Z. F. Ren Department of Physics, Boston College

Office Address Home Address Department of Physics 89 Blake Street Boston College Newton, MA 02460 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Phone: 617-559-0295 Phone: 617 552 2832. Fax: 617 552 8478. E-mail: renzh@bc.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS High performance thermoelectric materials and solar thermoelectric systems: nanostructure approach to reduce the thermal conductivity and to improve the thermoelectric properties, solar panels using the improved thermoelectric materials; Solar photovoltaic energy conversion using nanocoaxes for high efficiency: nano scale coaxial cable arrays of amorphous silicon and other materials in p-i-n structure for high efficiency solar energy conversion; Mechanics of carbon nanotubes and other nanowires, and nanocomposites: the deformation and mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes and other nanowires by high resolution transmission electron microscope; Bio agent delivery and bio sensors: carbon nanotubes spearing for molecular delivery into cells with high viability, nano cavities for sensitive bio sensing; Nanostructured catalyst for water splitting and carbon nanotubes for water purification: ZnO and TiO2 nanostructuctures as effective catalysts for water splitting by photocatalytic reaction, and carbon nanotubes membranes as water filters to purify water.

EDUCATION Postdoctoral Fellow, Condensed Matter Physics, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA 90-92 Ph.D., Condensed Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 87-90 M.S., Materials Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China 84-87 B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Sichuan Institute of Technology, Chengdu, China 80-84

HONORS/AWARDS:

Fellow of the American Physical Society 2004 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2005 Outstanding Overseas Chinese Junior Researcher, Nanjing University 2005 The most cited author among the scientists whose citation records reflect the top 1% of their fields for the first time for the period from 1995 to 2005, http://www.in-cites.com/newentrants/october2005.html 2005 The paper, Science 282, 1105 (1998), is the 2nd most cited paper in Materials Science for a 10-year span from January 1996 to June 2006 http://www.in-cites.com/papers/top20-mat-sci.html 2006 Distinguished Senior Research Award of Boston College 2006 Guest Professor, Xihua University, Chengdu, China 2006 Guest Professor, University of Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu, China 2006 The paper, NanoLetters 2, 1287 (2002), is one of the most cited papers by NanoLetters http://pubs.acs.org/action/showMostCitedArticles?topArticlesType=sinceInception&journalCode=nalefd 2008 R&D 100 Award for the development of high performance thermoelectric materials 2008 Guest Professor, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, China 2008 Changjiang Professorship, Nanjing University, China 2009 Guest Professor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China 2009 Guest Professor, South China Normal University, China 2010 Advisory Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China 2010 Top 100 Materials Scientists in the world of the past decade 2000-2010 2011

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Editorial Board, Progress in Physics, 2009-present

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Editorial Advisory Board, “Recent Patents on Nanotechnology”, 2007-present Proposal Review Committee for the Center of Nanophase Materials Science of the Oak Ridge

National Laboratory, 2007-present Wuxi New District International Advisory & Consultative Committee, 2009-present

Original Organizing Committee for establishing the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, 2009-2010

Founder of NanoLab, Inc. in 2000, commercialization of nanomaterials Founder of Solasta, Inc. in 2006, highly efficient solar cells Founder of GMZ Energy, Inc. in 2006, high ZT thermoelectric materials

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2004-present Professor, Physics, Boston College

Directing postdocs, visiting scholars, PhD students, undergraduates, and high school students working on energy science funded by DOE, NSF, DOD, etc.

1999-2004 Associate Professor, Physics, Boston College Established a materials laboratory with a variety of synthesis and characterization

equipment including plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, hot press, magnetron sputtering, XRD, SEM, HRTEM, etc.

1998-1999 Research Associate Professor, Chemistry, SUNY at Buffalo Initiated pioneering work on carbon nanotubes and superconducting materials funded by

NSF, DOE, and ARO. 1995-1998 Research Assistant Professor, Chemistry, SUNY at Buffalo

Produced high Jc long superconducting tapes of (Tl,Bi)-1223 on RABiTS; studied a model superconductor Tl2Ba2CuO6+ for d-wave paring symmetry with Drs. C. Tsuei and J. Kirtley at IBM and interlayer coupling effect with Prof. D. van der Marel in The Netherland.

1992-1995 Research Scientist and Lecturer, Chemistry, SUNY at Buffalo Set up laser ablation and magnetron sputtering systems; studied high quality epitaxial (Tl,Bi)-1223 films; achieved high Jc in (Tl,Bi)-1223 films.

1990-1992 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chemistry, SUNY at Buffalo Built a 33-ft long wire drawing machine; investigated the relationship between superconducting properties and processing parameters in Tl-based systems; fabricated the first high-Jc (>104 A/cm2) long-length (>20 m) (Tl,Pb)-1223 superconducting tape.

1987-1990 Research Assistant, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Studied the growth, properties, and microstructures of single crystals YBa2Cu3O7- and Bi2Sr2Can-1CunO2n+4.

1984-1987 Research and Teaching Assistant, Mechanical Engineering, Huazhong University of Sciences and Technology Studied solid-solid and solid-liquid phase transitions, solidification of eutectic alloys, and crystal morphological transformations of eutectic Al-Cu alloy.

Member of: Materials Research Society; American Physical Society, The American Association for the

Advancement of Science; and International Who’s Who of Professionals. Reviewer for: Journals: Science, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechology, Appl. Phys. Lett.,

NanoLetters, Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie, Journal of American Chemical Society, Journal of Appl. Phys., Small, Nanotechnology, Journal of Crystal Growth, Thin Solid Films, Physica C, IEEE transaction, Philosophical Magazine, etc. Proposals: DOE, NSF, NASA, U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK), etc.

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Patents: 1. Z. F. Ren, Z. P. Huang, J. H. Wang, and D. Z. Wang, "Free-Standing and Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

and Synthesis Thereof", US 6,863,942, issued on Mar 8, 2005. 2. R. Schlaf, Z. F. Ren, J. G. Wen, and D. L. Carnahan, “Method of Producing a Branched Carbon

Nanotube for Use with an Atomic Force Microscope”, US 6,871,528, issued on Mar 29, 2005. 3. Z. F. Ren, J. G. Wen, J. Y. Lao, and W. Z. Li, “Reinforced Carbon Nanotubes”, US 6,911,260, issued

on June 28, 2005. 4. S. O. Kelley, J. Fourkas, M. J. Naughton, and Z. F. Ren, “DNA-Bridged Carbon Nanotubes Arrays”,

US 6,958,216, issued on Oct 25, 2005. 5. Z. F. Ren, J. G. Wen, J. H. Chen, Z. P. Huang, and D. Z. Wang, “Coated Carbon Nanotube Array

Electrodes”, US 7,147,966, issued on Dec 12, 2006. 6. W. Z. Li, J. G. Wen, and Z. F. Ren, “Varied Morphology Carbon Nanotubes and Methods for Their

Manufacture”, US 7,157,068, issued on Jan 2, 2007. 7. Z. F. Ren, G. Chen, B. Poudel, S. Kumar, W. Z. Wang, and M. S. Dresselhaus, “Methods for

Synthesis of Semiconductor Nanocrystals and Thermoelectric Composites”, US 7,255,846, issued on Aug 14, 2007.

8. Z. F. Ren, J. Y. Lao, and D. Banerjee, “Metal Oxide Nanostructures with Hierachical Morphology”, US 7,294,417, issued on Nov 13, 2007.

9. Z. F. Ren, J. G. Wen, J. H. Chen, Z. P. Huang, and D. Z. Wang, “Coated Carbon Nanotube Array Electrodes”, US 7,442,284, issued on Oct 28, 2008.

10. Z. F. Ren, J. G. Wen, J. Y. Lao, and W. Z. Li, “Reinforced Carbon Nanotubes”, US 7,442,414, issued on Oct 28, 2008.

11. Z. F. Ren, Y. H. Lin, W. Yantasee, G. D. Liu, F. Lu, and Y. Tu, “Carbon Nanotube Nanoelectrode Arrays”, US 7,452,452, issued on Nov 18, 2008.

12. Z. F. Ren, and Y. Tu, “Density Controlled Carbon Nanotube Array Electrodes”, US 7,465,494, issued on Dec 16, 2008.

13. G. Chen, Z. F. Ren, and M. S. Dresselhaus, “Nanocomposites with High Thermoelectric Figures of Merit”, US 7,465,871, issued on Dec 16, 2008.

14. Z. F. Ren, G. Chen, B. Poudel, S. Kumar, W. Z. Wang, and M. S. Dresselhaus, “Doped Semiconductor Nanoparticles and Methods of Synthesis Thereof”, US 7,586,033, issued on Sept 8, 2009.

15. K. Kempa, M. J. Naughton, Z. F. Ren, and J. A. Rybczynski, “Apparatus and Methods for Manipulating Light Using Nanoscale Cometal Structures”, US 7,589,880, issued on Sep 15, 2009.

16. Z. F. Ren, S. Kumar, G. Chen, and H. Lee, “Thermoelectric Properties by High Temperature Annealing”, US 7,591,913, issued on Sept 22, 2009.

17. M. Naughton, K. Kempa, and Z. F. Ren, “Nanoscale Optical Microscope”, US 7,623,746, issued on Nov 24, 2009.

18. K. Kempa, M. J. Naughton, Z. F. Ren, and J. A. Rybczynski, “Apparatus and Methods for Nanolithography Using Nanoscale Optics”, US 7,634,162, issued on Dec 15, 2009.

19. K. Kempa, Z. F. Ren, M. J. Naughton, and J. A. Rybczynski, “Appratus and methods for optical switching using nanoscale optics”, US 7,649,665, issued on Jan 19, 2010.

20. Z. F. Ren, S. H. Jo, and D. Banerjee, “Device and Method for Achieving Enhanced Field Emission Utilizing Nanostructures Grown on a Conductive Substrate”, US 7,666,051, issued on Feb 23, 2010.

21. K. Kempa, M. J. Naughton, Z. F. Ren, Y. Wang, and J. A. Rybczynski, “Apparatus and Methods for Solar Energy Conversion Using Nanocoax Structures”, US 7,754,964, issued on July 13, 2010.

22. Z. F. Ren, W. Z. Wang, and G. Y. Xiong, “Growth of Pure and Long Silicon Nanowires in Large Quantity on Table Salt Support”, U.S. Patent (pending).

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23. B. Poudel, W. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, G. Chen, and M. Dresselhaus, “Hydrothermal Synthesis of PbTe Nanocrystals, Doping by Silver, Copper, etc., and Their Thermoelectric Properties”, U.S. Patent (pending).

24. B. Poudel, S. Kunwar, W. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, and Gang Chen “Low Temperature Synthesis of PbSe Nanoparticles and Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties”, U.S. Patent (pending).

25. Z. F. Ren, Y. Wang, and K. Kempa, “Solar Cells Using Random Arrays of Carbon Nanotube Optical Rectennas”, U.S. Patent (pending).

26. K. Kempa, Y. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Optical Antennas Using Aligned Carbon Nanotubes”, U.S. Patent (pending).

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Meeting Organizer and Session Chair in Conferences 1. Session chair, “Chinano Forum 2010 on Nanotech Innovation and Industrialization”,

November 12–15, 2010, Suzhou, China. 2. Session chair of “The 29th International Conference on Thermoelectrics”, May 30 – June 3,

2010, Shanghai, China. 3. Session chair, “Thermoelectric Materials and Applications, 2009 Chinese Materials Research

Society Meeting”, Oct 15 – 17, 2009, Suzhou, China. 4. Program Committee for the 7th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology in 2007,

Hong Kong SAR, China, on August 2-5, 2007. 5. Organizer, symposium Z “Chemistry of Nanomaterial Synthesis and Processing”, MRS 2005

spring meeting, March 29 – April 1, 2005, San Francisco, CA, USA. 6. Organizer, “International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes

(NT’02)”, July 6-11, 2002, Boston, MA, USA. 7. Session chair, “The 199th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society (ECS)”, March 25 –30,

2001, Washington DC, USA. 8. Session chair, “MRS 2000 Fall Meeting, SESSION A5: PROCESSING AND

PURIFICATION”, November 28, 2000, Boston, MA, USA. 9. Session chair, “(ICCE/7) Seventh Annual International Conference on Composites

Engineering”, July 2 – 8, 2000, Denver, CO, USA. 10. Organizer, “The 197th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society (ECS)”, May 14 - 18, 2000,

Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 11. Organizer, “The 195th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society (ECS)”, May 2 - 7, 1999,

Seattle, Washington, USA.

Service on Review Panels 1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiatong University, 2009. 2. Field proposal review panel, March 1 – 4, 2009, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 3. NSF MRI Panel Review, April 17 – 18, 2004, Arlington, VA. 4. Department of Energy’s 2002 Superconductivity Peer Review, Strategic Research Panel, July

17 – 19, 2002, Washington DC. 5. NSF SBIR Panel Review, April 8 – 9, 2002, Arlington, VA. 6. NASA Nano Materials Science Center Panel Review, Feb. 11 – 12, 2002, Washington DC. 7. NSF ECS unsolicited proposal Panel Review, Jan. 31 – Feb. 1, 2002, Arlington, VA. 8. 2000 DOE Peer Review on Superconductivity for Electric Systems Program of DOE, July 17

– 19, 2000, Washington DC.

