2019

1. Hangtian Zhu, Jun Mao, Yuwei Li, Jifeng Sun, Yumei Wang, Qing Zhu, Guannan Li, Qichen Song, Jiawei Zhou, Yuhao Fu, Ran He, Tian Tong, Zihang Liu, Wuyang Ren, Li You, Zhiming Wang, Jun Luo, Andrei Sotnikov, Jiming Bao, Kornelius Nielsch, Gang Chen, David J. Singh, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淒iscovery of TaFeSb-based half-Heuslers with high thermoelectric performance鈥�, Nature Communications 10, 270 (2019).
2. Siya Huang, Yuan Liu, Yue Zhao, Zhifeng Ren, and Chuan Fei Guo, 鈥淔lexible Electronics: Stretchable Electrodes and Their Future鈥�, Advanced Functional Materials 29, 1805924 (2019).
3. Chen Chen, Wenhua Xue, Shan Li, Zongwei Zhang, Xiaofang Li, Xinyu Wang, Yijie Liu, Jiehe Sui, Xingjun Liu, Zhifeng Ren, Feng Cao, Yumei Wang, and Qian Zhang, 鈥淶intl Phase Eu₂ZnSb₂: A New Promising Thermoelectric Material with Ultralow Thermal Conductivity鈥�, PNAS 116, 2831-2836 (2019).
4. Fei Tian and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淗igh Thermal Conductivity in Boron Arsenide: from Prediction to Reality鈥�, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 58, 5824-5831 (2019).
5. Jingying Sun, Muqing Ren, Luo Yu, Ze Yang, Lixin Xie, Fei Tian, Ying Yu, Zhifeng Ren, Shuo Chen, and Haiqing Zhou, 鈥淗ighly efficient hydrogen evolution from a mesoporous hybrid of nickel phosphide nanoparticles anchored on cobalt phosphosulfide/phosphide nanosheet arrays鈥�, Small 15, 1804272 (2019).

2018

6. Xiaoyuan Zhou, Yanci Yan, Xu Lu, Hangtian Zhu, Xiaodong Han, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淩outes for High Performance Thermoelectric Materials鈥�, Materials Today 21, 974-988 (2018).
7. Luo Yu, Ishwar Kumar Mishra, Yunlong Xie, Haiqing Zhou, Jingying Sun, Jianqing Zhou, Yizhou Ni, Dan Luo, Fang Yu, Ying Yu, Shuo Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淭ernary Ni_2(1-x)Mo_2xP Nanowire Arrays toward Efficient and Stable Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalysis under Large-Current-Density鈥�, Nano Energy 53, 492-500 (2018).
8. Haiqing Zhou, Fang Yu, Qing Zhu, Jingying Sun, Fan Qin, Luo Yu, Jiming Bao, Ying Yu, Shuo Chen, Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淲ater splitting by electrolysis at high current density under 1.6 volt鈥�, Energy Environ. Sci. 11, 2858-2864 (2018).
9. Fei Tian, Bai Song, Xi Chen, Navaneetha K. Ravichandran, Yinchuan Lv, Ke Chen, Sean Sullivan, Jaehyun Kim, Yuanyuan Zhou, Te-Huan Liu, Miguel Goni, Zhiwei Ding, Jingying Sun, Geethal Amila Gamage Udalamatta Gamage, Haoran Sun, Hamidreza Ziyaee, Shuyuan Huyan, Liangzi Deng, Jianshi Zhou, Aaron J. Schmidt, Shuo Chen, Ching-Wu Chu, Pinshane Y. Huang, David Broido, Li Shi, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淯nusual High Thermal Conductivity in Boron Arsenide Bulk Crystals鈥�, Science 361, 582-585 (2018).
10. Ishwar Kumar Mishra, Haiqing Zhou, Jingying Sun, Fan Qing, Keshab Dahal, Jiming Bao, Shuo Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淗ierarchical CoP/Ni₅P₄/CoP Microsheet Arrays as a Robust pH-Universal Electrocatalyst for Efficient Hydrogen Generation鈥�, Energy Environ. Sci. 11, 2246-2252 (2018).
11. Fang Yu, Haiqing Zhou, Yufeng Huang, Jingying Sun, Fan Qin, Jiming Bao, William A. Goddard III, Shuo Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淗igh-performance bifunctional porous non-noble metal phosphide catalyst for overall water splitting鈥�, Nature Communications 9, 2551 (2018).
12. Zihang Liu, Jifeng Sun, Jun Mao, Hangtian Zhu, Wuyang Ren, Jingchao Zhou, Zhiming Wang, David J. Singh, Jiehe Sui, Ching-Wu Chu, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淧hase transition temperature suppression to achieve cubic GeTe and high thermoelectric performance by Bi and Mn codoping鈥�, PNAS 115, 5332-5337 (2018).
13. Hangtian Zhu, Ran He, Jun Mao, Qing Zhu, Chunhua Li, Jifeng Sun, Wuyang Ren, Yumei Wang, Zihang Liu, Zhongjia Tang, Andrei Sotnikov, Zhiming Wang, David Broido, David J. Singh, Gang Chen, Kornelius Nielsch, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淒iscovery of ZrCoBi-based half-Heuslers with high thermoelectric conversion efficiency鈥�, Nature Communications 9, 2497 (2018).
14. Jiawei Zhou, Hangtian Zhu, Te-Huan Liu, Qichen Song, Ran He, Jun Mao, Zihang Liu, Wuyang Ren, Bolin Liao, David Singh, Zhifeng Ren, and Gang Chen, 鈥淟arge thermoelectric power factor from crystal symmetry-protected non-bonding orbital in half-Heuslers鈥�, Nature Communications 9, 1721 (2018).
15. Qian Zhang, Qichen Song, Xinyu Wang, Jingying Sun, Qing Zhu, Keshab Dahal, Xi Lin, Feng Cao, Jiawei Zhou, Shuo Chen, Gang Chen, Jun Mao, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淒eep defect level engineering: a strategy of optimizing the carrier concentration for high thermoelectric performance鈥�, Energy Environ. Sci. 11, 933-940 (2018).
16. Jun Mao, Jennifer L. Niedziela, Yumei Wang, Yi Xia, Binghui Ge, Zihang Liu, Jiawei Zhou, Zhensong Ren, Weishu Liu, Maria K.Y. Chan, Gang Chen, Olivier Delaire, Qian Zhang, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淪elf-compensation induced vacancies for significant phonon scattering in InSb鈥�, Nano Energy 48, 189-196 (2018).
17. Jing Shuai, Binghui Ge, Jun Mao, Shaowei Song, Yumei Wang, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淭he significant role of Mg stoichiometry in designing high Thermoelectric performance for Mg₃(Sb,Bi)₂-based n-type Zintls鈥�, JACS 140, 1910-1915 (2018).
18. Zihang Liu, Jun Mao, Jiehe Sui, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淗igh thermoelectric performance of 伪-MgAgSb for power generation鈥�, Energy Environ. Sci. 11, 23-44 (2018).

