Professor
Email： xinqian21@hust.edu.cn
Academic Area: Thermal Science
Research Interests: Nanoscale thermal and energy transport physics, Low-grade waste heat harvesting
Academic Degrees
PhD, 2019, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Colorado Boulder, USA;
Bachelor, 2014, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Professional Experience
Professor (2021-present): School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology;
Postdoctoral Associate (2019-2021): Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Selected Publications
(# denotes co-first authors, * denotes corresponding authors)
1. Xin Qian*, Jungwoo Shin, Yaodong Tu, James Han Zhang and Gang Chen*, Thermally Regenerative Electrochemically Cycled Flow Batteries with pH Neutral Electrolytes for Harvesting Low-Grade Heat, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, DOI: 10.1039/D1CP01988K , 2021.
2. Xin Qian and Ronggui Yang, Machine learning for predicting thermal transport properties of solids, Materials Science & Engineering R, Accepted, 2021.
3. Xin Qian (#), Jiawei Zhou (#), Gang Chen, Phonon-engineered extreme thermal conductivity materials, Nature Materials, 20, 1188-1202, 2021.
4. Yoichiro Tsurimaki (#), Xin Qian (#), Simo Pajovic and Gang Chen, Large Non-reciprocal Absorption and Emission in Type-I Ferromagnetic Weyl Semimetals, Physical Review B, 101, 165426, 2020.
5. Cheng-Gong Han (#), Xin Qian (#), Qikai Li, Biao Deng, Yongbin Zhu, Zhijia Han, Wenqing Zhang, Weichao Wang, Shien-ping Feng, Gang Chen and Weishu Liu, Giant thermopower in ionic gelatin near room temperature, Science, 368, 1091-1098, 2020
6. Xin Qian, Zhiwei Ding, Jungwoo Shin, Aaron J. Schmidt and Gang Chen, Accurate Measurement of In-plane Thermal Conductivity of Layered Materials without Metal Film Transducer Using Frequency Domain Thermoreflectance, Review of Scientific Instruments, 91, 064903, 2020.
7. Jun Yang (#), Xin Qian (#), Wei Pan, Ronggui Yang, Yi Han, Meng Zhao, Muzhang Huang, Zheng Li and Chunlei Wan, Diffused Lattice Vibration and Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in the Binary Ln–Nb–O Oxide System, Advanced Materials, 31, 1808222, 2019.
8. Xin Qian, Shenyou Peng, Xiaobo Li, Yujie Wei and Ronggui Yang, Thermal Conductivity Modeling using Machine Learning Potentials: Application to Crystalline and Amorphous Silicon, Materials Today Physics, 10, 100140, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.mtphys.2019.100140
9. Xin Qian and Ronggui Yang, Temperature Effect on Phonon Dispersion of Zirconium by Machine Learning driven Atomistic Simulations, Physical Review B, 98, 224108, 2018.
10. Xin Qian, Puqing Jiang, Peng Yu, Xiaokun Gu, Zheng Liu and Ronggui Yang, Anisotropic Thermal Transport in van der Waals Layered Alloys WSe2(1-x)Te2x, Applied Physics Letters, 112, 241901, 2018.
11. Puqing Jiang (#), Xin Qian (#), Xiaokun Gu and Ronggui Yang, Probing Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides MX2 (M = Mo, W and X = S, Se) using Time-Domain Thermoreflectance, Advanced Materials, 29, 1701068, 2017.
12. Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu and Ronggui Yang, Thermal Conductivity Modeling of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Crystals and Superlattices, Nano Energy, 41, 394-407, 2017. (Featured by Advances in Engineering)
13. Xin Qian, Puqing Jiang and Ronggui Yang, Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity of 4H and 6H Silicon Carbide Measured using Time-domain Thermoreflectance, Materials Today Physics, 3, 70-75, 2017.
14. Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu, Ronggui Yang, Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Organic – Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite CH3NH3PbI3, Applied Physics Letters, 108, 063902, 2016 (Highlighted among the Top 10 Most Cited Papers published in 2016)
15. Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Ronggui Yang, Anisotropic Tuning on Graphite Thermal Conductivity by Lithium Intercalation, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 7, 4744-4750, 2016.
16. Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu, Ronggui Yang, Anisotropic Thermal Transport in Organic –Inorganic Hybrid Crystal β-ZnTe(en)0.5, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119, 28300-28308, 2015
Awards:
2019, Outstanding Dissertation Award (Single awardee per year), College of Applied Sciences and Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
2019, Outstanding Award for Students Studying Abroad, Ministry of Education, People’s republic of China.
