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Overview

Jian He is affiliated with Clemson University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and engineering, with significant contributions to the subfields of materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials. The core topics in their work include advanced thermoelectric materials and devices, chalcogenide semiconductor thin films, thermal properties of materials, crystallization and solubility studies, x-ray diffraction in crystallography, phase-change materials and chalcogenides, and advancements in battery materials.

Jian He has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, Advanced Materials, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Advanced Functional Materials, and Nano Energy. The most cited recent papers include:

  • Thermopower and harvesting heat, 2021, Science
  • Thermodynamic Routes to Ultralow Thermal Conductivity and High Thermoelectric Performance, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Conformal organic-inorganic semiconductor composites for flexible thermoelectrics, 2020, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Leveraging Deep Levels in Narrow Bandgap Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3 for Record-High zTave Near Room Temperature, 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Compositional Fluctuations Locked by Athermal Transformation Yielding High Thermoelectric Performance in GeTe, 2020, Advanced Materials

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Yonggao Yan, J. Palmer West, Dino Sulejmanovic, Gregory Becht, and Dale Hitchcock, each with numerous joint publications. This collaborative network supports their contributions across various topics and venues.

Jian He's research has an extensive focus on thermoelectric materials, particularly investigating pathways to enhance thermal conductivity and device performance. Their work on chalcogenide semiconductors and advanced crystallography techniques underscores interdisciplinary methods encompassing chemical, physical, and engineering approaches.

Their publication record spans many highly specialized topics within materials science and engineering, confirming a broad and sustained engagement with both fundamental and applied research in the field.

Best Publications

  • Advances in thermoelectric materials research: Looking back and moving forward

    Jian He;Terry M. Tritt

  • Identifying the Specific Nanostructures Responsible for the High Thermoelectric Performance of (Bi,Sb)2Te3 Nanocomposites

    Wenjie Xie;Wenjie Xie;Jian He;Hye Jung Kang;Xinfeng Tang

  • Thermoelectric power factor: Enhancement mechanisms and strategies for higher performance thermoelectric materials

    Arash Mehdizadeh Dehkordi;Mona Zebarjadi;Jian He;Terry M. Tritt

  • High-performance half-Heusler thermoelectric materials Hf1−x ZrxNiSn1−ySby prepared by levitation melting and spark plasma sintering

    Cui Yu;Tie-Jun Zhu;Rui-Zhi Shi;Yun Zhang

  • New Insights into Intrinsic Point Defects in V2VI3 Thermoelectric Materials

    Tiejun Zhu;Lipeng Hu;Xinbing Zhao;Jian He

  • Oxide thermoelectrics: The challenges, progress, and outlook

    Jian He;Yufei Liu;Ryoji Funahashi

  • High figures of merit and natural nanostructures in Mg2Si0.4Sn0.6 based thermoelectric materials

    Q. Zhang;Jian He;T. J. Zhu;S. N. Zhang

  • Flexible thermoelectrics: from silver chalcogenides to full-inorganic devices

    Jiasheng Liang;Tuo Wang;Pengfei Qiu;Shiqi Yang

  • Exceptional plasticity in the bulk single-crystalline van der Waals semiconductor InSe

    Tian-Ran Wei;Tian-Ran Wei;Min Jin;Yuecun Wang;Hongyi Chen

  • Nanostructures in high-performance (GeTe)x(AgSbTe2)100?x thermoelectric materials

    S H Yang;T J Zhu;T Sun;J He

  • Entropy Engineering of SnTe: Multi‐Principal‐Element Alloying Leading to Ultralow Lattice Thermal Conductivity and State‐of‐the‐Art Thermoelectric Performance

    Lipeng Hu;Yang Zhang;Haijun Wu;Junqin Li

  • High Performance Mg2(Si,Sn) Solid Solutions: a Point Defect Chemistry Approach to Enhancing Thermoelectric Properties

    Guangyu Jiang;Jian He;Tiejun Zhu;Chenguang Fu

  • Hot deformation induced bulk nanostructuring of unidirectionally grown p-type (Bi,Sb)2Te3 thermoelectric materials

    Tiejun Zhu;Zhaojun Xu;Jian He;Junjie Shen

  • The intrinsic thermal conductivity of SnSe

    Pai-Chun Wei;S. Bhattacharya;J. He;S. Neeleshwar

  • Roles of interstitial Mg in improving thermoelectric properties of Sb-doped Mg2Si0.4Sn0.6 solid solutions

    Zhengliang Du;Tiejun Zhu;Yi Chen;Jian He

  • Origin of FM Ordering in Pristine Micro- and Nanostructured ZnO

    R. Podila;W. Queen;A. Nath;Jeverson T. Arantes

  • Superconductivity in the correlated pyrochlore Cd 2 Re 2 O 7

    R. Jin;J. He;J. He;S. McCall;C. S. Alexander

  • Attaining high mid-temperature performance in (Bi,Sb)2Te3 thermoelectric materials via synergistic optimization

    Zhaojun Xu;Haijun Wu;Haijun Wu;Tiejun Zhu;Chenguang Fu

  • Simultaneously optimizing the independent thermoelectric properties in (Ti,Zr,Hf)(Co,Ni)Sb alloy by in situ forming InSb nanoinclusions

    W.J. Xie;W.J. Xie;J. He;S. Zhu;X.L. Su

  • Preferential Scattering by Interfacial Charged Defects for Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance in Few-layered n-type Bi2Te3

    Pooja Puneet;Ramakrishna Podila;Mehmet Karakaya;Song Zhu

Frequent Co-Authors

Terry M. Tritt
Terry M. Tritt Clemson University
David Mandrus
David Mandrus University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Rongying Jin
Rongying Jin University of South Carolina
Apparao M. Rao
Apparao M. Rao Clemson University
Xinbing Zhao
Xinbing Zhao Zhejiang University
Tiejun Zhu
Tiejun Zhu Zhejiang University
Ramakrishna Podila
Ramakrishna Podila Clemson University
Xinfeng Tang
Xinfeng Tang Wuhan University of Technology
Brian C. Sales
Brian C. Sales Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Qingjie Zhang
Qingjie Zhang Wuhan University of Technology

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