2017

19. Jun Mao, Jing Shuai, Shaowei Song, Yixuan Wu, Jiawei Zhou, Zihang Liu, Jifeng Sun, Yanzhong Pei, Qinyong Zhang, David J. Singh, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淢anipulation of Ionized Impurity Scattering for Achieving High Thermoelectric Performance in n-type Mg₃Sb₂-Based Materials鈥�, PNAS 114, 10548-10553 (2017).
20. Luo Yu, Haiqing Zhou, Jingying Sun, Fan Qin, Dan Luo, Lixin Xie, Fang Yu, Jiming Bao, Yong Li, Shuo Chen, Zhifeng Ren, and Ying Yu, 鈥淗ierarchical Cu@CoFe Layered Double Hydroxide Core-Shell Nanoarrays as Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Efficient Overall Water Splitting鈥�, Nano Energy 41, 327-336 (2017).
21. Huaizhou Zhao, Binglei Cao, Shanming Li, Ning Liu, Jiawen Shen, Shan Li, Jikang Jian, Lin Gu, Yanzhong Pei, G. Jeffrey Snyder, Zhifeng Ren, and Xiaolong Chen, 鈥淓ngineering the thermoelectric transport in half-Heusler materials through a bottom-up nanostructure synthesis鈥�, Advanced Energy Materials 7, 1700446 (2017).
22. Zhenhuan Zhao, Desmond E. Schipper, Andrew P. Leitner, Hari Thirumalai, Jing-Han Chen, Lixin Xie, Fan Qin, Md Kamrul Alam, Lars C. Grabow, Shuo Chen, Dezhi Wang, Zhifeng Ren, Zhiming Wang, Kenton H. Whitmire, and Jiming Bao, 鈥淏ifunctional metal phosphide FeMnP films from single source metal organic chemical vapor deposition for efficient overall water splitting鈥�, Nano Energy 39, 444-453 (2017).
23. Luo Yu, Haiqing Zhou, Jingying Sun, Fan Qin, Fang Yu, Jiming Bao, Ying Yu, Shuo Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淐u nanowires shelled with NiFe layered double hydroxide nanosheets as bifunctional electrocatalysts for overall water splitting鈥�, Energy Environ. Sci. 10, 1820-1827 (2017).
24. Xianfu Meng, Zihang Liu, Bo Cui, Dandan Qin, Huiyuan Geng, Wei Cai, Liangwei Fu, Jiaqing He, Zhifeng Ren, Jiehe Sui, 鈥淕rain boundary engineering for achieving high thermoelectric performance in n-type Skutterudites鈥�, Advanced Energy Materials 7, 1602582 (2017).
25. Siya Huang, Lu Tang, Hasan Salehi Najafabadi, Shuo Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淎 highly flexible semi-tubular carbon film for stable lithium metal anodes in high-performance batteries鈥�, Nano Energy 38, 504-509 (2017).
26. Haiqing Zhou, Fang Yu, Yuanyue Liu, Jingying Sun, Zhuan Zhu, Ran He, Jiming Bao, William A. Goddard III, Shuo Chen, Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淥utstanding hydrogen evolution reaction catalyzed by porous nickel diselenide electrocatalysts鈥�, Energy Environ. Sci. 10, 1487-1492 (2017).
27. Haiqing Zhou, Fang Yu, Jingying Sun, Ran He, Shuo Chena, Ching-Wu Chua, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淗ighly active catalyst derived from a 3D foam of Fe(PO₃)₂/Ni₂P for extremely efficient water oxidation鈥�, PNAS 114, 5607-5611 (2017).
28. Jing Shuai, Jun Mao, Shaowei Song, Qing Zhu, Jifeng Sun, Yumei Wang, Ran He, Jiawei Zhou, Gang Chen, David J. Singh, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淭uning the carrier scattering mechanism to effectively improve the thermoelectric properties鈥�, Energy Environ. Sci. 10, 799-807 (2017).
29. Yuan Liu, Jianming Zhang, Heng Gao, Yang Wang, Qingxian Liu, Siya Huang, Chuanfei Guo, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淐apillary force induced cold welding in silver-nanowire-based flexible transparent electrodes鈥�, NanoLetters 17, 1090-1096 (2017).
30. Hee Seok Kim and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淟inear correlation of engineering figure-of-merit with efficiency and engineering power factor with output power density in thermoelectric materials鈥�, Energy Environ. Sci. 10, 69-85 (2017).
31. Jun Mao, Yumei Wang, Zihang Liu, Binghui Ge, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淧honon Scattering by Nanoscale Twin Boundaries鈥�, Nano Energy 32, 174-179 (2017).
32. Zihang Liu, Yumei Wang, Weihong Gao, Jun Mao, Huiyuan Geng, Jing Shuai, Wei Cai, Jiehe Sui, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淭he influence of doping sites on achieving higher thermoelectric performance for nanostructured 伪-MgAgSb鈥�, Nano Energy 31, 194-200 (2017).
33. Feng Lin, Zhuan Zhu, Xufeng Zhou, Wenlan Qiu, Chao Niu, Jonathan Hu, Keshab Dahal, Yanan Wang, Zhenhuan Zhao, Zhifeng Ren, Dimitri Litvinov, Zhaoping Liu, Zhiming M. Wang, and Jiming Bao, 鈥淥rientation Control of Graphene Flakes by Magnetic Field: Broad Device Applications of Macroscopically Aligned Graphene鈥�, Advanced Materials 29, 1604453 (2017).

