Mazzarello, Wei Zhang, Jiangjing Wang
0
5
Compositional fluctuation and local chemical ordering in multi-principal element alloys
2024 ·Journal of Material Science and Technology ·E. Ma, Jun Ding
4
6
Deformable monoclinic gallium telluride with high in-plane structural anisotropy
2024 ·Materials Today ·(unknown), Hanyi Zhang, (unknown), Yuecun Wang, Jiangjing Wang, (unknown), E. Ma, Wei Zhang
4
7
A Complex Concentrated Alloy with Record‐High Strength‐Toughness at 77 K
2024 ·Advanced Materials ·(unknown), (unknown), Shaohua Gao, Jinyu Zhang, Wenli Song, (unknown), Bo Wang, Suzhi Li, Dezhen Xue, Gang Liu, Emad Maawad, Weimin Gan, E. Ma, Jun Sun
11
8
Minimizing the diffusivity difference between vacancies and interstitials in multi-principal element alloys
2024 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Bozhao Zhang, Zhen Zhang, (unknown), Mark Asta, Jun Ding, E. Ma
8
9
Multiscale simulations of growth-dominated Sb2Te phase-change material for non-volatile photonic applications
2023 ·npj Computational Materials ·Xudong Wang, Wen Zhou, (unknown), Shehzad Ahmed, (unknown), Riccardo Mazzarello, E. Ma, Wei Zhang
13
10
Significant mechanical softening of copper under coupled electric and magnetic stimuli
2023 ·Scripta Materialia ·(unknown), Yuecun Wang, Huanhuan Lu, Zhangjie Wang, Degang Xie, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), E. Ma, Zhiwei Shan
6
11
Long-distance interface diffusion induced non-volume-conserved deformation in self-supported submicron-sized aluminum pillars
2023 ·Acta Materialia ·Degang Xie, Rongrong Zhang, Xiaohan Dai, (unknown), Xinyao Wang, E. Ma, Ju Li, Zhiwei Shan
1
12
An organic electrochemical transistor for multi-modal sensing, memory and processing breakdown →
2023 ·Nature Electronics ·Shijie Wang, Xi Chen, Chao Zhao, Yuxin Kong, Baojun Lin, Yongyi Wu, Zhaozhao Bi, (unknown), Tao Li, Yuxiang Li, Wei Zhang, E. Ma, Zhongrui Wang, Wei Ma
203
13
In situ characterization of vacancy ordering in Ge-Sb-Te phase-change memory alloys
2022 ·Fundamental Research ·Tingting Jiang, Xudong Wang, Jiangjing Wang, (unknown), Lu Lu, Chun‐Lin Jia, Matthias Wuttig, Riccardo Mazzarello, Wei Zhang, E. Ma
7
14
Uniting tensile ductility with ultrahigh strength via composition undulation breakdown →
2022 ·Nature ·Heng Li, Hongxiang Zong, Suzhi Li, Shenbao Jin, (unknown), Matthew J. Cabral, (unknown), Qianwei Huang, (unknown), Yang Ren, Kaiyuan Yu, Shuang Han, Xiangdong Ding, Gang Sha, Jianshe Lian, Xiaozhou Liao, E. Ma, Jun Sun
168
15
Tracking the sliding of grain boundaries at the atomic scale breakdown →
2022 ·Science ·Lihua Wang, Yin Zhang, Zhi Zeng, Hao Zhou, (unknown), Pan Liu, Mingwei Chen, Jian Han, David J. Srolovitz, Jiao Teng, Yizhong Guo, Guo Yang, Deli Kong, E. Ma, Yongli Hu, Baocai Yin, Xiaoxu Huang, Ze Zhang, Ting Zhu, Xiaodong Han
192
16
Atomic-scale observation of non-classical nucleation-mediated phase transformation in a titanium alloy
2021 ·Nature Materials ·Xiaoqian Fu, Xudong Wang, (unknown), Qinghua Zhang, (unknown), Jiangjing Wang, Wei Zhang, Lin Gu, (unknown), Wenzheng Zhang, Wen Wen, Ze Zhang, Long‐Qing Chen, Qian Yu, E. Ma
71
17
Phase-change heterostructure enables ultralow noise and drift for memory operation breakdown →
2019 ·Science ·Keyuan Ding, Jiangjing Wang, Yuxing Zhou, He Tian, Lu Lu, Riccardo Mazzarello, Chun‐Lin Jia, Wei Zhang, Feng Rao, E. Ma
328
18
Phase-change materials in electronics and photonics
2019 ·MRS Bulletin ·Wei Zhang, Riccardo Mazzarello, E. Ma
59
19
Large plasticity in magnesium mediated by pyramidal dislocations breakdown →
2019 ·Science ·Boyu Liu, Fei Liu, Nan Yang, Xiaobo Zhai, Lei Zhang, Yang Yang, Bin Li, Ju Li, E. Ma, Jian‐Feng Nie, Zhiwei Shan
351
20
Local Topology vs. Atomic-Level Stresses as a Measure of Disorder: Correlating Structural Indicators for Metallic Glasses
2012 ·Materials Research Letters ·Yongqiang Cheng, Jun Ding, E. Ma
75

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