Publications and Presentations
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9474-6396Books, Book Chapters, and Review Articles
[4] (Invited Review) Tengfei Ma, Pranay Chakraborty, Xixi Guo, Lei Cao, and Yan Wang*, “First-principles Modeling of Thermal Transport in Materials: Achievements, Opportunities, and Challenges", International Journal of Thermophysics 41, no. 1 (2019): 1-37.
[3] (Full Book) Rajib Paul, Vinodkumar Etacheri, Yan Wang, and Cheng-te Lin, “Carbon Based Nanomaterials for Advanced Thermal and Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion,” 462 pages, Elsevier, 2019. Note: Tengfei and Pranay have contributed book chapters to this book.
[2] (Invited Review) Pranay Chakraborty, Tengfei Ma, Amir Hassan Zahiri, Lei Cao, and Yan Wang*, “Carbon-Based Materials for Thermoelectrics,” Advances in Condensed Matter Physics, vol. 2018, Article ID 3898479, 29 pages, 2018.
[1] (Invited Review) Yan Wang, Ajit Vallabhaneni, Bo Qiu, and Xiulin Ruan, "Two-dimensional thermal transport in graphene: a review of numerical modeling studies," Nanosc. Microsc. Thermo. 18, 155–182, 2014.
Journal Articles
[2023]
[37] Milad Mozafarifard, Yiliang Liao, Qiong Nian, Yan Wang*, Two-temperature time-fractional model for electron-phonon coupled interfacial thermal transport, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer,
Volume 202, 2023, 123759.
[2022]
[36] Tengfei Ma and Yan Wang*, "Ex-situ modification of lattice thermal transport through coherent and incoherent heat baths." Materials Today Physics (2022): 100884.
[35] Logeshwaran, Natarajan, Iyyappa Rajan Panneerselvam, Shanmugam Ramakrishnan, Ramasamy Santhosh Kumar, Ae Rhan Kim, Yan Wang, and Dong Jin Yoo*. "Quasihexagonal Platinum Nanodendrites Decorated over CoS2‐N‐Doped Reduced Graphene Oxide for Electro‐Oxidation of C1‐, C2‐, and C3‐Type Alcohols." Advanced Science 9, no. 8 (2022): 2105344.
[34] Kun Bi, Dini Wang, Rui Dai, Lei Liu, Yan Wang, Yongfeng Lu, Yiliang Liao, Ling Ding, Houlong Zhuang, and Qiong Nian*. "Scalable nanomanufacturing of holey graphene via chemical etching: an investigation into process mechanisms." Nanoscale 14, no. 12 (2022): 4762-4769.
[33] Tengfei Ma and Yan Wang*. "Giant reduction in thermal conductivity of single-chain polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) under external tensile strain." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 24, no. 18 (2022): 11315-11321.
[2021]
[32] Iyyappa Rajan Panneerselvam*, Pranay Chakraborty, Qiong Nian, Yongfeng Lu, Yiliang Liao*, and Yan Wang*. "First-principles study of the impact of chemical doping and functional groups on the absorption spectra of graphene." Semiconductor Science and Technology 37, no. 2 (2021): 025013.
[31] Iyyappa Rajan Panneerselvam*, Man Hea Kim, Carlos Baldo, Yan Wang*, and Mahalakshmi Sahasranaman. "Strain engineering of polar optical phonon scattering mechanism–an effective way to optimize the power-factor and lattice thermal conductivity of ScN." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 23, no. 40 (2021): 23288-23302.
[30] Dai et al., Multiscale Structural Modulation of Anisotropic Graphene Framework for Polymer Composites Achieving Highly Efficient Thermal Energy Management, Advanced Science (2021): 2003734.
[29] Y Liu, R Hu*, Y Wang*, et al., Big-data-accelerated aperiodic Si/Ge superlattice prediction for quenching thermal conduction via pattern analysis, Energy and AI 3 (2021): 100046.