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Services on BC Committees 2000-2001 Comprehensive Examination Committee, member Library Committee, member Safety Committee (Univerisity wide), member 2001-2002 Comprehensive Examination Committee, member Library Committee, member Safety Committee (University wide), member Faculty Search Committee, member, resulted in hiring Professor Vidya Madavan 2002-2003 Comprehensive Examination Committee, member Library Committee, member Safety Committee (University wide), member Faculty Search Committee, member, offer was made but was turned down 2003-2004 Safety Committee (University wide), member Merit Review Committee, member 2004-2005 Safety Committee (University wide), member Merit Review Committee, member Faculty Search Committee, chair, offered was made but was turned down 2005-2006 Safety Committee (University wide), member Merit Review Committee, member Faculty Search Committee, chair, resulted in hiring Professor Willie Padilla and

Professor Cy Opeil 2006-2007 Safety Committee (University wide), member Merit Review Committee, member 2007-2008 Space Committee, member 2008-2009 Space Committee, member Faculty Search Committee, member, resulted in hiring Professor Stephen Wilson Undergraduate Affairs Committee, member 2009-2010 Space Committee, member Recognition Committee, member 2010-2011 Faculty Search Committee, chair

Space Committee, chair Recognition Committee, member Working Committee for the Higgins Master Plan Study (for School of A&S), member

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Services on non-BC PhD Committees Name Institution Thesis Defense Date Qing Hao Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology 05/17/2010 Andy Muto Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Courses Taught at Boston College 2000 Spring PH403-01 Electricity and Magnetism II

PH799-15 Reading and Research PH999-15 Doctoral Continuation 2000 Fall PH211-02 Introduction to Fundamental Physics I PH799-15 Reading and Research PH999-15 Doctoral Continuation 2001 Spring PH212-02 Introduction to Fundamental Physics II PH799-15 Reading and Research PH999-15 Doctoral Continuation 2001 Fall PH211-02 Introduction to Fundamental Physics I PH799-15 Reading and Research PH999-15 Doctoral Continuation 2002 Spring PH212-02 Introduction to Fundamental Physics II PH799-15 Reading and Research PH999-15 Doctoral Continuation 2002 Fall PH910-01 Seminar: Topics in Physics PH799-15 Reading and Research PH999-15 Doctoral Continuation 2003 Spring PH402 Electricity and Magnetism I PH799-15 Reading and Research PH999-15 Doctoral Continuation 2003 Fall PH910-01 Seminar: Topics in Physics PH799-15 Reading and Research PH999-15 Doctoral Continuation 2004 Spring PH402 Electricity and Magnetism I PH799-15 Reading and Research PH999-15 Doctoral Continuation 2004 Fall PH910-01 Seminar: Topics in Physics PH799-15 Reading and Research PH999-15 Doctoral Continuation 2005 Spring PH402 Electricity and Magnetism I PH799-15 Reading and Research PH999-15 Doctoral Continuation 2005 Fall PH535 Experiments in Physics PH708 Physics Graduate Seminar II

PH799-15 Reading and Research PH999-15 Doctoral Continuation 2006 Spring PH402 Electricity and Magnetism I PH799-15 Reading and Research PH999-15 Doctoral Continuation 2006 Fall PH535 Experiments in Physics PH708 Physics Graduate Seminar II PH799-15 Reading and Research PH999-15 Doctoral Continuation

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2007 Spring PH548 Physics of Nanomaterials I PH799-15 Reading and Research PH999-15 Doctoral Continuation 2007 Fall PH548 Physics of Nanomaterials II PH799-15 Reading and Research PH999-15 Doctoral Continuation 2008 Spring PH535 Experiments in Physics PH799-15 Reading and Research PH999-15 Doctoral Continuation 2008 Fall PH425 Introduction to Solid State Physics PH799-14 Reading and Research PH999-14 Doctoral Continuation 2009 Spring PH535-01 Experiments in Physics PH799-14 Reading and Research PH999-14 Doctoral Continuation 2009 Fall Sabbatical

PH799-14 Reading and Research PH999-14 Doctoral Continuation 2010 Spring PH535-01 Experiments in Physics PH640 Nanoscale Integrated Science (co-teaching) PH799-14 Reading and Research PH999-14 Doctoral Continuation 2010 Fall PH409-01 Comtemplary Electronics Lab PH799-14 Reading and Research PH999-14 Doctoral Continuation

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Students Graduated from Boston College Name Degree Received Where Are They Now Yi Tu PhD, 2003 Director of R&D

First Nano, Inc. Debasish Banerjee PhD, 2005 Senior Research Scientist

Toyota R&D Research Center Yang Wang PhD, 2006 Professor South China Normal University Shuo Chen PhD, 2006 Postdoc Department of Mechanical Engineering MIT Dezhi Wang PhD, 2007 Manager Center of Electron Microscopes Boston College Guangyong Xiong PhD, 2007 Senior Manager of a Solar Company China Bed Poudel PhD, 2007 Derector Division of Thermoelectric Materials and Devices GMZ Energy, Inc. Xiaowei Wang PhD, 2009 Research Scientist GMZ Energy, Inc. Yi Ma PhD, 2009 Research Scientist GMZ Energy, Inc. Jian Yang PhD, 2010 Postdoc GMZ Energy, Inc. Xiao Yan PhD, 2010 Postdoc Boston College

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INVITED TALKS AT MEETINGS 40. Z. F. Ren, “Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials and Their Applications in Energy

Conversion”, Symposium on Nanophotonics and Renewable Energy”, Jan 16-18, 2011, Beijing, China.

39. Z. F. Ren, “High Performance Nanostructured Thermoelectric and Photovoltaic Materials”, Chinano Forum 2010 on Nanotech Innovation and Industrialization, November 12–15, 2010, Suzhou, China.

38. Z. F. Ren, “Efficient Energy Conversion Using Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials”, 16th International Conference on Crystal Growth, August 8–13, 2010, Beijing, China.

37. Z. F. Ren, “Thermoelectric Properties and Stabilities of Nanostructured Materials”, ICAM Workshop of “Physics of Novel Energy Materials”, May 31 – June 2, 2010, Beijing, China.

36. Z. F. Ren, “Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials and Their Potential Applciations”, 29th International Conference on Thermoelectrics, May 30 – June 3, 2010, Shanghai, China.

35. Z. F. Ren, “Efficient Energy Conversion Using Nanotechnology”, SAE 2010 World Congress, April 13 – 15, 2010, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

34. Z. F. Ren, “Commercialization of Nano Materials”, 2009 Chinese Materials Research Society Meeting, Oct 15 – 17, 2009, Suzhou, China.

33. Z. F. Ren, “Enhancement of Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit by a Nanostructure Approach”, 2009 Chinese Materials Research Society Meeting, Oct 15 – 17, 2009, Suzhou, China.

32. Z. F. Ren, “Enhancement of Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit by a Nanostructure Approach”, 2009 MRS Spring Meeting, April 15, 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA.

31. Z. F. Ren, “High Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys”, 6th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena - Science and Engineering, July 13 – 16, 2008, Boston, MA, USA.

30. Z. F. Ren, “High figure-of-merit achieved in nanostructured thermoelectric SiGe alloys”, ASME Nano Energy Conference, September 5 – 7, 2007, Santa Clara, CA, USA.

29. Z. F. Ren, “Structure and property studies on carbon nanotubes”, SPIE Optics East, October 1 – 4, 2006, Boston, MA, USA.

28. Z. F. Ren, “ Structure and property studies on carbon nanotubes”, US – Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, August 10 – 13, 2006, Teaneck, NJ, USA.

27. (Keynote) Z. F. Ren, “Nanocomposite approach to high figure-of-merit thermoelectric materials”, ASME International Conference on Energy Nanotechnology, MIT, June 25 – 28, 2006.

26. Z. F. Ren, “Nano Materials Fabrication and Physics”, SPIE Conference-Nanostructure Integration Techniques for Manufacturable Devices, Circuits, and Systems: Interfaces, Interconnects, and Nanosystems, October 23-26, 2005, Boston, MA, USA.

25. (Keynote) Z. F. Ren, “Nanomaterials and Physics”, ASME Nano Conference 2005, September 14-16, 2005, Berkeley, CA, USA.

24. Z. F. Ren, Air Force Workshop, Dec. 15 – 17, 2004, Stanford, CA, USA. 23. Z. F. Ren, “Si-Ge nanocomposites for radioisotope power conversion” at the 2004 Direct

Energy Conversion Program Review and Workshop, Dec. 12- 15, San Diego, CA, USA. 22. Z. F. Ren, 3rd US-Korea Workshop on Nanostructured Materials & Nanomanufacturing,

May 10 – 11, 2004. 21. Z. F. Ren, Internaional Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, April 19 –

23, 2004, San Diego, CA, USA.

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20. Z. F. Ren, Materials Research Society 2004 spring meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA. 19. Z. F. Ren, Particles 2004, March 6 – 9, 2004, Orlando, Florida, USA. 18. Z. F. Ren, Correlation of Structure and Magnetism in Novel Nanoscale Magnetic Particles,

Feb. 25 – 29, 2004, Bonn, Germany. 17. Z. F. Ren, 2003 US-Korea Conference – Workshop 1 “Nanostructured Materials &

Nanomanufacturing”, August 9, 2003, Caltech, CA. 16. Z. F. Ren, “Aligned Carbon Nanotubes for Field Emission, 2D Photonic Band Gap Crystals,

and Nanoelectrodes”, International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes 2003 (NT03), July 7 – 11, 2003, Seoul, Korea.

15. Z. F. Ren, “Growth, Characterization, and Potential Applications of Periodic Carbon Nanotube Arrays”, 23rd Army Science Conference, Dec. 2-5, 2002, Orlando, Florida.

14. Z. F. Ren, “Growth and Characterizations of Well-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes”, 51st International Wire and Cable Symposium, November 18-21, 2002, Orlando, Florida.

13. Z. F. Ren, “Growth and Characterizations of Well-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes”, NATO ADVANCED RESEARCH WORKSHOP, MAY 16 – 19, 2002, City Poznan / Puszcykowo Technology University, Poznan, Poland.

12. Z. F. Ren, “Synthesis and Applications of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes”, ASM’s Annual Meeting, “Materials Solutions 2001”, November 5-8, 20001, Indianapolis, USA.

11. Z. F. Ren, (SAMPE) Society for Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering, Boston, MA, November 5 – 9, 2000.

10. Z. F. Ren, (ICCE/7) Seventh Annual International Conference on Composites Engineering, Denver, CO, July 2 – 8, 2000.

9. Z. F. Ren, "Large arrays of well-aligned carbon nanotubes", 1999 MRS Fall Meeting, Nov. 29 – Dec. 3, Boston, MA, USA.

8. Z. F. Ren, "Large arrays of well-aligned carbon nanotubes", 44th US Army Sagamore Conference on Nanostructured Materials, Aug. 23 - 26, 1999, Easton, MD, USA.

7. Z. F. Ren, "Large arrays of well-aligned carbon nanotubes", NANOTUBE-99 WORKSHOP, July 24 - 27, 1999, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

6. Z. F. Ren, "Synthesis of large arrays of well-aligned carbon nanotubes", 195th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) at Seattle, May 2 - 7, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA,

5. Z. F. Ren, "Synthesis of large arrays of well-aligned carbon nanotubes", Large-scale Production of CARBON NANOTUBES, April 22 - 23, 1999, Washington D.C.

4. Z. F. Ren, "Large arrays of well-aligned carbon nanotube(s)", XIIIth International Wintershool on Electronic Properties of Novel Materials, Science & Technology of Molecular Nanostructures, Feb. 27 - Mar. 6, 1999, Kirchberg / Tirol, Austria.

3. Z. F. Ren, L. P. Guo, J. Y. Lao, J. H. Wang, D. K. Christen, and D. J. Miller, “From Thin Films to Thick Conductors of (Tl,Bi)-1223”, International Workshop on Tl and Hg Based Superconducting Materials held on May 26-28, 1997 at the University of Cambridge, UK.

2. Z. F. Ren, “Improvement of critical current density in thallium-based (TlBi)Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9- superconductors”, Fourth World Congress on Superconductivity, Orlando, FL, June 27-July 1, 1994.

1. Z. F. Ren, “Improvement of grain connectivity in thallium-based long superconducting tapes and films”, HTS Wire Development Workshop, St. Petersburgh, FL, Feb. 16-17, 1994.

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Publications and Presentations

Z. F. Ren

Department of Physics

Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Tel: 617-552-2832 Cell: 617-967-0869 Fax: 617-552-8478

Email: renzh@bc.edu

March 2011

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HIGHLY CITED PAPERS (A total citation over 10,000 with an H-index of 47) 1. Z. F. Ren, Z. P. Huang, J. W. Xu, J. H. Wang, P. Bush, M. P. Siegal, and P. N. Provencio,

"Synthesis of Large Arrays of Well-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on Glass", Science 282, 1105 – 1107 (1998). It has been cited 1636 times.

2. E. T. Thostenson, Z. F. Ren and Tsu-Wei Chou, "Advances in the science and technology of carbon nanotubes and their composites: a review", Composites Science and Technology 61, 1899-1912 (2001). It has been cited 1202 times.

3. J. Y. Lao, J. G. Wen, and Z. F. Ren, “Hierarchical ZnO nanostructures”, NanoLetters 2, 1287 – 1291 (2002). It has been cited 503 times.

4. J. Y. Lao, J. Y. Huang, D. Z. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “ZnO nanobridges and nanonails”, NanoLetters 3, 235 – 238 (2003). It has been cited 380 times.

5. Y. H. Lin, F. Lu, Y. Tu, and Z. F. Ren, “Glucose Biosensors Based on Carbon Nanotube Nanoelectrode Ensembles”, NanoLetters 4, 191 – 195 (2004). It has been cited 311 times.

6. M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, M. Y. Tang, R. G. Yang, H. Lee, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, J. P. Fleurial, and P. Gogna, “New Directions for Low Dimensional Thermoelectric Materials”, Adv. Mater. 19, 1043 – 1053 (2007). It has been cited 297 times.

7. Bed Poudel, Qing Hao, Yi Ma, Yucheng Lan, Austin Minnich, Bo Yu, Xiao Yan, Dezhi Wang, Andrew Muto, Daryoosh Vashaee, Xiaoyuan Chen, Junming Liu, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Gang Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “High-Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys”, Science 320, 634 – 638 (2008), published online on 20 March 2008; 10.1126/Science.1156446. It has been cited 274 times.

8. Z. F. Ren, Z. P. Huang, J. W. Xu, D. Z. Wang, J. G. Wen, J. H. Wang, L. Calvet, J. Chen, J. F. Klemic, and M. A. Reed, “Growth of a Single Freestanding Multiwall Carbon Nanotube on Each Nanonickel Dot”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 75, 1086 – 1088 (1999). It has been cited 256 times.

9. C. C. Tsuei, J. R. Kirtley, M. Rupp. J. Z. Sun, A. Gupta, M. B. Ketchen, C. A. Wang, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, and M. Bhushan, “Half-Integer Flux Quantum Effect and Pairing Symmetry in High-Tc One-Layer Tetragonal Tl2Ba2CuO6+ Superconductors”, Science 271, 329 – 332 (1996). It has been cited 193 times.

10. S. H. Jo, J. Y. Lao, Z. F. Ren, R. A. Farrer, T. Baldacchini, and J. T. Fourkas, “Field emission studies on thin films of zinc oxide nanowires”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 4821 – 4823 (2003). It has been cited 179 times.

