446. Lihong Huang, Qinyong Zhang, Yumei Wang, Ran He, Jing Shuai, Jianjun Zhang, Chao Wang, and Zhifeng Ren, “The effect of Sn doping on thermoelectric performance of n-type half-Heusler NbCoSb”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 19, 25683-25690 (2017).
445. Dan Luo, Feng Wang, Jingyi Zhu, Lu Tang, Zhuan Zhu, Jiming Bao, Richard C. Willson, Zhaozhong Yang, and Zhifeng Ren, “Secondary Oil Recovery Using Graphene-based Amphiphilic Janus Nanosheet Fluid at Ultralow Concentration”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 56, 11125-11132 (2017).
444. Zhenhuan Zhao, Fan Qin, Sashank Kasiraju, Lixin Xie, Md Kamrul Alam, Shuo Chen, Dezhi Wang, Zhifeng Ren, Zhiming Wang, Lars C. Grabow, and Jiming Bao, “Vertically Aligned MoS2/Mo2C hybrid Nanosheets Grown on Carbon Paper for Efficient Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution”, ACS Catal. 7, 7312-7318 (2017).
443. Jun Mao, Jing Shuai, Shaowei Song, Yixuan Wu, Rebecca Dally, Jiawei Zhou, Zihang Liu, Jifeng Sun, Qinyong Zhang, Clarina dela Cruz, Stephen Wilson, Yanzhong Pei, David J. Singh, Gang Chen, Ching-Wu Chu, and Zhifeng Ren, “Manipulation of Ionized Impurity Scattering for Achieving High Thermoelectric Performance in n-type Mg3Sb2-Based Materials”, PNAS 114, 10548-10553 (2017).
442. 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).
441. 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, “Engineering the thermoelectric transport in half-Heusler materials through a bottom-up nanostructure synthesis”, Adavanced Energy Materials 7, 1700446 (2017).
440. Qing Zhu, Hee Seok Kim, and Zhifeng Ren, “A rapid method to extract Seebeck coefficient under a large temperature difference”, Review of Scientific Instruments 88, 094902 (2017).
439. Jun Mao, Yixuan Wu, Shaowei Song, Jing Shuai, Zihang Liu, Yanzhong Pei, and Zhifeng Ren, “Anomalies in the electrical conductivity of n-type Te-doped Mg3.2Sb1.5Bi0.5”, Materials Today Physics 3, 1-6 (2017).
438. Udara Saparamadu, Johannes de Boor, Jun Mao, Shaowei Song, Fei Tian, Weishu Liu, Qinyong Zhang, and Zhifeng Ren, “Comparative studies on thermoelectric properties of p-type Mg2Sn0.75Ge0.25 doped with lithium, sodium, and gallium”, Acta Materialia 141, 154-162 (2017).
437. 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, “Bifunctional metal phosphide FeMnP films from single source metal organic chemical vapor deposition for efficient overall water splitting”, Nano Energy 39, 444-453 (2017).
436. Jifeng Sun, Jing Shuai, Zhifeng Ren, and David J. Singh, “Computational modelling of the thermoelectric properties of p-type Zintl compound CaMg2Bi2”, Materials Today Physics 2, 40-45 (2017).
435. Jun Mao, Yixuan Wu, Shaowei Song, Qing Zhu, Jing Shuai, Zihang Liu, Yanzhong Pei, and Zhifeng Ren, “Defect Engineering for Realizing High Thermoelectric Performance in n-Type Mg3Sb2-Based Materials”, ACS Energy Lett. 2, 2245-2250 (2017).
434. Zhengyun Wang, Hui Wang, Mei Yang, Wenwen Sun, Guangfu Yin, Qinyong Zhang, Zhifeng Ren, “Research on the thermal reliability of Al-Si eutectic alloy for phase change thermal energy storage”, Materials Research Bulletin 95, 300-306 (2017).
433. Luo Yu, Haiqing Zhou, Jingying Sun, Fan Qin, Fang Yu, Jiming Bao, Ying Yu, Shuo Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, “Cu nanowires shelled with NiFe layered double hydroxide nanosheets as bifunctional electrocatalysts for overall water splitting”, Energy and Environmental Science 10, 1820-1827 (2017).
