Publications
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Sustainable Thermal Insulation Materials
Xinpeng Zhao(#), Yu Liu(#), Liuxian Zhao(#), Amirhossein Yazdkhasti, Yimin, Mao, Jiaqi Dai, Shuangshuang Jing, Hua Xie, Zhihan Li, Shuaiming He, Bryson Callie Clifford, Jianguo Li, André O. Desjarlais, Daniel Saloni, Miao Yu, Jan Kosny, J.Y. Zhu, and Liangbing Hu*, A Scalable, High-porosity wood for sound absorption and thermal insulation, Nature Sustainability,1-10, 2023.
Tian Li(#), Jianwei Song(#), Xinpeng Zhao(#), Zhi Yang(#), Glenn Pastel, Shaomao Xu, Chao Jia, Jiaqi Dai, Chaoji Chen, Amy Gong, Feng Jiang, Yonggang Yao, Tianzhu Fan, Bao Yang, Lars Wågberg, Ronggui Yang*, and Liangbing Hu*, Anisotropic, lightweight, strong, and super thermally insulating nanowood with naturally aligned nanocellulose, Science Advances, 4(3), eaar3724, 2018.
Qingkun Liu, Allister W. Frazier, Xinpeng Zhao, A. Joshua, Andrew J. Hess, Ronggui Yang, and Ivan I. Smalyukh*, Flexible transparent aerogels as window retrofitting films and optical elements with tunable birefringence, Nano Energy, 48, 266-274, 2018.
Passive Radiative Cooling
Xinpeng Zhao(#), Tangyuan Li(#), Hua Xie(#), He Liu(#), Lingzhe Wang, Yurui Qu, Stephanie C. Li, Shufeng Liu, Alexandra H. Brozena, Zongfu Yu, Jelena Srebric, and Liangbing Hu*, A Solution-Processed Radiative Cooling Glass, Science, 382, 684–691, 2023.
Xinpeng Zhao(#), Ablimit Aili(#), Dongliang Zhao, DiKai Xu, Xiaobo Yin*, and Ronggui Yang*, Dynamic glazing with switchable solar reflectance for radiative cooling and solar heating, Cell Reports Physical Science, 3(4),100853, 2022.
Tian Li, Yao Zhai, Shuaiming He, Wentao Gan, Zhiyuan Wei, Mohammad Heidarinejad, Daniel Dalgo, Ruiyu Mi, Xinpeng Zhao, Jianwei Song, Jiaqi Dai, Chaoji Chen, Ablimit Aili, Azhar Vellore, Ashlie Martini, Ronggui Yang, Jelena Srebric, Xiaobo Yin*, Liangbing Hu*, A radiative cooling structural material, Science, 364, 760-763, 2019.
Ultrafast High-temperature Manufacturing
Qi Dong (#), Aditya Dilip Lele (#), Xinpeng Zhao(#), Shuke Li(#), Sichao Cheng, Yueqing Wang, Mingjin Cui, Miao Guo, Alexandra H Brozena, Ying Lin, Tangyuan Li, Lin Xu, Aileen Qi, Ioannis G Kevrekidis, Jianguo Mei, Xuejun Pan, Dongxia Liu, Yiguang Ju*, Liangbing Hu*, Depolymerization of plastics by means of electrified spatiotemporal heating, Nature, 616(7957), 488-494, 2023.
Zhiwei Lin (#), Xinpeng Zhao(#), Chengwei Wang(#), Qi Dong, Ji Qian, Guangran Zhang, Alexandra H. Brozena, Xizheng Wang, Shuaiming He, Weiwei Ping, Gang Chen, Yong Pei, Chaolun Zheng, Bryson Callie Clifford, Min Hong, Yiquan Wu, Bao Yang, Jian Luo, Paul Albertus, Liangbing Hu*, Rapid pressureless sintering of glasses, Small, 2107951, 2022.
Xizheng Wang(#), Yunhao Zhao(#), Gang Chen(#), Xinpeng Zhao(#), Chuan Liu, Soumya Sridar, Luis Fernando Ladinos Pizano, Shuke Li, Alexandra H. Brozena, Miao Guo, Hanlei Zhang, Yuankang Wang, Wei Xiong*, and Liangbing Hu*, Ultrahigh-temperature melt printing of multi-principal element alloys, Nature Communications, 13, no.1, 1-8, 2022.
Thermochromic Windows
Xinpeng Zhao(#), Sohrab A. Mofid(#), Gao Tao, Gan Tan, Bjørn Petter Jelle, Xiaobo Yin*, and Ronggui Yang*, Durability-enhanced vanadium dioxide thermochromic film for smart windows, Materials Today Physics, 13, 100205, 2020.
Xinpeng Zhao, Sohrab A. Mofid, Bjørn Petter Jelle, Gang Tan, Xiaobo Yin*, and Ronggui Yang*, Optically-switchable thermally-insulating VO2-aerogel hybrid film for window retrofits, Applied Energy, 278,115663, 2020.
Tengyao Jiang, Xinpeng Zhao, Xiaobo Yin, Ronggui Yang and Gan Tan*, Dynamically adaptive window design with thermo-responsive hydrogel for energy efficiency, Applied Energy, 287, 116573, 2021.
Power Electronics
Xinpeng Zhao, Xin Qian, Xiaobo Li, and Ronggui Yang*, Thermal conductance of nanostructured interfaces from Monte Carlo simulations with ab initio-based phonon properties, Journal of Applied Physics, 129, 215105, 2021.
Wei Yu(#), Xinpeng Zhao(#), Puqing Jiang(#), Changhong Liu*, and Ronggui Yang*, Tunable anisotropic thermal transport in super-aligned carbon nanotube films, Materials Today Physics, 20, 100447, 2021.
Tian Li, Xin Zhang, Steven D. Lacey, Ruiyu Mi, XinpengZhao, Feng Jiang, JianweiSong, Zhongqi Liu, Guang Chen, Jiaqi Dai, Yonggang Yao, Siddhartha Das, RongguiYang, Robert Briber, and LiangbingHu*, Cellulose ionic conductors with high differential thermal voltage for low-grade heat harvesting, Nature Materials, 18(6), 608, 2019.
Thermal Conductivity Analysis of Porous Materials
He Liu, Xinpeng Zhao*, Thermal conductivity analysis of high porosity structures with open and closed pores, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 183, 122089, 2022.
Xinpeng Zhao, Alexandra H. Brozena, and Liangbing Hu*, Critical roles of pores and moisture in sustainable nanocellulose-based super-thermal insulators, Matter, 4, 769-772, 2021.
Xinpeng Zhao, Sohrab A. Mofid, Majed R. Al Hulayel, Gabriel W. Saxe, Bjørn Petter Jelle, and Ronggui Yang, Reduced-scale hot box method for thermal characterization of window insulation materials, Applied Thermal Engineering, 114026, 2019.
Xinpeng Zhao, Congliang Huang, Qingkun Liu, Ivan I. Smalyukh, and Ronggui Yang*, Thermal conductivity model for nanofiber networks, Journal of Applied Physics, 123(8), 085103, 2018.