Peer-reviewed Journal Papers

  1. Yang Liu and Yi Zheng*, “Reverse-switching Radiative Cooling for Synchronizing Indoor Air Conditioning” Nanophotonics,13, 5, 01-710, 2024. (Invited paper)
  2. Xuguang Zhang, Yang Liu, Michael Halbig, Mrityunjay Singh, and Yi Zheng*, “Hybrid Heat Dissipation System Optimization for Lithium-Ion Batteries”, Applied Thermal Engineering, in revision, 2024.
  3. Andrew Caratenuto and Yi Zheng*, “Critical Assessment of Water Enthalpy Characterization through Dark Environment Evaporation”, Science Advances, in revision, 2024.
  4. Youssef Jeyar, Minggang Luo, Kevin Austry, Brahim Guizal, Yi Zheng, H. B. Chan, and Mauro Antezza, “Tunable Nonadditivity in the Casimir-Lifshitz Force between Graphene Gratings”, Physical Review A, 108, 062811, 2023.
  5. Andrew Caratenuto, Kyle Leach, Yang Liu, and Yi Zheng*, “Nanofibrous Biomaterial-based Passive Cooling Paint Structurally Linked by Alkane-oleate Interactions”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 16, 10, 12717–12730, 2024.
  6. Yang Liu and Yi Zheng*, “Controllable-gradient-porous Cooling Materials Driven by  Multistage Solvent Displacement Method”, Chemical Engineering Journal, 488, 150657, 2024.
  7. Yang Liu and Yi Zheng*, “Tunable Anisotropic Porous Structure with Enhanced Radiative Cooling”, Applied Materials Today, 38, 102184, 2024.
  8. Yang Liu, Xiaojie Liu, Fangqi Chen, Andrew Caratenuto, Ying Mu, Shuang Cui, Marilyn Minus, and Yi Zheng*, “Eco-friendly Passive Radiative Cooling Using Recycled Packaging Plastics”, Materials Today Sustainability, 23, 100448, 2023.
  9. Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, Andrew Caratenuto, Fangqi Chen, and Yi Zheng*, “Biomass-Based Materials for Sustainably Sourced Solar-Driven Interfacial Steam Generation”, Advanced Engineering Materials, 2300778, 2023.
  10. Fangqi Chen, Yang Liu, Xiaojie Liu, and Yi Zheng*, “Multistate Spectral-tunable Manipulation of Mid-infrared Emissivity Using Sb2S3/GST/VO2”, Applied Physics Letters, 12, 191702, 2023.
  11. Fangqi Chen, Xiaojie Liu, Yang Liu, Yanpei Tian, and Yi Zheng*, “A Refractory Metal-based Photonic Narrowband Emitter for Thermophotovoltaic Energy Conversion”, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 11, 1988-1994, 2023.
  12. Yang Liu, Fangqi Chen, Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, Andrew Caratenuto, and Yi Zheng*, “Cool Roofing Tiles Derived from Recycled Corrugated Containers”, Next Energy, 1,4, 100063, 2023.
  13. Collin Prebenda, Brendan Fernandes, Thomas Griffin, Jonathan Markowitz, Keagan Carson, and Yi Zheng*, “Determination of Microcystis aeruginosa Concentration Using Two Discrete Wavelengths”, ASME Open Journal of Engineering, 2, 021015, 2023.
  14. Yang Liu, Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, Fangqi Chen, Andrew Caratenuto, and Yi Zheng*, “Oil-Paper-Umbrella-Inspired Passive Radiative Cooling Using Recycled Packaging Foam”, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 11, 9152-9159, 2023.
  15. Fangqi Chen, Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, Jon Goldsby, and Yi Zheng*, “Refractory All-Ceramic Thermal Emitter for High-Temperature Near-Field Thermophotovoltaics”, Energies, 15, 5, 1830, 2022.
  16. Yang Liu, Fangqi Chen, Andrew Caratenuto, Yanpei Tian, Xiaojie Liu, Yitong Zhao, and Yi Zheng*, “Effective Approximation Method for Nanogratings-induced Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer”, Materials, 15, 3, 998, 2022.
  17. Yanpei Tian, Xiaojie Liu, Lijia Xie, Shilin Xu, Fangqi Chen, Ying Mu, Yang Liu, Marilyn L. Minus, and Yi Zheng*, “Surface Photon-engineered Infrared-black Metametal Enabled Enhancement of Heat Dissipation”, Advanced Functional Materials, 2205016, 2022.
  18. Xiaojie Liu, Xuguang Zhang, Fangqi Chen, and Yi Zheng*, “Accelerated Water Transportation Phenomenon through A Hydrophilic Metal Roll”, ACS Applied Engineering Materials, 1, 10, 2745–2751,2023.
