Yi Zhou

Physics meets sustainability. We delve into the role of thermal nonlinearity in figures of merit to advance #thermoelectric & #pyroelectric heat harvesting technologies beyond linear processes.

Quantum Server Newsletter on the latest news in Materials Science research: Breakthrough in Thermoelectric Semiconductors: Thi... quantum-server-materials.blogspot.com/2025/11/breakt…

The #EU #rawmaterials week is live, bringing together academia, research, industry and policy! Friday, our START project will join a side event entitled "Crossroads of Innovation: Shared Challanges and Joint Solutions in Raw Materials". Register here: forms.office.com/pages/response…

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Thickness doping makes semiconductor #thermoelectrics better and cooler. Thanks to ⁦@TechXplore_com⁩ for the highlight! techxplore.com/news/2025-09-a…

Turning bulk #thermoelectric into flexible semiconductor films is out! ⁦@ScienceAdvances⁩ ⁦@ScienceMagazine⁩ ⁦@NUSResearch⁩ science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Design principle for 3D thermoelectric materials in power generators - now published in Energy & Environmental Science pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Theory predicts that phonons—quanta of lattice vibrations—can carry finite angular momentum and thus influence physical properties of materials. Now phonons with angular momentum have been seen in tellurium with a chiral crystal structure. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Elated to learn that our work on Evapolectrics has been featured as cover for @acsnano ! 😊 For our young team it is a very nice encouragement for us to keep working hard and push for our own unique research direction! link: lnkd.in/dgCAaWMs link to article (open access) : lnkd.in/ghw5yRKm @ACSPublications #MaterialsScience #Thermoelectrics #openaccess #MyACSCover

When a charge current, a temperature gradient and a magnetic field are applied orthogonally to each other, a conductor is expected to heat or cool. This so-called transverse Thomson effect has now been observed for a bismuth–antimony alloy. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Graphene-enhanced near-field thermophotonic system for efficient heat-to-electricity conversion. Learn more 👇 aippub.org/3FMp5wj

Thanks @AdvPortfolio for highlighting our work on evaporation energy harvesting using thermoelectrics! advancedsciencenews.com/water-powered-…

Photogalvanic effects in non-centrosymmetric halide perovskites nature.com/articles/s4225…

Can we design materials that are both strong and stretchable — even ceramics or glass? nature.com/articles/s4156… In our new @NatureMaterials paper, we show how combining stiff and compliant architectures can create metamaterials that are stiff, tough, and stretchable. @MITMechE

First is always memorable! Glad to have our first work @CUHK online! This is our first (or in fact, second) venture into water evaporation. In this work, we combined thermoelectric with water evaporation from hydrogel to harvest electricity. Such direct harvesting from evaporation enthalpy energy has indeed proven to be more effective than traditional hydrovoltaics. Also due to the distinctive mechanisms of this direction, we coined the device as "Evapolectrics" aka evaporation-driven electricity. I'm lucky to have good student, Zichen! many more works to come, stay tuned! Link: doi.org/10.1002/adfm.2…

@polaris4dy @CUHK Congrats

Read our latest work on chemical bonding in #thermoelectric materials, published with @SpringerNature in @NatRevChem rdcu.be/ee0hk

The first issue & the first articles of APL Electronic Devices are now online! @AIP_Publishing Learn more 👇 aippub.org/3Z8AKvf

📣We are preparing our next free webinar! Join us on Tuesday 18th March to get insights on the #thermoelectric devices being developed in the projects START and THERMOS projects. Register here: shorturl.at/deRt2 More info: start-heproject.com/register-for-o…

Check out our latest work on 3D printed thermoelectric materials! All thanks to the support of the @WSS_Stiftung and @ISTAustria