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Fusion materials and technologies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Jiake Wei
Institute for Advanced Study
2
M. Giacomin
National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
3
Jing Ke
Beijing Luhe Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University
4
Jaemin Seo
Chung-Ang University
5
Dewang Cui
Xiamen University
6
Shenyou Peng
Hunan University
7
Tian-Xing Yang
Chongqing University
8
Hongyu Chen
Zhejiang University of Technology
9
Junsheng Ke
University of Science and Technology of China
10
Md Ershadul Alam
University of California, Santa Barbara

Rising Stars Papers

1
Avoiding fusion plasma tearing instability with deep reinforcement learning
Nature|2024
135 cit.
2
Study on the affecting factors of material removal mechanism and damage behavior of shear rheological polishing of single crystal silicon carbide
Journal of Manufacturing Processes|2024
68 cit.
3
Solving real-world optimization tasks using physics-informed neural computing
Scientific Reports|2024
48 cit.
4
A novel liquid film shearing polishing technique for silicon carbide and its processing damage mechanisms
Applied Surface Science|2025
28 cit.
5
On electromagnetic turbulence and transport in STEP
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion|2024
23 cit.
6
Leveraging physics-informed neural computing for transport simulations of nuclear fusion plasmas
Nuclear Engineering and Technology|2024
19 cit.
7
Origin and fate of loop punching in Mo-5Re alloy
Acta Materialia|2024
18 cit.
8
An improved data augmentation approach and its application in medical named entity recognition
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making|2024
15 cit.
9
Prediction of hardness or yield strength for ODS steels based on machine learning
Materials Characterization|2024
14 cit.
10
Effects of Hf and/or Ti addition on the morphology, crystal, and metal/oxide interface structures of nanoparticles in FeCrAl-ODS steels
Vacuum|2024
14 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Kevin G. Field
University of Michigan
2
Koroush Shirvan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3
Ning Gao
Shandong University
4
Z.M. Xie
Chinese Academy of Sciences
5
Jiefeng Wu
Chinese Academy of Sciences
6
Huaqin Kou
China Academy of Engineering Physics
7
the EUROfusion MST Team
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
8
Xiujie He
Sun Yat-sen University
9
Édouard Pouillier
Chimie Moléculaire, Macromoléculaire, Matériaux
10
the W -X Team
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics - Greifswald

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Overview of the TCV tokamak experimental programme
Nuclear Fusion|2022
70 cit.
2
Influence of a Mo interlayer on the oxidation behavior of a Cr coating on a Zr alloy substrate
Corrosion Science|2023
53 cit.
3
Nonlinear decay of high-power microwaves into trapped modes in inhomogeneous plasma
Nuclear Fusion|2022
46 cit.
4
Confinement properties of L-mode plasmas in ASDEX Upgrade and full-radius predictions of the TGLF transport model
Nuclear Fusion|2022
44 cit.
5
A comparative study on the corrosion performance of four FeCrAl alloys with different Cr contents in contact with oxygen-saturated LBE
Journal of Materials Research and Technology|2023
41 cit.
6
Web-based prototype system for flood simulation and forecasting based on the HEC-HMS model
Environmental Modelling & Software|2022
35 cit.
7
NEORL: NeuroEvolution Optimization with Reinforcement Learning—Applications to carbon-free energy systems
Nuclear Engineering and Design|2023
32 cit.
8
Dependence of scrape-off layer profiles and turbulence on gas fuelling in high density H-mode regimes in TCV
Nuclear Fusion|2022
28 cit.
9
Materials swelling revealed through automated semantic segmentation of cavities in electron microscopy images
Scientific Reports|2023
27 cit.
10
Comparison between MAST-U conventional and Super-X configurations through SOLPS-ITER modelling
Nuclear Fusion|2022
25 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Gary S. Was
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2
Brian D. Wirth
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
3
S.J. Zinkle
Peking University
4
Guang‐Hong Lu
Beihang University
5
Akihiko Kimura
Kyoto University
6
Jet Contributors
Fusion (United States)
7
F.А. Garner
Mitchell Institute
8
P.C. Stangeby
University of Toronto
9
T. Muroga
National Institute for Fusion Science
10
X. Zhang
Purdue University West Lafayette

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Materials challenges in nuclear energy
Acta Materialia|2013
2.6k cit.
2
On the use of SRIM for computing radiation damage exposure
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms|2013
1.5k cit.
3
Structural materials for fission & fusion energy
Materials Today|2009
1.3k cit.
4
Recent Developments in Irradiation-Resistant Steels
Annual Review of Materials Research|2008
1.2k cit.
5
Accident tolerant fuels for LWRs: A perspective
Journal of Nuclear Materials|2013
1.1k cit.
6
Radiation effects in crystalline ceramics for the immobilization of high-level nuclear waste and plutonium
Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources|1998
917 cit.
7
A full tungsten divertor for ITER: Physics issues and design status
Journal of Nuclear Materials|2013
776 cit.
8
Designing Radiation Resistance in Materials for Fusion Energy
Annual Review of Materials Research|2014
771 cit.
9
Microstructural stability and mechanical behavior of FeNiMnCr high entropy alloy under ion irradiation
Acta Materialia|2016
625 cit.
10
Plasma boundary phenomena in tokamaks
Nuclear Fusion|1990
592 cit.

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