Ren, Zhifeng - University of Houston - Department of Physics and TcSUH

个人简介

Ph.D: Condensed Matter Physics Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. 87-90 M.S. Materials Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. 84-87 B.S. Materials Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sichuan Institute of Technology, Chengdu, China. 80-84 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’s top 100 Materials Scientists of the decade 2000-2010 2011 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors 2013 The Edith and Peter O’Donnell 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

研究领域

High performance thermoelectric materials: nanostructure approach to reduce thermal conductivity and to improve thermoelectric properties for waste heat conversion into electricity; Catalysts for water splitting: synthesis and testing of efficient catalysts for hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions; Nanosheet for enhanced oil recovery: synthesis and characterizations of high performance nanosheet for enhanced oil recovery; Thermal management: efficient cooling materials, thermal storage, high thermal conductivity; Superconductivity: synthesis and characterizations of new superconductors; Solar energy conversion: electricity and heat co-generation by thermoelectric materials; Flexible transparent electrodes: fabrication and understanding of flexible transparent electrodes; Carbon nanotubes and nanocomposites: deformation and mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes and other nanowires by high resolution transmission electron microscope.

近期论文

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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, “Discovery of TaFeSb-based half-Heuslers with high thermoelectric performance”, Nature Communications 10, 270 (2019). Siya Huang, Yuan Liu, Yue Zhao, Zhifeng Ren, and Chuan Fei Guo, “Flexible Electronics: Stretchable Electrodes and Their Future”, Advanced Functional Materials 29, 1805924 (2019). 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, “Zintl Phase Eu2ZnSb2: A New Promising Thermoelectric Material with Ultralow Thermal Conductivity”, PNAS 116, 2831-2836 (2019). Fei Tian and Zhifeng Ren, “High Thermal Conductivity in Boron Arsenide: from Prediction to Reality”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 58, 5824-5831 (2019). Jingying Sun, Muqing Ren, Luo Yu, Ze Yang, Lixin Xie, Fei Tian, Ying Yu, Zhifeng Ren, Shuo Chen, and Haiqing Zhou, “Highly efficient hydrogen evolution from a mesoporous hybrid of nickel phosphide nanoparticles anchored on cobalt phosphosulfide/phosphide nanosheet arrays”, Small 15, 1804272 (2019). Xiaoyuan Zhou, Yanci Yan, Xu Lu, Hangtian Zhu, Xiaodong Han, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, “Routes for High Performance Thermoelectric Materials”, Materials Today 21, 974-988 (2018). 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, “Ternary Ni2(1-x)Mo2xP Nanowire Arrays toward Efficient and Stable Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalysis under Large-Current-Density”, Nano Energy 53, 492-500 (2018). Haiqing Zhou, Fang Yu, Qing Zhu, Jingying Sun, Fan Qin, Luo Yu, Jiming Bao, Ying Yu, Shuo Chen, Zhifeng Ren, “Water splitting by electrolysis at high current density under 1.6 volt”, Energy Environ. Sci. 11, 2858-2864 (2018). 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, “Unusual High Thermal Conductivity in Boron Arsenide Bulk Crystals”, Science 361, 582-585 (2018). Ishwar Kumar Mishra, Haiqing Zhou, Jingying Sun, Fan Qing, Keshab Dahal, Jiming Bao, Shuo Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, “Hierarchical CoP/Ni5P4/CoP Microsheet Arrays as a Robust pH-Universal Electrocatalyst for Efficient Hydrogen Generation”, Energy Environ. Sci. 11, 2246-2252 (2018). Fang Yu, Haiqing Zhou, Yufeng Huang, Jingying Sun, Fan Qin, Jiming Bao, William A. Goddard III, Shuo Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, “High-performance bifunctional porous non-noble metal phosphide catalyst for overall water splitting”, Nature Communications 9, 2551 (2018). 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, “Phase transition temperature suppression to achieve cubic GeTe and high thermoelectric performance by Bi and Mn codoping”, PNAS 115, 5332-5337 (2018). 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, “Discovery of ZrCoBi-based half-Heuslers with high thermoelectric conversion efficiency”, Nature Communications 9, 2497 (2018). 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, “Large thermoelectric power factor from crystal symmetry-protected non-bonding orbital in half-Heuslers”, Nature Communications 9, 1721 (2018). 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, “Deep defect level engineering: a strategy of optimizing the carrier concentration for high thermoelectric performance”, Energy Environ. Sci. 11, 933-940 (2018). 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, “Self-compensation induced vacancies for significant phonon scattering in InSb”, Nano Energy 48, 189-196 (2018). Jing Shuai, Binghui Ge, Jun Mao, Shaowei Song, Yumei Wang, and Zhifeng Ren, “The significant role of Mg stoichiometry in designing high Thermoelectric performance for Mg3(Sb,Bi)2-based n-type Zintls”, JACS 140, 1910-1915 (2018). Zihang Liu, Jun Mao, Jiehe Sui, and Zhifeng Ren, “High thermoelectric performance of α-MgAgSb for power generation”, Energy Environ. Sci. 11, 23-44 (2018). 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, “Manipulation of Ionized Impurity Scattering for Achieving High Thermoelectric Performance in n-type Mg3Sb2-Based Materials”, PNAS 114, 10548-10553 (2017). 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, “Hierarchical Cu@CoFe Layered Double Hydroxide Core-Shell Nanoarrays as Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Efficient Overall Water Splitting”, Nano Energy 41, 327-336 (2017).