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Ian McCue

Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Morris E. Fine Junior Professor in Materials and Manufacturing

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2220 Campus Drive
Cook 2036
Evanston, IL 60208

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Ian McCue Research Group

Departments

Materials Science and Engineering

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Education

Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD


Research Interests

Ian’s research vision is to solve the problem of scalable processing for advanced, nanostructured materials by focusing on advanced manufacturing and self-organization phenomena. We are interested in pushing the boundaries of microstructural control during fabrication to create new materials that are stronger, tougher, more thermally stable, and even capable of repairing themselves. This research is split across several key thrusts: (1) new manufacturing process to create advanced nanocomposites for structural applications; (2) studying the mechanical behavior of nanostructured materials; and (3) advancing the fundamental understanding between material architecture – curvature, microstructural length scale, and composition – diffusion pathways, external fields, and phase transformations.


Significant Recognition

  • Invited Speaker, Gordon Research Conference – Physical Metallurgy (2019)
  • Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award, Silver (2014)

Selected Publications

  • Ott, Catherine; McCue, Ian, The Morphological and Compositional Stability of Nanoporous UHTCs During Fabrication from Metallic Precursors, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH (2025).
  • Price, Samuel; Cao, Zhaoxi; McCue, Ian, On-the-fly path planning for the design of compositional gradients in high dimensions, Materials and Design (2025).
  • Şeker, Erkin; Shi, Shan; McCue, Ian, Realizing nanostructure-enabled applications through dealloyed materials, MRS Bulletin (2025).
  • Banerjee, Sarbajit; Meng, Y. Shirley; Minor, Andrew M.; Zhang, Minghao; Zaluzec, Nestor J.; Chan, Maria K; Seidler, Gerald; McComb, David W.; Agar, Joshua; Mukherjee, Partha P.; Melot, Brent; Chapman, Karena; Guiton, Beth S.; Klie, Robert F.; McCue, Ian D.; Voyles, Paul M.; Robertson, Ian; Li, Ling; Chi, Miaofang; Destino, Joel F.; Devaraj, Arun; Marquis, Emmanuelle A.; Segre, Carlo U.; Liu, Huinan H.; Yang, Judith C.; Momeni, Kasra; Misra, Amit; Abdolrahim, Niaz; Medvedeva, Julia E.; Cai, Wenjun; Sehirlioglu, Alp; Dizbay-Onat, Melike; Mehta, Apurva; Graham-Brady, Lori; Maruyama, Benji; Rajan, Krishna; Warner, Jamie H.; Taheri, Mitra L.; Kalinin, Sergei V.; Reeja-Jayan, B.; Schwarz, Udo D.; Simon, Sindee L.; Brown, Craig M., Materials laboratories of the future for alloys, amorphous, and composite materials, MRS Bulletin (2025).
  • Granadillo, Luis; Snyder, Joshua; Xia, Zhiyong; McCue, Ian, Coarsening kinetics of alloy-doped nanoporous metals, Scripta Materialia (2025).
  • Peters, Adam B.; Zhang, Dajie; Chen, Samuel; Ott, Catherine; Oses, Corey; Curtarolo, Stefano; McCue, Ian; Pollock, Tresa M.; Eswarappa Prameela, Suhas, Materials design for hypersonics, Nature communications (2024).
  • Cunningham, W. Streit; Lang, Eric; Sprouster, David; Olynik, Nicholas; Pattammattel, Ajith; Olds, Daniel; Hattar, Khalid; McCue, Ian; Trelewicz, Jason R., Alloying effects on the microstructure and properties of laser additively manufactured tungsten materials, Materials Science and Engineering: A (2024).
  • Roy, Abhinav; Sieradzki, Karl; Rondinelli, James M.; McCue, Ian D., Effect of chemical short-range order and percolation on passivation in binary alloys, Physical Review B (2024).