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26. Libo Wu, Wanheng Lu, Wei Li Ong, Andrew See Weng Wong, Yuanming Zhang, Tianxi Zhang, Kaiyang Zeng, Zhifeng Ren, and Ghim Wei Ho, “Photothermal-promoted anion exchange membrane seawater electrolysis on a nickel-molybdenum-based catalyst”, Nature Communications 16, 3098 (2025).

25. Yuxin Sun, Fengkai Guo, Yan Feng, Chun Li, Yongchun Zou, Jinxuan Cheng, Xingyan Dong, Hao Wu, Qian Zhang, Weishu Liu, Zihang Liu, Wei Cai, Zhifeng Ren, and Jiehe Sui, “Performance Boost for Bismuth Telluride Thermoelectric Generator via Barrier Layer Based on Low Young’s Modulus and Particle Sliding", Nature Communications 14, 8085 (2023).

24. Wuyang Ren, Wenhua Xue, Shuping Guo, Ran He, Liangzi Deng, Shaowei Song, Andrei Sotnikov, Kornelius Nielsch, Jeroen vandenBrink, Guanhui Gao, Shuo Chen, Yimo Han, Jiang Wu, Ching-Wu Chu, Zhiming Wang, Yumei Wang, and Zhifeng Ren, “Vacancy-mediated anomalous phononic and electronic transport in defective half-Heusler ZrNiBi”, Nature Communications 14, 4722 (2023). 

23. Li Yin, Fan Yang, Xin Bao, Wenhua Xue, Zhipeng Du, Xinyu Wang, Jinxuan Cheng , Hongjun Ji, Jiehe Sui, Xingjun Liu, Yumei Wang, Feng Cao, Jun Mao, Mingyu Li , Zhifeng Ren, and Qian Zhang, “Low-temperature sintering of Ag nanoparticles for high-performance thermoelectric module design”, Nature Energy (2023). 

22. Jiawei Zhou, Hangtian Zhu, Qichen Song, Zhiwei Ding, Jun Mao, Zhifeng Ren, and Gang Chen, “Mobility enhancement in heavily doped semiconductors via electron cloaking”, Nature Communications 13, 2482 (2022).

21. Pingjun Ying, Ran He, Jun Mao, Qihao Zhang, Heiko Reith, Jiehe Sui, Zhifeng Ren, Kornelius Nielsch, and Gabi Schierning, “Towards Tellurium-Free Thermoelectric Modules for Power Generation from Low-Grade Heat", Nature Communications 12, 1121 (2021).

20. Jun Mao, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, “Thermoelectric Cooling Materials”, Nature Materials 20, 454-461 (2021).

19. Xiyang Li, Pengfei Liu, Enyue Zhao, Zhigang Zhang,Tatiana Guidi, Manh Duc Le, Maxim Avdeev, Kazutaka Ikeda, Toshiya Otomo, Maiko Kofu, Kenji Nakajima, Jie Chen, Lunhua He, Yang Ren, Xunli Wang, Baotian Wang, Zhifeng Ren, Huaizhou Zhao, and Fangwei Wang, “Ultralow Thermal Conductivity from Transverse Acoustic Phonon Suppression in Distorted Crystalline α-MgAgSb”, Nature Communications 11, 942 (2020). 

18.  Luo Yu, Qing Zhu, Shaowei Song, Brian McElhenny, Dezhi Wang, Chunzheng Wu, Zhaojun Qin, Jiming Bao, Ying Yu, Shuo Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, “Non-noble metal-nitride based electrocatalysts for high-performance alkaline seawater electrolysis”, Nature Communications 10, 5106 (2019).

17.  Liu-Cheng Chen, Pei-Qi Chen, Wei-Jian Li, Qian Zhang, Viktor V. Struzhkin, Alexander F. Goncharov, Zhifeng Ren, and Xiao-Jia Chen, “Enhancement of thermoelectric performance across the topological phase transition in dense lead selenide”, Nature Materials 18, 1321-1326 (2019).

16.  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).

15.  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).

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, “Large thermoelectric power factor from crystal symmetry-protected non-bonding orbital in half-Heuslers”, Nature Communications 9, 1721 (2018).

13.  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).

12. 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).

11. 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).

10. 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).

9. Chuan Fei Guo, Tianyi Sun, Qihan Liu, Zhigang Suo, and Zhifeng Ren, “Highly stretchable and transparent nanomesh electrodes made by grain boundary lithography”, Nature Communications 5 3121 (2014).

8. 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, “High-efficiency solar water splitting using a nanocrystalline CoO photocatalyst”, Nature Nanotechnology 9, 69-73 (2014).

7. 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).

6. Dong Cai, Lu Ren, Huaizhou Zhao, Chenjia Xu, Lu Zhang, Ying Yu, Hengzhi Wang, Yucheng Lan, Mary F. Roberts, Jeffrey H. Chuang, Michael J. Naughton, Zhifeng Ren and Thomas C. Chiles, "A molecular-imprint nanosensor for ultrasensitive detection of proteins," Nature Nanotechnology. 5, 597 (2010)

5. Z. F. Ren, "Nanotube Synthesis: Cloning Carbon," News and Views in Nature Nanotechnology 2, 17 (2007).

4. J. Y. Huang, S. Chen, Z. Q. Wang, K. Kempa,Y. M. Wang, S. H. Jo, G. Chen, M. S. Dresselhaus, and Z. F. Ren, "Superplastic Carbon Nanotubes," Nature 439, 281 (2006).

3. D. Cai, J. M. Mataraza, Z. H. Qin, Z. Huang, J. Huang, T. C. Chiles, D. Carnahan, , K. Kempa, and Z. Ren, "Highly Efficient Molecular Delivery into Mammalian Cells Using Carbon Nanotube Spearing," Nature Methods 2, 449 (2005).

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