2016

34. Haiqing Zhou, Fang Yu, Jingying Sun, Hangtian Zhu, Ishwar Kumar Mishra, Shuo Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淗ighly efficient hydrogen evolution from edge-oriented WS_2(1-x)Se_2x particles on three-dimensional porous NiSe₂ 蹿辞补尘鈥�, NanoLetters 16, 7604-7609 (2016).
35. Feng Cao, Yi Huang, Lu Tang, Tianyi Sun, Svetlana Boriskin, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淭oward a High-Efficient Utilization of Solar Radiation by Quad-Band Solar Spectral Splitting鈥�, Advanced Materials 28, 10659-10663 (2016).
36. Ran He, Daniel Kraemer, Jun Mao, Qing Jie, Yucheng Lan, Chunhua Li, Jing Shuai, Hee Seok Kim, David Broido, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淎chieving high power factor and output power density in p-type half-Heuslers Nb_1-xTi_x贵别厂产鈥�, PNAS 113, 13576-13581 (2016).
37. Daniel Kraemer, Qing Jie, Kenneth McEnaney, Feng Cao, Weishu Liu, Lee Weinstein, James Loomis, Zhifeng Ren, and Gang Chen, 鈥淐oncentrating solar thermoelectric generators with a peak efficiency of 7.4%", Nature Energy 1, 16153 (2016).
38. Bing Han, Qiang Peng, Ruopeng Li, Qikun Rong, Yang Ding, Eser Metin Akinoglu, Xueyuan Wu, Xin Wang, Xubing Lu, Qianming Wang, Guofu Zhou, Jun-Ming Liu, Zhifeng Ren, Michael Giersig, Andrzej Herczynski, Krzysztof Kempa, Jinwei Gao, 鈥淥ptimization of hierarchical structure and nanoscale-enabled plasmonic refraction for window electrodes in photovoltaics鈥�, Nature Communications 7, 12825 (2016).
39. Haiqing Zhou, Fang Yu, Yufeng Huang, Jingying Sun, Robert J. Nielsen, William A. Goddard III, Shuo Chen, Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淓fficient hydrogen evolution by ternary molybdenum sulfoselenide MoS_2(1-x)Se_2x particles on self-standing porous NiSe₂ 蹿辞补尘鈥�, Nature Communications 7, 12765 (2016).
40. Jing Shuai, Huiyuan Geng, Yucheng Lan, Zhuan Zhu, Chao Wang, Zihang Liu, Jiming Bao, Ching-Wu Chu, Jiehe Sui, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淗igher thermoelectric performance of Zintl phases (Eu_0.5Yb_0.5)_1-xCa_xMg₂Bi₂ by band engineering and strain fluctuation鈥�, PNAS 113, E4125-E4132 (2016).
41. Dan Luo, Feng Wang, Jingyi Zhu, Feng Cao, Yuan Liu, Xiaogang Li, Richard C. Willson, Zhaozhong Yang, Ching-Wu Chu, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淣anofluid of graphene-based amphiphilic Janus nanosheets for tertiary or enhanced oil recovery: High performance at low concentration鈥�, PNAS 113, 7711-7716 (2016).
42. Hee Seok Kim, Tianbao Wang, Weishu Liu, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淓ngineering thermal conductivity for balancing between reliability and performance of bulk thermoelectric generators鈥�, Adv. Func. Mater. 26, 3678-3686 (2016).
43. Zihang Liu, Yumei Wang, Jun Mao, Huiyuan Geng, Jing Shuai, Yuanxu Wang, Ran He, Wei Cai, Jiehe Sui, and Zhifeng Ren, Lithium doping to enhance thermoelectric performance of MgAgSb with weak electron-phonon coupling鈥�, Adv. Energy Mater. 6, 1502269 (2016).
44. Jing Shuai, Yumei Wang, Zihang Liu, Hee Seok Kim, Jun Mao, Jiehe Sui, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淓nhancement of thermoelectric performance of phase pure Zintl compounds Ca_1-xYb_xZn₂Sb₂, Ca_1-xEu_xZn₂Sb₂, and Eu_1-xYb_xZn₂Sb₂ by mechanical alloying and hot pressing鈥�, Nano Energy 25, 136-144 (2016).
45. Qian Zhang, Eyob Kebede Chere, Yumei Wang, Hee Seok Kim, Ran He, Feng Cao, Keshab Dahal, David Broido, Gang Chen, Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淗igh Thermoelectric Performance of n-type PbTe_1-yS_y due to Deep Lying States Induced by Indium Doping and Spinodal Decomposition鈥�, Nano Energy 22, 572-582 (2016).
46. Weishu liu, Jiawei Zhou, Qing Jie, Yang Li, Hee Seok Kim, Jiming Bao, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淣ew insight into the material parameter B to understand the enhanced thermoelectric performance of Mg₂Sn_1-x-yGe_xSb_y鈥�, Energy Environ. Sci. 9, 530-539 (2016).
47. Chuanfei Guo, Yan Chen, Lu Tang, Feng Wang, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淓nhancing the Scratch Resistance by Introducing Chemical Bonding in highly Stretchable and Transparent Electrodes鈥�, NanoLetters 16, 594-600 (2016).
48. Haiqing Zhou, Yumei Wang, Ran He, Fang Yu, Jingying Sun, Feng Wang, Yucheng Lan, Zhifeng Ren, and Shuo Chen, 鈥淥ne-step synthesis of self-supported porous NiSe₂/Ni hybrid foam: An efficient 3D electrode for hydrogen evolution reaction鈥�, Nano Energy 20, 29-36 (2016).

