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Saqlain Raza, Cong Yang, Xin Qian* and Jun Liu*, Oscillations in incident electric field enhances interfacial water evaporation, Materials Horizons, 2025, published online.
Haobo Yang, Zhenguo Zhu, Zhongnan Xie, Jinhong Du, Shuo Bai, Hong Guo, Te-Huan Liu, Ronggui Yang*, Xin Qian*, Thermal Property Microscopy with Compressive Sensing Frequency-Domain Thermoreflectance, 2025, To appear on Physical Review Applied. Preprint on ArXiv.
Qiangqiuang Huang, Yuchi Chen, Ronggui Yang*, and Xin Qian*, Proper Characterization of Heat-to-Electric Conversion Efficiency of Liquid Thermogalvanic Cells, 2025. Preprint on ArXiv.
Te-Huan Liu, Tianyu Wang, Jun Zhou*, Xin Qian*, and Ronggui Yang*, Multi-Carrier Thermal Transport in Electronic and Energy Conversion Devices, 2025. Preprint on ArXiv.
Simo Pajovic, Yoichiro Tsurimaki, Xin Qian, Gang Chen, Svetlana V Boriskina*, Nonreciprocal reflection of mid-infrared light by highly doped InAs at low magnetic fields. Optics Express, 33, 8661-8674, 2025.
Qiangqiang Huang, Yuchi Chen, Congliang Huang, Ronggui Yang*, and Xin Qian*, Simultaneously Modulating Solvation and Water Structure for High-Performance Antifreezing n-Type Liquid Thermocells, ACS Materials Letters, 7, 1219-1227, 2025. (Front Cover)
Yifan Lei, Xiangbin Du, Yuqing Wei, Hangtian Zhu, Yanmei Kong, Huaizhou Zhao, Binbin Jiao, Xiuliang Liu, Xin Qian*, Ronggui Yang*, Hotspot thermal management using thermoelectric and microchannel hybrid cooling at transient and steady states, Applied Thermal Engineering, 265, 125556, 2025.
Xin Qian*, Guanda Quan, Te-Huan Liu*, and Ronggui Yang*, API Phonons: Python Interfaces for Phonon Transport Modeling, Materials Today Physics, 50, 101630, 2025. (Preprint on arXiv).
Xin Qian*, Chuang Zhang, Te-Huan Liu*, and Ronggui Yang*, Analytical Green's Function of Multidimensional Boltzmann Transport Equation for Modeling Hydrodynamic Second Sound. Physical Review B, 111, 035406, 2025. Preprint on arXiv.
Yuchi Chen, Qiangqiang Huang, Te-Huan Liu, Ronggui Yang*, and Xin Qian*, Modeling solvation dynamics of transition metal redox ions through multi-objective Bayesian-optimized force field, Journal of Chemical Physics, 161, 124111, 2024.
Yuhao Cai, Xin Qian, Ruihang Su, Xiongjie Jia, Jinhui Ying, Tianshou Zhao*, Haoran Jiang*, Thermo-electrochemical modeling of thermally regenerative flow batteries, Applied Energy, 355, 122204, 2024.
Xi Tan, Ming Chen, Jinkai Zhang, Shiqi Li, Huajie Zhang, Long Yang, Tian Sun, Xin Qian*, Guang Feng*, Decoding Electrochemical Processes of Lithium-Ion Batteries by Classical Molecular Dynamics, Advanced Energy Materials, 2400564, 2024.
Xin Qian*, Zhihao Ma, Qiangqiang Huang, Ronggui Yang*, Thermodynamics of Ionic Thermoelectrics for Low-Grade Heat Harvesting, ACS Energy Letters, 2024, 9, 679-706 (Editor's Choice). Preprint on arXiv.
Yu Pang, Jinjin Liu, Xuanhui Fan, Haobo Yang, Jie Zhu*, Zhiwei Wang*, Yugui Yao, Xin Qian*, and Ronggui Yang*, Glass-like Cross-Plane Thermal Conductivity of Kagome Metals RbV3Sb5 and CsV3Sb5, Physical Review B, 108, 205112, 2023. Preprint on arXiv.