  19. Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, Fangqi Chen, Ying Mu, Andrew Caratenuto, Marilyn L. Minus, and Yi Zheng*, “A Waterbomb Origami Tower for Convertible Photothermal Evaporation”, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 10, 18657-18670, 2022.
  20. Andrew Caratenuto, Lijia Xie, Lin Gu, Yanpei Tian, and Yi Zheng*, “Adobe Bricks as Zero-cost Solar Evaporators for Water-scarce Regions”, Desalination, 546, 116199, 2022.
  21. Yang Liu, Mauro Antezza, and Yi Zheng*, “Intelligent Radiative Thermostat Induced by Near-field Radiative Thermal Diode”, Materials Today Physics, 27, 100828, 2022.
  22. Yanpei Tian, Xiaojie Liu, Ziqi Wang, Jiansheng Li, Ying Mu, Shiyu Zhou, Fangqi Chen, Marilyn L. Minus, Gang Xiao, and Yi Zheng*, “Subambient Daytime Cooling Enabled by Hierarchically Architected All-inorganic Metapaper with Enhanced Thermal Dissipation”, Nano Energy, 96, 107085, 2022.
  23. Yang Liu, Andrew Caratenuto, and Yi Zheng*, “GST-VO2-based Near-field Multistage Radiative Thermal Rectifier”, Optical Materials Express, 12 (6), 2135-2144, 2022.
  24. Andrew Caratenuto, Su Li, Yinsheng Wan, and Yi Zheng*, “Optical Epidermal Mimicry from Ultraviolet to Infrared Wavelengths”, ACS Applied Bio Materials, 5, 11, 5231-5239, 2022.
  25. Yanpei Tian, Xiaojie Liu, Shilin Xu, Andrew Caratenuto, Ying Mu, Ziqi Wang, Fangqi Chen, Ruizhe Yang, Jun Liu, Marilyn L. Minus, and Yi Zheng*, “Recyclable and Efficient Ocean Biomass-derived Hydrogel Photothermal Evaporator for Thermally-localized Solar Desalination”, Desalination, 523, 115449, 2022.
  26. Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, Yanzi Wu, Andrew Caratenuto, Fangqi Chen, Shuang Cui, Joseph A DeGiorgis, Yinsheng Wan, and Yi Zheng*, “Seawater Desalination Derived Entirely from Ocean Biomass”, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 9, 22313, 2021. (Back Cover Image)
  27. Yanpei Tian, Xiaojie Liu, Andrew Caratenuto, Jiansheng Li, Shiyu Zhou, Ran Ran, Fangqi Chen, Ziqi Wang, Kai-tak Wan, Gang Xiao, and Yi Zheng*, “A New Strategy towards Spectral Selectivity: Selective Leaching Alloy to Achieve Selective Plasmonic Solar Absorption and Infrared Suppression”, Nano Energy, 92, 106717, 2021.
  28. Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, Fangqi Chen, Andrew Caratenuto, Joseph A DeGiorgis, Mohamed ELSonbaty, Yinsheng Wan, Ralph Ahlgren, and Yi Zheng*, “An Easy-to-fabricate 2.5D Evaporator for Efficient Solar Desalination”, Advanced Functional Materials, 2100911, 2021.
  29. Andrew Caratenuto, Abdulrahman Aljwirah, Yanpei Tian, Xiaojie Liu, Yinsheng Wan, and Yi Zheng*, “Forest Waste to Clean Water: Natural Leaf-guar-derived Solar Desalinator”, Nanoscale, 13, 17754-17764, 2021. (Front Cover Image)
  30. Yanpei Tian, Xiaojie Liu, Ziqi Wang, Andrew Caratenuto, Fangqi Chen, Yinsheng Wan, and Yi Zheng*, “Carbonized Cattle Manure-based Photothermal Evaporator with Hierarchically Bimodal Pores for Solar Desalination in High-salinity Brines”, Desalination, 520, 115345, 2021.
  31. Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, Yanzi Wu, Fangqi Chen, Ying Mu, Marilyn L. Minus, and Yi Zheng*, “Fully Biomass-Based Hybrid Hydrogel for Efficient Solar Desalination with Salt Self-Cleaning Property”, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13, 36, 42832-42842, 2021.
  32. Fangqi Chen, Yanpei Tian, Xiaojie Liu, Andrew Caratenuto, and Yi Zheng*, “Mechanically Induced Elastomeric Optical Transmittance Modulator”, ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 3, 11, 5434–5440, 2021.
  33. Yang Liu, Yanpei Tian, Fangqi Chen, Andrew Caratenuto, Xiaojie Liu, Mauro Antezza, and Yi Zheng*, “Ultrahigh-rectification Near-field Radiative Thermal Diode Using Infrared-Transparent Film Backsided Phase-transition Metasurface”, Applied Physics Letters, 119, 123101, 2021.
