Professor Duan’s expertise lies in the continuum mechanics, multiscale- multi-physics modeling and experimentally characterization of the thermos-mechanical and physical properties of the heterogeneous media with various microstructures under external stimuli (e.g., thermo-mechanical loading and irradiation, etc). The important research contributions are: Eshelby formalism and micromechanical framework for nanocomposites, theory of surface stress and wetting transition for complex solid surfaces, and mechanical behaviors of metallic materials with irradiation. She has more than 230 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Communications, Science Advances, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., Phys. Rev. Lett., Advanced Mater., Adv. Appl. Mech., J. Mech. Phys. Solids, Phys. Rev. B, Acta Mater., Proc. Roy. Soc. A, etc. She has given more than 80 invited, keynote and plenary talks in IUTAM Symposia, Conferences, Universities and Research Institutes.