2015

49. Shuai Dong, Jun-Ming Liu, Sang-Wook Cheong, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淢ultiferroic materials and magnetoelectric physics: symmetry, entanglement, excitation, and topology鈥�, Advances in Physics 64, 519-626 (2015).
50. Siya Huang, Chuanfei Guo, X. Zhang, Wei Pan, Xi Luo, Chunsong Zhao, Jianghong Gong, X. Li, Zhifeng Ren, and Hui Wu, 鈥淏uckled Tin Oxide Nanobelt Webs as Highly Stretchable and Transparent Photosensors鈥�, Small 11, 5712-5718 (2015).
51. Dandan Li, Huaizhou Zhao, Shanming Li, Beipei Wei, Jing Shuai, Chenglong Shi, Xuekui Xi, Peijie Sun, Sheng Meng, Lin Gu, Zhifeng Ren, Xiaolong Chen, 鈥淎tomic disorders induced by silver and magnesium ion migrations favor high thermoelectric performance in 伪-MgAgSb based materials鈥�, Advanced Functional Materials 25, 6478-6488 (2015).
52. Chuanfei Guo, Qihan Liu, Guohui Wang, Yecheng Wang, Zhengzheng Shi, Zhigang Suo, Ching-Wu Chua, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淔atigue-free, superstretchable, transparent, and biocompatible metal electrodes鈥�, PNAS 112, 12332-12337 (2015).
53. Feng Cao, Daniel Kraemer, Lu Tang, Yang Li, Alexander P. Litvinchuk, Jiming Bao, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淗igh-Performance Spectrally-Selective Solar Absorber Based on Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Cermet with High-Temperature Stability鈥�, Energy Environ. Sci. 8, 3040-3048 (2015).
54. Jun Mao, Yumei Wanga, Hee Seok Kim, Zihang Liu, Udara Saparamadu, Fei Tian, Keshab Dahal, Jingying Sun, Shuo Chen, Weishu Liu, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淗igh thermoelectric power factor in Cu-Ni alloy by potential barrier scattering of twin boundaries鈥�, Nano Energy 17, 279-289 (2015).
55. Eyob K. Chere, Qian Zhang, Kenneth McEnaney, Mengliang Yao, Feng Cao, Jingying Sun, Shuo Chen, Cyril Opeil, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淓nhancement of Thermoelectric Performance in n-type PbTe_1-ySe_y by Doping Cr and Tuning Te:Se ratio鈥�, Nano Energy 13, 355-367 (2015).
56. Hee Seok Kim, Weishu Liu, Gang Chen, Ching-Wu Chu, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淩elationship between Thermoelectric Figure of Merit and Energy Conversion Efficiency鈥�, PNAS 112, 8205-8210 (2015).
57. Qian Zhang, Eyob Kebede Chere, Feng Cao, Keshab Dahal, Gang Chen, Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淪tudies on Thermoelectric Properties of n-type Polycrystalline SnSe_1-xS_x by Iodine Doping鈥�, Adv. Energy Mater. 5, 1500360 (2015).
58. Haiqing Zhou, Fang Yu, Chuanfei Guo, Zongpeng Wang, Yucheng Lan, Gang Wang, Zheyu Fang, Yuan Liu, Shuo Chen, Lianfeng Sun, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淲ell-oriented epitaxial gold nanotriangles and bowties on MoS₂ for surface-enhanced Raman scattering鈥�, Nanoscale 7, 9153-9157 (2015).
59. Qian Zhang, Eyob Kebede Chere, Kenneth McEnaney, Mengliang Yao, Feng Cao, Yizhou Ni, Shuo Chen, Cyril Opeil, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淓nhancement of Thermoelectric Performance of n-Type PbSe by Cr Doping with Optimized Carrier Concentration鈥�, Adv. Energy Mater. 5, 1401977 (2015).
60. Feng Cao, Daniel Kraemer, Tianyi Sun, Yucheng Lan, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淓nhanced Thermal Stability of W-Ni-Al₂O₃ Cermet-Based Spectrally Selective Solar Absorbers with Tungsten Infrared Reflectors鈥�, Adv. Energy Mater. 5, 1401042 (2015).
61. D. Kraemer, J. Sui, K. McEnaney, H. Zhao, Q. Jie, Zhifeng Ren, and G. Chen, 鈥淗igh Thermoelectric Conversion Efficiency of MgAgSb-based Material with Hot-Pressed Contacts鈥�, Energy Environ. Sci. 8, 1299-1308 (2015).
62. Weishu Liu, Hee Seok Kim, Shuo Chen, Qing Jie, Bing Lv, Mengliang Yao, Zhengsong Ren, Cyril P. Opeil, Stephen Wilson, Ching-Wu Chu, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淣ew n-type thermoelectric material Mg₂Sn_0.75Ge_0.25 for high power generation鈥�, PNAS 112, 3269-3274 (2015).
63. Chuanfei Guo and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淔lexible transparent conductors based on metal nanowire networks鈥�, Materials Today 18, 143-154 (2015).
64. L. Li, Y. Liu, J. Y. Dai, H. X. Zhu, A. J. Hong, X. H. Zhou, Zhifeng Ren, and J. 鈥揗. Liu, 鈥淭hermoelectric property studies on Cu_xBi₂SeS₂ with nano-scale precipitates Bi₂S₃鈥�, Nano Energy 12, 447-456 (2015).
65. Jing Shuai, Hee Seok Kim, Yucheng Lan, Shuo Chen, Yuan Liu, Huaizhou Zhao, Jiehe Sui, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淪tudy on thermoelectric performance by Na doping in nanostructured Mg_1-xNa_xAg_0.97Sb_0.99鈥�, Nano Energy 11, 640-646 (2015).

2014

66. Bing Han, Yuanlin Huang, Ruopeng Li, Qiang Peng, Junyi Luo, Ke Pei, Andrzej Herczynski, Krzysztof Kempa, Zhifeng Ren, and Jinwei Gao, 鈥淏io-inspired networks for optoelectronic applications鈥�, Nature Communications 5, 5674 (2014).
67. Giri Joshi, Ran He, Michael Engber, Georgy Samsonidze, Tej Pantha, Ekraj Dahal, Keshab Dahal, Jian Yang, Yucheng Lan, Boris Kozinsky, and Zhifeng Ren 鈥淣bFeSb-based p-type half-Heuslers for power generation applications鈥�, Energy Environ. Sci. 7, 4070-4076 (2014).
68. Machhindra Koirala, Hui Wang, Mani Pokharel, Yucheng Lan, Chuanfei Guo, Cyril Opeil, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淣anostructured YbAgCu₄ for Potentially Cryogenic Thermoelectric Cooling鈥�, Nano Lett. 14, 5016-5020 (2014).
69. Zhen Yang, Liangzi Deng, Yucheng Lan, Xiaoliu Zhang, Zhonghong Gao, Ching-Wu Chu, Dong Cai, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淢olecular extraction in single live cells by sneaking in and out magnetic nanomaterials鈥�, PNAS 111, 10966-10971 (2014).
70. Chuanfei Guo, Yucheng Lan, Tianyi Sun, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淒eformation-induced cold-welding for self-healing of super-durable flexible transparent electrodes鈥�, Nano Energy 8, 110-117 (2014).
71. Huaizhou Zhao, Jiehe Sui, Zhongjia Tang, Yucheng Lan, Qing Jie, Daniel Kraemer, Kenneth McEnaney, Arnold Guloy, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淗igh thermoelectric performance of MgAgSb-based materials鈥�, Nano Energy 7, 97-103 (2014).
72. Chuanfei Guo, Tianyi Sun, Qihan Liu, Zhigang Suo, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淗ighly stretchable and transparent nanomesh electrodes made by grain boundary lithography鈥�, Nature Communications 5, 3121 (2014).
73. Feng Cao, Kenneth McEnaney, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淩eview on Cermets-based Spectrally Selective Solar Absorbers鈥�, Energy Environ. Sci. 7, 1615-1627 (2014).
74. Weishu Liu, Chuanfei Guo, Qian Zhang, Yucheng Lan, Shuo Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淏i₂S₃ Nano Networks as Precursor for Improved Thermoelectric Performance鈥�, Nano Energy 4, 113-122 (2014).
75. Bing Han, Ke Pei, Yuanlin Huang, Xiaojian Zhang, Qikun Rong, Qinggeng Lin, Yangfei Guo, Tianyi Sun, Chuanfei Guo, David Carnahan, Michael Giersig, Yang Wang, Jinwei Gao, Zhifeng Ren, and Krzysztof Kempa, 鈥淯niform self-forming metallic network as a high performance transparent conductive electrode鈥�, Adv. Mater. 26, 873-877 (2014).
76. Longb Liao, Qiuhui Zhang, Zhihua Su, Zhongzheng Zhao, Yanan Wang, Yang Li, Xiaoxiang Lu, Dongguang Wei, Guoying Feng, Qingkai Yu, Xiaojun Cai, Jimin Zhao, Zhifeng Ren, Hui Fang, Francisco Robles Hernandez, Steven Baldelli, and Jiming Bao, 鈥淗igh-efficiency solar water splitting using a nanocrystalline CoO photocatalyst鈥�, Nature Nanotechnology 9, 69-73 (2014).