Ruijin Sun, Jun Deng, Xiaowei Wu, Munan Hao, Ke Ma, Yuxin Ma, Changchun Zhao, Dezhong Meng, Xiaoyu Ji, Yiyang Ding, Yu Pang, Xin Qian, Ronggui Yang, Guodong Li, Zhilin Li, Linjie Dai, Tianping Ying, Huaizhou Zhao, Shixuan Du, Gang Li, Shifeng Jin, Xiaolong Chen. High anisotropy in electrical and thermal conductivity through the design of aerogel-like superlattice (NaOH)0.5NbSe2. Nature Communications, 14, 6689, 2023.
Qiangqiang Huang, Yuchi Chen, Xin Qian*, and Ronggui Yang*, Thermally regenerative electrochemically cycled flow battery coupled with radiative cooling for low-grade heat harvesting, Energy Conversion and Management, 296, 117631, 2023.
Jing Wu, Hao Zhang, Tianyu Wang, Xin Qian, Bai Song, Te-Huan Liu, Ronggui Yang, Ab initio study of pressure-dependent phonon heat conduction in cubic boron nitride, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 208, 124092,2023.
Weiyu Tong, Erqi Yang, Yu Pang, Haobo Yang, Xin Qian, Ronggui Yang, Bin Hu, Jianji Dong, Xinliang Zhang, An Efficient, Fast‐Responding, Low‐Loss Thermo‐Optic Phase Shifter Based on a Hydrogen‐Doped Indium Oxide Microheater, Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2201032, 2023.
Yuchi Chen, Qiangqiang Huang, Te-Huan Liu, Xin Qian*, and Ronggui Yang*, Effect of Solvation Shell on Thermopower of Liquid Redox Pairs, EcoMat, 5, e12385, 2023. (Front Cover) Preprint on arXiv.
Yu Pang, Yongheng Li, Ziyan Gao, Xin Qian, Xueyun Wang, Jiawang Hong, Puqing Jiang, Thermal transport manipulated by vortex domain walls in bulk h-ErMnO3. Materials Today Physics, 31, 100972, 2023.
Hao Zhang, Yongsheng Ji, Yonggang Yao, Long Qie, Zhiheng Cheng, Zhihao Ma, Xin Qian, Ronggui Yang, Chenghang Li, Yaqing Guo, Yifei Yuan, Haoyu Xiao, Haiping Yang, Jing Ma, Jun Lu, Yunhui Huang, Transient and dry recycling of battery materials with negligible carbon footprint and roll-to-roll scalability, Energy & Environmental Science, 16, 2561-2571, 2023.
Zeyu Xiang, Yu Pang, Xin Qian* and Ronggui Yang*, Machine learning reconstruction of depth-dependent thermal conductivity profile from pump-probe thermoreflectance signals, Applied Physics Letters,12, 142201, 2023. Preprint on arXiv.
Changkang Du, Xinpeng Zhao, Xin Qian, Congliang Huang, Ronggui Yang, Heat-Localized Solar Evaporation: Transport Processes and Applications, Nano Energy, 107, 108086, 2022.
Yu Dai, Wenjiang Zhou, Hyun-Jung Kim, Qichen Song, Xin Qian, Te-Huan Liu*, Ronggui Yang*, Simultaneous enhancement in electrical conductivity and Seebeck coefficient by single-to-double-valley transition in a Dirac-like band, npj Computational Materials, 8, 234, 2022.
Qingqing Yong, Yanpei Tian, Xin Qian, Xiaobo Li*, Retrofitting coal-fired power plants for grid energy storage by coupling with thermal energy storage, Applied Thermal Engineering, 215, 119048, 2022.
Kang Zhu, Biao Deng, Xin Qian, Yupeng Wang, Huan Li, Peng Jiang, Ronggui Yang, Weishu Liu, A general white-box strategy for designing thermoelectric cooling system, InfoMat, e12324.
Xin Qian*, Te-Huan Liu and Ronggui Yang*, Confinement effect on thermopower of electrolytes, Materials Today Physics, 10067, 2022. Preprint on arXiv.
