Xu Huibin Xu Huibin, born in Baicheng City Jinlin Province on July 6th 1959， a scientist of functional materials, received his PhD degree at Technical University of Berlin in 1992, and worked as Postdoctoral fellow at München Technical University from 1992 to 1993. He returned to China in 1993 to be a professor at Beihang University. He was the dean of Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and then the vice president of Beihang University. Now he is the executive vice president of Beihang University. Prof. Xu has been working on special functional materials, including shape memory alloys, magnetostrictive materials and thermal barrier coatings. Up to now Prof. Xu has been authorized 86 invention patents, and published over 200 SCI papers cited by others for over 1000 times. More than 60 Master and PhD students have graduated from his group. Main research work of Prof. Xu is selectively illustrated as follows: 1. Studies on martensitic transformation and shape memory alloys Collaborating with Prof. Müller, he revealed the essence of the hysteresis of thermoelastic martensitic transformation, generally called “One Dimensional Müller-Xu Thermodynamic Theory of Ideal Pseudoelasticity.” He reported a hightemperature shape memory alloy (SMA) system, NiMnGa, with considerable thermal stability. Prof. Xu successfully developed high quality single crystal of NiMnGa ferromagnetic SMAs, with 15% stressinduced strain and 6% magnetostrain. Prof. Xu proposed an approach to realize magnetostructural transition in ferromagnetic SMAs, triggering the international intensive studies on the large magnetocaloric effect of the alloys. Moreover, NiCuMnGa multifunctional ferromagnetic SMA system was developed. 2. Studies on magnetostrictive materials Prof. Xu developed novel mangetostrictive alloys performing within wide temperature range of-80℃～＋100℃, double of that of typical magnetostrictive materials. Besides, Prof. Xu deeply investigated the physical origin of the corrosion behavior, and further performed suitable alloying to delocalize the itinerant electrons. He successfully invented magnetostrive alloy systems with the corrosion resistance increased by ten times. Currently both types of magnetostrive materials have been adopted by practical applications. 3. Studies on thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) TBCs are one of the key technologies in turbine blades of advanced aeroengines. Typical TBCs are duplex layered structure, where the layer interfaces are easily destabilized, hindering the hightemperature performance. Prof. Xu invented a graded thermal barrier coating (GBTBC) working at high temperature stably. This work has laid the theoretical basis for industrial applications of TBCs. Further Prof. Xu successfully developed a novel thermal barrier coating material of LCT operating at 1300 ℃. Now the LCT TBC has been firstly applied in advanced aeroengines.