2013

77. Shuo Chen and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淩ecent progress of half-Heusler for moderate temperature thermoelectric applications鈥�, Materials Today 16, 387-395 (2013).
78. Gaohua Zhu, Weishu Liu, Yucheng Lan, Giri Joshi, Hui Wang, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淭he Effect of Secondary Phase on Thermoelectric Properties of Zn₄Sb₃ 颁辞尘辫辞耻苍诲鈥�, Nano Energy 2, 1172-1178 2013 (2013).
79. Q. Zhang, Y. C. Lan, S. L. Yang, F. Cao, M. L. Yao, C. Opeil, D. Broido, G. Chen, Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淚ncreased thermoelectric performance by Cl dopant in nanostructured AgPb₁₈SbSe₂₀鈥�, Nano Energy 2, 1121-1127 (2013).
80. Yucheng Lan, Yalin Lu, Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淢ini Review on Photocatalysis of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles and Their Solar Applications鈥�, Nano Energy 2, 1031-1045 (2013).
81. Shuo Chen, Kevin Lukas, Wei-shu Liu, Cyril Opeil, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淓ffect of Hf concentration on thermoelectric properties of nanostructured n-type half Heusler materials Hf_xZr_1-xNiSn_0.99Sb_0.01鈥�, Advanced Energy Materials 3, 1210-1214 (2013).
82. Xiao Yan, Weishu Liu, Shuo Chen, Hui Wang, Qian Zhang, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淭hermoelectric property study of nanostructured p-type half-Heuslers (Hf, Zr, Ti)CoSb_0.8Sn_0.2鈥�, Advanced Energy Materials 3, 1195-1200 (2013).
83. Qian Zhang, Bolin Liao, Yucheng Lan, Kevin Lukas, Weishu Liu, Keivan Esfarjani, Cyril Opeil, David Broido, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淗igh thermoelectric performance by resonant doping of indium in nanostructured SnTe鈥�, PNAS 110, 13261-13266 (2013).
84. Chuanfei Guo, Tianyi Sun, Yang Wang, Jinwei Gao, Qian Liu, Krzysztof Kempa, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淐onductive black silicon surface made by silver nano-network assisted etching鈥�, Small 9, 2415-2419 (2013).
85. Jinwei Gao, Ke Pei, Tianyi Sun, Yaohui Wang, Linghai Zhang, Weijin Peng, Qinggeng Lin, Michael Giersig, Krzysztof Kempa, Zhifeng Ren, and Yang Wang, 鈥淭ransparent Nanowire Network Electrode for Textured Semiconductors鈥�, Small 9, 733-737 (2013).
86. Andrew Muto, Jian Yang, Bed Poudel, Zhifeng Ren, and Gang Chen, 鈥淪kutterudite unicouple characterization for energy harvesting applications鈥�, Advanced Energy Materials 3, 245-251 (2013).
87. Weishu Liu, Kevin Lukas, Kenneth McEnaney, Sangyeop Lee, Qian Zhang, Cyril Opeil1, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淪tudies on the Bi₂Te₃鈥揃颈₂Se₃鈥揃颈₂S₃ system for mid-temperature thermoelectric energy conversion鈥�, Energy Environ. Sci. 6, 552-560 (2013).
88. G. Joshi, T. Dahal, S. Chen, H. Z. Wang, G. Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淓nhancement of thermoelectric figure-of-merit at low temperatures by titanium substitution for hafnium in n-type half-Heuslers Hf_0.75-xTi_xZr_0.25NiSn_0.99Sb_0.01鈥�, Nano Energy 2, 82-87 (2013).

