402. Qichen Song, Jiawei Zhou, Laureen Meroueh, David Broido, Zhifeng Ren, and Gang Chen, “The Effect of Shallow vs. Deep Level Doping on the Performance of Thermoelectric Materials”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 263902 (2016).
401. Jun Mao, Hee Seok Kim, Jing Shuai, Zihang Liu, Ran He, Udara Saparamadu, Fei Tian, Weishu Liu, Zhifeng Ren. "Thermoelectric properties of materials near the band crossing line in Mg2Sn-Mg2Ge-Mg2Si system", Acta Materialia 103, 633-642 (2016).
400. Haiqing Zhou, Fang Yu, Jingying Sun, Hangtian Zhu, Ishwar Kumar Mishra, Shuo Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, “Highly efficient hydrogen evolution from edge-oriented WS2(1-x)Se2x particles on three-dimensional porous NiSe2 foam”, Nano Letters 16, 7604-7609 (2016).
399. Jun Mao, Zihang Liu, and Zhifeng Ren, “Size Effect in Thermoelectric Materials”, NPJ Quantum Materials 1, 16028 (2016).
398. Feng Cao,Yi Huang, Lu Tang, Tianyi Sun, Svetlana Boriskin, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, “Toward a High-Efficient Utilization of Solar Radiation by Quad-Band Solar Spectral Splitting”, Advanced Materials 28, 10659-10663 (2016).
397. Zhaoyang Lin, Anxiang Yin, Jun Mao, Yi Xia, Nicholas Kempf, Qiyuan He, Yiliu Wang, Chih-Yen Chen, Yanliang Zhang, Vidvuds Ozolins, Zhifeng Ren, Yu Huang, and Xiangfeng Duan, “Scalable solution-phase epitaxial growth of symmetry-mismatched heterostructures on two-dimensional crystal soft template”, Sci. Adv. 2, e1600993 (2016).
396. Ran He, Daniel Kraemer, Jun Mao, Qing Jie, Yucheng Lan, Chunhua Li, Jing Shuai, Hee Seok Kim, David Broido, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, “Achieving high power factor and output power density in p-type half-Heuslers Nb1-xTixFeSb”, PNAS 113, 13576-13581 (2016).
395. Zihang Liu, Huiyuan Geng, Jun Mao, Jing Shuai, Ran He, Chao Wang, Wei Cai, Jiehe Sui, and Zhifeng Ren, “Understanding and manipulating the intrinsic point defect in α-MgAgSb for higher thermoelectric performance”, J. of Materials Chemistry A 4, 16834-16840 (2016).
394. Daniel Kraemer, Qing Jie, Kenneth McEnaney, Feng Cao, Weishu Liu, Lee Weinstein, James Loomis, Zhifeng Ren, and Gang Chen, “Concentrating solar thermoelectric generators with a peak efficiency of 7.4%", Nature Energy 1, 16153 (2016).
393. J. de Boor, U. Saparamadu, J. Mao, K. Dahal, E. Müller, Zhifeng Ren, “Thermoelectric performance of Li doped, p-type Mg2(Ge,Sn) and comparison with Mg2(Si,Sn)”, Acta Materialia 120, 273-280 (2016).
392. Tulashi Dahal, Hee Seok Kim, Sonika Gahlawat, Keshab Dahal, Qing Jie, Weishu Liu, Yucheng Lan, Kenneth White, and Zhifeng Ren, “Transport and mechanical properties of the double-filled p-type skutterudites La0.68Ce0.22Fe4-xCoxSb12”, Acta Materialia 117, 13-22 (2016).
391. 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, “Optimization of hierarchical structure and nanoscale-enabled plasmonic refraction for window electrodes in photovoltaics”, Nature Communications 7, 12825 (2016).
390. Haiqing Zhou, Fang Yu, Yufeng Huang, Jingying Sun, Robert J. Nielsen, William A. Goddard III, Shuo Chen, Zhifeng Ren, “Efficient hydrogen evolution by ternary molybdenum sulfoselenide MoS2(1-x)Se2x particles on self-standing porous NiSe2 foam”, Nature Communications 7, 12765 (2016).