432. Xianfu Meng, Zihang Liu, Bo Cui, Dandan Qin, Huiyuan Geng, Wei Cai, Liangwei Fu, Jiaqing He, Zhifeng Ren, Jiehe Sui, “Grain boundary engineering for achieving high thermoelectric performance in n-type Skutterudites“, Advanced Energy Materials 7, 1602582 (2017).
431. Siya Huang, Lu Tang, Hasan Salehi Najafabadi, Shuo Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, “A highly flexible semi-tubular carbon film for stable lithium metal anodes in high-performance batteries”, Nano Energy 38, 504-509 (2017).
430. Keshab Dahal, Qian Zhang, Yumei Wang, and Zhifeng Ren, “V-VO2 core-shell structure for possible thermal switching”, RSC Advances 7, 33775-33781 (2017).
429. Jing Shuai, Jun Mao, Shaowei Song, Qinyong Zhang, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, “Recent Progress and Future Challenges on Thermoelectric Zintl Materials”, Materials Today Physics 1, 74-95 (2017).
428. Ran He, Hangtian Zhu, Jingying Sun, Jun Mao, Heiko Reith, Shuo Chen, Gabi Schierning, Kornelius Nielsch, and Zhifeng Ren, “Improved thermoelectric performance of n-type half-Heusler MCo1-xNixSb (M=Hf, Zr)”, Materials Today Physics 1, 24-30 (2017).
427. Zhifeng Ren, editorial “Thermoelectrics and Materials Today Physics”, Materials Today Physics 1, 2-6 (2017).
426. Zhifeng Ren, editorial “In honor of Professor Mildred Dresselhaus”, Materials Today Physics 1, 1 (2017).
425. Mengliang Yao, Weishu Liu, Xiang Chen, Zhensong Ren, Stephen Wilson, Zhifeng Ren, and Cyril P. Opeil, “Anomalous CDW ground state in Cu2Se: A wave-like fluctuation of the dc I-V curve near 50 K”, J Materiomics 3, 150-157 (2017).
424. Haiqing Zhou, Fang Yu, Yuanyue Liu, Jingying Sun, Zhuan Zhu, Ran He, Jiming Bao, William A. Goddard III, Shuo Chen, Zhifeng Ren, “Outstanding hydrogen evolution reaction catalyzed by porous nickel diselenide electrocatalysts”, Energy and Environmental Science 10, 1487-1492 (2017).
423. Haiqing Zhou, Fang Yu, Jingying Sun, Ran He, Shuo Chena, Ching-Wu Chua, and Zhifeng Ren, “A catalyst for extremely efficient oxygen evolution reaction”, PNAS 114, 5607-5611 (2017).
422. J. de Boor, T. Dasgupta, U. Saparamadu, E. Müller, and Zhifeng Ren, “Recent progress in p-type thermoelectric magnesium silicide based solid solutions”, Materials Today Energy 4, 105-121 (2017).
421. Keshab Dahal, Qian Zhang, Ran He, Ishwar Mishra, and Zhifeng Ren, “Thermal Conductivity of (VO2)1-xCux Composites across the Phase Transition Temperature“, J. of Applied Physics 121, 155103 (2017).
420. Yumei Wang, Jun Mao, Qing Jie, Binghui Ge, and Zhifeng Ren, “Filling fraction of Yb in CoSb3 Skutterudites studied by electron microscopy”, Applied Physics Letters 110, 163901 (2017).
419. Dan Luo, Feng Wang, Md Kamrul Alam, Fang Yu, Ishwar Kumar Mishra, Jiming Bao, Richard C. Willson, and Zhifeng Ren, “Colloidal Stability of Graphene-based Amphiphilic Janus Nanosheet Fluid”, Chemistry of Materials 29, 3454-3460 (2017).
418. Desmond E. Schipper, Zhenhuan Zhao, Andrew P. Leitner, Lixin Xie, Fan Qin, Md Kamrul Alam, Shuo Chen, Dezhi Wang, Zhifeng Ren, Zhiming Wang, Jiming Bao, and Kenton H. Whitmire, “A TiO2/FeMnP core/shell nanorod array photoanode for efficient photoelectrochemical oxygen evolution”, ACS Nano 11, 4051-4059 (2017).
417. Jing Shuai, Jun Mao, Shaowei Song, Qing Zhu, Jifeng Sun, Yumei Wang, Ran He, Jiawei Zhou, Gang Chen, David J. Singh, and Zhifeng Ren, “Tuning the carrier scattering mechanism to effectively improve the thermoelectric properties”, Energy and Environmental Science 10, 799-807 (2017).
