EMPLOYMENT:

2013/09 – Present,  Lecturer, Institute of Nanosurface Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

2011/04 – 2013/03, Postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

EDUCATION:

2007/10 – 2011/03, Ph.D Student, Division of Mechanical Engineering Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

2004/09 – 2007/03, M.S. Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

2000/09 – 2004/07, B.S. Student,  Department of Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

PUBLICATIONS:

1. Pengfei Wang*, Koshi Adachi, Low frictions of self-mated CNx coatings in dry and humid inert gas environments, Surface and Coatings Technology, 258 (2014) 1137–1144. (IF=1.867)

2. Pengfei Wang*, Takanori Takeno, Julien Fontaine, Masami Aono, Koshi Adachi, Hiroyuki Miki, Toshiyuki Takagi, Effects of substrate bias voltage and target sputtering power on the structural and tribological properties of carbon nitride coatings, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 145 (2014) 434–440. (IF=2.072)

3. Toshiyuki Takagi*, Pengfei Wang, Hiroyuki Miki, Takanori Takeno, State-of-the-art and prospects of fatigue damage detecting sensors, Journal of the Japanese Society for Non-Destructive Inspection, 62 (2013) 311–315 (in Japanese).

4. Pengfei Wang*, Toshiyuki Takagi, Takanori Takeno, Hiroyuki Miki, Early fatigue damage detecting sensors—a review and prospects, Sensors & Actuators: A. Physical, 198 (2013) 46–60. (IF=1.802)

5. Pengfei Wang*, Masaaki Hirose, Yoshinobu Suzuki, Koshi Adachi, Carbon tribo-layer for super-low friction of amorphous carbon nitride coatings in inert gas environments, Surface and Coatings Technology, 221 (2013) 163–172. (IF=1.867)

6. Pengfei Wang*, Takanori Takeno, Koshi Adachi, Hiroyuki Miki, Toshiyuki Takagi, Preparation and tribological characterization of amorphous carbon nitride coatings in a RF PECVD-DC PVD hybrid coating process, Applied Surface Science, 258 (2012) 6576–6582. (IF=2.103)

7. Pengfei Wang*, Koshi Adachi, Effect of oxygen concentration in inert gas environments on the friction and wear of CNx coatings, Tribology Online, 6 (2011) 265–272.

RESEARCH PROJECTS:

1. Semi in-situ analysis of isolated tribo-film islands at the contact interface in the super-low friction of CNx coatings under extreme environment, NSFC (No. 51405308), 2015-2017.