[2020]
[28] (Invited) P Chakraborty, I Chiu, T Ma, and Y Wang*, Complex temperature dependence of coherent and incoherent lattice thermal transport in superlattices, Nanotechnology 32, no. 6 (2020): 065401.
[27] T Ma, C Lin, and Y Wang*, "The Dimensionality Effect on Phonon Localization in Graphene/Hexagonal Boron Nitride Superlattices," 2020 2D Mater. 7 035029.
[26] P Chakraborty, Y Liu, T Ma, X Guo, L Cao, R Hu*, and Y Wang*, "Quenching Thermal Transport in Aperiodic Superlattices: a Molecular Dynamics and Machine Learning Study," ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 7, 8795-8804.
[25] D Wang, R Dai, X Zhang, L Liu, H Zhuang, Y Lu, Y Wang, Y Liao, Q Nian*, "Scalable and controlled creation of nanoholes in graphene by microwave-assisted chemical etching for improved electrochemical properties," Carbon, 2020.
[2019]
[24] T Ma, P Chakraborty, X Guo, L Cao, and Y Wang*, “First-principles Modeling of Thermal Transport in Materials: Achievements, Opportunities, and Challenges", International Journal of Thermophysics 41, no. 1 (2019): 1-37.
[23] S Wu, G Xiong, H Yang, Y Tian, B Gong, H Wan, Y Wang, T Fisher, J Yan, K Cen, Z Bo, Scalable Production of Integrated Graphene Nanoarchitectures for Ultrafast Solar-Thermal Conversion and Vapor Generation, Matter 1, no. 4 (2019): 1017-1032
[22] W Dai, T Ma, Q Yan, J Gao, X Tan, L Lv, H Hou, Q Wei, J Yu, J Wu, Y Yao, S Du, R Sun, N Jiang*, Y Wang*, J Kong, C Wong, S Maruyama, and C Lin*, "Metal-Level Thermally Conductive yet Soft Graphene Thermal Interface Materials," ACS Nano 2019, 13, 10, 11561-11571
[21] A Zahiri, P Chakraborty, Y Wang, L Cao*, "Strong strain hardening in ultrafast melt-quenched nanocrystalline Cu: The role of fivefold twins," Journal of Applied Physics 126, 075103 (2019)
[20] S Wu, G Xiong, H Yang, B Gong, Y Tian, C Xu, Y Wang, T Fisher, J Yan, K Cen, T Luo, X Tu, Z Bo*, and K Ostrikov, "Multifunctional Solar Waterways: Plasma‐Enabled Self‐Cleaning Nanoarchitectures for Energy‐Efficient Desalination," Advanced Energy Materials 2019, 9, 1901286
[19] P Chakraborty, T Ma, L Cao, and Y Wang*, "Significantly enhanced convective heat transfer through surface modification in nanochannels," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 136, June 2019, Pages 702-708.
[18] X Li, W Park, Y Wang, Y P. Chen, and X Ruan*, "Reducing Interfacial Thermal Resistance between Metal and Dielectric Materials by a Metal Interlayer," Journal of Applied Physics 125, 045302 (2019)
[2017 and 2018]
[17] P Chakraborty, T Ma, AH Zahiri, L Cao, and Y Wang*, “Carbon-Based Materials for Thermoelectrics,” Advances in Condensed Matter Physics, vol. 2018, Article ID 3898479, 29 pages, 2018.