416. Mengliang Yao, Weishu Liu, Xiang Chen, Zhensong Ren, Stephen Wilson, Zhifeng Ren, and Cyril Opeil, “Low temperature thermoelectric properties of p-type copper selenide with Ni, Te and Zn dopants”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 699, 818-721 (2017).
415. Wolfgang G. Zeier, Shashwat Anand, Lihong Huang, Ran He, Hao Zhang, Zhifeng Ren, Chris Wolverton, G. Jeffrey Snyder, “Using the 18-electron rule to understand the nominal 19-electron half-Heusler NbCoSb with Nb-vacancies”, Chemistry of Materials 29, 1210-1217 (2017).
414. Yuan Liu, Jianming Zhang, Heng Gao, Yang Wang, Qingxian Liu, Siya Huang, Chuan Fei Guo, and Zhifeng Ren, “Capillary force induced cold welding in silver-nanowire-based flexible transparent electrodes”, Nano Letters 17, 1090-1096 (2017).
413. Siya Huang, Yuan Liu, Chuanfei Guo, and Zhifeng Ren, “A Highly Stretchable and Fatigue-free Transparent Electrode Based on In-Plane Buckled Au Nanotrough Network”, Advanced Electronic Materials 3, 1600534 (2017).
412. Zihang Liu, Yongsheng Zhang, Jun Mao, Jing Shuai, Wei Cai, Jiehe Sui, and Zhifeng Ren, “The microscopic origin of low thermal conductivity for enhanced thermoelectric performance of Yb doped MgAgSb”, Acta Materialia 128, 227-234 (2017).
411. Fang Yu, Haiqing Zhou, Zhuan Zhu, Jingying Sun, Ran He, Jiming Bao, Shuo Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, “Three-Dimensional Nanoporous Iron Nitride Film as an Efficient Electrocatalyst for Water Oxidation”, ACS Catalysis 7, 2052-2057 (2017).
410. Jun Mao, Jiawei Zhou, Hangtian Zhu, Zihang Liu, Hao Zhang, Ran He, Gang Chen, Zhifeng Ren, "Thermoelectric Properties of n‑type ZrNiPb-Based Half-Heuslers", Chemistry of Materials, 29, 867-872 (2017).
409. Udara Saparamadu, Jun Mao, Keshab Dahal, Hao Zhang, Fei Tian, Shaowei Song, Weishu Liu, and Zhifeng Ren, “The effect of charge carrier and doping site on thermoelectric properties of Mg2Sn0.75Ge0.25”, Acta Materialia 124, 528-535 (2017).
408. Hee Seok Kim, Weishu Liu, and Zhifeng Ren, “The bridge between the materials and devices of thermoelectric power generators”, Energy and Environmental Science 10, 69-85 (2017).
407. Jun Mao, Yumei Wang, Zihang Liu, Binghui Ge, and Zhifeng Ren, “Phonon Scattering by Nanoscale Twin Boundaries”, Nano Energy 32, 174-179 (2017).
406. Zihang Liu, Yumei Wang, Weihong Gao, Jun Mao, Huiyuan Geng, Jing Shuai, Wei Cai, Jiehe Sui, and Zhifeng Ren, “The influence of doping sites on achieving higher thermoelectric performance for nanostructured α-MgAgSb”, Nano Energy 31, 194-200 (2017).
405. Feng Cao, Lu Tang, Yang Li, Alexander P. Litvinchuk, Jiming Bao, and Zhifeng Ren, “A high-temperature stable spectrally-selective solar absorber based on cermet of titanium nitride in SiO2 deposited on lanthanum aluminate”, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 160, 12-17 (2017).
404. Zihang Liu, Weihong Gao, Xianfu Meng, Xiaobo Li, Jun Mao, Yumei Wang, Jing Shuai, Wei Cai, Zhifeng Ren, and Jiehe Sui, “Mechanical properties of nanostructured thermoelectric materials α-MgAgSb”, Scripta Materialia 127, 72-75 (2017).
403. 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, “Orientation Control of Graphene Flakes by Magnetic Field: Broad Device Applications of Macroscopically Aligned Graphene”, Advanced Materials 29, 1604453 (2017).