  34. Yanpei Tian, Xiaojie Liu, Jiansheng Li, Andrew Caratenuto, Shiyu Zhou, Yichen Deng, Gang Xiao, Marilyn L. Minus, and Yi Zheng*, “Scalable, Fire-retardant, and Spectrally Robust Melamine-formaldehyde Photonic Bulk for Efficient Daytime Radiative Cooling”, Applied Materials Today, 24, 101103, 2021.
  35. Andrew Caratenuto and Yi Zheng*, “Piston-Type Optical Modulator for Dynamic Thermal Radiation Tuning Applications”, Materials, 14(16), 4372, 2021.
  36. Lijia Xie, Xiaojie Liu, Andrew Caratenuto, Yanpei Tian, Fangqi Chen, Joseph A DeGiorgis, Yinsheng Wan, and Yi Zheng*, “Environment-friendly and Efficient Hornet Nest Envelope-based Photothermal Absorber”, ACS Omega, 6, 50, 34555–34562, 2021.
  37. Yanpei Tian, Xiaojie Liu, Jiansheng Li, Yichen Deng, Joseph A DeGiorgis, Shiyu Zhou, Andrew Caratenuto, Marilyn L. Minus, Yinsheng Wan, Gang Xiao, and Yi Zheng*, “Farm Waste Enabled Recyclable Photothermal Evaporator”, Cell Reports Physical Science, 2, 100549, 2021.
  38. Andrew Caratenuto, Yanpei Tian, Mauro Antezza, Gang Xiao, and Yi Zheng*, “Magnetic Field-induced Thermal Emission Tuning of InSb-based Metamaterials in the Terahertz Frequency Regime”, Optical Materials Express, 11(9), 3141-3153, 2021.
  39. Yanpei Tian, Xiaojie Liu, Fangqi Chen, and Yi Zheng*, “A Facile Approach to Achieve Subambient Radiative Cooling through Aluminum Foil and Polyethylene Bubble Wrap”, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 230, 111286, 2021.
  40. Yanpei Tian, Hong Shao, Xiaojie Liu, Fangqi Chen, Yongsheng Li, Changyu Tang, and Yi Zheng*, “Superhydrophobic and Recyclable Cellulose-fiber-based Composites for High Efficiency Passive Radiative Cooling”, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13, 19, 22521-22530, 2021.
  41. Fangqi Chen, Leqing Xu, Yanpei Tian, Andrew Caratenuto, Xiaojie Liu, and Yi Zheng*, “Electrospun Polycaprolactone Nanofiber Composites with Embedded Carbon Nanotubes/Nanoparticles for Photothermal Absorption”, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 4, 5, 5230-5239, 2021.
  42. Yang Liu, Fangqi Chen, Andrew Caratenuto, and Yi Zheng*, “Dynamic Tuning of Near-field Radiative Transport between An Overlapping Pair of Movable Comb-like Metamaterials”, Applied Physics Letters, 118, 153106, 2021.
  43. Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, Fangqi Chen, Ralph Ahlgren, Yiting Zheng, Ming Su, Gang Xiao, and Yi Zheng*, “An Efficient and Scalable Strategy for Ultrablack-paint-enabled Solar-driven Steam Generation”, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 234, 111436, 2021.
  44. Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, Fangqi Chen, Mauro Antezza, and Yi Zheng*, “Continuously Variable Emission for Mechanical Deformation Induced Radiative Cooling”, Communications Materials, 1, 95, 2020.
  45. Yanpei Tian, Xiaojie Liu, Alok Ghanekar, and Yi Zheng*, “Scalable-manufactured Metal-insulator-metal Based Selective Solar Absorbers with Excellent High-temperature Insensitivity”, Applied Energy, 281, 116055, 2020.
  46. Yanpei Tian, Xiaojie Liu, Jun Liu, Alok Ghanekar, Gang Xiao, Thomas Thundat, and Yi Zheng*, “High-temperature and Abrasion Resistant Solar Selective Metamaterials under Ambient Environment”, Materials Today Energy, 21, 100725, 2020.
  47. Yanpei Tian, Xiaojie Liu, Alok Ghanekar, and Yi Zheng*, “Harvesting Energy from Sun, Outer Space, and Soil”, Scientific Reports, 10, 20903, 2020. 
  48. Nicholas Bonatt, John Carlin, Fangqi Chen, Yanpei Tian, and Yi Zheng*, “A Novel Probe-to-Probe Method for Measuring Thermal Conductivity of Individual Electrospun Nanofibers”, Materials, 13(22), 5220, 2020.
  49. Yanpei Tian, Xiaojie Liu, Alok Ghanekar, Andrew Caratenuto, and Yi Zheng*, “Blackbody-cavity Ideal Selective Absorbers for Solar Energy Harvesting”, Scientific Reports, 10, 20304, 2020.
  50. Fangqi Chen, Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, Duanyang Wang, and Yi Zheng*, “Non-contact Thermal Transistor Effects Modulated by Nanoscale Mechanical Deformation”, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 259, 107414, 2020.
