研究领域

对温度、力、电、磁等外界环境敏感的各类智能材料；
形状记忆合金；高性能无铅压电材料；铁磁材料/铁磁相变、巨磁致伸缩材料；多铁材料；
铁性智能材料中点缺陷的作用；
铁性智能材料中的玻璃行为（应变玻璃/弛豫铁电体/铁磁自旋玻璃）
铁性智能材料及其性能的理论研究和计算机模拟

近期论文

1、Physical Review Letters, 112, 2, 025701, 2014,(IF, 7.728 )
Yumei Zhou, Dezhen Xue, Ya Tian, Xiangdong Ding, Shengwu Guo, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Jun Sun, Xiaobing Ren
Direct Evidence for Local Symmetry Breaking during a Strain Glass Transition

2、Physical Review Letters, 111, 14, 145701, 2013, (IF, 7.943 )
Zhen Zhang, Xiangdong Ding, Jun Sun, Tetsuro Suzuki, Turab Lookman, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Xiaobing Ren
Nonhysteretic Superelasticity of Shape Memory Alloys at the Nanoscale

3、Physical Review Letters, 111, 14, 145701, 2013, (IF, 7.943 )
Zhen Zhang, Xiangdong Ding, Jun Sun, Tetsuro Suzuki, Turab Lookman, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Xiaobing Ren
Nonhysteretic Superelasticity of Shape Memory Alloys at the Nanoscale

4、Science, 339, 6124, 1191-1194, 2013,(IF, 31.027)
Shijie Hao, Lishan Cui, Daqiang Jiang, Xiaodong Han, Yang Ren, Jiang Jiang, Yinong Liu, Zhenyang Liu, Shengcheng Mao, Yandong Wang, Yan Li, Xiaobing Ren, Xiangdong Ding, Shan Wang, Cun Yu, Xiaobin Shi, Minshu Du, Feng Yang, Yanjun Zheng, Ze Zhang, Xiaodong Li, Dennis E. Brown, Ju Li
A Transforming Metal Nanocomposite with Large Elastic Strain, Low Modulus, and High Strength

5、Physical Review Letters, 105, 205702, 2010, (IF,7.37 )
Dong Wang, Yunzhi Wang, Zhen Zhang, Xiaobing Ren
Modeling Abnormal Strain States in Ferroelastic Systems: The Role of Point Defects

6. Physical Review Letters, 104, 197201, 2010, (IF, 7.37 )
Sen Yang, Huixin Bao, Chao Zhou, Yu Wang, Xiaobing Ren, Yoshitaka Matsushita, Yoshio Katsuya, Masahiko Tanaka, Keisuke, Kobayashi, Xiaoping Song, Jianrong Gao
Large Magnetostriction from Morphotropic Phase Boundary in Ferromagnets

7. Physical Review Letters, 103, 257602, 2009,(IF, 7.37)
Wenfeng Liu, Xiaobing Ren
Large Piezoelectric Effect in Pb-Free Ceramics
ESI highly cited paper, citation 403(12/6/2014,from web of knowledge)

8. Physical Review Letters，97，225703 (2006), (IF, 7.37)
Yu Wang, Xiaobing Ren, Kazuhiro Otsuka
Shape Memory Effect and Superelasticity in a Strain Glass Alloy

9. Progress in Materials Science, 50, 511-678 (2005), (IF, 25.87)
Kazuhiro Otsuka and Ren Xiaobing
Physical metallurgy of Ti-Ni-based shape memory alloys (Overview paper)

10. Physical Review Letters, 95, 205702 (2005) (IF, 7.37)
S. Sarkar, Ren Xiaobing, and Kazuhiro Otsuka
Evidence for Strain Glass in the Ferroelastic-Martensitic System Ti50-xNi50+x,

11. Nature Materials, 3, 91-94 (2004). (IF, 36.425)
Xiaobing Ren
Large electric-field-induced strain in ferroelectric crystals by reversible domain switching

12. Physical Review Letters, 85, 1016-1019 (2000) (IF, 7.37)
Ren Xiaobing and Kazuhiro Otsuka,
Universal symmetry property of point defects in crystals,

13. Nature, 389(6651), 579-582 (1997) (IF, 36.1)
Ren Xiaobing and Kazuhiro Otsuka
Origin of the Rubber-like Behavior in Metal Alloys.