Shujia Yin#, Xin Qian# , Kunihito Koumoto , Ronggui Yang , Chunlei Wan, Control of low dimensionality in flexible hybrid inorganic-organic superlattices, Soft Science, 1, 9, 2021.
Xin Qian and Ronggui Yang, Machine Learning for Predicting Thermal Transport Properties of Solids, Materials Science and Engineering R (MSE-R), 146, 100642, 2021. Preprint on arXiv
Jungwoo Shin, Geethal Amila Gamage, Zhiwei Ding, Ke Chen, Fei Tian, Xin Qian, Jiawei Zhou, Hwijong Lee, Jianshi Zhou, Li Shi, Thanh Nguyen, Fei Han, Mingda Li, David Broido, Aaron Schmidt, Zhifeng Ren*, Gang Chen*, High ambipolar mobility in cubic Boron Arsenide, Science, 377, 437-440, 2022.
Xin Qian*, Jungwoo Shin, Yaodong Tu, James Han Zhang, and Gang Chen*, Thermally Regenerative Electrochemically Cycled Flow Batteries with pH Neutral Electrolytes for Harvesting Low-grade Heat, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 23, 22501-22514, 2021.
Huan Liu, Xin Qian, Hua Bao, Changying Zhao, Xiaokun Gu, High-temperature phonon properties of SnSe from machine-learning interatomic potential, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 33, 405401, 2021.
Xinpeng Zhao, Xin Qian, Xiaobo Li, and Ronggui Yang, Thermal Conductance of nanostructured interfaces from Monte Carlo simulations with ab initio-based phonon calculations, Journal of Applied Physics, 129, 215105, 2021.
Xin Qian (#), Jiawei Zhou (#) and Gang Chen, Phonon-Engineered Extreme Thermal Conductivity Materials, Nature Materials, 20, 1188-1202, 2021.
Muzhang Huang, Xiangyang Liu, Peng Zhang, Xin Qian, Yingjie Feng, Zheng Li, Wei Pan and Chunlei Wan, Thermal Conductivity Modeling on Highly Disordered Crystalline Y1-xNbxO1.5+x: Beyond the Phonon Scenario, Applied Physics Letters, 118, 073901, 2021, Featured Article.
Weishu Liu, Xin Qian, Cheng-Gong Han, Qikai Li, and Gang Chen, Ionic Thermoelectric Materials for Near Ambient Temperature Energy Harvesting, Applied Physics Letters, 118, 020501, 2021, Featured Article.
Simo Pajovic, Yoichiro Tsurimaki, Xin Qian, Gang Chen, Intrinsic nonreciprocal reflection and violation of Kirchhoff's law of radiation in planar type-I magnetic Weyl Semimetal surfaces, Physical Review B, 102, 165417, 2020.
Xin Qian, Zhiwei Ding, Jungwoo Shin, Aaron J Schmidt, and Gang Chen, Accurate measurement of in-plane thermal conductivity of layered materials without metal film transducer using frequency domain thermoreflectance, Review of Scientific Instruments, 91, 064903, 2020.
Chonggong Han (#), Xin Qian (#), Qikai Li, Biao Deng, Yongbin Zhu, Zhijia Han, Wenqing Zhang, Weichao Wang, Shien-Ping Feng, Gang Chen and Weishu Liu, Giant thermopower of ionic gelatin near room temperature, Science, 368, 1091-1098, 2020.
Jun Fang, Xin Qian, C. Y Zhao, Baowen Li, Xiaokun Gu, Monitoring anharmonic phonon transport across interfaces in one dimensional lattice chain, Physical Review E, 101, 022133, 2020.
Yoichiro Tsurimaki (#), Xin Qian (#), Simo Pajovic, and Gang Chen, Large non-reciprocal absorption and emission of radiation in type-I ferromagnetic Weyl semimetals, Physical Review B, 101, 165426, 2020.
Xin Qian, Shenyou Peng, Xiaobo Li, Yujie Wei, Ronggui Yang, Thermal Conductivity Modeling using Machine Learning Potentials: Application to Crystalline and Amorphous Silicon, Materials Today Physics, 10, 100140, 2019.