[16] P Chakraborty, G Xiong, L Cao*, and Y Wang*, "Lattice thermal transport in superhard hexagonal diamond and wurtzite boron nitride: A comparative study with cubic diamond and cubic boron nitride," Carbon, vol. 139, pp. 85-93, (2018)
[15] Z Lu, Y Wang, and X Ruan*, "The critical particle size for enhancing thermal conductivity in metal nanoparticle-polymer composites," J. Appl. Phys. 123 (7), 074302 (2018)
[14] P Chakraborty, L Cao, and Y Wang*, "Ultralow lattice thermal conductivity of the random multilayer structure with lattice imperfection," Sci. Rep. 7 (1), 8134 (2017)
[Before joining UNR]
[13] Y Wang, Z Lu, and X Ruan*, "First-principles calculation of lattice thermal conductivity of metals considering phonon-phonon and phonon-electron scattering," J. Appl. Phys. 119, 225109 (2016)
[12] Z Lu, Y Wang, and X Ruan*, "Metal/dielectric thermal interfacial transport considering cross-interface electron-phonon coupling: Theory, two-temperature molecular dynamics, and thermal circuit," Phys. Rev. B 93, 064302 (2016)
[11] Y Wang, Z Lu, A Roy, and X Ruan, "Effect of interlayer on interfacial thermal transport and hot electron cooling in metal-dielectric systems: an electron-phonon coupling perspective," J. Appl. Phys. 119, 065103 (2016)
[10] Y Wang, C Gu, and X Ruan, "Optimization of the random multilayer structure to break the random-alloy limit of thermal conductivity," Appl. Phys. Lett., 106, 073104, 2015
[9] Y Wang, H Huang, and X Ruan*, "Decomposition of coherent and incoherent phonon conduction in superlattices and random multilayers," Phys. Rev. B 90, 165406, 2014
[8] Y Wang, A Vallabhaneni, B Qiu, and X Ruan, "Two-dimensional thermal transport in graphene: a review of numerical modeling studies," Nanosc. Microsc. Thermo. 18, 155–182, 2014
[7] Y Wang, A Kumar Vallabhaneni, J Hu, B Qiu, Y P. Chen, and X Ruan, "Phonon Lateral Confinement Enables Thermal Rectification in Asymmetric Single-Material Nanostructures," Nano Lett., 2014, 14 (2), pp 592-596.
[6] Finefrock, Scott W., Yan Wang, John B. Ferguson, James V. Ward, Haiyu Fang, Jonathan E. Pfluger, Douglas S. Dudis, Xiulin Ruan, and Yue Wu, "Measurement of thermal conductivity of PbTe nanocrystal coated glass fibers by the 3ω method," Nano lett. 13, no. 11 (2013): 5006-5012.
[5] Yan Wang, Bo Qiu, and Xiulin Ruan, "Edge effect on thermal transport in graphene nanoribbons: A phonon localization mechanism beyond edge roughness scattering," Appl. Phys. Lett., 101, 013101 (2012)
[4] Bo Qiu, Yan Wang, Qing Zhao, and Xiulin Ruan, "The effects of diameter and chirality on the thermal transport in free-standing and supported carbon-nanotubes," Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 233105, 2012
[3] Yan Wang, Xiulin Ruan, and Ajit K. Roy, "Two-temperature nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation of thermal transport across metal-nonmetal interfaces," Phys. Rev. B, 85, 205311, 2012
[2] Yan Wang, Siyu Chen, and Xiulin Ruan, "Tunable Thermal Rectification in Graphene Nanoribbons through Defect Engineering: A Molecular Dynamics Study," Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 163101, 2012
[1] Jiuning Hu, Yan Wang, Ajit Vallabhaneni, Xiulin Ruan, and Yong Chen, "Nonlinear thermal transport and negative differential thermal conductance in graphene nanoribbons," Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 113101, 2011
Conference Full Papers
[6] Yan Wang and Xiulin Ruan, "An Evaluation of Energy Transfer Pathways in Thermal Transport AcrossSolid/Solid Interfaces," ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, July 14–19, 2013
[5] Yan Wang and Xiulin Ruan, “Two-Temperature Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Thermal Transport Across Metal-Nonmetal Interfaces,” ASME MNHMT2012-75262, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2012
[4] Bo Qiu, Yan Wang, Qing Zhao, and Xiulin Ruan, “The effects of diameter and chirality in the thermal transport in free-standing and supported carbon-nanotubes,” ASME MNHMT 2012, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2012
[3] Jiuning Hu, Yan Wang, Ajit Vallabhaneni, Xiulin Ruan and Yong Chen, "Tunable thermal transport and negative differential thermal conductance in graphene nanoribbons," APS March Meeting 2012
[2] Yan Wang and Xiulin Ruan, “Role of Edge Chirality and Isotope Doping in Thermal Transport and Thermal Rectification in Graphene Nanoribbons,” ASME paper IMECE2011- 63169, Proceedings of the ASME 2011 Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Denver, CO, November 2011
[1] Yan Wang, “Role of Edge Chirality and Isotope Doping in Thermal Transport and Thermal Rectification in Graphene Nanoribbons,” ASME paper IMECE2011- 63169, Proceedings of the ASME 2011 Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Denver, CO, November 2011.