2012

89. Maria N. Luckyanova, Jivtesh Garg, Keivan Esfarjani, Adam Jandl, Mayank T. Bulsara, Aaron J. Schmidt, Austin J. Minnich, Shuo Chen, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Zhifeng Ren, Eugene A. Fitzgerald, Gang Chen, 鈥淐oherent Phonon Heat Conduction in Superlattices鈥�, Science 338, 936-939 (2012).
90. Qian Zhang, Feng Cao, Kevin Lukas, Weishu Liu, Keivan Esfarjani, Cyril Opeil, David Broido, David Parker, David J. Singh, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淪tudy of the thermoelectric properties of lead selenide doped with boron, gallium, indium, or thallium鈥�. JACS 134, 17731-17738 (2012).
91. Qian Zhang, Feng Cao, Weishu Liu, Kevin Lukas, Bo Yu, Shuo Chen, Cyril Opeil, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淗eavy doping and band engineering by potassium to improve thermoelectric figure-of-merit in p-type PbTe, PbSe, and PbTe_1-ySe_y鈥�, JACS 134, 10031-10038 (2012).
92. Piotr Patoka, Tianyi Sun, Michael Giersig, Zhifeng Ren, and Krzysztof Kempa, 鈥淣anoribbon Plasmonic Gratings and their Anomalous Interaction with Electromagnetic Waves鈥�, Adv. Mater. 24, 3042-3045 (2012).
93. Xiao Yan, Weishu Liu, Hui Wang, Shuo Chen, Junichiro Shiomi, Keivan Esfarjani, Hengzhi Wang, Dezhi Wang, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淪tronger phonon scattering by larger differences in atomic mass and size in p-type half-Heuslers Hf_1-xTi_xCoSb_0.8Sn_0.2鈥�, Energy and Environmental Science 5, 7543-7548 (2012).
94. Qinyong Zhang, Hengzhi Wang, Qian Zhang, Weishu Liu, Bo Yu, Hui Wang, Dezhi Wang, George Ni, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淓ffect of silicon and sodium on thermoelectric properties of thallium doped lead telluride based materials鈥�, NanoLetters 12, 2324-2330 (2012).
95. Huaizhou Zhao, Binod Rizal, Gregory McMahon, Hengzhi Wang, Pashupati Dhakal, Timothy Kirkpatrick, Zhifeng Ren, Thomas C. Chiles, Michael J. Naughton, and Dong Cai, 鈥淯ltrasensitive Chemical Detection Using a Nanocoax Sensor鈥�, ACS Nano 6, 3171-3178 (2012).
96. Bo Yu, Weishu Liu, Shuo Chen, Hui Wang, Hengzhi Wang, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淭hermoelectric properties of copper selenide with ordered selenium layer and disordered Cu layer鈥�, Nano Energy 1, 472-478 (2012).
97. Bo Yu, Mona Zebarjadi, Hui Wang, Kevin Lukas, Hengzhi Wang, Dezhi Wang, Cyril Opeil, Mildred Dresselhaus, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淓nhancement of thermoelectric properties by modulation-doping in silicon germanium alloy 苍补苍辞肠辞尘辫辞蝉颈迟别蝉鈥�, NanoLetters 12, 2077-2082 (2012).
98. Yang Wang, Tianyi Sun, Trilochan Paudel, Yi Zhang, Zhifeng Ren, and Krzysztof Kempa, 鈥淢etamaterial-Plasmonic Absorber Structure for High Efficiency Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells鈥�, NanoLetters 12, 440-445 (2012).
99. Qian Zhang, Qinyong Zhang, Shuo Chen, Weishu Liu, Kevin Lukas, Xiao Yan, Hengzhi Wang, Dezhi Wang, Cyril Opeil, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淪uppression of grain growth by additive in nanostructured p-type bismuth antimony tellurides鈥�, Nano Energy 1, 183-189 (2012).
100. Weishu Liu, Xiao Yan, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淩ecent advances in thermoelectric 苍补苍辞肠辞尘辫辞蝉颈迟别蝉鈥�, Nano Energy 1, 42-56 (2012).
101. Qinyong Zhang, Hui Wang, Weishu Liu, Hengzhi Wang, Bo Yu, Qian Zhang, Zhiting Tian, George Ni, Sangyeop Lee, Keivan Esfarjani, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淓nhancement of thermoelectric figure-of-merit by resonant states of aluminium doping in lead selenide鈥�, Energy & Environmental Science 5, 5246-5251 (2012).
102. M. Zebarjadi, K. Esfarjani, M. S. Dresselhaus, Zhifeng Ren, and G. Chen, 鈥淧erspectives on Thermoelectrics: from fundamentals to device applications鈥�, Energy & Environmental Science 5, 5147-5162 (2012).

2011

103. Yucheng Lan, Yang Wang, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淧hysics and Applications of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes鈥�, Advances in Physics 60, 553-678 (2011).
104. Feng-Jia Fan, Bo Yu, Yi-Xiu Wang, Yan-Long Zhu, Xiao-Jing Liu, Shu-Hong Yu, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淐olloidal Synthesis of Cu₂CdSnSe₄ Nanocrystals and Hot-Pressing to Enhance the Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit鈥�, JACS 133, 15910-15913 (2011).
105. Giri Joshi, Xiao Yan, Hengzhi Wang, W. S. Liu, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淓nhancement in thermoelectric figure-of-merit of n-type half-Heusler compound by nanocomposite approach鈥�, Advanced Energy Materials 1, 643-647 (2011).
106. W. S. Liu, Q. Y. Zhang, Y. C. Lan, Shuo Chen, Xiao Yan, Qian Zhang, Hui Wang, D. Z. Wang, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淭hermoelectric property studies on Cu doped n-type Cu_xBi₂Te_2.7Se_0.3 苍补苍辞肠辞尘辫辞蝉颈迟别蝉鈥�, Advanced Energy Materials 1, 577-587 (2011).
107. D. Kraemer, B. Poudel, H.-P. Feng, J. C. Caylor, B. Yu, X. Yan, Y. Ma, X. W. Wang, D. Z. Wang, A. Muto, K. McEnaney, Q. Hao, M. Chiesa, Zhifeng Ren, and G. Chen, 鈥淗igh-performance solar thermoelectric generators with flat-panel thermal concentration鈥�, Nature Materials 10, 532-538 (2011).
108. Mona Zebarjadi, Giri Joshi, Gaohua Zhu, Bo Yu, Austin Minnich, Yucheng Lan, Xiaowei Wang, Mildred Dresselhaus, Zhifeng Ren, and Gang Chen, 鈥淧ower factor enhancement by modulation doping in bulk 苍补苍辞肠辞尘辫辞蝉颈迟别蝉鈥�, NanoLetters 11, 2225-2230 (2011).
109. Hsien-Ping Feng, Trilochan Paudel, Bo Yu, Shuo Chen, Zhifeng Ren, and Gang Chen, 鈥淣anoparticle-Enabled Selective Electrodeposition鈥�, Adv. Mater. 23 2454-2459 (2011).
110. Y. Q. Zhang, M. S. Dresselhaus, Y. Shi, Zhifeng Ren, and G. Chen, 鈥淗igh thermoelectric figure-of-merit in Kondo-insulator nanowires at low temperatures鈥�, NanoLetters 11, 1166-1170 (2011).
111. X. Yan, G. Joshi, W. S. Liu, Y. C. Lan, H. Wang, S. Lee, J. W. Simonson, S. J. Poon, T. M. Tritt, G. Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淓nhanced Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit of p-Type Half-Heuslers鈥�, NanoLetters 11, 556-560 (2011).

2010

112. Xiao Yan, Bed Poudel, Yi Ma, W. S. Liu, G. Joshi, Hui Wang, Yucheng Lan, Dezhi Wang, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淓xperimental Studies on Anisotropic Thermoelectric Properties and Structures of n-type Bi₂Te_2.7Se_0.3鈥�, NanoLetters 10, 3373-3378 (2010).
113. D. Cai, L. Ren, H. Z. Zhao, C. J. Xu, Y. Yu, H. Z. Wang, Y. C. Lan, M. Roberts, M. J. Naughton, Zhifeng Ren, and T. Chiles, 鈥淎 molecular imprint nanosensor for ultra sensitive detection of proteins鈥�, Nature Nanotechnology 5, 597-601 (2010).
114. Y. C. Lan, A. J. Minnich, G. Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淭hermoelectric Figure-of-Merit Enhancement Using A Nanocomposite Approach鈥�, Adv. Func. Mater. 20, 357-376 (2010).