Jun Yang (#), Xin Qian (#), Wei Pan, Ronggui Yang, Yi Han, Meng Zhao, Muzhang Huang, Zheng Li and Chunlei Wan, Diffused Lattice Vibration and Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in the Binary Ln–Nb–O Oxide System, Advanced Materials, 1808222, 2019.
Xin Qian and Ronggui Yang, Temperature Effect on Phonon Dispersion Stability of Zirconium by Machine Learning Driven Atomistic Simulations, Physical Review B, 98, 224108, 2018.
Xin Qian, Puqing Jiang, Peng Yu, Xiaokun Gu, Zheng Liu, and Ronggui Yang, Anisotropic Thermal Transport in van der Waals Layered Alloys WSe2(1-x)Te2x, Applied Physics Letters, 112, 241901, 2018.
Fei Zhao, Xingyi Zhou, Ye Shi, Xin Qian, Megan Alexander, Xinpeng Zhao, Samantha Mendez, Ronggui Yang, Liangti Qu, Guihua Yu, Highly Efficient Solar Vapor Generation via Hierarchically Nanostructured Gels, Nature Nanotechnology, 13, 489, 2018.
Puqing Jiang, Xin Qian, Ronggui Yang, and Lucas Lindsay, Anisotropic Thermal Transport in Bulk Hexagonal Boron Nitride, Physical Review Materials, 2, 064005, 2018.
Puqing Jiang, Xin Qian, and Ronggui Yang, A New Elliptical-beam Method based on Time-Domain Thermoreflectance to Measure In-plane Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity and its Comparison with the Beam-offset Method, Review of Scientific Instruments, 89, 094902, 2018.
Congliang Huang, Xin Qian, and Ronggui Yang, Thermal Conductivity of Polymers and Polymer Nanocomposites, Materials Science and Engineering R: Reports, 132, 1-22, 2018.
Xin Qian, Puqing Jiang, and Ronggui Yang, Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity of 4H and 6H Silicon Carbide Measured using Time-domain Thermoreflectance, Materials Today Physics, 3, 70-75, 2017.
Puqing Jiang (#), Xin Qian (#), Xiaokun Gu and Ronggui Yang, Probing Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides MX2 (M = Mo, W and X = S, Se) using Time-Domain Thermoreflectance, Advanced Materials, 29, 1701068, 2017.
Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu, and Ronggui Yang, Thermal Conductivity Modeling of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Crystals and Superlattices, Nano Energy, 41, 394-407, 2017.
Puqing Jiang, Xin Qian, and Ronggui Yang, Time-Domain Thermoreflectance Measurements of Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity using a Variable Spot Size Approach, Review of Scientific Instruments, 88, 074901, 2017.
Congliang Huang, Xin Qian, and Ronggui Yang, Influence of Nanoparticle Size Distribution on the Thermal Conductivity of Particulate Nanocomposites, Europhysics Letters (EPL), 117, 24001, 2017.
Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu, Ronggui Yang, Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite CH3NH3PbI3, Applied Physics Letters, 108, 063902, 2016 (Highlighted among the Top 10 Most Cited Papers published in 2016)
Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Ronggui Yang, Anisotropic Tuning on Graphite Thermal Conductivity by Lithium Intercalation, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 7, 4744-4750, 2016.
Zhenqian Pang, Xin Qian, Ronggui Yang, and Yujie Wei, Super-stretchable Borophene, Europhysics Letters (EPL), 116, 36001, 2016.
Dongliang Zhao, Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu, Saad A. Jajja, Ronggui Yang, Measurement Techniques for Thermal Conductivity and Interfacial Thermal Conductance of Bulk and Thin Film Materials, Journal of Electronic Packaging, 138, 040802, 2016
Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu, Ronggui Yang, Anisotropic Thermal Transport in Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Crystal β-ZnTe(en)0.5, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119, 28300-28308, 2015
Chunlei Wan, Yumi Kodama, Mami Kondo, Ryo Sasai, Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu, Kenji Koga, Kazuhisa Yabuki, Ronggui Yang, Kunihito Koumoto, Dielectric Mismatch Meditates Carrier Mobility in Organic–Intercalated TiS2, Nano Letters, 15, 6302-6308, 2015