Recently XJTU Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale (CAMP-Nano,http://nano.xjtu.edu.cn) published its latest findings online (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/10/14/1518200112) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), that is, to diagnose and adjust the nanoscale defects of single crystals without changing the external shape, through low strain loading method.

The paper was authored by the newly recruited lecturer Dr. Wang Zhangjie, professor Li Ju, professor Ma En, professor Sun Jun, professor Shan Zhiwei at CAMP-Nano, the PhD student Li Qingjie from Johns Hopkins University, PhD student Cui Yinan, associate professor Liu Zhanli, and professor Zhuang Zhuo from Tsinghua University, Dr. Dao Ming from MIT and professor Subra Suresh from Carnegie Mellon University. Professor Ma En and professor Li Ju are also full-time professor at Johns Hopkins University and MIT. They also serve as foreign director of CAMP-Nano and stand on the academic board of the center.