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Biography

Ye Hengqiang, male, Han nationality, is a native of Panyu, Guangdong Province. He graduated from the Beijing Iron and Steel Institute and received a graduate degree from the Metal Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Ye spent his career as a researcher at the Metal Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He primarily engaged in the research of structure and defects of solid matters and materials and their relationship with material behavior.

Among his achievements, Ye independently discovered the five symmetries unallowable in traditional crystallography and further discovered and studied the quasi-crystal phases such as icosahedron symmetry, eight-time symmetry and cubic symmetry. He was the first person to study systematically the structure and defect of solid material through high-resolution atomic pictures. He also developed a technique and theory on material fine structure of atomic dimensions and discovered various new phases and domain configurations in high-temperature alloy topological close piling phases.

Ye determined several new structures through the method of displaying various kinds of atoms by using superstructure pictures, revealed visually the production mechanism of alloy non-commensurability structure and advanced original opinions on alloy structure theory.

Ye has received several awards and has published several articles and monographs. He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.