11. Z. P. Huang, J.W. Xu, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, M. P. Siegal, and P. N. Provencio, "Growth of Large-Scale Well-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes by Plasma Enhanced Hot Filament Chemical Vapor Deposition", Appl. Phys. Lett 73, 3845 3847 (1998). It has been cited 172 times.

12. K. Kempa, B. Kimball, J. Rybczynski, Z. P. Huang, P. F. Wu, D. Steeves, M. Sennett, M. Giersig, D. V. G. L. N. Rao, D. L. Carnahan, D. Z. Wang, J. Y. Lao, W. Z. Li, and Z. F. Ren, “Photonic crystals based on periodic arrays of aligned carbon nanotubes”, NanoLetters 3, 13 – 18 (2003). It has been cited 153 times.

13. Jiming Bao, Mariano A. Zimmler, Federico Capasso, Xiaowei Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Broadband ZnO single-nanowire light-emitting diode”, NanoLetters 6, 1719 – 1722 (2006). It has been cited 150 times.

14. D. Cai, J. Mataraza, Z. P. Huang, J. Y. Huang, Z. H. Qin, T. C. Chiles, D. Carnahan, K. Kempa, and Z. F. Ren, “Highly Efficient Molecular Delivery into Mammalian Cells Using

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Carbon Nanotube Spearing”, Nature Methods 2, 449 – 454 (2005). It has been cited 143 times.

15. J. Y. Huang, S. Chen, Z. Q. Wang, K. Kempa, Y. M. Wang, S. H. Jo, G. Chen, M. S. Dresselhaus, and Z. F. Ren, “Superplastic carbon nanotubes”, Nature 439, 281 (2006). It has been cited 137 times.

16. S. H. Jo, Y. Tu, Z. P. Huang, D. L. Carnahan, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, “Effect of length and spacing of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes on field emission properties”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 82, 3520 – 3522 (2003). It has been cited 134 times.

17. H. Tang, J. H. Chen, Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, L. H. Nie, Y. F. Kuang, S. Z. Yao, “High dispersion and electrocatalytic properties of platinum on well-aligned carbon nanotube arrays”, Carbon 42, 191 – 197 (2004). It has been cited 124 times.

18. J. H. Chen, W. Z. Li, D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, J. G. Wen, Z. F. Ren, “Electrochemical characterization of carbon nanotubes as electrode in electrochemical double-layer capacitors,” Carbon 40, 1193-1197 (2002). It has been cited 124 times.

19. D. Banerjee, S. H. Jo, and Z. F. Ren, “Enhanced field emission of ZnO nanowires”, Advanced Materials 16, 2028 – 2032 (2004). It has been cited 117 times.

20. Y. Tu, Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, J. G. Wen, Z. F. Ren, “Growth of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes with Controlled Site Density”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 80, 4018 - 4020 (2002). It has been cited 115 times.

21. J. G. Wen, J. Y. Lao, D. Z. Wang, T. M. Kyaw, Y. L. Foo, Z. F. Ren, “Self-assembly of semiconducting oxide nanowires, nanorods, and nanoribbons”, Chem. Phys. Lett. 372, 717 -722 (2003). It has been cited 114 times.

22. Y. Wang, K. Kempa, B. Kimball, J. B. Carlson, G. Benham, W. Z. Li, T. Kempa, J. Rybczynski, A. Herczynski, and Z. F. Ren, “Receiving and Transmitting Light-like Radio Waves: Antenna Effect in Arrays of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 2607 – 2609 (2004). It has been cited 113 times.

23. D. Banerjee, J. Y. Lao, D. Z. Wang, J. Y. Huang, and Z. F. Ren, D. Steeves, B. Kimball, and M. Sennett, “Large quantity free-standing ZnO nanowires”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 2061 – 2063 (2003). It has been cited 108 times.

24. E. T. Thostenson, W. Z. Li, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, and T. W. Chou, “carbon nanotube / carbon fiber hybrid multi-scale composites”, J. of Appl. Phys. 91, 6034 - 6037 (2002). It has been cited 104 times.

25. Z. P. Huang, D. L. Carnahan, J. Rybczynski, M. Giersig, M. Sennett, D. Z. Wang, J. G. Wen, K. Kempa, Z. F. Ren, “Growth of Large Periodic Arrays of Carbon Nanotubes”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 82, 460 - 462 (2003). It has been cited 101 times.

26. J. Y. Huang, S. Chen, S. H. Jo, Z. Wang, D.X. Han, G. Chen, M.S. Dresselhaus, and Z. F. Ren, “Atomic scale imaging of wall-by-wall breakdown and concurrent transport measurements in multiwall carbon nanotubes”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 236802 (2005). It has been cited 99 times.

27. X. W. Wang, Z. F. Ren and K. Kempa, “Unrestricted superlensing in a triangular two-dimensional photonic crystal”, Optics Express 12, 2919 – 2924 (2004). It has been cited 98 times.

28. W. Z. Wang, Baoqing Zeng, Jian Yang, Bed Poudel, J. Y. Huang, M. J. Naughton, and Z. F. Ren, “Aligned Ultralong ZnO Nanobelts and Their Enhanced Field Emission”, Advanced Materials 18, 3275 – 3278 (2006). It has been cited 97 times.

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29. A. A. Tsvetkov, D. van der Marel, K. A. Moler, and J. R. Kirtley, J. L. de Boer, A. Meetsma, Z. F. Ren, N. Koleshnikov, D. Dulic, A. Damascelli, M. Gruninger, J. Schutzmann, J. W. van der Eb, and J. H. Wang, “Global and Local Measures of the Intrinsic Josephson Coupling in Tl2Ba2CuO6+ as a Test of the Interlayer Tunneling Model”, Nature 395, 360 – 362 (1998). It has been cited 89 times.

30. C. C. Tsuei, J. R. Kirtley, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, H. Raffy, and Z. Z. Li, “Pure dx2-y2 order parameter symmetry in the tetragonal superconductor Tl2Ba2CuO6+”, Nature 387, 481 – 483 (1997). It has been cited 89 times.

31. S. H. Jo, D. Banerjee, and Z. F. Ren, “Field emission of zinc oxide nanowires grown on carbon cloth”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 1407 – 1409 (2004). It has been cited 88 times.

32. K. F. Wang, J. M. Liu, and Z. F. Ren, “Multiferroicity: the Coupling between Magnetic and Polarization Orders”, Advances in Physics 58, 321 – 448 (2009). It has been cited 86 times.

33. Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, J. G. Wen, M. Sennett, H. Gibson, and Z. F. Ren, “Effect of nickel, iron, and cobalt on growth of aligned carbon nanotubes”, Appl. Phys. A 74, 387-391 (2002). It has been cited 86 times.

34. W. Z. Li, J. G. Wen, Z. F. Ren, “Straight carbon nanotube Y-junctions”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 1879 - 1881 (2001). It has been cited 79 times.

35. W. Z. Li, J. G. Wen, Z. F. Ren, “Clean Double-walled Carbon Nanotubes Synthesized by CVD”, Chem. Phys. Lett. 368, 299–306 (2003). It has been cited 75 times.

36. J. Y. Lao, J. Y. Huang, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, “Self-assembled In2O3 Nanocrystal Chains and Nanowire Networks”, Advanced Materials 16, 65 – 69 (2004). It has been cited 72 times.

37. Jessica Campos-Delgado, Jose Manuel Romo-Herrera, Xiaoting Jia, David A. Cullen, Hiroyuki Muramatsu, Yoong Ahm Kim, Takuya Hayashi, Z. F. Ren,David J. Smith, Yu Okuno, Tomonori Ohba, Hirofumi Kanoh, Katsumi Kaneko, Morinobu Endo, Humberto Terrones, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, and Mauricio Terrones, “Bulk Production of a New Form of sp2 Carbon: Crystalline Graphene Nanoribbons”, NanoLetters 8, 2773 – 2778 (2008). It has been cited 65 times.

38. J. Y. Lao, J. Y. Huang, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, D. Steeves, B. Kimball, and W. Porter, “ZnO Nanowalls”, Appl. Phys. A 78, 539 – 542 (2004). It has been cited 64 times.

39. F. Gao, Xinyi Chen, Kuibo Yin, Shuai Dong, Z. F. Ren, Fang Yuan, Tao Yu, Zhigang Zou, and Jun-Ming Liu, “Visible-Light Photocatalytic Properties of Weak Magnetic BiFeO3 Nanoparticles”, Adv. Mater. 19, 2889 – 2892 (2007). It has been cited 62 times.

40. Y. Tu, Yuehe Lin, Z. F. Ren, “Nanoelectrode Arrays Based on Low Site Density Aligned Carbon Nanotubes”, NanoLetters 3, 107 - 109 (2003). It has been cited 61 times.

41. W. Z. Li, J. G. Wen, Y. Tu, and Z. F. Ren, “Effect of Gas Pressure on the Growth and Structure of Carbon Nanotubes by Chemical Vapor Deposition”, Appl. Phys. A 73, 259-264 (2001). It has been cited 58 times.

42. M. Sennett, E. Welsh, J. B. Wright, W. Z. Li, J. G. Wen, and Z. F. Ren, “Dispersion and Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes in Polycarbonate”, Appl. Phys. A 76, 111-113 (2003). It has been cited 57 times.

43. J. Y. Lao, J. Y. Huang, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, “Hierarchical Oxide Nanostructures”, J. of Materials Chemistry 14, 770 – 773 (2004). It has been cited 52 times.

44. W. Z. Wang, B. Poudel, D. Z. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Synthesis of PbTe Nanoboxes Using a Solvothermal Technique”, Advanced Materials 17, 2110 – 2114 (2005). It has been cited 51 times.

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45. D. Banerjee, J. Y. Lao, D. Z. Wang, J. Y. Huang, D. Steeves, B. Kimball, and Z. F. Ren, “Synthesis and photoluminescence studies on ZnO nanowires”, Nanotechnology 15, 404 – 409 (2004). It has been cited 51 times.

46. Yi Ma, Qing Hao, Bed Poudel, Yucheng Lan, Bo Yu, Dezhi Wang, Gang Chen, and Z. F. Ren “Enhanced Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit in p-Type Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Tellurium Alloys Made from Elemental Chunks”, NanoLetters 8, 2580 – 2584 (2008). It has been cited 50 times.

47. Z. F. Ren and J. H. Wang, “Enhanced Formation of 1223 Phase by Partial Replacement of Bi for Tl in In Situ Synthesized Silver-Sheathed Superconducting Tape of Tl1-xBixSr2-

yBayCa2Cu3O9-”, Physica C 216, 199 – 204 (1993). It has been cited 49 times. ----------------------------------------------- 48. Giri Joshi, Hohyun Lee, Yucheng Lan, Xiaowei Wang, Gaohua Zhu, Dezhi Wang, Ryan W.

Gould, Diana C. Cuff, Ming Y. Tang, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Gang Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Enhanced thermoelectric figure–of–merit in nanostructured p–type silicon germanium bulk alloys” NanoLetters 8, 4670 – 4674 (2008). It has been cited 46 times.

49. Wenzhong Wang, Bed Poudel, Jian Yang, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, “High-Yield Synthesis of Single Crystalline Antimony Telluride Hexagonal Nanoplates Using a Low-Temperature Organic Solution Approach”, J. of American Chemical Society 127, 13792-13793 (2005). It has been cited 45 times.

50. Guangyong Xiong, D. Z. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Aligned millimeter-long carbon nanotubes arrays grown on single crystal magnesia”, Carbon 44, 969 – 973 (2006). It has been cited 44 times.

51. B. Poudel, W. Z. Wang, C. Dames, J. Y. Huang, S. Kunwar, D. Z. Wang, D. Banerjee, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Formation of Crystallized Titania Nanotubes and Their Transformation into Nanowires”, Nanotechnolgy 16, 1935 - 1940 (2005). It has been cited 44 times.

52. J. Rybczynski, D. Banerjee, A. Kosiorek, M. Giersig, Z. F. Ren, “Formation of super arrays of periodic nanoparticles and aligned ZnO nanorods - simulation and experiments”, NanoLetters 4, 2037 – 2040 (2004). It has been cited 44 times.

53. W. Z. Li, J. G. Wen, and Z. F. Ren, “Effect of temperature on growth and structure of carbon nanotubes by chemical vapor deposition”, Appl. Phys. A 74, 397 - 402 (2002). It has been cited 44 times.

54. J. G. Wen, Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, J. H. Chen, S. X. Yang, Z. F. Ren J. H. Wang, L. E. Calvet, J. Chen, J. F. Klemic, M. A. Reed, “Growth and characterization of aligned carbon nanotubes from patterned nickel nanodots and uniform thin films”, Journal of Materials Research 16, 3246-3253 (2001). It has been cited 44 times.

55. J. H. Chen, Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, J. G. Wen, and Z. F. Ren, “Electrochemical synthesis of polypyrrole / carbon nanotube nanoscale composites using well-aligned carbon nanotube arrays”, Appl. Phys. A. 73, 129 – 131 (2001). It has been cited 44 times.

56. Z. F. Ren and J. H. Wang, “Uniform and Flexible 24-Meter Superconducting Tape of Silver-Sheathed Tl0.5Pb0.5Ba0.4Sr1.6Ca2Cu3O8.2”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 61, 1715 – 1717 (1992). It has been cited 44 times.

57. J. Schutzmann, H. S. Somal, A. A. Tsvetkov, D. van der Marel, G. Koops, N. Koleshnokov, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, E. Bruck, and A. A. Menovski, “Experimental test of the interlayer

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pairing models for high-Tc superconductivity using grazing-incidence infrared reflectometry”, Phys. Rev. B 55, 11118 – 11121 (1997). It has been cited 43 times.

58. J. Y. Huang, K. Kempa, S. H. Jo, S. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Giant field enhancement at carbon nanotube tips induced by multistage effect”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 053110 (2005). It has been cited 42 times.

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IMPORTANT PUBLICATIONS IN MAJOR JOURNALS 2011 1. Y. Q. Zhang, M. S. Dresselhaus, Y. Shi, Z. F. Ren, and G. Chen, “High thermoelectric

figure-of-merit in Kondo-insulator nanowires at low temperatures”, NanoLetters 11, (2011, in press).

2. X. Yan, G. Joshi, W. S. Liu, Y. C. Lan, H. Wang, S. Lee, J. W. Simonson, S. J. Poon, T. M. Tritt, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Enhanced Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit of p-Type Half-Heuslers”, NanoLetters 11, 556 – 560 (2011).