  51. Fangqi Chen, Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, and Yi Zheng*, “Dynamic Tuning of Near-field Radiative Thermal Rectification Using Reconfigurable and Phase-transition Metamaterials”, Advanced Engineering Materials, 2000825, 2020.
  52. Lijuan Qian, Kang Wang, Yi Zheng, and Gang Xiao*, “Spin Hall Effect in the α and β Phases of TaxW1-x Alloys”, Physics Review B, 102, 094438, 2020.
  53. Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, Alok Ghanekar, and Yi Zheng*, “Spectral Selectivity of Multiple Nanoparticles Doped Thin Films”, Optics Express, 27(20), A1591-A1600, 2019.
  54. Yanpei Tian, Lijuan Qian, Xiaojie Liu, Alok Ghanekar, Gang Xiao, and Yi Zheng*, “Highly Effective Photon-to-cooling Thermal Device”, Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1-11, 2019.
  55. Yanpei Tian, Xiaojie Liu, Alok Ghanekar, and Yi Zheng*, “Perfect Grating-Mie-Metamaterials Based Spectrally Selective Solar Absorbers”, OSA Continuum, 2(11), 3223-3239, 2019.
  56. Yanpei Tian, Alok Ghanekar, Lijuan Qian, Matt Ricci, Otto Gregory, Gang Xiao, and Yi Zheng*, “Near-infrared Optics of Nanoparticles Embedded Silica Thin Films”, Optics Express, 27(4), A148-A157, 2019.
  57. Yanpei Tian, Alok Ghanekar, Lijuan Qian, Matt Ricci, Otto Gregory, Gang Xiao, and Yi Zheng*, “Tunable Wavelength Selectivity of Photonic Metamaterials-based Thermal Devices”, Journal of Photonics for Energy, 9(3), 032708, 2019.
  58. Alok Ghanekar, Yanpei Tian, Matt Ricci, Otto Gregory, and Yi Zheng*, “Performance Enhancement of Near-field Thermoradiative Devices Using Hyperbolic Metamaterials”, Journal of Photonics for Energy, 9(3), 032706, 2019.
  59. Alok Ghanekar, Matt Ricci, Yanpei Tian, Otto Gregory, and Yi Zheng*, “Strain-induced Modulation of Near-field Radiative Transfer”, Applied Physics Letters, 112, 241104, 2018. (Editor’s Pick)
  60. Alok Ghanekar, Yanpei Tian, Matt Ricci, Otto Gregory, and Yi Zheng*, “Dynamic Optical Response of SU-8 upon UV Treatment”, Optical Materials Express, 8 (7), pp. 2017-2025, 2018.
  61. Alok Ghanekar, Yanpei Tian, Matt Ricci, Sinong Zhang, Otto Gregory, and Yi Zheng*, “Near-field Thermal Rectification Devices Using Phase Change Periodic Nanostructure”, Optics Express, 26 (2), pp. A209-A218, 2018.
  62. Yanpei Tian, Alok Ghanekar, Lijuan Qian, Matt Ricci, Mikhail Hyde, Otto Gregory, Gang Xiao, and Yi Zheng*, “Tunable Wavelength Selectivity of Metamaterials in Near-field and Far-field Radiative Thermal Transport”, Materials, 11(5), 862, 2018.
  63. Alok Ghanekar, Yanpei Tian, Sinong Zhang, Yali Cui, and Yi Zheng*, “Mie-Metamaterials Based Thermal Emitter for Near-Field Thermophotovoltaic Systems”, Materials, 10 (8), 885, 2017.
  64. Alok Ghanekar, Gang Xiao, and Yi Zheng*, “High Contrast Far-field Radiative Thermal Diode”, Scientific Reports, 7, 6339, 2017.
  65. Alok Ghanekar, Mingdi Sun, Zongqin Zhang, and Yi Zheng*, “Optimal Design of Wavelength Selective Thermal Emitter for Thermophotovoltaic Applications”, Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Application, 10(1), 011004, 2017.
  66. Zongqin Zhang*, Chang Liu, D.M.L. Meyer, Weixing Zhang, and Yi Zheng, “Streaming and PCM Microcapsules Based Mini/Micro Heat Spreader”, Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, 9, 021002, 2017.
  67. Alok Ghanekar, Jun Ji, and Yi Zheng*, “High-Rectification Thermal Diode Using Phase Change Periodic Nanostructure”, Applied Physics Letters, 109, 123106, 2016.
  68. Alok Ghanekar, Laura Lin, and Yi Zheng*, “Novel and Efficient Mie-metamaterial Thermal Emitter for Thermophotovoltaic Systems”, Optics Express, 24 (10), A868-A877, 2016.