2009

115. Y. C. Lan, H. Wang, X. Y. Chen, D. Z. Wang, G. Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淣anothermometer Using Single Crystal Silver Nanospheres鈥�, Adv. Mater. 21, 4839-4844 (2009).
116. K. F. Wang, J. M. Liu, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淢ultiferroicity: the Coupling between Magnetic and Polarization Orders鈥�, Advances in Physics 58, 321-448 (2009).
117. G. H. Zhu, H. Lee, Y. C. Lan, X. W. Wang, G. Joshi, D. Z. Wang, J. Yang, D. Vashaee, H. Guilbert, A. Pillitteri, M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淚ncreased Phonon Scattering by Nanograins and Point Defects in Nanostructured Silicon with a Low Concentration of Germanium鈥�, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 196803 (2009).
118. A. J. Minnich, M. S. Dresselhaus, Zhifeng Ren, and G. Chen, 鈥淏ulk Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials: Current Research and Future Prospects鈥�, Energy & Environmental Science 2, 466-479 (2009).
119. Y. C. Lan, B. Poudel, Y. Ma, D. Z. Wang, M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淪tructure Study of Bulk Nanograined Thermoelectric Bismuth Antimony Telluride鈥� NanoLetters 9, 1419-1422 (2009).

2008

120. Giri Joshi, Hohyun Lee, Yucheng Lan, Xiaowei Wang, Gaohua Zhu, Dezhi Wang, Ryan W. Gould, Diana C. Cuff, Ming Y. Tang, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淓nhanced thermoelectric figure鈥搊f鈥搈erit in nanostructured p鈥搕ype silicon germanium bulk alloys鈥� NanoLetters 8, 4670-4674 (2008).
121. Jessica Campos-Delgado, Jose Manuel Romo-Herrera, Xiaoting Jia, David A. Cullen, Hiroyuki Muramatsu, Yoong Ahm Kim, Takuya Hayashi, Zhifeng Ren, David J. Smith, Yu Okuno, Tomonori Ohba, Hirofumi Kanoh, Katsumi Kaneko, Morinobu Endo, Humberto Terrones, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, and Mauricio Terrones, 鈥淏ulk Production of a New Form of sp² Carbon: Crystalline Graphene Nanoribbons鈥�, NanoLetters 8, 2773-2778 (2008).
122. Yi Ma, Qing Hao, Bed Poudel, Yucheng Lan, Bo Yu, Dezhi Wang, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren 鈥淓nhanced Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit in p-Type Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Tellurium Alloys Made from Elemental Chunks鈥�, NanoLetters 8, 2580-2584 (2008).
123. Bed Poudel, Qing Hao, Yi Ma, Yucheng Lan, Austin Minnich, Bo Yu, Xiao Yan, Dezhi Wang, Andrew Muto, Daryoosh Vashaee, Xiaoyuan Chen, Junming Liu, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淗igh-Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys鈥�, Science 320, 634-638 (2008).

2007

124. F. Gao, Xinyi Chen, Kuibo Yin, Shuai Dong, Zhifeng Ren, Fang Yuan, Tao Yu, Zhigang Zou, and Jun-Ming Liu, 鈥淰isible-Light Photocatalytic Properties of Weak Magnetic BiFeO₃ 狈补苍辞辫补谤迟颈肠濒别蝉鈥�, Adv. Mater. 19, 2889-2892 (2007).
125. J. Y. Huang, S. Chen, Zhifeng Ren, Z. Wang, K. Kempa, M. J. Naughton, G. Chen, and M. S. Dresselhaus, 鈥淓nhanced Ductile Behavior of Tensile-Elongated Individual Double-Walled and Triple-Walled Carbon Nanotubes at High Temperatures鈥�, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 185501 (2007).
126. Krzysztof Kempa, Jakub Rybczynski, Zhongping Huang, Keith Gregorczyk, Andy Vidan, Brian Kimball, Joel Carlson, Glynda Benham, Yang Wang, Andrzej Herczynski, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淐arbon nanotubes as optical antennae鈥�, Adv. Mater. 19, 421-426 (2007).
127. M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, M. Y. Tang, R. G. Yang, H. Lee, D. Z. Wang, Zhifeng Ren, J. P. Fleurial, and P. Gogna, 鈥淣ew Directions for Low Dimensional Thermoelectric Materials鈥�, Adv. Mater. 19, 1043-1053 (2007).
128. Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淣anotube Synthesis: Cloning Carbon鈥�, News and Views in Nature Nanotechnology 2, 17-18 (2007).

2006

129. Wenzhong Wang, Baoqing Zeng, Jian Yang, Bed Poudel, J. Y. Huang, M. J. Naughton, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淎ligned Ultralong ZnO Nanobelts and Their Enhanced Field Emission鈥�, Adv. Mater. 18, 3275-3278 (2006).
130. J. Y. Huang, S. Chen, Zhifeng Ren, Z. Q. Wang, D. Z. Wang, M. Vaziri, Z. Suo, G. Chen, and M. S. Dresselhaus, 鈥淜ink Formation and Motion in Carbon Nanotubes at High Temperatures鈥�, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 075501 (2006).
131. J. Y. Huang, S. Chen, Zhifeng Ren, G. Chen, and M. S. Dresselhaus, 鈥淩eal time observation of tubule formation from amorphous carbon nanowires under high-bias Joule heating鈥�, NanoLetters 6, 1699-1705 (2006).
132. Jiming Bao, Mariano A. Zimmler, Federico Capasso, Xiaowei Wang, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淏roadband ZnO single-nanowire light-emitting diode鈥�, NanoLetters 6, 1719-1722 (2006).
133. J. Y. Huang, S. Chen, Z. Q. Wang, K. Kempa, Y. M. Wang, S. H. Jo, G. Chen, M. S. Dresselhaus, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淪uperplastic carbon nanotubes鈥�, Nature 439, 281 (2006).

2005

134. Wenzhong Wang, Bed Poudel, D. Z. Wang, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淪ynthesis of multiwalled carbon nanotubes through a modified Wolff-Kishner reduction process鈥�, J. of American Chemical Society 127, 18018-18019 (2005).
135. Wenzhong Wang, Bed Poudel, Jian Yang, D. Z. Wang, Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淗igh-Yield Synthesis of Single Crystalline Antimony Telluride Hexagonal Nanoplates Using a Low-Temperature Organic Solution Approach鈥�, J. of American Chemical Society 127, 13792-13793 (2005).
136. W. Z. Wang, B. Poudel, D. Z. Wang, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淪ynthesis of PbTe Nanoboxes Using a Solvothermal Technique鈥�, Advanced Materials 17, 2110-2114 (2005).
137. J. Y. Huang, S. Chen, S. H. Jo, Z. Wang, D.X. Han, G. Chen, M.S. Dresselhaus, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淎tomic scale imaging of wall-by-wall breakdown and concurrent transport measurements in multiwall carbon nanotubes鈥�, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 236802 (2005).
138. D. Cai, J. Mataraza, Z. P. Huang, J. Y. Huang, Z. H. Qin, T. C. Chiles, D. Carnahan, K. Kempa, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淗ighly Efficient Molecular Delivery into Mammalian Cells Using Carbon Nanotube Spearing鈥�, Nature Methods 2, 449-454 (2005).

