I am interested in problems of modeling and data interpretation in materials science, especially those dealing with kinetics of phase transformations. Recent research topics include nucleation, crystal growth, grain growth, and diffusion.

Problems of current interest are transient nucleation in multi-component systems, kinetics of continuous-cooling transformations, and transient diffusion of dopants in crystalline silicon.

Selected Publications

"Coarsening dynamics - Flowing complex shapes," V D.T. Wu, Nature Materials, 3, 353-354 (2004).

"Kinetic Extension of the Nucleation Theorem," R. McGraw and D.T. Wu, Journal of  Chemical  Physics, 118, 9337-9347 (2003).

"Modelling the influence of grain-size-dependent solute drag on the kinetics of grain growth in nanocrystalline materials," A. Michels, C.E. Krill III, H. Ehrhardt, R. Birringer, and D.T. Wu,  Acta materialia, 47, 2143-2152 (1999) .

"Nucleation Theory," D.T. Wu, in Solid State Physics, Vol. 50, H. Ehrenreich and F. Spaepen, eds. (Academic Press, San Diego, 1997), pp. 37-187.