  69. Alok Ghanekar, Laura Lin, Junwei Su, Hongwei Sun, and Yi Zheng*, “Role of Nanoparticles in Wavelength Selectivity of Multilayered Structures in the Far-field and Near-field Regimes”, Optics Express, 23 (19), A1129-A1139, 2015.
  70. Yi Zheng*, Alok Ghanekar, Laura Lin, and Fabian Liebscher, “Casimir Effect Modified Surface Energy of a Nanocavity in Homogeneous Media”, Annalen der Physik, 527 (7-8), 499-506, 2015.
  71. Yi Zheng*, “A Generalization of Electromagnetic Fluctuation-Induced Casimir Energy”, Advances in Condensed Matter Physics, 198657, 2015.
  72. Yi Zheng* and Alok Ghanekar, “Radiative Energy and Momentum Transfer for Various Spherical Shapes: A Single Sphere, A Bubble, A Spherical Shell and A Coated Sphere”, Journal of Applied Physics, 117,064314, 2015.
  73. Yi Zheng and Arvind Narayanaswamy*, “Patch Contribution to Near-field Radiative Energy Transfer and van der Waals Force between Two Half-spaces”, Physical Review A, 89, 022512, 2014.
  74. Braden Czapla, Yi Zheng, Karthik Sasihithlu, and Arvind Narayanaswamy*, “Non-surface Polaritonic Peaks in Near-field Radiative Transfer”, Journal of Heat Transfer, 37192, 2014. 
  75. Yi Zheng and Arvind Narayanaswamy*, “Theory of Thermal Nonequilibrium Entropy in Near-field Thermal Radiation”, Physical Review B, 88, 075412, 2013.
  76. Yi Zheng and Arvind Narayanaswamy*, “van der Waals Energy and Pressure in Dissipative Media: Fluctuational Electrodynamics and Mode Summation”, Physical Review A, 88, 012502, 2013.
  77. Arvind Narayanaswamy and Yi Zheng*, “A Green’s Function Formalism of Energy and Momentum Transfer in Fluctuational Electrodynamics”, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 132, 12-21, 2014.
  78. Yi Zheng and Arvind Narayanaswamy*, “Lifshitz Theory of van der Waals Pressure in Dissipative Media”, Physical Review A 83, 042504, 2011.
  79. Yi Zheng*, Yuan Zhang, and Junqiang Hu, “Analyses of Microdroplet Formation and Neutralization Effect in Pulsatile Drug Delivery Based on Electrohydrodynamic Method”, Nanotechnology and Precision Engineering, 11(4), 320-327, 2013.
  80. Ying Dong*, Wei Gao, Yi Zheng, and Zheng You, “Electrothermal Driving Microcantilever Resonator as A Platform for Chemical Gas Sensing”, Tsinghua Science and Technology, 15 (5), 481-488, 2010.
  81. Ying Dong*, Wei Gao, Yi Zheng, and Zheng You, “Characterization of The Gas Sensors Based on Polymer-coated Resonant Microcantilevers for The Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds”, Analytica Chimica Acta, 671 (1-2), 85-91, 2010.
  82. Ying Dong*, Wei Gao, Yi Zheng, and Zheng You, “Microcantilever Sensor for The Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds”, Nanotechnology and Precision Engineering, 8 (2), 95, 2010.

Books

  1. Yi Zheng, “Fluctuational Electrodynamics: Momentum, Energy and Entropy Transport”, Scholar’s Press, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2014, ISBN: 978-3-639- 66685-4.

Book Chapters

  1. Alok Ghanekar, Yanpei Tian, and Yi Zheng, “Photonic Metamaterials: Controlling Nanoscale Radiative Thermal Transport”, Heat Transfer. Editor Konstantin Volkov. InTech, Rijeka, Croatia, 2018, ISBN 978-953-51-6114-1.
  2. Yi Zheng, “Thermal Radiative Wavelength Selectivity of Nanostructured Layered Media”, Nanoscaled Films and Layers. Editor László Nánai. InTech, Rijeka, Croatia, 2017, ISBN 978-953-51-5299-6.

Conference Technical Presentations

  1. Andrew Caratenuto and Yi Zheng, “Critically Evaluating Dark Environment Evaporation Method of Water Enthalpy Characterization”, ASME 2024 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Anaheim, CA, July, 2024.
  2. Andrew Caratenuto and Yi Zheng, “Transforming Biocompatible Nanofibers Into a Passive Radiative Cooling Paint”, ASME 2024 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Anaheim, CA, July, 2024.
  3. Yang Liu and Yi Zheng, “Intelligent Radiative Thermostat Induced by Near-Field Radiative Thermal Diode”, ASME 2024 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Anaheim, CA, July, 2024.
  4. Yang Liu and Yi Zheng, “Intelligent Radiative Thermostat Induced by Near-Field Radiative Thermal Diode”, ASTFE 9th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Corvallis, OR, April, 2024.
