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247. Hengzhi Wang, Qingjun Cai, Chung-Lung Chen, Dezhi Wang, and Zhifeng Ren, “Growth of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on ALD-Al2O3 Coated Silicon and Quartz Substrates”, Journal of Experimental Nanoscience 6, 464-472 (2011).

246. Kenneth McEnaney, Daniel Kraemer, Zhifeng Ren, and Gang Chen, "Modeling of concentrating solar thermoelectric generators", Journal of Applied Physics 110, 074502 (2011)

245. Chetan Dhital, Clarina de la Cruz, C. Opeil, A. Treat, K. F. Wang, J.-M. Liu, Zhifeng Ren and Stephen D. Wilson, "Neutron scattering study of magnetic phase separation in nanocrystalline La5/8Ca3/8MnO3", Physical Review B 84, 144401 (2011).

244. Hengzhi Wang and Zhifeng Ren, "The evolution of carbon nanotubes during their growth by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition", Nanotechnology 22, 405601(2011).

243. Huaizhou Zhao, Mani Pokheral, Gaohua Zhu, Shuo Chen, Kevin Lukas, Qing Jie, Cyril Opeil, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, "Dramatic thermal conductivity reduction by nanostructures for large increase in thermoelectric figure-of-merit of FeSb2", Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 163101 (2011).

242. Yucheng Lan, Yang Wang, and Zhifeng Ren, “Physics and Applications of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes”, Advances in Physics 60, 553 – 678 (2011).

241. Feng-Jia Fan, Bo Yu, Yi-Xiu Wang, Yan-Long Zhu, Xiao-Jing Liu, Shu-Hong Yu, and Zhifeng Ren, "Colloidal Synthesis of Cu2CdSnSe4 Nanocrystals and Hot-Pressing to Enhance the Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit", JACS 133, 15910-15913(2011)

240. Giri Joshi, Xiao Yan, Hengzhi Wang, W. S. Liu, Gang Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Enhancement in thermoelectric figure-of-merit of n-type half-Heusler compound by nanocomposite approach”, Advanced Energy Materials 1, 643 – 647 (2011).

239. W. S. Liu, Q. Y. Zhang, Y. C. Lan, Shuo Chen, Xiao Yan, Qian Zhang, Hui Wang, D. Z. Wang, Gang Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Thermoelectric property studies on Cu doped n-type CuxBi2Te2.7Se0.3 nanocomposites”, Advanced Energy Materials 1, 577 – 587 (2011).

238. J. M. Bao, I. Shalish, Z. H. Su, R. Gurwitz, F. Capasso, X. W. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Photoinduced oxygen release and persistent photoconductivity in ZnO nanowires”, Nanoscale Research Letters 6, 404 (2011).

237. 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, Z. F. Ren, and G. Chen, “High-performance solar thermoelectric generators with flat-panel thermal concentration”, Nature Materials 10, 532 – 538 (2011).

236. Mona Zebarjadi, Giri Joshi, Gaohua Zhu, Bo Yu, Austin Minnich, Yucheng Lan, Xiaowei Wang, Mildred Dresselhaus, Zhifeng Ren, and Gang Chen, “Power factor enhancement by modulation doping in bulk nanocomposites”, NanoLetters 11, 2225 – 2230 (2011).

235. Hsien-Ping Feng, Trilochan Paudel, Bo Yu, Shuo Chen, Z. F. Ren, and Gang Chen, “Nanoparticle-Enabled Selective Electrodeposition”, Adv. Mater. 23 2454 – 2459 (2011).

234. H. Z. Wang, Q. Y. Zhang, B. Yu, H. Wang, W. S. Liu, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, "TEM study of Pb-depleted discs in PbTe-based alloys", J. Materials Research 26, 912 – 916 (2011).

233. T. Paudel, J. Rybczynski, Y. T. Gao, Y. C. Lan, Y. Peng, K. Kempa, M. J. Naughton, and Z. F. Ren, “Nanocoax solar cells based on aligned multiwalled carbon nanotube arrays”, Phys. Status Solidi A 208, 924 – 927 (2011).

232. Y. Q. Zhang, M. S. Dresselhaus, Y. Shi, Z. F. Ren, and G. Chen, “High thermoelectric figure-of-merit in Kondo-insulator nanowires at low temperatures”, NanoLetters 11, 1166 – 1170 (2011).

231. G. H. Zhu, Y. C. Lan, H. Wang, G. Joshi, Q. Hao, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, "Effect of selenium deficiency on the thermoelectric properties of n-type In4Se3−x compounds", Phys. Rev. B 83, 115201 (2011).

230. H. P. Feng, Bo Yu, Shuo Chen, K. Collins, Chao He, Z. F. Ren, and Gang Chen, "Studies on surface preparation and smoothness of nanostructured Bi2Te3-based alloys by electrochemical and mechanical methods", Electrochimica Acta 56, 3079 – 3084 (2011).

229. 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 Z. F. Ren, "Enhanced Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit of p-Type Half-Heuslers", NanoLetters 11, 556 – 560 (2011).

228. N. Zhang, S. Dong, G. Q. Zhang, L. Lin, Y. Y. Guo, J. -M. Liu, and Z. F. Ren, "Multiferroic phase diagram of Y partially substituted Dy1-xYxMnO3", Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 012510 (2011).