Research Interest

Tunable Wetting Strategy 

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Stage: Literature review and topic exploration
 
Possible Candidates
Particle loading: Janus Particle
Surface material and physical filed
             Nano structured surface:  Magnet Nano Pillar
             Graphene
             Hydrogel

Literature Gallery


Thermal&Energy：

A. Review
Baxter, Jason et al. "Nanoscale design to enable the revolution in renewable energy." Energy & Environmental Science 2.6 (2009): 559-588. [PDF]
Marconnet, Amy M., Matthew A. Panzer, and Kenneth E. Goodson. "Thermal conduction phenomena in carbon nanotubes and related nanostructured materials." Reviews of Modern Physics 85.3 (2013): 1295. [PDF]
Marjumdar, Arun, "A new industrial revolution for a sustainable energy future." MRS Bulletin 38.11 (2013): 947-954.[PDF]


B.  Thermal Management:
-Fluid:Chu, Kuang-Han, Rong Xiao, and Evelyn N. Wang. "Uni-directional liquid spreading on asymmetric nanostructured surfaces." Nature materials 9.5 (2010): 413-417. [PDF]
Dai, Xianming, et al. "Micromembrane-enhanced capillary evaporation."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 64 (2013): 1101-1108. [PDF]
R. Raj, S.C. Maroo, E.N. Wang, "Wettability of Graphene." Nano Letters (2013). [PDF]
Miljkovic, Nenad, et al.  "Jumping-droplet-enhanced condensation on scalable superhydrophobic nanostructured surfaces." Nano letters (2012) [PDF]

-Solid:
Shen, Sheng, Arvind Narayanaswamy, and Gang Chen. "Surface phonon polaritons mediated energy transfer between nanoscale gaps." Nano Letters 9.8 (2009): 2909-2913.
Yang, Juekuan, et al. "Enhanced and switchable nanoscale thermal conduction due to van der Waals interfaces." Nature Nanotechnology 7.2 (2011): 91-95.Salehi-Khojin, Amin, Wei Zhu, and Richard I. Masel. "Nanoelectronics: Nanotubes throw their heat around." Nature Nanotechnology 7.5 (2012): 280-281.
Nichols, Richard J., and Simon J. Higgins. "Molecular junctions: Interference comes into view." Nature Nanotechnology 7.5 (2012): 281-282.
Balandin, Alexander A., et al. "Superior thermal conductivity of single-layer graphene." Nano letters 8.3 (2008): 902-907.

C.  Solar Power:
Bitnar, Bernd, Wilhelm Durisch, and Reto Holzner. Thermophotovoltaics on the move to applications,  Applied Energy  (2013). [PDF]
Datas, A., D. L. Chubb, and A. Veeraragavan.  Steady state analysis of a storage integrated solar thermophotovoltaic (SISTPV) system, Solar Energy (2013).[PDF]
Shi, Enzheng, et al. "TiO2-Coated Carbon Nanotube-Silicon Solar Cells with Efficiency of 15%." Scientific reports 2 (2012). [PDF]


D. Battery
"Aligned Carbon Nanotube‐Silicon Sheets: A Novel Nano‐architecture for Flexible Lithium Ion Battery Electrodes." Fu, Kun et al., Advanced Materials25.36 (2013): 5109-5114. [PDF]


E. CNT and Mass TransportNoy, Aleksandr, et al. "Nanofluidics in carbon nanotubes." Nano Today 2.6 (2007): 22-29. [PDF]
Holt, Jason K., et al. "Fast mass transport through sub-2-nanometer carbon nanotubes." Science 312.5776 (2006): 1034-1037. [PDF]

Complex System：

"Perspective: Complexity theory and organization science."Anderson, Philip, organization Science 10.3 (1999): 216-232. [PDF]
Self-similarity of Complex Netwroks. Song, Chaoming, Shlomo Havlin, and Hernan A. Makse.  Nature (2005).[PDF]
Detecting evolving patterns of self‐organizing networks by flow hierarchy measurement.  Jianxi, Luo and Christopher L. Magee.  Complexity (2011).[PDF]
Identification of influential spreaders in complex networks. Kitsak, Maksim, et al. Nature Physics (2010). [PDF]