2010 3. Xiao Yan, Bed Poudel, Yi Ma, W. S. Liu, G. Joshi, Hui Wang, Yucheng Lan, Dezhi Wang,

Gang Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Experimental Studies on Anisotropic Thermoelectric Properties and Structures of n-type Bi2Te2.7Se0.3”, NanoLetters 10, 3373 – 3378 (2010).

4. D. Cai, L. Ren, H. Z. Zhao, C. J. Xu, Y. Yu, H. Z. Wang, Y. C. Lan, M. Roberts, M. J. Naughton, Z. F. Ren, and T. Chiles, “A molecular imprint nanosensor for ultra sensitive detection of proteins”, Nature Nanotechnology 5, 597 – 601 (2010).

5. Y. C. Lan, A. J. Minnich, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit Enhancement Using A Nanocomposite Approach”, Adv. Func. Mater. 20, 357 – 376 (2010).

2009 6. Y. C. Lan, H. Wang, X. Y. Chen, D. Z. Wang, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Nanothermometer

Using Single Crystal Silver Nanospheres”, Adv. Mater. 21, 4839 – 4844 (2009). 7. K. F. Wang, J. M. Liu, and Z. F. Ren, “Multiferroicity: the Coupling between Magnetic and

Polarization Orders”, Advances in Physics 58, 321 – 448 (2009). 8. G. H. Zhu, H. Lee, Y. C. Lan, X. W. Wang, G. Joshi, D. Z. Wang, J. Yang, D. Vashaee, H.

Guilbert, A. Pillitteri, M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, Z. F. Ren, “Increased Phonon Scattering by Nanograins and Point Defects in Nanostructured Silicon with a Low Concentration of Germanium”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 196803 (2009).

9. Y. C. Lan, B. Poudel, Y. Ma, D. Z. Wang, M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Structure Study of Bulk Nanograined Thermoelectric Bismuth Antimony Telluride” NanoLetters 9, 1419 – 1422 (2009), published online on Feb 25, 2009.

2008 10. Bed Poudel, Qing Hao, Yi Ma, Yucheng Lan, Austin Minnich, Bo Yu, Xiao Yan, Dezhi

Wang, Andrew Muto, Daryoosh Vashaee, Xiaoyuan Chen, Junming Liu, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Gang Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “High-Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys”, Science 320, 634 – 638 (2008), published online 20 March 2008; 10.1126/Science.1156446.

11. Giri Joshi, Hohyun Lee, Yucheng Lan, Xiaowei Wang, Gaohua Zhu, Dezhi Wang, Ryan W. Gould, Diana C. Cuff, Ming Y. Tang, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Gang Chen, and Z. F. Ren,

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“Enhanced thermoelectric figure–of–merit in nanostructured p–type silicon germanium bulk alloys” NanoLetters 8, 4670 – 4674 (2008).

12. Yi Ma, Qing Hao, Bed Poudel, Yucheng Lan, Bo Yu, Dezhi Wang, Gang Chen, and Z. F. Ren “Enhanced Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit in p-Type Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Tellurium Alloys Made from Elemental Chunks”, NanoLetters 8, 2580 – 2584 (2008).

13. Jessica Campos-Delgado, Jose Manuel Romo-Herrera, Xiaoting Jia, David A. Cullen, Hiroyuki Muramatsu, Yoong Ahm Kim, Takuya Hayashi, Z. F. Ren,David J. Smith, Yu Okuno, Tomonori Ohba, Hirofumi Kanoh, Katsumi Kaneko, Morinobu Endo, Humberto Terrones, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, and Mauricio Terrones, “Bulk Production of a New Form of sp2 Carbon: Crystalline Graphene Nanoribbons”, NanoLetters 8, 2773 – 2778 (2008).

14. X. W. Wang, H. Lee, Y. C. Lan, G. H. Zhu, G. Joshi, D. Z. Wang, J. Yang, A. J. Muto, M. Y. Tang, J. Klatsky, S. Song, M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Enhanced thermoelectric figure-of-merit in nanostructured n-type silicon germanium bulk alloy”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 193121 (2008).

2007 15. M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, M. Y. Tang, R. G. Yang, H. Lee, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, J. P.

Fleurial, and P. Gogna, “New Directions for Low Dimensional Thermoelectric Materials”, Adv. Mater. 19, 1043 – 1053 (2007).

16. F. Gao, Xinyi Chen, Kuibo Yin, Shuai Dong, Z. F. Ren, Fang Yuan, Tao Yu, Zhigang Zou, and Jun-Ming Liu, “Visible-Light Photocatalytic Properties of Weak Magnetic BiFeO3 Nanoparticles”, Adv. Mater. 19, 2889 – 2892 (2007).

17. J. Y. Huang, S. Chen, Z. F. Ren, Z. Wang, K. Kempa, M. J. Naughton, G. Chen, and M. S. Dresselhaus, “Enhanced Ductile Behavior of Tensile-Elongated Individual Double-Walled and Triple-Walled Carbon Nanotubes at High Temperatures”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 185501 (2007).

18. Krzysztof Kempa, Jakub Rybczynski, Zhongping Huang, Keith Gregorczyk, Andy Vidan, Brian Kimball, Joel Carlson, Glynda Benham, Yang Wang, Andrzej Herczynski, and Z. F. Ren, “Carbon nanotubes as optical antennae”, Adv. Mater. 19, 421 – 426 (2007).

19. Z. F. Ren, “Nanotube Synthesis: Cloning Carbon”, News and Views in Nature Nanotechnology 2, 17 – 18 (2007).

2006 20. J. Y. Huang, S. Chen, Z. Q. Wang, K. Kempa, Y. M. Wang, S. H. Jo, G. Chen, M. S.

Dresselhaus, and Z. F. Ren, “Superplastic carbon nanotubes”, Nature 439, 281 (2006). 21. Wenzhong Wang, Baoqing Zeng, Jian Yang, Bed Poudel, J. Y. Huang, M. J. Naughton, and

Z. F. Ren, “Aligned Ultralong ZnO Nanobelts and Their Enhanced Field Emission”, Adv. Mater. 18, 3275 – 3278 (2006).

22. J. Y. Huang, S. Chen, Z. F. Ren, Z. Q. Wang, D. Z. Wang, M. Vaziri, Z. Suo, G. Chen, and M. S. Dresselhaus, “Kink Formation and Motion in Carbon Nanotubes at High Temperatures”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 075501 (2006).

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23. J. Y. Huang, S. Chen, Z. F. Ren, G. Chen, and M. S. Dresselhaus, “Real time observation of tubule formation from amorphous carbon nanowires under high-bias Joule heating”, NanoLetters 6, 1699 – 1705 (2006).

24. Jiming Bao, Mariano A. Zimmler, Federico Capasso, Xiaowei Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Broadband ZnO single-nanowire light-emitting diode”, NanoLetters 6, 1719 – 1722 (2006).

2005 25. D. Cai, J. Mataraza, Z. P. Huang, J. Y. Huang, Z. H. Qin, T. C. Chiles, D. Carnahan, K.

Kempa, and Z. F. Ren, “Highly Efficient Molecular Delivery into Mammalian Cells Using Carbon Nanotube Spearing”, Nature Methods 2, 449 – 454 (2005).

26. J. Y. Huang, S. Chen, S. H. Jo, Z. Wang, D.X. Han, G. Chen, M.S. Dresselhaus, and Z. F. Ren, “Atomic scale imaging of wall-by-wall breakdown and concurrent transport measurements in multiwall carbon nanotubes”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 236802 (2005).

27. W. Z. Wang, B. Poudel, D. Z. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Synthesis of PbTe Nanoboxes Using a Solvothermal Technique”, Advanced Materials 17, 2110 – 2114 (2005).

28. Wenzhong Wang, Bed Poudel, D. Z. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Synthesis of multiwalled carbon nanotubes through a modified Wolff-Kishner reduction process”, J. of American Chemical Society 127, 18018 – 18019 (2005).

29. Wenzhong Wang, Bed Poudel, Jian Yang, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, “High-Yield Synthesis of Single Crystalline Antimony Telluride Hexagonal Nanoplates Using a Low-Temperature Organic Solution Approach”, J. of American Chemical Society 127, 13792-13793 (2005).

2004 30. D. Banerjee, S. H. Jo, and Z. F. Ren, “Enhanced field emission of ZnO nanowires”,

Advanced Materials 16, 2028 – 2032 (2004). 31. J. Rybczynski, D. Banerjee, A. Kosiorek, M. Giersig, Z. F. Ren, “Formation of super arrays

of periodic nanoparticles and aligned ZnO nanorods - simulation and experiments”, NanoLetters 4, 2037 – 2040 (2004).

32. Y. Wang, K. Kempa, B. Kimball, J. B. Carlson, G. Benham, W. Z. Li, T. Kempa, J. Rybczynski, A. Herczynski, and Z. F. Ren, “Receiving and Transmitting Light-like Radio Waves: Antenna Effect in Arrays of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 2607 – 2609 (2004).

33. J. A. Rojas-Chapana, M. A. Correa-Duarte, Z. F. Ren, K. Kempa, and M. Giersig, “Enhanced Introduction of Gold Nanoparticles into Vital Acidothiobacillus Ferrooxidans by Carbon Nanotubes-based Microwave Electroporation”, NanoLetters 4, 985 – 988 (2004).

34. Y. H. Lin, F. Lu, Y. Tu, and Z. F. Ren, “Glucose Biosensors Based on Carbon Nanotube Nanoelectrode Ensembles”, NanoLetters 4, 191 – 195 (2004).

35. J. Y. Lao, J. Y. Huang, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, “Self-assembled In2O3 Nanocrystal Chains and Nanowire Networks”, Adv. Mater. 16, 65 – 69 (2004).

2003 36. J. Y. Lao, J. Y. Huang, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, “ZnO nanobridges and nanonails”,

NanoLetters 3, 235 – 238 (2003).

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37. Y. Tu, Yuehe Lin, Z. F. Ren, “Nanoelectrode Arrays Based on Low Site Density Aligned Carbon Nanotubes”, NanoLetters 3, 107 - 109 (2003).

38. K. Kempa, B. Kimball, J. Rybczynski, Z. P. Huang, P. F. Wu, D. Steeves, M. Sennett, M. Giersig, D. V. G. L. N. Rao, D. L. Carnahan, D. Z. Wang, J. Y. Lao, W. Z. Li, and Z. F. Ren, “Photonic crystals based on periodic arrays of aligned carbon nanotubes”, NanoLetters 3, 13 - 18 (2003).

2002 39. J. Y. Lao, J. G. Wen, and Z. F. Ren, “Hierarchical ZnO nanostructures”, NanoLetters 2, 1287

– 1291 (2002). 1999 40. Z. F. Ren, Z. P. Huang, J. W. Xu, D. Z. Wang, J. G. Wen, J. H. Wang, L. Calvet, J. Chen, J.

F. Klemic, and M. A. Reed, “Growth of a Single Freestanding Multiwall Carbon Nanotube on Each Nanonickel Dot”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 75, 1086 – 1088 (1999).

1998 41. Z. F. Ren, Z. P. Huang, J. W. Xu, J. H. Wang, P. Bush, M. P. Siegal, and P. N. Provencio,

"Synthesis of Large Arrays of Well-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on Glass", Science 282, 1105 – 1107 (1998).

42. A. A. Tsvetkov, D. van der Marel, K. A. Moler, and J. R. Kirtley, J. L. de Boer, A. Meetsma, Z. F. Ren, N. Koleshnikov, D. Dulic, A. Damascelli, M. Gruninger, J. Schutzmann, J. W. van der Eb, and J. H. Wang, “Global and Local Measures of the Intrinsic Josephson Coupling in Tl2Ba2CuO6+ as a Test of the Interlayer Tunneling Model”, Nature 395, 360 – 362 (1998).

1997 43. C. C. Tsuei, J. R. Kirtley, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, H. Raffy, and Z. Z. Li, “Pure dx2-y2 order-

parameter symmetry in the tetragonal superconductor Tl2Ba2CuO6+”, Nature 387, 481-483 (1997).

1996 44. C. C. Tsuei, J. R. Kirtley, M. Rupp. J. Z. Sun, A. Gupta, M. B. Ketchen, C. A. Wang, Z. F.

Ren, J. H. Wang, and M. Bhushan, “Half-Integer Flux Quantum Effect and Pairing Symmetry in High-Tc One-Layer Tetragonal Tl2Ba2CuO6+ Superconductors”, Science 271, 329 – 332 (1996).

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PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REFEREED JOURNALS 2011 234. H. P. Feng, Bo Yu, Shuo Chen, K. Collins, Chao He, Z. F. Ren, and Gang Chen, “Studies

on surface preparation and smoothness of nanostructured Bi2Te3-based alloys by electrochemical and mechanical methods”, Electrochimica Acta, (2011, in press).

233. H. Z. Wang, Q. Y. Zhang, B. Yu, H. Wang, W. S. Liu, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “TEM study of Pb-depleted discs in PbTe-based alloys”, J. Materials Research, (2011, in press).

232. T. Paudel, J. Rybczynski, Y. T. Gao, Y. C. Lan, Y. Peng, K. Kempa, M. J. Naughton Z. F. Ren, “Solar Cells Based on Carbon Nanotube Nanocoaxes”, Phys. Status Solidi a, (2011, in press).

231. G. H. Zhu, Y. C. Lan, H. Wang, G. Joshi, Q. Hao, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “The Effect of Selenium Deficiency on Thermoelectric Properties of Nanostructured Bulk n-type In4Se3-x Compounds”, Phys. Rev B, (2011, in press).

230. Y. Q. Zhang, M. S. Dresselhaus, Y. Shi, Z. F. Ren, and G. Chen, “High thermoelectric figure-of-merit in Kondo-insulator nanowires at low temperatures”, NanoLetters 11, (2011, in press).

229. X. Yan, G. Joshi, W. S. Liu, Y. C. Lan, H. Wang, S. Lee, J. W. Simonson, S. J. Poon, T. M. Tritt, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Enhanced Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit of p-Type Half-Heuslers”, NanoLetters 11, 556 – 560 (2011).

228. N. Zhang, S. Dong, G. Q. Zhang, L. Lin, Y. Y. Guo, J. –M. Liu, and Z. F. Ren, “Multiferroic phase diagram of Y partially substituted Dy1-xYxMnO3”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 012510 (2011).

