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Overview

Xiaolei Shi is affiliated with Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Their main fields of study include Materials Science and Engineering, with a significant focus on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Polymers and Plastics.

Their research primarily concentrates on advanced thermoelectric materials and devices, thermal properties of materials, thermal radiation and cooling technologies, chalcogenide semiconductor thin films, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, perovskite materials and applications, and quantum dots synthesis and properties.

Their notable recent papers include:

  • Advanced Thermoelectric Design: From Materials and Structures to Devices, 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • Harvesting waste heat with flexible Bi2Te3 thermoelectric thin film, 2022, Nature Sustainability
  • Flexible thermoelectric materials and devices: From materials to applications, 2021, Materials Today
  • Advances in the design and assembly of flexible thermoelectric device, 2022, Progress in Materials Science
  • Conducting polymer-based flexible thermoelectric materials and devices: From mechanisms to applications, 2021, Progress in Materials Science

Frequent collaborators of Xiaolei Shi include:

  • Zhi-Gang Chen
  • Wei-Di Liu
  • Meng Li
  • Qingfeng Liu
  • Wenyi Chen

Xiaolei Shi's work has been published extensively in venues such as:

  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Nature Communications
  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Advanced Science

Best Publications

  • Advanced Thermoelectric Design: From Materials and Structures to Devices

    Xiao-Lei Shi;Xiao-Lei Shi;Jin Zou;Zhi-Gang Chen;Zhi-Gang Chen

  • Flexible Thermoelectric Materials and Generators: Challenges and Innovations.

    Yuan Wang;Lei Yang;Xiao‐Lei Shi;Xun Shi

  • High-performance SnSe thermoelectric materials: Progress and future challenge

    Zhi-Gang Chen;Zhi-Gang Chen;Xiaolei Shi;Li-Dong Zhao;Jin Zou

  • Harvesting waste heat with flexible Bi_2Te_3 thermoelectric thin film

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  • Flexible thermoelectric materials and devices: From materials to applications

    Li Zhang;Xiao-Lei Shi;Xiao-Lei Shi;Yan-Ling Yang;Zhi-Gang Chen;Zhi-Gang Chen

  • Novel Thermal Diffusion Temperature Engineering Leading to High Thermoelectric Performance in Bi2Te3‐Based Flexible Thin‐Films

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  • Biomass‐Derived Carbon for High‐Performance Batteries: From Structure to Properties

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  • Ultrahigh light transmission through a C-shaped nanoaperture.

    Xiaolei Shi;Lambertus Hesselink;Robert L. Thornton

  • Conducting polymer-based flexible thermoelectric materials and devices: From mechanisms to applications

    Shengduo Xu;Xiao-Lei Shi;Matthew Dargusch;Chongan Di

  • Flexible power generators by Ag2Se thin films with record-high thermoelectric performance

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  • High-Performance Thermoelectric SnSe: Aqueous Synthesis, Innovations, and Challenges

    Xiao Lei Shi;Xinyong Tao;Jin Zou;Zhi Gang Chen

  • SrTiO3-based thermoelectrics: Progress and challenges

    Xiao-Lei Shi;Xiao-Lei Shi;Xiao-Lei Shi;Hao Wu;Qingfeng Liu;Wei Zhou

  • Fiber-based thermoelectrics for solid, portable, and wearable electronics

    Xiao-Lei Shi;Xiao-Lei Shi;Wen-Yi Chen;Ting Zhang;Jin Zou

  • Advances in Ag2Se-based thermoelectrics from materials to applications

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  • Advances in Ionic Thermoelectrics: From Materials to Devices

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  • High-performance in n-type PbTe-based thermoelectric materials achieved by synergistically dynamic doping and energy filtering

    Hang-Tian Liu;Qiang Sun;Yan Zhong;Qian Deng

  • A Solvothermal Synthetic Environmental Design for High‐Performance SnSe‐Based Thermoelectric Materials

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  • High-Performance PEDOT:PSS Flexible Thermoelectric Materials and Their Devices by Triple Post-Treatments

    Shengduo Xu;Min Hong;Xiao-Lei Shi;Yuan Wang

  • High Thermoelectric Performance in p-type Polycrystalline Cd-doped SnSe Achieved by a Combination of Cation Vacancies and Localized Lattice Engineering

    Xiaolei Shi;Angyin Wu;Tianli Feng;Tianli Feng;Kun Zheng

  • Advances and challenges in 2D MXenes: from structures to energy storage and conversions

    Weixue Meng;Xingjiang Liu;Haoqiang Song;Yu Xie

  • Polycrystalline SnSe with Extraordinary Thermoelectric Property via Nanoporous Design.

    Xiaolei Shi;Angyin Wu;Weidi Liu;Raza Moshwan

  • Mechanisms for enhancing power throughput from planar nano-apertures for near-field optical data storage

    Xiaolei Shi;Lambertus Hesselink

  • Boosting the thermoelectric performance of p-type heavily Cu-doped polycrystalline SnSe via inducing intensive crystal imperfections and defect phonon scattering

    Xiaolei Shi;Kun Zheng;Min Hong;Weidi Liu

  • Flexible Carbon-Fiber/Semimetal Bi Nanosheet Arrays as Separable and Recyclable Plasmonic Photocatalysts and Photoelectrocatalysts

    Yanling Yang;Huajun Chen;Huajun Chen;Xinxin Zou;Xiao-Lei Shi

  • Enhanced thermoelectric properties of nanostructured n-type Bi2Te3 by suppressing Te vacancy through non-equilibrium fast reaction

    Yuan Wang;Yuan Wang;Wei-Di Liu;Xiao-Lei Shi;Xiao-Lei Shi;Min Hong;Min Hong

  • Realizing high thermoelectric properties of SnTe via synergistic band engineering and structure engineering

    Raza Moshwan;Wei-Di Liu;Xiao-Lei Shi;Xiao-Lei Shi;Yun-Peng Wang;Yun-Peng Wang

  • Realizing High Thermoelectric Performance in n-Type Highly Distorted Sb-Doped SnSe Microplates via Tuning High Electron Concentration and Inducing Intensive Crystal Defects

    Xiao-Lei Shi;Kun Zheng;Wei-Di Liu;Yuan Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhigang Chen
Zhigang Chen Queensland University of Technology
Jin Zou
Jin Zou University of Queensland
Min Hong
Min Hong University of Southern Queensland
Qiang Sun
Qiang Sun Peking University
Matthew S. Dargusch
Matthew S. Dargusch University of Queensland
John Erik Hershey
John Erik Hershey General Electric (United States)
Siyu Lu
Siyu Lu Zhengzhou University
Li Xu
Li Xu Tsinghua University
Lambertus Hesselink
Lambertus Hesselink Stanford University
Sokrates T. Pantelides
Sokrates T. Pantelides Vanderbilt University

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