Seminars and Conference Talks (* denotes presenting author)
[27] (Invited Talk) Y Wang*, "Engineering Phonon Transport at Multiple Scales: Phonon Coherence and Localization," 21st Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, Boulder, CO, USA, June 2021
[26] Pranay Chakraborty*, Tengfei Ma, Yan Wang, and Lei Cao, "Physics-guided Machine-Learning Design of Aperiodic Superlattices with Maximum Localization of Coherent Phonons," TMS 2020 Annual Meeting & Exhibition. February 23-27, 2020, San Diego, California, USA
[25] (Invited Panel Talk) Yan Wang*, “Reduced Phonon Transport in Disordered Materials: Scattering or Localization?” The 2nd Pacific Rim Thermal Engineering Conference (PRTEC), Dec 13-17, 2019
[24] Yan Wang*, Pranay Chakraborty, Tengfei Ma, Xixi Guo, and Lei Cao, “Coherent and Incoherent Phonon Transport in Layered Structures,” The 2nd Pacific Rim Thermal Engineering Conference (PRTEC), Dec 13-17, 2019
[23] Pranay Chakraborty*, Tengfei Ma, Lei Cao and Yan Wang, "Optimization of Random Multilayer Structure through Physics-informed Machine Learning," ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov 11-14, 2019
[22] Tengfei Ma*, Lei Cao and Yan Wang, “The Effect of Dimensionality on Phonon Localization," ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov 11-14, 2019
[21] Pranay Chakraborty*, Lei Cao and Yan Wang, "Probing the lower limit of lattice thermal transport in one-dimensional phononic crystals," ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Nov 9-15, 2018
[20] Pranay Chakraborty, Tengfei Ma*, Lei Cao and Yan Wang, "Enhanced heat convection in nanochannels through surface engineering," ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Nov 9-15, 2018
[19] Pranay Chakraborty*, Tengfei Ma, Lei Cao and Yan Wang, "Lattice thermal transport in superhard hexagonal diamond and wurtzite boron nitride under high temperature and/or high pressure," ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Nov 9-15, 2018
[18] Tengfei Ma* and Yan Wang, "Giant reduction of thermal transport in polyvinylidene fluoride under tensile strains," ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Nov 9-15, 2018
[17] (Departmental seminar series) Yan Wang*, “Nanoengineering of Materials for Improved Energy Efficiency and Thermal Management,” Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Apr 19, 2018
[16] Pranay Chakraborty* and Yan Wang, "Enhancing convective heat transfer in nanochannels through surface modification," ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Nov 3-9, 2017, Tampa, Florida
[15] Pranay Chakraborty*, Lei Cao, and Yan Wang, "Hierarchical suppression of coherent and incoherent phonon transport in multilayered structures," ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Nov 3-9, 2017, Tampa, Florida
[14] Pranay Chakraborty* and Yan Wang, "Surface engineering for enhanced heat convection in nanochannels," ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Nov 3-9, 2017, Tampa, Florida
[13] Pranay Chakraborty and Yan Wang*, “Understanding and Manipulating Coherent and Incoherent Phonon Transport in Multilayered Structures,” 2017 MRS Spring Meeting and Exhibit, April 17-21, 2017, Phoenix, Arizona
[12] Y. Wang and X. Ruan*, “Monte Carlo enabled spectral Boltzmann transport simulation for electron-phonon coupled thermal transport across metal-dielectric interfaces,” ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Houston, Texas
[11] Y. Wang, Z. Lu, and X. Ruan*, “First-principles calculation of the electronic and lattice thermal conductivity of metals,” ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Houston, Texas