2010 227. Y. C. Lan, Hui Wang, Dezhi Wang, Gang Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Grids for Applications in

High-Temperature High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy”, Journal of Nanotechnology 2010, 279608 (2010).

226. Mona Zebarjadi, Keivan Esfarjani, Jian Yang, Z. F. Ren, and Gang Chen, “Effect of filler mass and binding on thermal conductivity of fully filled skutterudites”, Phys. Rev. B 82, 195207 (2010).

225. Xiao Yan, Bed Poudel, Yi Ma, W. S. Liu, G. Joshi, Hui Wang, Yucheng Lan, Dezhi Wang, Gang Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Experimental Studies on Anisotropic Thermoelectric Properties and Structures of n-type Bi2Te2.7Se0.3”, NanoLetters 10, 3373 – 3378 (2010).

224. Q. Hao, G. H. Zhu, G. Joshi, X. W. Wang, A. Minnich, Z. F. Ren, and G. Chen, “Theoretical studies on the thermoelectric figure of merit of nanograined bulk silicon”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 063109 (2010).

223. D. Cai, L. Ren, H. Z. Zhao, C. J. Xu, Y. Yu, H. Z. Wang, Y. C. Lan, M. Roberts, M. J. Naughton, Z. F. Ren, and T. Chiles, “A molecular imprint nanosensor for ultrasensitive detection of proteins”, Nature Nanotechnology 5, 597 – 601 (2010).

222. Y. Peng, T. Paudel, W. C. Chen, W. J. Padilla, Z. F. Ren, and K. Kempa, “Percolation and polaritonic effects in periodic planar nanostructures evolving from holes to islands”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 041901 (2010).

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221. Ruiting Zheng, Jinwei Gao, Tengfei Yang, Yucheng Lan, Guoan Cheng, Dezhi Wang, Z. F. Ren, and Gang Chen, “Na2SO4 Monocrystal Nanowires; Aspect Ratio Control and Electron Beam Radiolysis”, Inorg. Chem. 49, 6748 – 6754 (2010).

220. B. Yu, Q. Y. Zhang, H. Wang, X. W. Wang, H. Z. Wang, D. Z. Wang, H. Wang, G. J. Snyder, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Thermoelectric property studies on thallium-doped lead telluride prepared by ball milling and hot pressing”, J. of Appl. Phys. 108, 016104 (2010).

219. M. J. Naughton, K. Kempa, Z. F. Ren, Y. Gao, J. Rybczynski, N. Argenti, W. Gao, Y. Wang, Y. Peng, J. R. Naughton, G. McMahon, T. Paudel, Y. C. Lan, M. J. Burns, A. Shepard, M. Clary, C. Ballif, F.-J. Haug, T. Söderström, O. Cubero, and C. Eminian, “Efficient nanocoax-based solar cells”, Phys. Status Solidi RRL 4, 181– 183 (2010).

218. Hohyun Lee, Daryoosh Vashaee, D. Z. Wang, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Z. F. Ren, and Gang Chen, “Effects of nanoscale porosity on thermoelectric properties of SiGe”, J. Apply. Phys. 107, 094308 (2010).

217. Jianhui Dong, Baoqing Zeng, Yucheng Lan, Shikai Tian, Yun Shan, Xingchong Liu, Zhonghai Yang, Hui Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Field Emission from Few-Layer Graphene Nanosheets Produced by Liquid Phase Exfoliation of Graphite”, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 10, 5051 – 5055 (2010).

216. H. Z. Wang, Z. P. Huang, Q. J. Cai, K. Kulkarni, C. -L. Chen, D. Carnahan, and Z. F. Ren “Reversible Transformation of Hydrophobicity and Hydrophilicity of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes Arrays and Buckypapers by Dry Processes”, Carbon 48, 868 – 875 (2010).

215. Y. C. Lan, A. J. Minnich, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit Enhancement Using A Nanocomposite Approach”, Adv. Func. Mater. 20, 357 – 376 (2010).

2009 214. Y. C. Lan, H. Wang, X. Y. Chen, D. Z. Wang, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Nanothermometer

Using Single Crystal Silver Nanospheres”, Adv. Mater. 21, 4839 – 4844 (2009). 213. K. Kempa, M. J. Naughton, Z. F. Ren, A. Herczynski, T. Kirkpatrick, J. Rybczynski, and Y.

Gao, “Hot electron effect in nanoscopically thin photovoltaic junctions”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 233121 (2009).

212. A. J. Minnich, H. Lee, X. W. Wang, G. Joshi, M. S. Dresselhaus, Z. F. Ren, G. Chen, and D. Vashaee, “Modeling study of thermoelectric SiGe nanocomposites”, Phys. Rev. B 80, 155327 (2009).

211. J. Yang, Q. Hao, H. Wang, Y. C. Lan, Q. Y. He, A. J. Minnich, D. Z. Wang, J. A. Harriman, V. M. Varki, M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Solubility Study of Yb in n-type Skutterudites YbxCo4Sb12 and Their Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties”, Phys. Rev. B 80, 115329 (2009).

210. A. Muto, D. Kraemer, Q. Hao, Z. F. Ren, and G. Chen, “Thermoelectric Properties and Efficiency Measurements under Large Temperature Differences”, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 80, 093901 (2009).

209. K. F. Wang, J. M. Liu, and Z. F. Ren, “Multiferroicity: the Coupling between Magnetic and Polarization Orders”, Advances in Physics 58, 321 – 448 (2009).

208. G. H. Zhu, H. Lee, Y. C. Lan, X. W. Wang, G. Joshi, D. Z. Wang, J. Yang, D. Vashaee, H. Guilbert, A. Pillitteri, M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, Z. F. Ren, “Increased Phonon Scattering by Nanograins and Point Defects in Nanostructured Silicon with a Low Concentration of Germanium”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 196803 (2009).

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207. A. J. Minnich, M. S. Dresselhaus, Z. F. Ren, and G. Chen, “Bulk Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials: Current Research and Future Prospects”, Energy & Environmental Science 2, 466 – 479 (2009), published online on Feb 27, 2009.

206. Y. C. Lan, B. Poudel, Y. Ma, D. Z. Wang, M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Structure Study of Bulk Nanograined Thermoelectric Bismuth Antimony Telluride” NanoLetters 9, 1419 – 1422 (2009), published online on Feb 25, 2009.

205. Y. Yu, A. Cimeno, Y. C. Lan, J. Rybczynski, D. Z. Wang, T. Paudel, Z. F. Ren, D. J. Wagner, M. Q. Qiu, T. C. Chiles, and D. Cai, “Assembly of multi-functional nanocomponents on periodic nanotube array for biosensors”, Micro & Nano Letters 4, 27 – 33 (2009).

2008 204. Giri Joshi, Hohyun Lee, Yucheng Lan, Xiaowei Wang, Gaohua Zhu, Dezhi Wang, Ryan W.

Gould, Diana C. Cuff, Ming Y. Tang, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Gang Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Enhanced thermoelectric figure–of–merit in nanostructured p–type silicon germanium bulk alloys” NanoLetters 8, 4670 – 4674 (2008), published online on October 31, 2008.

203. X. W. Wang, H. Lee, Y. C. Lan, G. H. Zhu, G. Joshi, D. Z. Wang, J. Yang, A. J. Muto, M. Y. Tang, J. Klatsky, S. Song, M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Enhanced thermoelectric figure-of-merit in nanostructured n-type silicon germanium bulk alloy”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 193121 (2008).

202. H. S. Cho, D. L. Shi, Y. Guo, J. Lian, Z. F. Ren, B. Poudel, Y. Song, J. L. Abot, D. Singh, J. Routbort, L. M. Wang, and R. C. Ewing “Enhanced Thermal Stability of Carbon Nanotubes by Plasma Surface Modification in Al2O3 Composites”, J. of Applied Physics 104, 074302 (2008).

201. Jessica Campos-Delgado, Jose Manuel Romo-Herrera, Xiaoting Jia, David A. Cullen, Hiroyuki Muramatsu, Yoong Ahm Kim, Takuya Hayashi, Z. F. Ren,David J. Smith, Yu Okuno, Tomonori Ohba, Hirofumi Kanoh, Katsumi Kaneko, Morinobu Endo, Humberto Terrones, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, and Mauricio Terrones, “Bulk Production of a New Form of sp2 Carbon: Crystalline Graphene Nanoribbons”, NanoLetters 8, 2773 – 2778 (2008).

200. Yi Ma, Qing Hao, Bed Poudel, Yucheng Lan, Bo Yu, Dezhi Wang, Gang Chen, and Z. F. Ren “Enhanced Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit in p-Type Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Tellurium Alloys Made from Elemental Chunks”, NanoLetters 8, 2580 – 2584 (2008).

199. Qinyu He, Shejun Hu, Xingui Tang, Yucheng Lan, Jian Yang, Xiaowei Wang, Z. F. Ren, Qing Hao, and Gang Chen, “The great improvement effect of pores on ZT in Co1−xNixSb3 system”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 042108 (2008).

198. Qinyu He, Qing Hao, Xiaowei Wang, Jian Yang, Yucheng Lan, Xiao Yan, Bo Yu, Yi Ma, Bed Poudel, Giri Joshi, Dezhi Wang, Gang Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Nanostructured thermoelectric skutterudite Co1-xNixSb3 alloys”, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 8, 4003 – 4006 (2008).

197. Dong Cai,Derek Blair, Fay J. Dufort, Maria R. Gumina, Zhongping Huang, George Hong, Dean Wagner, D. Canahan, K. Kempa, Z. F. Ren, and Thomas C. Chiles, “Interaction between carbon nanotube and mammalian cell: characterization by flow cytometry and applications”, Nanotechnology 19, 345102 (2008).

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196. C. L. Lu, K. F. Wang, S. Dong, J. G. Wan, J.-M. Liu, and Z. F. Ren, “Specific heat anomalies and possible Griffiths-like phase in La0.4Ca0.6MnO3 nanoparticles”, J. of Appl. Phys. 103, 07F714 (2008).

195. J. Garg, B. Poudel, M. Chiesa, J. B. Gordon, J. J. Ma, J. B. Wang, Z. F. Ren, Y. T. Kang, H. Ohtani, J. Nanda, G. H. McKinley, and G. Chen, “Enhanced thermal conductivity and viscosity of copper nanoparticles in ethylene glycol nanofluid”, J. of Appl. Phys. 103, 074301 (2008).

194. Bed Poudel, Qing Hao, Yi Ma, Yucheng Lan, Austin Minnich, Bo Yu, Xiao Yan, Dezhi Wang, Andrew Muto, Daryoosh Vashaee, Xiaoyuan Chen, Junming Liu, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, “High-Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys”, Science 320, 634 – 638 (2008), published online on 20 March 2008; 10.1126/Science.1156446.

193. Y. C. Lan, D. Z. Wang, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Diffusion of Nickel and Tin in p-type (Bi,Sb)2Te3 and n-type Bi2(Te,Se)3 Thermoelectric Materials”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 101910 (2008).

192. W. Z. Wang, Xiao Yan, Bed Poudel, Yi Ma, Qing Hao, Jian Yang, Gang Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Chemical Synthesis of Anistropic Nanocrystalline Sb2Te3 and Low Thermal Conductivity of the Compacted Dense Bulk”, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 8, 452 – 456 (2008).

191. K. Kempa, X. Wang, Z. F. Ren, and M. J. Naughton, “Discretely guided electromagnetic effective medium”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 043114 (2008).

2007 190. Dong Cai, Ying Yu, Yucheng Lan, Fay J. Dufort, Guangyong Xiong, Trilochan Paudel,

Zhifeng Ren, Dean J. Wagner, and Thomas C. Chiles, “Glucose sensors made of novel carbon nanotube-gold nanoparticle composites”, Biofactors 30, 271 – 277 (2007).

189. Ganhua Lu, Liying Zhu, Pengxiang Wang, Junhong Chen, D. A. Dikin, R. S. Ruoff, Ying Yu, and Z. F. Ren, “Electrostatic-Force-Directed Assembly of Ag Nanocrystals onto Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes”, J. Phys. Chem. C 111, 17919 – 17922 (2007).

188. Yan Guo, Hoonsung Cho, Donglu Shi, Jie Lian, Yi Song, Jandro Abot, Bed Poudel, Z. F. Ren, Lumin Wang, and Rodney C. Ewing, “Effects of plasma surface modification on interfacial behaviors and mechanical properties of carbon nanotube-Al2O3 nanocomposites”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 261903 (2007).

187. W. Z. Li, X. Yan, K. Kempa, Z. F. Ren, and M. Giersig, “Structure of flattened carbon nanotubes”, Carbon 45, 2938 – 2945 (2007).

186. C. Dames, S. Chen, C. T. Harris, J. Y. Huang, Z. F. Ren, M. S. Dresselhaus, and G. Chen, “A hot wire probe for thermal measurements of nanowires and nanotubes inside a transmission electron microscope”, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 78, 104903 (2007).

185. F. Gao, Xinyi Chen, Kuibo Yin, Shuai Dong, Z. F. Ren, Fang Yuan, Tao Yu, Zhigang Zou, and Jun-Ming Liu, “Visible-Light Photocatalytic Properties of Weak Magnetic BiFeO3 Nanoparticles”, Adv. Mater. 19, 2889 – 2892 (2007).

184. F. Gao, P. L. Li, Y. Y. Weng, S. Dong, L. F. Wang, L. Y. Lv, K. F. Wang, and J.-M. Liu, and Z. F. Ren, “Charge order suppression and weak ferromagnetism in La1/3Sr2/3FeO3 nanoparticles”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 072504 (2007).

183. Dong Cai, Cheryl A. Doughty, Terra B. Potocky, Fay J. Dufort, Zhongping Huang, Derek Blair, Krzysztof Kempa, Z. F. Ren, and Thomas C Chiles, “Carbon nanotube-mediated

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delivery of nucleic acids does not result in non-specific activation of B lymphocytes”, Nanotechnology 18, 365101 (2007).

182. Qinyu He, Qing Hao, Gang Chen, Bed Poudel, Xiaowei Wang, Dezhi Wang, and Z. F. Ren “Thermoelectric property studies on bulk TiOx with x from 1 to 2”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 052505 (2007).

181. P. L. Li, X. Y. Yao, F. Gao, C. Zhao, K. B. Yin, Y. Y. Weng, J.-M. Liu, and Z. F. Ren, “Preparation of aligned Ca3Co2O6 nanorods and their steplike magnetization”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 042505 (2007).

