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Yanzhong Pei

Yanzhong Pei

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Materials Science

D-Index
87
Citations
32270
World Ranking
1938
National Ranking
614

Overview

Yanzhong Pei is affiliated with Tongji University in China and has a research profile primarily focused on materials science and engineering. Their publication record spans significant work in materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, and aspects of civil and structural engineering.

The scientist's research interests center around advanced thermoelectric materials and devices, thermal properties of materials, thermal radiation and cooling technologies, chalcogenide semiconductor thin films, advanced thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, thermal expansion and ionic conductivity, as well as phase-change materials and chalcogenides.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Wen Li, Zhiwei Chen, Xinyue Zhang, Siqi Lin, and Zhonglin Bu. These collaborations have contributed to a broad range of research outputs in related fields.

Yanzhong Pei's work is published in several notable venues, the most prominent being Materials Today Physics with 17 publications, followed by Nature Communications, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Advanced Materials.

Selected recent papers illustrate the scope and impact of their research:

  • Wearable Thermoelectric Materials and Devices for Self-Powered Electronic Systems (2021, Advanced Materials)
  • GeTe Thermoelectrics (2020, Joule)
  • Realizing a 14% single-leg thermoelectric efficiency in GeTe alloys (2021, Science Advances)
  • Electronic quality factor for thermoelectrics (2020, Science Advances)
  • Thermoelectric Enhancements in PbTe Alloys Due to Dislocation-Induced Strains and Converged Bands (2020, Advanced Science)

The scientist's research integrates experimental and theoretical approaches to enhance the understanding and development of thermoelectric materials, targeting improvements in efficiency and device performance.

Best Publications

  • Convergence of electronic bands for high performance bulk thermoelectrics

    Yanzhong Pei;Xiaoya Shi;Aaron LaLonde;Heng Wang

  • Band Engineering of Thermoelectric Materials

    Yanzhong Pei;Heng Wang;G. J. Snyder

  • High thermoelectric figure of merit in heavy hole dominated PbTe

    Yanzhong Pei;Aaron LaLonde;Shiho Iwanaga;G. Jeffrey Snyder

  • Low effective mass leading to high thermoelectric performance

    Yanzhong Pei;Aaron D. LaLonde;Heng Wang;G. Jeffrey Snyder

  • High Thermoelectric Performance in PbTe Due to Large Nanoscale Ag2Te Precipitates and La Doping

    Yanzhong Pei;Jessica Lensch-Falk;Eric S. Toberer;Douglas L. Medlin

  • Lead telluride alloy thermoelectrics

    Aaron D. LaLonde;Yanzhong Pei;Heng Wang;G. Jeffrey Snyder

  • Heavily Doped p-Type PbSe with High Thermoelectric Performance: An Alternative for PbTe

    Heng Wang;Yanzhong Pei;Aaron D. LaLonde;G. Jeffrey Snyder

  • Manipulation of Phonon Transport in Thermoelectrics.

    Zhiwei Chen;Xinyue Zhang;Yanzhong Pei

  • Lattice Dislocations Enhancing Thermoelectric PbTe in Addition to Band Convergence

    Zhiwei Chen;Zhengzhong Jian;Wen Li;Yunjie Chang

  • Low-Symmetry Rhombohedral GeTe Thermoelectrics

    Juan Li;Xinyue Zhang;Zhiwei Chen;Siqi Lin

  • Reevaluation of PbTe1−xIx as high performance n-type thermoelectric material

    Aaron D. LaLonde;Yanzhong Pei;G. Jeffrey Snyder

  • Lattice strain advances thermoelectrics

    Yixuan Wu;Zhiwei Chen;Pengfei Nan;Fen Xiong

  • Vacancy-induced dislocations within grains for high-performance PbSe thermoelectrics.

    Zhiwei Chen;Binghui Ge;Wen Li;Siqi Lin

  • Wearable Thermoelectric Materials and Devices for Self-Powered Electronic Systems.

    Yanhua Jia;Qinglin Jiang;Hengda Sun;Peipei Liu

  • Stabilizing the Optimal Carrier Concentration for High Thermoelectric Efficiency

    Yanzhong Pei;Aaron D. LaLonde;Nicholas A. Heinz;Xiaoya Shi

  • Tellurium as a high-performance elemental thermoelectric.

    Siqi Lin;Wen Li;Zhiwei Chen;Jiawen Shen

  • Weak electron–phonon coupling contributing to high thermoelectric performance in n-type PbSe

    Heng Wang;Yanzhong Pei;Aaron D. LaLonde;G. Jeffrey Snyder

  • Beneficial Contribution of Alloy Disorder to Electron and Phonon Transport in Half-Heusler Thermoelectric Materials

    Hanhui Xie;Heng Wang;Yanzhong Pei;Chenguang Fu

  • Optimum Carrier Concentration in n-Type PbTe Thermoelectrics

    Yanzhong Pei;Zachary M. Gibbs;Andrei Gloskovskii;Benjamin Balke

  • Promoting SnTe as an Eco-Friendly Solution for p-PbTe Thermoelectric via Band Convergence and Interstitial Defects

    Wen Li;Linglang Zheng;Binghui Ge;Siqi Lin

  • High Thermoelectric Performance in PbTe due to Large Nanoscale Ag2Te Precipitates and La Doping.

    Douglas L. Medlin;Jessica Leigh Lensch-Falk;Yanzhong Pei;G. Jeffrey Snyder

Frequent Co-Authors

G. Jeffrey Snyder
G. Jeffrey Snyder Northwestern University
Binghui Ge
Binghui Ge Anhui University
Zhifeng Ren
Zhifeng Ren University of Houston
Lidong Chen
Lidong Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wenqing Zhang
Wenqing Zhang Southern University of Science and Technology
Shi Xue Dou
Shi Xue Dou University of Wollongong
Xun Shi
Xun Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wolfgang G. Zeier
Wolfgang G. Zeier University of Münster
Sai Bai
Sai Bai University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Tiejun Zhu
Tiejun Zhu Zhejiang University

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