[10] Z. Lu*, Y. Wang, and X. Ruan, “Two-temperature Molecular Dynamics Simulation with Non-local and Regional Electron-phonon Coupling,” ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Houston, Texas
[9] Y. Wang*, H. Huang, and X. Ruan, "Decomposition of coherent and incoherent phonon conduction in superlattice and random multilayers," ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Montreal, Canada
[8] Y. Wang*, T. Feng, J. Shi, Z. Lu, and X. Ruan, "Mode-resolved Boltzmann transport simulation of electron-phonon coupled thermal transport in metal-dielectric hetero-junctions," ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Montreal, Canada
[7] Y. Wang*, R. Paul, T. Fisher, and X. Ruan, "Thermal transport in single-layer graphene doped with h-BN islands," ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Montreal, Canada
[6] Y. Wang* and X. Ruan, "Phonon transport and electron-phonon coupled thermal transport in nanostructures," Nano TE/thermal Seminars, Purdue Univ., July 22, 2014
[5] Y. Wang* and X. Ruan, "An Evaluation of Energy Transfer Pathways in Thermal Transport Across Solid/Solid Interfaces," 2013 MRS Spring Meeting and Exhibit, April 1-5, 2013, San Francisco, California
[4] Y. Wang* and X. Ruan, "Two-Temperature Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Thermal Transport Across Metal-Nonmetal Interfaces," ASME Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference Atlanta, Georgia, March 2012
[3] B. Qiu*, Y. Wang, Q. Zhao, and X. Ruan, "The effects of diameter and chirality in the thermal transport in free-standing and supported carbon-nanotubes," ASME Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference Atlanta, Georgia, March 2012
[2] Y. Wang* and X. Ruan, "Role of edge chirality and isotope doping in thermal transport and thermal rectification in graphene nanoribbons," ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Denver, CO, November 2011
[1] B. Qiu*, Y. Wang and X. Ruan, "Linear and Nonlinear Thermal Transport in Graphene: Molecular Dynamics Simulations," 2011 MRS Spring Meeting and Exhibit, San Francisco, April 2011
Selected Poster Presentations (* denotes presenting author)
[6] (Best Poster Award in AI-Machine Learning Innovation Awards) Pranay Chakraborty*, Tengfei Ma, Lei Cao and Yan Wang, "Optimization of Random Multilayer Structure through Physics-informed Machine Learning," ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov 11-14, 2019.
[5] (Best Poster Award in Most Innovative Computational Modeling Award) Tengfei Ma*, Lei Cao and Yan Wang, “The Effect of Dimensionality on Phonon Localization," ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov 11-14, 2019
[4] (Best Poster Award) Pranay Chakraborty*, Xixi Guo, Tengfei Ma, and Yan Wang, “Random Multilayer for Thermoelectric Applications: a Molecular Dynamics and Machine Learning Study,” GSA 2019 Fall Poster Symposium Award, University of Nevada, Reno, Oct 22, 2019
[3] Y. Wang* and X. Ruan, “Coherent phonon transport in multilayered structures,” Hawkins Memorial Lecture Poster Session, West Lafayette, IN, October 1, 2015
[2] Y Wang*, B. Qiu, and X. Ruan, "Negative differential thermal conductance in graphene nanoribbons," US-India Nanomaterials for Energy Symposium, West Lafayette, IN, April 2012
[1] Y. Wang* and X. Ruan, "Two-temperature molecular dynamics simulations of thermal transport across CNT-metal interfaces," AFOSR Thermal Sciences Annual Grantees Meeting, Washington DC, September 26-28, 2011
Research Tools
[1] Yan Wang, Xin Jin, and Xiulin Ruan, "Two-temperature Non-equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulator," DOI: 10.4231/D3N29P730, nanoHUB.org (2014)
- Note: we have open-sourced this tool on nanoHUB.