180. Chuan-Hua Chen, Qingjun Cai, Chialun Tsai, Chung-Lung Chen, Guangyong Xiong, Ying Yu, and Z. F. Ren, “Dropwise Condensation on Superhydrophobic Surfaces with Two-Tier Roughness”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 173108 (2007).

179. J. Y. Huang, S. Chen, Z. F. Ren, Z. Wang, K. Kempa, M. J. Naughton, G. Chen, and M. S. Dresselhaus, “Enhanced Ductile Behavior of Tensile-Elongated Individual Double-Walled and Triple-Walled Carbon Nanotubes at High Temperatures”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 185501 (2007).

178. M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, M. Y. Tang, R. G. Yang, H. Lee, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, J. P. Fleurial, and P. Gogna, “New Directions for Low Dimensional Thermoelectric Materials”, Adv. Mater. 19, 1043 – 1053 (2007).

177. S. Dong, F. Gao, Z. Q. Wang, J.-M. Liu, and Z. F. Ren, “Surface phase separation in nanosized charge-ordered manganites”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 082508 (2007).

176. Krzysztof Kempa, Jakub Rybczynski, Zhongping Huang, Keith Gregorczyk, Andy Vidan, Brian Kimball, Joel Carlson, Glynda Benham, Yang Wang, Andrzej Herczynski, and Z. F. Ren, “Carbon nanotubes as optical antennae”, Adv. Mater. 19, 421 – 426 (2007).

175. Baoqing Zeng, Guangyong Xiong, Shuo Chen, Wenzhong Wang, D. Z. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Field emission of silicon nanowires grown on carbon cloth”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 033112 (2007).

174. Wenzhong Wang, Keda Wang, Daxing Han, Bed Poudel, Xiaowei Wang, D. Z. Wang, Baoqing Zeng, and Z. F. Ren, “Near-Infrared Photoluminescence in Germanium Oxide Enclosed Germanium Nano- and Micro-Crystals”, Nanotechnology 18, 075707 (2007).

173. J. Rybczynski, K. Kempa, Z. P. Huang, R. Jarzebinska, M. Giersig, A. Vidan, B. Kimball, J. Carlson, A. Herczynski, Y. Wang, M. J. Naughton, and Z. F. Ren, “Subwavelength waveguide for visible light”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 021104 (2007).

172. Z. F. Ren, “Nanotube Synthesis: Cloning Carbon”, News and Views in Nature Nanotechnology 2, 17 – 18 (2007).

2006 171. Wenzhong Wang, Bed Poudel, Yi Ma, and Z. F. Ren, “Shape Control of Single Crystalline

Bismuth Nanostructures”, J. of Phys. Chem. B, 110, 25702 – 25706 (2006). 170. Wenzhong Wang, Baoqing Zeng, Jian Yang, Bed Poudel, J. Y. Huang, M. J. Naughton, and

Z. F. Ren, “Aligned Ultralong ZnO Nanobelts and Their Enhanced Field Emission”, Adv. Mater. 18, 3275 – 3278 (2006).

169. K. F. Wang, F. Yuan , S. Dong , D. Li , Z. D. Zhang , Z. F. Ren , and J. M. Liu, “A-site disorder induced collapse of charge-ordered state and phase separated phase in manganites”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 222505 (2006).

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168. Baoqing Zeng, Guangyong Xiong, Shuo Chen, W. Z. Wang, D. Z. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Enhancement of field emission of aligned carbon nanotubes by thermal oxidation”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 223119 (2006).

167. F. Gao, Y. Yuan, K. F. Wang, X. Y. Chen, F. Chen, J.-M. Liu, and Z. F. Ren “Preparation and photoabsorption characterization of BiFeO3 nanowires”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 102506 (2006).

166. J. Y. Huang, S. Chen, Z. F. Ren, Z. Q. Wang, D. Z. Wang, M. Vaziri, Z. Suo, G. Chen, and M. S. Dresselhaus, “Kink Formation and Motion in Carbon Nanotubes at High Temperatures”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 075501 (2006).

165. J. Y. Huang, S. Chen, Z. F. Ren, G. Chen, and M. S. Dresselhaus, “Real time observation of tubule formation from amorphous carbon nanowires under high-bias Joule heating”, NanoLetters 6, 1699 – 1705 (2006).

164. Jiming Bao, Mariano A. Zimmler, Federico Capasso, Xiaowei Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Broadband ZnO single-nanowire light-emitting diode”, NanoLetters 6, 1719 – 1722 (2006).

163. Jian Yang, Wenzhong Wang, Yi Ma, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, D. Steeves, and B. Kimball, “High throughput growth of zinc oxide nanowires from zinc powder with the assistance of sodium chloride”, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 6, 2196 – 2199 (2006).

162. Baoqing Zeng, Guangyong Xiong, Shuo Chen, S. H. Jo, W. Z. Wang, D. Z. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Field emission of silicon nanowires”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 213108 (2006).

161. J. Rybczynski, K. Kempa, Y. Wang, Z. F. Ren, J. B. Carlson, B. R. Kimball, and G. Benham, “Visible light diffraction studies on periodically aligned arrays of carbon nanotubes: experimental and theoretical comparison”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 203122 (2006).

160. K. F. Wang, Y. Wang, L. F. Wang, S. Dong, H. Yu, Q. C. Li, J. –M. Liu, and Z. F. Ren “Ferromagnetic metal to cluster-glass insulator transition induced by A-site disorder in manganites”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 152505 (2006).

159. B. Poudel, W. Z. Wang, D. Z. Wang, J. Y. Huang, and Z. F. Ren, “Shape evolution of lead telluride and selenide nanostructures under different hydrothermal synthesis conditions”, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 6, 1050 – 1053 (2006).

158. J. Y. Huang, S. Chen, Z. Q. Wang, K. Kempa, Y. M. Wang, S. H. Jo, G. Chen, M. S. Dresselhaus, and Z. F. Ren, “Superplastic carbon nanotubes”, Nature 439, 281 (2006).

157. Guangyong Xiong, D. Z. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Aligned millimeter-long carbon nanotubes arrays grown on single crystal magnesia”, Carbon 44, 969 – 973 (2006).

156. Y. Wang, S. H. Jo, S. Chen, D. Z. Wang, K. Kempa and Z. F. Ren, “Aligned carbon nanofibers by a low-energy dark discharge for field emission and optoelectronics”, Nanotechnology 17, 501 – 505 (2006).

2005 155. T. Kempa, D. Carnahan, M. Olek, M. Correa, M. Giersig, M. Cross, G. Benham, M.

Sennett, Z. F. Ren, and K. Kempa, “Dielectric media based on isolated metallic nanostructures”, J. Appl. Phys. 98, 034310 (2005).

154. S. Chen, J. Y. Huang, Z. Wang, K. Kempa, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “High-bias-induced structure and the corresponding electronic property changes in carbon nanotubes”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 263107 (2005).

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153. Wenzhong Wang, Bed Poudel, D. Z. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Synthesis of multiwalled carbon nanotubes through a modified Wolff-Kishner reduction process”, J. of American Chemical Society 127, 18018 – 18019 (2005).

152. S. H. Jo, J. Y. Huang, S. Chen, G. Y. Xiong, D. Z. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Field emission of carbon nanotubes grown on carbon cloth”, J. of Vac. Sci. Technol. B 23, 2363 – 2368, (2005).

151. F. Chen, H. W. Liu, K. F. Wang, H. Yu, S. Dong, X. Y. Chen, X. P. Jiang, Z. F. Ren, and J-M Liu, "Synthesis and characterization of La0.825Sr0.175MnO3 nanowires", J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 17, L467–L475 (2005).

150. Wenzhong Wang, Bed Poudel, Jian Yang, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, “High-Yield Synthesis of Single Crystalline Antimony Telluride Hexagonal Nanoplates Using a Low-Temperature Organic Solution Approach”, J. of American Chemical Society 127, 13792-13793 (2005).

149. B. Poudel, W. Z. Wang, C. Dames, J. Y. Huang, S. Kunwar, D. Z. Wang, D. Banerjee, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Formation of Crystallized Titania Nanotubes and Their Transformation into Nanowires”, Nanotechnolgy 16, 1935 - 1940 (2005).

148. J. Y. Huang, K. Kempa, S. H. Jo, S. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Giant field enhancement at carbon nanotube tips induced by multistage effect”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 053110 (2005).

147. W. Z. Wang, B. Poudel, D. Z. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Synthesis of PbTe Nanoboxes Using a Solvothermal Technique”, Advanced Materials 17, 2110 – 2114 (2005).

146. C. Dames, B. Poudel, W. Z. Wang, J. Y. Huang, Z. F. Ren, Y. Sun, J. I. Oh, C. Opeil, M. J. Naughton, and G. Chen, “Low-dimensional phonon specific heat of titanium dioxide nanotubes”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 031901 (2005).

145. J. Y. Huang, S. Chen, S. H. Jo, Z. Wang, D.X. Han, G. Chen, M.S. Dresselhaus, and Z. F. Ren, “Atomic scale imaging of wall-by-wall breakdown and concurrent transport measurements in multiwall carbon nanotubes”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 236802 (2005).

144. J. J. Hu, S. H. Jo, Z. F. Ren, A. A. Voevodin, and J. S. Zabinski, “Tribological behavior and graphitization of carbon nanotubes grown on 440C stainless steel”, Tribology Letters 19, 119 – 125 (2005).

143. J. Y. Huang, L.C. Zhang, S. Chen, D. Z. Wang, S. H. Jo, W. Z. Li, and Z. F. Ren, “Interface reactions in chromium buffer layer deposited between stainless steel and a silicon substrate”, Philosophical Magazine 85, 1459 – 1471 (2005).

142. D. Cai, J. Mataraza, Z. P. Huang, J. Y. Huang, Z. H. Qin, T. C. Chiles, D. Carnahan, K. Kempa, and Z. F. Ren, “Highly Efficient Molecular Delivery into Mammalian Cells Using Carbon Nanotube Spearing”, Nature Methods 2, 449 – 454 (2005).

141. Y. Wang, J. Rybczynski, D. Z. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Large-scale triangular lattice arrays of sub-micron islands by microsphere self-assembly”, Nanotechnology 16, 819 – 822 (2005).

140. W. Z. Wang, J. Y. Huang, D. Z. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Low-temperature Hydrothermal Synthesis of Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes”, Carbon 43, 1328 – 1331 (2005).

139. W. Z. Wang, B. Poudel, J. Y. Huang, D. Z. Wang, S. Kunwar, and Z. F. Ren, “Synthesis of Gram-scale Germanium Nanocrystals by a Low-temperature Inverse Micelle Solvothermal Route”, Nanotechnology 16, 1126 – 1129 (2005).

138. X. Wang, Z. F. Ren, and K. Kempa, “Improved superlensing in two-dimensional photonic crystals with a basis”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 061105 (2005).

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137. Y. Wang, X. Wang, J. Rybczynski, D. Z. Wang, K. Kempa, and Z. F. Ren, “Triangular lattice of carbon nanotube arrays for negative index of refraction and subwavelength lensing effect”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 153120 (2005).

136. Y. Tu, Y. H. Lin, W. Yantasee, and Z. F. Ren, “Carbon Nanotubes Based Nanoelectrode Array: Fabrication, Evaluation, and Application in Voltammetric Analysis”, Eelctroanalysis 17, 79 - 84 (2005).

135. G. Y. Xiong, Y. Suda, D. Z. Wang, J. Y. Huang, Z. F. Ren, ”Effect of temperature, pressure, and gas ratio of methane to hydrogen on synthesis of double-walled carbon nanotubes by chemical vapor deposition”, Nanotechnology 16, 532 – 535 (2005).

134. W. Z. Wang, J. Y. Huang, and Z. F. Ren, “Synthesis of Germanium Nanocubes by a Low Temperature Inverse Micelle Solvothermal Technique”, Langmuir 21, 751 – 754 (2005).

133. D. Banerjee, J. Rybczynski, J. Y. Huang, D. Z. Wang, K. Kempa, and Z. F. Ren, “Large hexagonal arrays of aligned ZnO nanorods”, Appl. Phys. A. 80, 749 – 752 (2005).

132. P. He, D. L. Shi, J. Lian, L. M. Wang, R. C. Ewing, W. V. Ooij, W. Z. Li, and Z. F. Ren, “Plasma deposition of thin carbonfluorine films on aligned carbon nanotube”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 043107 (2005).

131. W. Z. Wang, S. Kunwar, J. Y. Huang, D. Z. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Low Temperature Solvothermal Synthesis of Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes”, Nanotechnology 16, 21 – 23 (2005).

2004 130. J. D. Dow, H. A. Blackstead, Z. F. Ren, and D. Z. Wang, “Magnetic Resonance of Cu and

of Gd in Insulating GdSr2Cu2NbO8 and in Superconducting GdSr2Cu2RuO8”, JETP Letters 80, 190 – 194 (2004).

129. R. D. Bennett, G. Y. Xiong, Z. F. Ren, and R. E. Cohen, “Using Block Coplomer Micellar Thin Films as Templates for the Production of Catalysts for Carbon Nanotube Growth”, Chemistry of Materials 26, 5589 – 5595 (2004).

128. J. Chen, P. Spagnoal, R. N. Bhattacharya, and Z. F. Ren, “Preparation of high J(c) YBCO coated conductors on non-magnetic Ni-W substrates”, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 37, 2623-2627 (2004).

127. J. Chen, P. P. A. Parilla, R. N. Bhattacharya, and Z. F. Ren, “Growth of biaxially textured CeO2/YSZ/CeO2 and SrTiO3 buffer layers on textured Ni substrates by pulsed laser deposition”, Japanese Journal of Appl. Phys. Part 1 – Regular Papers Short Notes & Review Papers 43, 6040-6043 (2004).

126. D. Banerjee, S. H. Jo, and Z. F. Ren, “Enhanced field emission of ZnO nanowires”, Advanced Materials 16, 2028 – 2032 (2004).

125. Tarek A. El-Aguizy, Jeong-hyun Jeong, Yong-Bae Jeon, W. Z. Li, Z. F. Ren, and Sang-Gook Kim, “Transplanting carbon nanotubes”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 5995 – 5997 (2004).

124. J. Rybczynski, D. Banerjee, A. Kosiorek, M. Giersig, Z. F. Ren, “Formation of super arrays of periodic nanoparticles and aligned ZnO nanorods - simulation and experiments”, NanoLetters 4, 2037 – 2040 (2004).