2004

139. D. Banerjee, S. H. Jo, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淓nhanced field emission of ZnO nanowires鈥�, Advanced Materials 16, 2028-2032 (2004).
140. J. Rybczynski, D. Banerjee, A. Kosiorek, M. Giersig, Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淔ormation of super arrays of periodic nanoparticles and aligned ZnO nanorods - simulation and experiments鈥�, NanoLetters 4, 2037-2040 (2004).
141. J. A. Rojas-Chapana, M. A. Correa-Duarte, Zhifeng Ren, K. Kempa, and M. Giersig, 鈥淓nhanced Introduction of Gold Nanoparticles into Vital Acidothiobacillus Ferrooxidans by Carbon Nanotubes-based Microwave Electroporation鈥�, NanoLetters 4, 985-988 (2004).
142. Y. H. Lin, F. Lu, Y. Tu, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淕lucose Biosensors Based on Carbon Nanotube Nanoelectrode Ensembles鈥�, NanoLetters 4, 191-195 (2004).
143. J. Y. Lao, J. Y. Huang, D. Z. Wang, Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淪elf-assembled In₂O₃ Nanocrystal Chains and Nanowire Networks鈥�, Adv. Mater. 16, 65-69 (2004).

2003

144. Y. Tu, Yuehe Lin, Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淣anoelectrode Arrays Based on Low Site Density Aligned Carbon Nanotubes鈥�, NanoLetters 3, 107-109 (2003).
145. J. Y. Lao, J. Y. Huang, D. Z. Wang, Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淶nO nanobridges and nanonails鈥�, NanoLetters 3, 235-238 (2003).
146. K. Kempa, B. Kimball, J. Rybczynski, Z. P. Huang, P. F. Wu, D. Steeves, M. Sennett, M. Giersig, D. V. G. L. N. Rao, D. L. Carnahan, D. Z. Wang, J. Y. Lao, W. Z. Li, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淧hotonic crystals based on periodic arrays of aligned carbon nanotubes鈥�, NanoLetters 3, 13-18 (2003).

2002

147. J. Y. Lao, J. G. Wen, and Zhifeng Ren, 鈥淗ierarchical ZnO nanostructures鈥�, NanoLetters 2, 1287-1291 (2002).

1998

148. Zhifeng Ren, Z. P. Huang, J. W. Xu, J. H. Wang, P. Bush, M. P. Siegal, and P. N. Provencio, "Synthesis of Large Arrays of Well-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on Glass", Science 282, 1105-1107 (1998).
149. A. A. Tsvetkov, D. van der Marel, K. A. Moler, and J. R. Kirtley, J. L. de Boer, A. Meetsma, Zhifeng Ren, N. Koleshnikov, D. Dulic, A. Damascelli, M. Gruninger, J. Schutzmann, J. W. van der Eb, and J. H. Wang, 鈥淕lobal and Local Measures of the Intrinsic Josephson Coupling in Tl₂Ba₂CuO_6+未 as a Test of the Interlayer Tunneling Model鈥�, Nature 395, 360-362 (1998).

1997

150. C. C. Tsuei, J. R. Kirtley, Zhifeng Ren, J. H. Wang, H. Raffy, and Z. Z. Li, 鈥淧ure d_x2-y2 order-parameter symmetry in the tetragonal superconductor Tl₂Ba₂CuO_6+未鈥�, Nature 387, 481-483 (1997).

1996

151. C. C. Tsuei, J. R. Kirtley, M. Rupp. J. Z. Sun, A. Gupta, M. B. Ketchen, C. A. Wang, Zhifeng Ren, J. H. Wang, and M. Bhushan, 鈥淗alf-Integer Flux Quantum Effect and Pairing Symmetry in High-T_c One-Layer Tetragonal Tl₂Ba₂CuO_6+d 厂耻辫别谤肠辞苍诲耻肠迟辞谤蝉鈥�, Science 271, 329-332 (1996).

Selected Honors and Awards

Fellow of the American Physical Society 2004
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2005
Distinguished Senior Research Award of Boston College 2006
R&D 100 Award for the development of high performance thermoelectric materials 2008
Ranked as the 49th of the world鈥檚 top 100 Materials Scientists of the decade 2000-2010 2011
Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors 2013
The Edith and Peter O鈥橠onnell Award in Science from The Academy of
Medicine, Engineering & Science of Texas (TAMEST) 2014
Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity of UH (Full Professor) 2018
Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2018
Highly Cited Researcher (Physics) 2018
Sigma Xi full membership 2019

Professional Activities

Editor-in-Chief, 鈥淢aterials Today Physics鈥�, 2017-
Associate Editor: 鈥淢aterials Today Nano鈥�, 2018-
Associate Editor: 鈥淩esearch鈥�, a Science Partner Journal, 2018-
Editorial Board: 鈥渘pj Quantum Materials鈥�, 2016-
Editorial Board, 鈥淢ateriomics鈥�, 2014-
Editorial Board, 鈥淧rogress in Physics鈥�, 2009-
Editorial Advisory Board, 鈥淩ecent Patents on Nanotechnology鈥�, 2007-2015
Editorial Board, 鈥淛ournal of Materials Science & Surface Engineering (JMSSE)鈥�, 2013-2015
Editorial Board, 鈥淛ournal of Surface Engineered Materials and Advanced Technology鈥�, 2012-2015
Regional Editor, 鈥淐urrent Bionanotechnology鈥�, 2013-2014
Proposal Review Committee for the Center of Nanophase Materials Science of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2007-
Wuxi New District International Advisory & Consultative Committee, 2009-2010
Organizing Committee for Establishing the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, 2009-2010
Co-Founder of NanoLab, Inc. in 2000, commercialization of carbon nanotubes
Co-Founder of Solasta, Inc. in 2006, commercialization of highly efficient solar cells
Co-Founder of GMZ Energy, Inc. in 2006, commercialization of high ZT thermoelectric materials
Board of directors for GMZ Energy China, 2011-2015
Co-Founder of APower, Inc. in 2015, commercialization of thermoelectric materials