{"id":6171,"date":"2012-07-17T22:29:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T22:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2012\/?p=6171"},"modified":"2012-07-20T13:39:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T13:39:24","slug":"gang-chen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2012\/gang-chen\/","title":{"rendered":"Gang Chen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Collaborators<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>T. Borca-Tasciuc, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<\/li>\n<li>D. Broido, Boston College<\/li>\n<li>D. Cahill, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign<\/li>\n<li>O. Delaire, Oak Ridge National Laboratory<\/li>\n<li>M. S. Dresselhaus, MIT<\/li>\n<li>S. Fan, Stanford<\/li>\n<li>E. A. Fitzgerald, MIT<\/li>\n<li>P. Jarillo-Herrero, MIT<\/li>\n<li>S. G. Kim, MIT<\/li>\n<li>W. P. King, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign<\/li>\n<li>K. A. Nelson, MIT<\/li>\n<li>C. Opeil, Boston College<\/li>\n<li>G. Ramanath, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<\/li>\n<li>Z. Ren, Boston College<\/li>\n<li>C. Schuh, MIT<\/li>\n<li>Y. Shao-Horn, MIT<\/li>\n<li>D. J. Sing, Oak Ridge National Laboratory<\/li>\n<li>M. Soljacic, MIT<\/li>\n<li>E. N. Wang, MIT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Graduate Students<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Anurag Bajpayee, Research Assistant, MECHE<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Branham, Research Assistant, MECHE<\/li>\n<li>Jacky (Chia-Chi) Chen, Research Assistant, MECHE<\/li>\n<li>Vazrik Chiloyan, Research Assistant, MECHE<\/li>\n<li>Kimberlee Collins, Research Assistant, MECHE<\/li>\n<li>Wei-Chun Hsu, Research Assistant, MECHE<\/li>\n<li>Sohae Kim, Research Assistant, MECHE<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Kraemer, Research Assistant, MECHE<\/li>\n<li>Sangyeop Lee, Research Assistant, MECHE<\/li>\n<li>Bolin Liao, Research Assistant, MECHE<\/li>\n<li>Maria Luckyanova, Research Assistant, MECHE<\/li>\n<li>Kenneth McEnaney, Research Assistant, MECHE<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Mendoza, Research Assistant, MECHE<\/li>\n<li>George Ni, Research Assistant, MECHE<\/li>\n<li>Poetro Sambegoro, Research Assistant, MECHE<\/li>\n<li>Shuang Tang, Research Assistant, MECHE (co-supervised with Prof. M. Dresselhaus)<\/li>\n<li>Zhiting Tian, Research Assistant, MECHE<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Tong, Research Assistant, MECHE<\/li>\n<li>James (Jinjian) Wang, Research Assistant, MECHE<\/li>\n<li>Jenny Wang, Research Assistant, MECHE<\/li>\n<li>Lee Weinstein, Research Assistant, MECHE<\/li>\n<li>Lingping Zeng, Research Assistant, MECHE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Visitors and Postdoctoral Associates<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Svetlana Boriskina, Postdoctoral Associate<\/li>\n<li>Brian Burg, Postdoctoral Associate<\/li>\n<li>Keivan Esfarjani, Research Scientist<\/li>\n<li>Sang Eon Han, Postdoctoral Associate<\/li>\n<li>Kazuki Ihara, Visiting Scholar<\/li>\n<li>Zhichun Liu, Visiting Scholar<\/li>\n<li>Lei Ma, Visiting Student<\/li>\n<li>Anastassios Mavorkefalos, Postdoctoral Associate<\/li>\n<li>Selcuk Yerci, Postdoctoral Associate<\/li>\n<li>Mona Zebarjadi, Postdoctoral Associate<\/li>\n<li>Mengyun Zhang, Visiting Student<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Support Staff<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Tuyet-Mai Ha Hoang, Administrative Assistant II<\/li>\n<li>Mary Ellen Sinkus, Administrative Assistant Director of Finance and Administration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Publications<\/h3>\n<p>Y. Q. Zhang, M. S. Dresselhaus, Y. Shi, Z. F. Ren, and G. Chen, \u201cHigh thermoelectric figure of merit in Kondo insulator nanowires at low temperatures,\u201d <em>Nano Letters<\/em>, vol. 11, pp. 1166-1170, January 2011.<\/p>\n<p>A. Bajpayee, T. F. Luo, A. Muto, and G. Chen, \u201cVery low temperature membrane-free desalination by directional solvent extraction,\u201d <em>Energy and Environmental Science<\/em>, vol. 4, pp. 1672-1675, March 2011.<\/p>\n<p>R. T. Zheng, J. Gao, J. Wang, and G. Chen, \u201cReversible temperature regulation of electrical and thermal conductivity using liquid-solid phase transitions,\u201d <em>Nature Communications<\/em>, vol. 2, pp. 289, April 2011.<\/p>\n<p>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, \u201cHigh-performance flat-panel solar thermoelectric generators with high thermal concentration,\u201d <em>Nature Materials<\/em>, vol. 10, pp. 532-538, May 2011.<\/p>\n<p>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, \u201cPower factor enhancement by modulation doping in bulk nanocomposites,\u201d <em>Nano Letters<\/em>, vol. 11, pp. 2225-2230, May 2011.<\/p>\n<p>H. P. Feng, T. Poudel, B. Yu, S. Chen, Z. F. Ren, and G. Chen, \u201cNanoparticle-enabled selective electrodeposition,\u201d <em>Advanced Materials<\/em>, vol. 23, pp. 2454-2459, June 2011.<\/p>\n<p>A. J. Minnich, J. A. Johnson, A. J. Schmidt, K. Esfarjani, M. S. Dresselhaus, K. A. Nelson and G. Chen, \u201cThermal conductivity spectroscopy technique to measure phonon mean free paths,\u201d <em>Physical Review Letters<\/em>, vol. 107, pp. 095901, August 2011.<\/p>\n<p>M. Zebarjadi, K. Esfarjani, M. S. Dresselhaus, Z. F. Ren, and G. Chen, \u201cPerspectives on thermoelectrics: from fundamentals to device applications,\u201d <em>Energy and Environmental Science<\/em>, vol. 5, pp. 5147-5162, January 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micro- and nanoscale heat transfer and energy conversion with applications in thermoelectrics, photovoltaics, solar-thermal energy to electrical energy conversion, and microelectronics; nano-mechanical devices and micro-electro-mechanical systems; radiation and electromagnetic metamaterials; nanoengineered high thermal conductivity polymers and liquids; and desalination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80],"tags":[47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6171"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6577,"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions\/6577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}