123. Y. Wang, J. Rybczynski, D. Z. Wang, K. Kempa, Z. F. Ren, W. Z. Li, and B. Kimball, “Periodicity and alignment of large-scale carbon nanotubes arrays”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 4741 – 4743 (2004).

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122. Y. Wang, K. Kempa, B. Kimball, J. B. Carlson, G. Benham, W. Z. Li, T. Kempa, J. Rybczynski, A. Herczynski, and Z. F. Ren, “Receiving and Transmitting Light-like Radio Waves: Antenna Effect in Arrays of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 2607 – 2609 (2004).

121. J. Chen, R. N. Bhattacharya, Z. F. Ren, “Processing of electroplated Bi-2212/Ag tapes using a melt-quench and annealing method”, J. of Physics D - Applied Physics 37, 1 – 5 (2004).

120. S. H. Jo, D. Banerjee, and Z. F. Ren, “Field emission of zinc oxide nanowires grown on carbon cloth”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 1407 – 1409 (2004).

119. X. W. Wang, Z. F. Ren and K. Kempa, “Unrestricted superlensing in a triangular two-dimensional photonic crystal”, Optics Express 12, 2919 – 2924 (2004).

118. S. H. Jo, D. Z. Wang, J. Y. Huang, W. Z. Li, K. Kempa, and Z. F. Ren, “Field Emission of Carbon Nanotubes Grown on Carbon Cloth”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 810 – 812 (2004).

117. S. Chen, D. Z. Wang, J. Y. Huang, and Z. F. Ren, “Synthesis and Characterization of Boron Carbide Nanoparticles”, Appl. Phys. A 79, 1757 – 1759 (2004).

116. J. A. Rojas-Chapana, M. A. Correa-Duarte, Z. F. Ren, K. Kempa, and M. Giersig, “Enhanced Introduction of Gold Nanoparticles into Vital Acidothiobacillus Ferrooxidans by Carbon Nanotubes-based Microwave Electroporation”, NanoLetters 4, 985 – 988 (2004).

115. X. W. Wang, K. Kempa, Z. F. Ren, and B. Kimball, “Rapid Photon Flux Switching in Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 1817 – 1819 (2004).

114. Y. H. Lin, F. Lu, Y. Tu, and Z. F. Ren, “Glucose Biosensors Based on Carbon Nanotube Nanoelectrode Ensembles”, NanoLetters 4, 191 – 195 (2004).

113. J. Y. Lao, J. Y. Huang, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, “Hierarchical Oxide Nanostructures”, J. of Materials Chemistry 14, 770 – 773 (2004).

112. J. Y. Lao, J. Y. Huang, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, D. Steeves, B. Kimball, and W. Porter, “ZnO Nanowalls”, Appl. Phys. A 78, 539 – 542 (2004).

111. J. Y. Lao, J. Y. Huang, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, “Self-assembled In2O3 Nanocrystal Chains and Nanowire Networks”, Advanced Materials 16, 65 – 69 (2004).

110. H. Tang, J. H. Chen, Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, L. H. Nie, Y. F. Kuang, S. Z. Yao, “High dispersion and electrocatalytic properties of platinum on well-aligned carbon nanotube arrays”, Carbon 42, 191 – 197 (2004).

109. S. H. Jo, Y. Tu, Z. P. Huang, D. L. Carnahan, J. Y. Huang, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, “Correlation of field emission and surface microstructure of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 413 – 415 (2004).

108. D. Banerjee, J. Y. Lao, D. Z. Wang, J. Y. Huang, D. Steeves, B. Kimball, and Z. F. Ren, “Synthesis and photoluminescence studies on ZnO nanowires”, Nanotechnology 15, 404 – 409 (2004).

107. R. N. Bhattacharya, J. Chen, P. Spagnol, J. Y. Huang, and Z. F. Ren, “Superconductor Bi-oxide films via an electrodeposition process”, Supercond. Sci. Technol. 17, 120 – 124 (2004).

2003 106. D. R. Harshman, J. D. Dow, W. J. Kossler, D. R. Noakes, C. E. Stronach, A. J. Greer, E.

Koster, Z. F. Ren, D. Z. Wang, “Muon spin rotation in GdSr2Cu2RuO8: implications”, Philosophical Magzine 83, 3055 - 3064 (2003).

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105. S. H. Jo, J. Y. Lao, Z. F. Ren, R. A. Farrer, T. Baldacchini, and J. T. Fourkas, “Field emission studies on thin films of zinc oxide nanowires”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 4821 – 4823 (2003).

104. D. Banerjee, J. Y. Lao, D. Z. Wang, J. Y. Huang, and Z. F. Ren, D. Steeves, B. Kimball, and M. Sennett, “Large quantity free-standing ZnO nanowires”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 2061 – 2063 (2003).

103. J. G. Wen, J. Y. Lao, D. Z. Wang, T. M. Kyaw, Y. L. Foo, Z. F. Ren, “Self-assembly of semiconducting oxide nanowires, nanorods, and nanoribbons”, Chem. Phys. Lett. 372, 717-722 (2003).

102. S. H. Jo, Y. Tu, Z. P. Huang, D. L. Carnahan, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, “Effect of length and spacing of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes on field emission properties”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 82, 3520 – 3522 (2003).

101. J. Moser, R. Panepucci, Z. P. Huang, W. Z. Li, Z. F. Ren, A. Usheva, M. J. Naughton, “Individual free-standing carbon nanofibers addressable on the 50 nm scale”, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 21, 1004 – 1007 (2003).

100. Y. Tu, Yuehe Lin, Z. F. Ren, “Nanoelectrode Arrays Based on Low Site Density Aligned Carbon Nanotubes”, NanoLetters 3, 107 - 109 (2003).

99. J. Y. Lao, J. Y. Huang, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, “ZnO nanobridges and nanonails”, NanoLetters 3, 235 – 238 (2003).

98. W. Z. Li, J. G. Wen, Z. F. Ren, “Clean Double-walled Carbon Nanotubes Synthesized by CVD”, Chem. Phys. Lett. 368, 299–306 (2003).

97. K. Kempa, B. Kimball, J. Rybczynski, Z. P. Huang, P. F. Wu, D. Steeves, M. Sennett, M. Giersig, D. V. G. L. N. Rao, D. L. Carnahan, D. Z. Wang, J. Y. Lao, W. Z. Li, and Z. F. Ren, “Photonic crystals based on periodic arrays of aligned carbon nanotubes”, NanoLetters 3, 13 - 18 (2003).

96. Z. P. Huang, D. L. Carnahan, J. Rybczynski, M. Giersig, M. Sennett, D. Z. Wang, J. G. Wen, K. Kempa, Z. F. Ren, “Growth of Large Periodic Arrays of Carbon Nanotubes”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 82, 460 - 462 (2003).

95. D. Z. Wang, H. I. Ha, J. I. Oh, J. Moser, J. G. Wen, M. J. Naughton, Z. F. Ren, “Synthesis and Properties of Superconductor RuSr2GdCu2O8”, Physica C 384, 137-142 (2003).

94. M. Sennett, E. Welsh, J. B. Wright, W. Z. Li, J. G. Wen, and Z. F. Ren, “Dispersion and Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes in Polycarbonate”, Appl. Phys. A 76, 111-113 (2003).

2002 93. R. N. Bhattacharya, D. Banerjee, J. G. Wen, R. Padmanabhan, Y. T. Wang, J. Chen, Z. F.

Ren, A. M. Hermann, R. D. Blaugher, “Structural Studies of Electrodeposited and Sprayed Thallium-oxide Films”, Superconductor Science and Technology 15, 1288 - 1294 (2002).

92. J. Y. Lao, J. G. Wen, and Z. F. Ren, “Hierarchical ZnO nanostructures”, NanoLetters 2, 1287 – 1291 (2002).

91. J. Y. Lao, J. G. Wen, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, “Synthesis of Amorphous SiOx Nanostructures”, International Journal of Nanoscience 1, 149 - 157 (2002).

90. Y. Tu, Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, J. G. Wen, Z. F. Ren, “Growth of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes with Controlled Site Density”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 80, 4018 - 4020 (2002).

89. E. T. Thostenson, W. Z. Li, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, and T. W. Chou, “carbon nanotube / carbon fiber hybrid multi-scale composites”, J. of Appl. Phys. 91, 6034 - 6037 (2002).

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88. Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, J. G. Wen, M. Sennett, H. Gibson, and Z. F. Ren, “Effect of nickel, iron, and cobalt on growth of aligned carbon nanotubes”, Appl. Phys. A 74, 387-391 (2002).

87. W. Z. Li, J. G. Wen, and Z. F. Ren, “Effect of temperature on growth and structure of carbon nanotubes by chemical vapor deposition”, Appl. Phys. A 74, 397 - 402 (2002).

86. J. Y. Lao, W. Z. Li, J. G. Wen, and Z. F. Ren “Boron Carbide Nanolumps on Carbon Nanotubes”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 80, 500 - 502 (2002).

85. R. N. Bhattacharya, Z. Xing, J. Z. Wu, J. Chen, S. X. Yang, Z. F. Ren, and R. D. Blaugher, “Superconducting Thallium Oxide and Mercury Oxide Films”, Physica C 377, 327 – 332 (2002).

84. J. G. Wen, D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, and Z. F. Ren, “Microstructures of Tl2Ba2CuO6 thin films with different doping levels”, Physica C 366, 203 - 210 (2002).

83. J. H. Chen, Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, W. Z. Li, J. G. Wen, and Z. F. Ren “Electrochemical Synthesis of Polypyrrole Films over Each of Well-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes”, Synthetic Metals 125, 289-294 (2002).

82. J. H. Chen, W. Z. Li, D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, J. G. Wen, Z. F. Ren, “Electrochemical characterization of carbon nanotubes as electrode in electrochemical double-layer capacitors,” Carbon 40, 1193-1197 (2002).

2001 81. H. A. Blackstead, J. D. Dow, D. R. Harshman, D. B. Pulling, Z. F. Ren, D. Z. Wang,

“Magnetic resonance and Mossbauer studies of GdSr2Cu2RuO8 Physica C 364, 305-308 (2001).

80. W. Z. Li, J. G. Wen, Z. F. Ren, “Straight carbon nanotube Y-junctions”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 1879 - 1881 (2001).

79. W. Z. Li, J. G. Wen, Y. Tu, and Z. F. Ren, “Effect of Gas Pressure on the Growth and Structure of Carbon Nanotubes by Chemical Vapor Deposition”, Appl. Phys. A 73, 259-264 (2001).

78. J. H. Chen, Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, J. G. Wen, and Z. F. Ren, “Electrochemical synthesis of polypyrrole / carbon nanotube nanoscale composites using well-aligned carbon nanotube arrays”, Appl. Phys. A. 73, 129-131 (2001).

77. E. T. Thostenson, Z. F. Ren and Tsu-Wei Chou, "Advances in the science and technology of carbon nanotubes and their composites: a review", Composites Science and Technology 61, 1899-1912 (2001).

76. J. G. Wen, Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, J. H. Chen, S. X. Yang, Z. F. Ren J. H. Wang, L. E. Calvet, J. Chen, J. F. Klemic, M. A. Reed, “Growth and characterization of aligned carbon nanotubes from patterned nickel nanodots and uniform thin films”, Journal of Materials Research 16, 3246-3253 (2001).

75. W. Z. Li, D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, J. G. Wen, and Z. F. Ren, “Controlled Growth of Carbon Nanotubes on Graphite Foil by Chemical Vapor Deposition”, Chemical Physics Letters 335, 141-149 (2001).

74. D. Z. Wang, H. I. Ha, S. X. Yang, J. I. Oh, J. G. Wen, M. J. Naughton, Z. F. Ren, “Synthesis and characterization of heavily overdoped Tl2Ba2CuO6+ thin films”, Physica C 355, 251 – 256 (2001).

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2000 73. D. C. Smith, P. Gay, C. J. Stevens, C. Chen, G. Yang, S. J. Abell, D. Z. Wang, J. H. Wang,

Z. F. Ren, and J.F. Ryan, “Femtosecond dynamics of BSCCO-2212 in the weak and strong excitation limits”, Physica C 341-348, 2221-2222 (2000).

72. D. C. Smith, P. Gay, D. Z. Wang, J. H. Wang, Z. F. Ren, J. F. Ryan, “Ultrafast quasiparticle dynamics in Tl2Ba2CuO6+”, Physica C 341-348, 2219-2220 (2000).

71. H. Yan, J. Jung, H. Darhmaoui, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, and W. K. Kwok, “Fast vortex motion and filamentary phase separation in high-Tc thin films”, Phys. Rev. B 61, 11711-11721 (2000).

70. J. Y. Lao, J. H. Wang, D. Z. Wang, Y. Tu, S. X. Yang, H. L. Wu, Z. F. Ren, D. T. Verebelyi, M. Paranthaman, T. Aytug, D. K. Christen, R. N. Bhattacharya, and R. D. Blaugher, "Synthesis and Characterization of Chromium-Containing Thallium-Based 1212 Films”, Physica C 333, 221 - 228 (2000).

69. R. N. Bhattacharya, H.L. Wu, Y. T. Wang, R. D. Blaugher, S. X. Yang, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, Y. Tu, D. T. Verebelyi, and D. K. Christen, " Improved Electrodeposition Process for the Preparation of Superconducting Thallium Oxide Films", Physica C 333, 59 - 64 (2000).

68. J. Y. Lao, J. H. Wang, D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, Y. Tu, J. G. Wen, H. L. Wu, Z. F. Ren, D. T. Verebelyi, M. Paranthaman, T. Aytug, D. K. Christen, R. N. Bhattacharya, and R. D. Blaugher, "Synthesis and Characterization of Thallium-Based 1212 Films with High Critical Current Density on LaAlO3 Substrates", Superconductor Science and Technology 13, 173-177 (2000).

67. A. K. Pradhan, B. K. Roul, J. G. Wen, Z. F. Ren, M. Muralidhar, P. Dutta, D. R. Sahu, S. Mohanty, and P. K. Patro, “Enhanced room-temperature magnetoresistance in partially melted La0.67Ca0.33MaO3 manganites”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 76, 763 – 765 (2000).

1999 66. R. N. Bhattacharya, P. A. Parilla, R. D. Blaugher, Z. F. Ren, W. Li, J. H. Wang, Y. T.

