Gang Chen

Collaborators

  • T. Borca-Tasciuc, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • D. Broido, Boston College
  • D. Cahill, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
  • O. Delaire, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • M. S. Dresselhaus, MIT
  • S. Fan, Stanford
  • E. A. Fitzgerald, MIT
  • P. Jarillo-Herrero, MIT
  • S. G. Kim, MIT
  • W. P. King, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
  • K. A. Nelson, MIT
  • C. Opeil, Boston College
  • G. Ramanath, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Z. Ren, Boston College
  • C. Schuh, MIT
  • Y. Shao-Horn, MIT
  • D. J. Sing, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • M. Soljacic, MIT
  • E. N. Wang, MIT

Graduate Students

  • Anurag Bajpayee, Research Assistant, MECHE
  • Matthew Branham, Research Assistant, MECHE
  • Jacky (Chia-Chi) Chen, Research Assistant, MECHE
  • Vazrik Chiloyan, Research Assistant, MECHE
  • Kimberlee Collins, Research Assistant, MECHE
  • Wei-Chun Hsu, Research Assistant, MECHE
  • Sohae Kim, Research Assistant, MECHE
  • Daniel Kraemer, Research Assistant, MECHE
  • Sangyeop Lee, Research Assistant, MECHE
  • Bolin Liao, Research Assistant, MECHE
  • Maria Luckyanova, Research Assistant, MECHE
  • Kenneth McEnaney, Research Assistant, MECHE
  • Jonathan Mendoza, Research Assistant, MECHE
  • George Ni, Research Assistant, MECHE
  • Poetro Sambegoro, Research Assistant, MECHE
  • Shuang Tang, Research Assistant, MECHE (co-supervised with Prof. M. Dresselhaus)
  • Zhiting Tian, Research Assistant, MECHE
  • Jonathan Tong, Research Assistant, MECHE
  • James (Jinjian) Wang, Research Assistant, MECHE
  • Jenny Wang, Research Assistant, MECHE
  • Lee Weinstein, Research Assistant, MECHE
  • Lingping Zeng, Research Assistant, MECHE

Visitors and Postdoctoral Associates

  • Svetlana Boriskina, Postdoctoral Associate
  • Brian Burg, Postdoctoral Associate
  • Keivan Esfarjani, Research Scientist
  • Sang Eon Han, Postdoctoral Associate
  • Kazuki Ihara, Visiting Scholar
  • Zhichun Liu, Visiting Scholar
  • Lei Ma, Visiting Student
  • Anastassios Mavorkefalos, Postdoctoral Associate
  • Selcuk Yerci, Postdoctoral Associate
  • Mona Zebarjadi, Postdoctoral Associate
  • Mengyun Zhang, Visiting Student

Support Staff

  • Tuyet-Mai Ha Hoang, Administrative Assistant II
  • Mary Ellen Sinkus, Administrative Assistant Director of Finance and Administration

Publications

Y. Q. Zhang, M. S. Dresselhaus, Y. Shi, Z. F. Ren, and G. Chen, “High thermoelectric figure of merit in Kondo insulator nanowires at low temperatures,” Nano Letters, vol. 11, pp. 1166-1170, January 2011.

A. Bajpayee, T. F. Luo, A. Muto, and G. Chen, “Very low temperature membrane-free desalination by directional solvent extraction,” Energy and Environmental Science, vol. 4, pp. 1672-1675, March 2011.

R. T. Zheng, J. Gao, J. Wang, and G. Chen, “Reversible temperature regulation of electrical and thermal conductivity using liquid-solid phase transitions,” Nature Communications, vol. 2, pp. 289, April 2011.

D. Kraemer, B. Poudel, H. P. Feng, J. C. Caylor, B. Yu, X. Yan, Y. Ma, X. W. Wang, D. Wang, A. Muto, K. McEnaney, M. Chiesa, Z. F. Ren, and G. Chen, “High-performance flat-panel solar thermoelectric generators with high thermal concentration,” Nature Materials, vol. 10, pp. 532-538, May 2011.

M. Zebarjadi, G. Joshi, G. H. Zhu, B. Yu, A. Minnich, Y. C. Lan, X. W. Wang, M. Dresselhaus, Z. F. Ren, and G. Chen, “Power factor enhancement by modulation doping in bulk nanocomposites,” Nano Letters, vol. 11, pp. 2225-2230, May 2011.

H. P. Feng, T. Poudel, B. Yu, S. Chen, Z. F. Ren, and G. Chen, “Nanoparticle-enabled selective electrodeposition,” Advanced Materials, vol. 23, pp. 2454-2459, June 2011.

A. J. Minnich, J. A. Johnson, A. J. Schmidt, K. Esfarjani, M. S. Dresselhaus, K. A. Nelson and G. Chen, “Thermal conductivity spectroscopy technique to measure phonon mean free paths,” Physical Review Letters, vol. 107, pp. 095901, August 2011.

M. Zebarjadi, K. Esfarjani, M. S. Dresselhaus, Z. F. Ren, and G. Chen, “Perspectives on thermoelectrics: from fundamentals to device applications,” Energy and Environmental Science, vol. 5, pp. 5147-5162, January 2012.