  5. Yang Liu and Yi Zheng, “Intelligent Radiative Thermostat Induced by Near-Field Radiative Thermal Diode”, 2023Mall Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November, 2023.
  6. Yang Liu and Yi Zheng, “Oil-Paper-Umbrella-Inspired Passive Radiative Cooling using Recycled Packaging Foam”, 2023Mall Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November, 2023.
  7. Yi Zheng, “Functional Metasurfaces and Structures for Thermal Radiative Applications”, Symposium SF05: Infrared Materials and Devices for Thermal Radiation Control, 2023 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November, 2023 (Invited Talk).
  8. Yang Liu, Fangqi Chen, and Yi Zheng, “Oil-Paper-Umbrella-Inspired Passive Radiative Cooling Using Recycled Packaging Foam” ASME 2023 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Washington DC, July, 2023.
  9. Yang Liu, Fangqi Chen, and Yi Zheng, “Intelligent Radiative Thermostat Induced by Near-Field Radiative Thermal Diode” ASME 2023 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Washington DC, July, 2023.
  10. Andrew Caratenuto and Yi Zheng, “Adobe Bricks as Zero-cost Solar Evaporators for Water-scarce Regions”, TFEC-2023, 2023 ASTFE 8th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, College Park, March, 2023.
  11. Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, Fangqi Chen, and Yi Zheng, “Dynamically Regulated Radiative Cooling with Continuously Variable Emission”, MRS-3781597, 2022 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 27-December 2, 2022.
  12. Fangqi Chen, Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, and Yi Zheng, “Mechanical Deformation Induced Tunable Mid-infrared Optical Properties”, MRS-3781598, 2022 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 27-December 2, 2022.
  13. Andrew Caratenuto, Abdulrahman Aljwirah, Yanpei Tian, Xiaojie Liu, Yinsheng Wan, and Yi Zheng, “Natural Leaf-guar-derived Solar Desalinator for Efficient Clean Water Generation”, TFEC-2022-40674, 2022 ASTFE 7th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, NV, May, 2022.
  14. Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, Fangqi Chen, and Yi Zheng, “Dynamically Regulated Radiative Cooling with Continuously Variable Emission”, TFEC-2022-40629, 2022 ASTFE 7th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, NV, May, 2022.
  15. Andrew Caratenuto, Fangqi Chen, Yanpei Tian, Mauro Antezza, Gang Xiao, and Yi Zheng, “Magnetic Tuning of Terahertz Emissivity with InSb-based Metamaterials”, TFEC-2022-40672, 2022 ASTFE 7th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, NV, May, 2022.
  16. Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, Yanzi Wu, and Yi Zheng, “Ocean Biomass-based Hybrid Hydrogel for Seawater Desalination”, TFEC-2022-40627, 2022 ASTFE 7th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, NV, May, 2022.
  17. Fangqi Chen, Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, and Yi Zheng, “Mechanically Tunable Near-Field Radiative Thermal Rectification Devices”, TFEC-2022-40626, 2022 ASTFE 7th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, NV, May, 2022.
  18. Yang Liu, Fangqi Chen, Andrew Caratenuto, and Yi Zheng, “Dynamic Tuning of Near-field Radiative Transport between An Overlapping Pair of Movable Comb-like Metamaterials”, TFEC-2022-40726, 2022 ASTFE 7th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, NV, May, 2022.
  19. Fangqi Chen, Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, Duanyang Wang, and Yi Zheng, “Non-contact Thermal Transistor Effects Modulated by Nanoscale Mechanical Deformation”, TFEC-2020-36253, 2022 ASTFE 7th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, NV, May, 2022.
  20. Yang Liu, Yanpei Tian, Fangqi Chen, Andrew Caratenuto, Xiaojie Liu, Mauro Antezza, and Yi Zheng, “Ultrahigh-rectification Near-field Radiative Thermal Diode Using Infrared-Transparent Film Backsided Phase-transition Metasurface”, TFEC-2022-40727, 2022 ASTFE 7th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, NV, May, 2022.
  21. Fangqi Chen, Yanpei Tian, Andrew Caratenuto, and Yi Zheng, “High-Performance Photothermal Conversion of Electrospun Polymer/Carbon Composite Materials”, TFEC-2021-40630, 2020 ASTFE 5-6th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, New Orleans, LA, May 23-26, 2021.
  22. Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, Fangqi Chen, and Yi Zheng, “A 2.5-dimensional Cu/CuO-based Evaporator for Highly Efficient Solar Desalination”, TFEC-2021-40625, 2020 ASTFE 5-6th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, New Orleans, LA, May 23-26, 2021.
  23. Yi Zheng, “Thermal Nanophotonics in Functional Metamaterials”, Optical and Thermal Radiative Properties Session, 21st Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, Invited Talk, Boulder, CO, June 20-25, 2021.
  24. Fangqi Chen, Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, and Yi Zheng, “Dynamic Tuning of Near-field Radiative Thermal Rectification”, 3453455, 2020 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 28, 2020.
