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1078
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364

Overview

Xiulin Ruan is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on materials science and engineering, with specific expertise in thermal properties of materials and thermal radiation and cooling technologies. Their work spans multiple intersecting subfields, including materials chemistry, civil and structural engineering, environmental engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and computational mechanics.

The scientist has contributed extensively to advancing knowledge in areas such as urban heat island mitigation, advanced thermoelectric materials and devices, optical properties and cooling technologies in crystalline materials, building energy and comfort optimization, and radiative heat transfer studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Xiulin Ruan include:

  • Zherui Han
  • Joseph Peoples
  • Dudong Feng
  • Xiaolong Yang
  • Ziqi Guo

Their publication record features contributions to significant scientific venues, illustrating a broad engagement with the research community. Notable frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review B
  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Nano Letters

Among recent papers, key publications include:

  • "Ultrawhite BaSO4 Paints and Films for Remarkable Daytime Subambient Radiative Cooling" (2021) published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • "FourPhonon: An extension module to ShengBTE for computing four-phonon scattering rates and thermal conductivity" (2021) published on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Atmospheric Water Harvesting by Large-Scale Radiative Cooling Cellulose-Based Fabric" (2022) published in Nano Letters
  • "Vibrational hierarchy leads to dual-phonon transport in low thermal conductivity crystals" (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • "Direct methane activation by atomically thin platinum nanolayers on two-dimensional metal carbides" (2021) published in Nature Catalysis

Best Publications

  • Thermal conductivity and thermal rectification in graphene nanoribbons: a molecular dynamics study.

    Jiuning Hu;Xiulin Ruan;Yong P. Chen

  • Four-phonon scattering significantly reduces intrinsic thermal conductivity of solids

    Tianli Feng;Lucas R. Lindsay;Xiulin Ruan

  • Preparation of titania nanotubes and their environmental applications as electrode.

    Xie Quan;Shaogui Yang;Xiuli Ruan;Huiming Zhao

  • Ultrawhite BaSO4 Paints and Films for Remarkable Daytime Subambient Radiative Cooling.

    Xiangyu Li;Joseph Peoples;Peiyan Yao;Xiulin Ruan

  • Double-layer nanoparticle-based coatings for efficient terrestrial radiative cooling

    Hua Bao;Chen Yan;Boxiang Wang;Xing Fang

  • Nanoparticle embedded double-layer coating for daytime radiative cooling

    Zhifeng Huang;Zhifeng Huang;Xiulin Ruan

  • FourPhonon: An extension module to ShengBTE for computing four-phonon scattering rates and thermal conductivity

    Zherui Han;Xiaolong Yang;Xiaolong Yang;Wu Li;Tianli Feng

  • Quantum mechanical prediction of four-phonon scattering rates and reduced thermal conductivity of solids

    Tianli Feng;Xiulin Ruan

  • Phonon Lateral Confinement Enables Thermal Rectification in Asymmetric Single-Material Nanostructures

    Yan Wang;Ajit Vallabhaneni;Jiuning Hu;Bo Qiu

  • Full Daytime Sub-ambient Radiative Cooling in Commercial-like Paints with High Figure of Merit

    Xiangyu Li;Joseph Peoples;Zhifeng Huang;Zhifeng Huang;Zixuan Zhao

  • Four-phonon scattering reduces intrinsic thermal conductivity of graphene and the contributions from flexural phonons

    Tianli Feng;Xiulin Ruan

  • Atmospheric Water Harvesting by Large-Scale Radiative Cooling Cellulose-Based Fabric.

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  • Reduction of spectral phonon relaxation times from suspended to supported graphene

    Bo Qiu;Xiulin Ruan

  • Comprehensive first-principles analysis of phonon thermal conductivity and electron-phonon coupling in different metals

    Zhen Tong;Zhen Tong;Shouhang Li;Xiulin Ruan;Hua Bao

  • Molecular dynamics simulations of lattice thermal conductivity and spectral phonon mean free path of PbTe: Bulk and nanostructures

    Bo Qiu;Hua Bao;Gengqiang Zhang;Yue Wu

  • Tuning the thermal conductivity of graphene nanoribbons by edge passivation and isotope engineering: A molecular dynamics study

    Jiuning Hu;Stephen Schiffli;Ajit Vallabhaneni;Xiulin Ruan

  • Molecular dynamics simulations of lattice thermal conductivity of bismuth telluride using two-body interatomic potentials

    Bo Qiu;Xiulin Ruan

  • Optical absorption enhancement in disordered vertical silicon nanowire arrays for photovoltaic applications

    Hua Bao;Xiulin Ruan

  • Thermal Transport in Graphene Nanostructures: Experiments and Simulations

    Luis A. Jauregui;Yanan Yue;Anton N. Sidorov;Jiuning Hu

  • First-principles simulation of electron mean-free-path spectra and thermoelectric properties in silicon

    Bo Qiu;Zhiting Tian;Ajit Vallabhaneni;Bolin Liao

  • Photoelectrocatalytic degradation of pentachlorophenol in aqueous solution using a TiO2 nanotube film electrode.

    Xie Quan;Xiuli Ruan;Huimin Zhao;Shuo Chen

  • Thermal conductivity and thermal rectification in graphene nanoribbons: a molecular dynamics study

    Jiuning Hu;Xiulin Ruan;Zhigang Jiang;Yong Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Yong P. Chen
Yong P. Chen Purdue University West Lafayette
Timothy S. Fisher
Timothy S. Fisher University of California, Los Angeles
Massoud Kaviany
Massoud Kaviany University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Yue Wu
Yue Wu Iowa State University
Jayathi Y. Murthy
Jayathi Y. Murthy Oregon State University
Alan J. H. McGaughey
Alan J. H. McGaughey Carnegie Mellon University
Oleg V. Prezhdo
Oleg V. Prezhdo University of Southern California
Xianfan Xu
Xianfan Xu Purdue University West Lafayette
Ajit K. Roy
Ajit K. Roy United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Genqiang Zhang
Genqiang Zhang University of Science and Technology of China

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