389. Jing Shuai, Huiyuan Geng, Yucheng Lan, Zhuan Zhu, Chao Wang, Zihang Liu, Jiming Bao, Ching-Wu Chu, Jiehe Sui, and Zhifeng Ren, “Higher thermoelectric performance of Zintl phases (Eu0.5Yb0.5)1-xCaxMg2Bi2 by band engineering and strain fluctuation”, PNAS 113, E4125-E4132 (2016).
388. Jun Mao, Yumei Wang, Binghui Ge, Qing Jie, Zihang Liu, Udara Saparamadu, Weishu Liu, and Zhifeng Ren, “Thermoelectric performance enhancement of Mg2Sn based solid solutions by band convergence and phonon scattering via Pb and Si/Ge substitution for Sn”, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18, 20726-20737 (2016).
387. Dan Luo, Feng Wang, Jingyi Zhu, Feng Cao, Yuan Liu, Xiaogang Li, Richard C. Willson, Zhaozhong Yang, Ching-Wu Chu, and Zhifeng Ren, “Nanofluid of graphene-based amphiphilic Janus nanosheets for tertiary or enhanced oil recovery: High performance at low concentration”, PNAS 113, 7711-7716 (2016).
386. Jun Mao, Weishu Liu andZhifeng Ren, "Carrier distribution in multi-band materials and its effect on thermoelectric properties", J Materiomics 2, 203-211 (2016)
385. Zhuan Zhu, Jiangtan Yuan, Haiqing Zhou, Jonathan Hu, Jing Zhang, Chengli Wei, Fang Yu, Shuo Chen, Yucheng Lan, Yao Yang, Yanan Wang, Chao Niu, Zhifeng Ren, Jun Lou, Zhiming Wang, and Jiming Bao, “Excitonic Resonant Emission−Absorption of Surface Plasmons in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides for Chip-Level Electronic−Photonic Integrated Circuits”, ACS Photonics 3, 869-874 (2016).
384. Hee Seok Kim, Tianbao Wang, Weishu Liu, and Zhifeng Ren, “Engineering thermal conductivity for balancing between reliability and performance of bulk thermoelectric generators”, Adv. Func. Mater. 26, 3678-3686 (2016).
383. Haiqing Zhou, Fang Yu, Jingying Sun, Ran He, Yumei Wang, Chuan Fei Guo, Feng Wang, Yucheng Lan, Zhifeng Ren, and Shuo Chen, “Highly active and durable self-standing WS2/graphene hybrid catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction”, J. Materials Chemistry A 4, 9472-9476 (2016).
382. Ran He, Lihong Huang, Yumei Wang, Georgy Samsonidze, Boris Kozinsky, Qinyong Zhang, and Zhifeng Ren, “Enhanced thermoelectric properties of n-type NbCoSn half-Heusler by improving phase purification”, APL Materials 4, 104804 (2016).
381. Lihong Huang, Qinyong Zhang, Bo Yuan, Xiang Lai, Xiao Yan, Zhifeng Ren, “Recent progress in half-Heusler thermoelectric materials”, Materials Research Bulletin 76, 107-112 (2016).
380. 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”, Adv. Energy Mater. 6, 1502269 (2016).
379. A. J. Hong, J. J. Gong, L. Li, Z. B. Yan, Z. F. Ren, and J.-M. Liu, “Predicting high thermoelectric performance of ABX ternary compounds NaMgX (X = P, Sb, As) with weak electron–phonon coupling and strong bonding anharmonicity”, J. of Materials Chemistry C 4, 3281 (2016).
378. Jing Shuai, Yumei Wang, Zihang Liu, Hee Seok Kim, Jun Mao, Jiehe Sui, and Zhifeng Ren, “Enhancement of thermoelectric performance of phase pure Zintl compounds Ca1-xYbxZn2Sb2, Ca1-xEuxZn2Sb2, and Eu1-xYbxZn2Sb2 by mechanical alloying and hot pressing”, Nano Energy 25, 136-144 (2016).