  25. Yanpei Tian, Xiaojie Liu, and Yi Zheng, “High-temperature and Abrasion Resistant Selective Solar Absorber”, 3453446, 2020 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 28, 2020.
  26. Yanpei Tian, Xiaojie Liu, and Yi Zheng, “Aluminized Polymethylpentene Thin Film for High-effective Radiative Cooling”, 3453444, 2020 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 28, 2020.
  27. Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, Fangqi Chen, and Yi Zheng, “Experimental Investigation on An Interfacial Structure for Solar-driven Water Desalination”, 3453441, 2020 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 28, 2020.
  28. Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, and Yi Zheng, “Spectral Selectivity of Embedding Multiple-species Nanoparticles in A Medium”, 3453398, 2020 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 28, 2020.
  29. Yi Zheng (Invited Speaker), “Active Defense Technology in Selective and Stable Metamaterials”, 2020 SPIE Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications Conference, Anaheim, CA, April 26, 2020.
  30. Xiaojie Liu, Yanpei Tian, and Yi Zheng, “Spectral Selectivity of Multiple Nanoparticles Doped Thin Films”, TFEC-2020-31866, ASTFE 5th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 8, 2020.
  31. Yanpei Tian, Xiaojie Liu, and Yi Zheng, “Scalable-manufactured Selective Solar Absorber with Excellent Ambient High-Temperature Stability”, TFEC-2020-31862, ASTFE 5th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 8, 2020.
  32. Yanpei Tian, Xiaojie Liu, and Yi Zheng, “Simple Polymer Microstructure Yields Highly Effective Radiative Cooling”, TFEC-2020-31863, ASTFE 5th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 8, 2020.
  33. Matthew Ricci, Bernard Munge, and Yi Zheng, “A PDMS Elastomer-based Microfluidic Platform for Aqueous Chemical Sensing”, 2nd Annual Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR Research Symposium, Kingston, RI, April 2018.
  34. Alok Ghanekar, Yanpei Tian, and Yi Zheng, “High Contrast Photonic Thermal Diode”, TFEC-2018-21960, ASTFE 3rd Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 2018.
  35. Yanpei Tian, Alok Ghanekar, and Yi Zheng, “Experimental Investigation of Mie-Metamaterial-based Thermal Emitters for Thermophotovoltaics”, TFEC-2018-21882, ASTFE 3rd Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 2018.
  36. Alok Ghanekar, Yanpei Tian, and Yi Zheng, “Mie-metamaterial Enhanced Wavelength Selective Thermal Emitter for Near-field Thermophotovoltaic Systems”, ASME-IMECE2017-71499, Tampa, FL, November 2017.
  37. Alok Ghanekar, Yanpei Tian, and Yi Zheng, “Radiative Thermal Diode with Enhanced Rectification”, ASME-IMECE2017-72783, Tampa, FL, November 2017.
  38. Alok Ghanekar and Yi Zheng, “High Contrast Near-Field Rectification Device Using Phase Change Periodic Gratings”, International Workshop on Nano-Micro Thermal Radiation, Daejeon, Korea, June 2017.
  39. Alok Ghanekar and Yi Zheng, “Novel Thermal Emitter for Photovoltaic Applications”, TFEC-2016-18707, ASTFE 2nd Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, NV, April 2017.   
  40. Alok Ghanekar, Jun Ji, Mingdi Sun, Zongquin Zhang and Yi Zheng, “Enhanced Thermal Rectification of Near-field Thermal Diode Using Surface Gratings”, ASME-IMECE2016, Phoenix, AZ, November 2016.
  41. Alok Ghanekar, Laura Lin and Yi Zheng, “A Novel Thermal Emitter for Thermophotovoltaic Applications”, ASME-IMECE2016, Phoenix, AZ, November 2016.
  42. Aidan J Bradley, Wesley C. Caruso, Alok Ghanekar, Yi Zheng, Charles V. Thangaraj and Benjamin D. McPheron, Development of Low Cost Device for In-Situ Algae Monitoring, IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference, Cambridge, MA, November 2016.
  43. Alok Ghanekar and Yi Zheng, “A Mie-metamaterial Based Thermal Emitter for TPV Applications”, ASME-HT2016- 7123, Washington, D.C., July 2016.
  44. Alok Ghanekar and Yi Zheng, “High Thermal Rectification Diode Using Phase Change Material”, ASME-HT2016-7124, Washington, D.C., July 2016.
  45. Alok Ghanekar, Laura Lin, Zongqin Zhang, Mingdi Sun and Yi Zheng, “Spectral Tuning of Radiative Heat Transfer Using Nanoparticles”, ASME-HT2016-7493, Washington, D.C., July 2016.