377. Hao Zhang, Yumei Wang, Keshab Dahal, Jun Mao, Lihong Huan, Qinyong Zhang, and Zhifeng Ren, “Thermoelectric properties of n-type half-Heusler compounds (Hf0.25Zr0.75)1-xNbxNiSn”, Acta Materialia 113, 41-47 (2016).
376. J. Shuai, H. S. Kim, Z. H. Liu, R. He, J. H. Sui and Z. F. Ren, "Thermoelectric properties of Zintl compound Ca1-xNaxMg2Bi1.98", App. Phys. Lett. 108, 183901 (2016)
375. Q. Zhang, E. K. Chere, Y. M. Wang, H. S. Kim, R. He, F. Cao, K. Dahal, D. Broido, G. Chen and Zhifeng Ren, "High thermoelectric performance of n-type PbTe1-ySy due to deep lying states induced by indium doping and spinodal decomposition", Nano Energy 22, 572–582 (2016)
374. A. J. Hong, L. Li, R. He, J. J. Gong, Z. B. Yan, K. F. Wang, J. -M. Liu, Z. F. Ren, “Full-scale computation for all the thermoelectric property parameters of half-Heusler compounds”, Sci. Rep. 6, 22778 (2016).
373. Yuan Liu, Xiuzhang Wang, Yumei Wang, Zhongjia Tang, Tatyana Makarenko, Arnold Guloy, Qinyong Zhang, and Zhifeng Ren, “Ultra-low thermal conductivities of hot-pressed attapulgite and its potential as thermal insulation material”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 108, 101906 (2016).
372. Jing Shuai, Zihang Liu, Hee Seok Kim, Yumei Wang, Jun Mao, Ran He, Jiehe Sui, and Zhifeng Ren, “Thermoelectric properties of Bi-based Zintl compounds Ca1-xYbxMg2Bi2”, J. Materials Chemistry A 4, 4312-4320, (2016).
371. Weishu liu, Jiawei Zhou, Qing Jie, Yang Li, Hee Seok Kim, Jiming Bao, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, “New insight into the material parameter B to understand the enhanced thermoelectric performance of Mg2Sn1-x-yGexSby”, Energy and Environmental Science 9, 530-539 (2016).
370. Eyob K. Chere, Qian Zhang, Keshab Dahal, Feng Cao, Jun Mao, and Zhifeng Ren, “Studies on thermoelectric figure of merit of Na doped p-type polycrystalline SnSe”, J. Materials Chemistry A 4, 1848-1854 (2016).
369. Chuan Fei Guo, Yan Chen, Lu Tang, Feng Wang, and Zhifeng Ren, “Enhancing the Scratch Resistance by Introducing Chemical Bonding in highly Stretchable and Transparent Electrodes”, Nano Letters 16, 594-600 (2016).
368. Lu Tang, Feng Cao, Yang Li, Jiming Bao, and Zhifeng Ren, “High performance mid-temperature selective absorber based on titanium oxides cermet deposited by direct current reactive sputtering of a single titanium target”, Journal of Applied Physics 119, 045102 (2016).
367. Haiqing Zhou, Yumei Wang, Ran He, Fang Yu, Jingying Sun, Feng Wang, Yucheng Lan, Zhifeng Ren, and Shuo Chen, “One-step synthesis of self-supported porous NiSe2/Ni hybrid foam: An efficient 3D electrode for hydrogen evolution reaction”, Nano Energy 20, 29-36 (2016).
366. Weishu Liu, Hee Seok Kim, Qing Jie, and Zhifeng Ren, “Importance of high power factor in thermoelectric materials for power generation application: A perspective”, Scripta Materialia 111, 3-9 (2016).
365. Hao Zhang, Yumei Wang, Lihong Huang, Shuo Chen, Keshab Dahal, Dezhi Wang, and Zhifeng Ren, “Synthesis and thermoelectric properties of n-type half-Heusler compound VCoSb with valence electron count of 19”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 654, 321-326 (2016).
364. Zihang Liu, Jing Shuai, Jun Mao, Yumei Wang, Zhengyun Wang, Wei Cai, Jiehe Sui, and Zhifeng Ren, “Effects of Antimony content in MgAg0.97Sbx on output power and energy conversion efficiency”, Acta Materialia 102, 17-23 (2016).