  46. Alok Ghanekar, Weixing Zhang, Zongqin Zhang and Yi Zheng, “Selective Emission Properties and vdW Energy of Micro/nano-sized Spherical Shapes”, ASME-HT2016- 7494, Washington, D.C., July 2016.
  47. Alok Ghanekar, Laura Lin, Junwei Su, Hongwei Sun and Yi Zheng, “An Investigation into Role of Nanoparticles in the Thermal Emission from Multiplayer Structures”, TFEC-2015-12855, ASTFE 1st Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, New York City, NY, August 2015. 
  48. Alok Ghanekar and Yi Zheng, “Calculation of Emissivity and Near-field Radiative Heat Transfer for Multi-layered Structures”, TFEC-2015-12854, ASTFE 1st Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, New York, NY, August 2015.
  49. Yi Zheng and Alok Ghanekar, “Fluctuation Induced Radiative Transfer and van der Waals Force for Spherical Shapes”, TFEC2015-12853, ASTFE 1st Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, New York City, NY, August 2015.
  50. Alok Ghanekar and Yi Zheng, “Selective Emission Spectrum and Surface Energy of Various Micro/Nano-Sized Spherical Shapes”, ASME-IMECE2015, Houston, TX, November 2015.
  51. Alok Ghanekar and Yi Zheng, “Role of Nanoparticles in Wavelength Selective Near-Field and Far-Field Radiative Transfer”, ASME-IMECE2015, Houston, TX, November 2015.
  52. Alok Ghanekar, Laura Lin, Hongwei Sun and Yi Zheng, “Role of Nanoparticles in Wavelength Selective Near-field and Far-field Radiative Transfer”, ASME-IMECE2015-53905, Houston, TX, November 2015.
  53. Braden Czapla, Yi Zheng, Karthik Sasihithlu and Arvind Narayanaswamy, “Non-surface Polaritonic Peaks in Near-field Radiative Transfer”, ASME-IMECE2014, Montreal, Quebec, CA, November 2014.
  54. Yi Zheng and Arvind Narayanaswamy, “Demystifying Lifsthitz’ Theory of van der Waals Adhesion”, ASME-IMECE2014, Montreal, Quebec, CA, November 2014.
  55. Arvind Narayanaswamy and Yi Zheng, “How Do Different Parts of A Half-space Contribute to Near-field Radiative Energy Transfer and Van der Waals Pressure”, 2nd International Workshop on Micro-Nano Thermal Radiation, Shanghai, China, June 2014.
  56. Arvind Narayanaswamy and Yi Zheng, “Non-equilibrium Entropy in Near-field Thermal Radiation, 2nd International Workshop on Nano-Micro Thermal Radiation”, Shanghai, China, June 2014.
  57. Yi Zheng and Arvind Narayanaswamy, “Near-field Thermal Radiative Energy and Entropy Transfer”, APS April Meeting, Savannah, GA, April 2014.
  58. Yi Zheng and Arvind Narayanaswamy, “Surface Patch Contribution to Near-field Thermal Radiation and van der Waals/Casimir Interactions”, ASME-IMECE2013, San Diego, CA, November 2013.
  59. Yi Zheng and Arvind Narayanaswamy, “Thermal Nonequilibrium Entropy Density and Flux in Near-field Thermal Radiation”, ASME-IMECE2013, San Diego, CA, November 2013.
  60. Yi Zheng and Arvind Narayanaswamy, “Momentum Transfer in Fluctuational Electrodynamics: van der Waals Energy and Pressure in Dissipative Planar Media”, ASME-IMECE2012, Houston, TX, November 2012.
  61. Yi Zheng and Arvind Narayanaswamy, “Thermal Non-Equilibrium Casimir-Lifshitz Force Between Multilayered Objects”, ASME-HT2012, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, July 2012.
  62. Yi Zheng and Arvind Narayanaswamy, “Lifshitz-van der Waals Pressure in Planar Multilayered Media with Dissipative Properties”, International Workshop on Nano-Micro Thermal Radiation, Sendai, Japan, May 2012.
  63. Yi Zheng and Arvind Narayanaswamy, “Thermal Non-Equilibrium van der Waals/Casimir Force Between Planar Multilayered Objects”, ASME-MNHMT2012, Atlanta, GA, March 2012.
  64. Yi Zheng and Arvind Narayanaswamy, “A First-principles Method of Determining van der Waals Forces in A Dissipative Media”, ASME-MNHMT2012, Atlanta, GA, March 2012.
  65. Yi Zheng and Arvind Narayanaswamy, “Lifshitz Theory of van der Waals Forces in Dissipative Media”, APS March Meeting, Boston, MA, March 2012.
  66. Yi Zheng, Karthik Sasihithlu, Ning Gu and Arvind Narayanaswamy, “Dyadic Green’s Functions, Thermal Radiation, and Van Der Waals Forces”, MRS Spring meeting and Exhibits, Symposium BB, San Francisco, CA, April 2011.