Wang, A. M. Hermann, M. Paranthaman, A. Goyal, D. T. Verebelyi, D. K. Christen, "Superconducting (TlBi)0.9Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3Ag0.2Ox films from electrodeposited precursors", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON APPLIED SUPERCONDUCTIVITY 9, 1681-1683 (1999).

65. B. W. Kang, J. Z. Wu, W. N. Kang, Q. Y. Chen, W. K. Chu, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, “Effect of Anion Doping on Hall Sign Anomaly in the Mixed-State of Tl2Ba2CuO6+ Thin Films”, Philosophical Magazine Letters 79, 41-48 (1999).

64. D. C. Smith, P. Gay, C. J. Stevens, D. Z. Wang, J. H. Wang, Z. F. Ren, and J. F. Ryan, “Ultrafast Optical Response of Tl2Ba2CuO6+”, Journal of Low Temperature Physics 117, 1059 –1063 (1999).

63. A. A. Tsvetkov, D. Dulic, D. van der Marel, A. Damascelli, G. A. Kaljushnaia, J. I. Gorina, N. N. Senturina, N. N. Kolesnikov, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, A. A. Menovsky, and T. T. M. Palstra, “Systematics of c-axis phonons in the thallium- and bismuth-based cuprate superconductors”, Phys. Rev. B 60, 13196-13205 (1999).

62. H. Paranthaman, D. F. Lee, R. Feenstra, A. Goyal, D. T. Verebelyi, D. K. Christen, E. D. Specht, F. A. List, P. M. Martin, D. M. Kroeger, Z. F. Ren, W. Li, D. Z. Wang, J. Y. Lao, J. H. Wang, "Optimization of buffer lagers on rolled-Ni substrates for high current YBCO

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and Tl,Bi-1223 coated conductors using ex-situ precursor approaches", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON APPLIED SUPERCONDUCTIVITY 9, 2268-2271 (1999).

61. D. Dulic, D. van der Marel, A. A. Tsvetkov, W. N. Hardy, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, and B. A. Willemsen, “c-axis penetration depth and interlayer conductivity in the thallium-based cuprate superconductors”. Phys. Rev. B 60, R15051-R15054 (1999).

60. P. Gay, D. C. Smith, C. J. Stevens, C. Chen, G. Yang, S. J. Abell, D. Z. Wang, J. H. Wang, Z. F. Ren, and J. F. Ryan, “Femtosecond Dynamics of BSCCO-2212,” Journal of Low Temperature Physics 117, 1025 –1029 (1999).

59. R. P. Vasquez, M. P. Siegal, D. L. Overmyer, Z. F. Ren, J. Y. Lao, and J. H. Wang, “Tl Cuprate Superconductors Studied by XPS”, Surface Science Spectra 6, 237-253 (1999).

58. M. DeMarco, D. Graf, J. Rijssenbeek, R. J. Cava, D. Z. Wang, Y. Tu, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, M. Haka, S. Toorongian, M. Leone, and M. J. Naughton, "Transitions in Sr2RuxIr1-

xO4 studied by the 99Ru Mossbauer Effect", Phy. Rev. B 60, 7570 –7574 (1999). 57. W. Li, D. Z. Wang, J. Y. Lao, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, M. Paranthaman, D. T. Verebelyi,

and D. K. Christen, "Epitaxial Superconducting Tl0.5Pb0.5Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9 Films on LaAlO3 by Thermal Spray and Post-Spray Annealing”, Superconductor Science and Technology 12 (5), L1 – L4 (1999).

56. Z. F. Ren, Z. P. Huang, J. W. Xu, D. Z. Wang, J. G. Wen, J. H. Wang, L. Calvet, J. Chen, J. F. Klemic, and M. A. Reed, “Growth of a Single Freestanding Multiwall Carbon Nanotube on Each Nanonickel Dot”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 75, 1086 – 1088 (1999).

55. R. P. Vasquez, M. P. Siegal, Z. F. Ren, J. Y. Lao, and J. H. Wang, “Chemical Bonding in Tl Cuprates Studied by X-ray Photoemission”, Phys. Rev. B 60, 4309 - 4319(1999).

54. Z. F. Ren, W. Li, D. Z. Wang, J. Y. Lao, J. H. Wang, M. Paranthaman, D. T. Verebelyi, and D. K. Christen, "In-Plane Aligned Superconducting Tl0.78Bi0.22Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9

Films on Rolling Assisted Biaxially Textured Substrates (RABiTS)", Physica C 313, 241- 245 (1999).

1998 53. R. P. Vasquez, Z. F. Ren, and J. H. Wang, "Tl2Ba2CuO6+ by XPS", Surface Science

Spectra 5, 304 - 312 (1998). 52. Z. F. Ren, Z. P. Huang, J. W. Xu, J. H. Wang, P. Bush, M. P. Siegal, and P. N. Provencio,

"Synthesis of Large Arrays of Well-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on Glass", Science 282, 1105 – 1107 (1998).

51. Z. P. Huang, J.W. Xu, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, M. P. Siegal, and P. N. Provencio, "Growth of Large-Scale Well-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes by Plasma Enhanced Hot Filament Chemical Vapor Deposition", Appl. Phys. Lett 73, 3845 3847 (1998).

50. R. Surdeanu, R. J. Wijngaarden, B. Dam, J. Rector, R. Griessen, C. Rossel, Z. F. Ren, and J. H. Wang, "Crossover between fractal and nonfractal flux penetration in high-temperature superconducting thin films", Phys. Rev. B 58, 12467 –12477 (1998).

49. Z. F. Ren, W. Li, D. Z. Wang, J.Y. Lao, J. H. Wang, M. Paranthaman, D. T. Verebelyi, and D. K. Christen, “Growth and Characterization of Superconducting Films Tl0.78Bi0.22Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9 on CeO2-Buffered Single Crystal YSZ", Physica C 306, 149 – 153 (1998).

48. R. N. Bhattacharya, R. D. Blaugher, Z. F. Ren, W. Li, J. H. Wang, M. Paranthaman, D. T. Verebelyi, and D. K. Christen, “Superconducting Epitaxial

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(TlBi)0.9Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3Ag0.2Ox Film from an Electrodeposited Precursor”, Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters 1, 165 – 167 (1998).

47. A. A. Tsvetkov, D. van der Marel, K. A. Moler, and J. R. Kirtley, J. L. de Boer, A. Meetsma, Z. F. Ren, N. Koleshnikov, D. Dulic, A. Damascelli, M. Gruninger, J. Schutzmann, J. W. van der Eb, and J. H. Wang, “Global and Local Measures of the Intrinsic Josephson Coupling in Tl2Ba2CuO6+ as a Test of the Interlayer Tunneling Model”, Nature 395, 360 – 362 (1998).

46. R. N. Bhattacharya, R. D. Blaugher, Z. F. Ren, W. Li, J. H. Wang, M. Paranthaman, D. T. Verebelyi, and D. K. Christen, “Superconducting Thallium Oxide Films by the Electrodeposition Method”, Physica C 304, 55 – 65 (1998).

45. M. Willemin, C. Rossel, J. Hofer, H. Keller, Z. F. Ren, and J. H. Wang, “Pairing symmetry from in-plane torque anisotropy in Tl2Ba2CuO6+ thin films”, Phys. Rev. B 57, 6137 – 6144 (1998).

44. Z. F. Ren, J. Y. Lao, L. P. Guo, J. H. Wang, J. D. Budai, D. K. Christen, A. Goyal, M. Paranthaman, E. D. Specht, and J. R. Thompson, “Epitaxial film growth of Tl0.78Bi0.22Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9- on rolling asissted biaxially textured nickel substrates with YSZ and CeO2 buffer layers”, J. of Superconductivity 11, 159 – 162 (1998).

1997 43. R. Surdeanu, R. J. Wijngaarden, R. Griessen, C. Rossel, Z. F. Ren, and J. H. Wang,

“Crossover from fractal to non-fractal flux penetration in vicinal Tl2Ba2CuO6+ thin films”, Physica C 282-287, 2219 – 2220 (1997).

42. C. Rossel, M. Willemin, J. Hofer, H. Keller, Z. F. Ren, and J. H. Wang, “Pairing symmetry in single-layer tetragonal Tl2Ba2CuO6+ from in-plane torque anisotropy”, Physica C 282-287, 136 – 139 (1997).

41. A. Hoffman, I. K Schuller, Z. F. Ren, J. Y. Lao, and J. H. Wang, “Persistent photoconducivity in overdoped high Tc thin films”, Phys. Rev. B 56, 13742 – 13745 (1997).

40. Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, and D. J. Miller, “Continuous control of the superconducting transition temperature from overdoped to underdoped regimes in tetragonal Tl2Ba2CuO6+ Thin Films”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 71, 1706 – 1708 (1997).

39. J. R. Thompson, L. Krusin-Elbaum, D. K. Christen, K. J. Song, M. Paranthaman, J. L. Ullman, J. Z. Wu, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, J. E. Tkaczk, and J. A. DeLuca, “Current-density enhancements of the highest-Tc superconductors with GeV protons”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 71, 536 – 538 (1997).

38. J. Schutzmann, H. S. Somal, A. A. Tsvetkov, D. van der Marel, G. Koops, N. Koleshnokov, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, E. Bruck, and A.A. Menovski, “Experimental test of the interlayer pairing models for high-Tc superconductivity using grazing-incidence infrared reflectometry”, Phys. Rev. B 55, 11118 – 11121 (1997).

37. C. C. Tsuei, J. R. Kirtley, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, H. Raffy, and Z. Z. Li, “Pure dx2-y2 order-parameter symmetry in the tetragonal superconductor Tl2Ba2CuO6+”, Nature 387, 481-483 (1997).

36. L. P. Guo, Z. F. Ren, J. Y. Lao, J. H. Wang, D. K. Christen, C. E. Klabunde, and J. D. Budai, “Epitaxial Superconducting Thin Films Tl0.78Bi0.22Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9- on (001) YSZ Synthesized by Laser Ablation and Post-Annealing in Pure Argon”, Physica C 277, 13 – 18 (1997).

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1996 35. C. C. Tsuei, J. R. Kirtley, A. Gupta, J. Z. Sun, K. A. Moler, Z. F. Ren, and J. H. Wang,

“Half-Integer Flux Quantum Effect in Cuprates Superconductors – A Probe of Pairing Symmetry”, Physica Scripta T66, 212 – 214 (1996).

34. J. R. Kirtley, C. C. Tsuei, K. A. Moler, J. Z. Sun, A. Gupta, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, Z. Z. Li, H. Raffy, J. Manhart, H. Hilgenkamp, B. Mayer, and C. Gerber, “Scanning SQUID Microscope Tests of the Symmetry of the High-Tc Gap”, Czechoslovak Journal of Physics 46, 3169 – 3176 (1996).

33. Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, and D. J. Miller, “The Structural Symmetry of Epitaxial Tl2Ba2CuO6+ Thin Films”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 69, 1798 – 1800 (1996).

32. R. P. Vasquez, Z. F. Ren, and J. H. Wang, “Electronic structure of Tl2Ba2CuO6+ epitaxial films measured by X-ray photoemission”, Phy. Rev. B 54, 6115 – 6118 (1996).

31. J. R. Kirtley, C. C. Tsuei, J. Z. Sun, A. Gupta, K. A. Moler, C. A. Wang, Z. F. Ren, and J. H. Wang, “Tricrystal determination of the symmetry of cuprate superconductors”, Turkish J. of Physics 20, 576 – 593 (1996).

30. C. A. Wang, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, D. K. Petrov, M. J. Naughton, W. Y. Yu, and A. Petrou, “Superconducting Epitaxial Tl2Ba2CuO6+ Thin Films on SrTiO3 with Tetragonal Lattice and Continuously Adjustable Critical Temperature”, Physica C 262, 98 – 102 (1996).

29. M. Chaparala, O. H. Chung, Z. F. Ren, M. White, P. Coppens, J. H. Wang, A. P. Hope and M. J. Naughton, “Vortex-state resistance near parallel orientation in layered superconductors”, Phys. Rev. B 53, 5818 – 5825 (1996).

28. Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, J. H. Wang, D. J. Miller, D. K. Christen, J. D. Hettinger, and K. E. Gray, “Composition and Phase Development of Epitaxial Superconducting Tl0.78Bi0.22Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9- Thin Films by Laser Ablation and Post Annealing”, Physica C 258, 129 – 136 (1996).

27. C. C. Tsuei, J. R. Kirtley, M. Rupp. J. Z. Sun, A. Gupta, M. B. Ketchen, C. A. Wang, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, and M. Bhushan, “Half-Integer Flux Quantum Effect and Pairing Symmetry in High-Tc One-Layer Tetragonal Tl2Ba2CuO6+ Superconductors”, Science 271, 329 – 332 (1996).

1995 26. I. S. Ghosh, L. F. Cohen, J. V. Thomas, J. L. MacManusDriscoll, R. Somekh, M. Lenkens,

S. Hensen, G. Muller, D. Jedamzik, Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, J. H. Wang, J. C. Gallop, A. D. Caplin, "Correlations between rf- and dc-magnetic field induced microwave losses and the de-screening current density" J in HTS thin films, APPLIED SUPERCONDUCTIVITY 1 & 2, 1083-1086 (1995).

25. C. A. Wang, Z. F. Ren, and J. H. Wang, “Synthesis of Epitaxial (TlBi)Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9-

Thin Films at Low Temperature in Pure Argon”, Appl. Supercond. 3, 153 – 156 (1995). 24. Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, J. H. Wang, D. J. Miller, and K. C. Goretta, “Improvement of

Transport Critical Current Density in In-Situ Synthesized Silver-Sheathed Superconducting Tapes of Tl0.78Bi0.22Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9- by Intermediate Annealing and Pressing”, Physica C 247, 163 – 168 (1995).

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23. W. Y. Yu, A. Petrou, C. A. Wang, Z. F. Ren, and J. H. Wang, “Raman Study of Phonons in Superconducting Epitaxial (TlBi)Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9- Films”, Appl. Supercond. 3, 147 – 157 (1995).

22. C. A. Wang, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, and D. J. Miller, “Superconductivity and Microstructure of Epitaxial (TlBi)Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9- Films”, Physica C 245, 171 – 180 (1995).

21. Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, J. H. Wang, and D. J. Miller, “Superconductivity and Microstructural Characterization of Epitaxial (TlBi)Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9-Thin Films”, Appl. Supercond. 3, 133 – 138 (1995).

20. Y. F. Li, Z. Z. Sheng, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, and K. C. Goretta, “Fabrication of Ag-Clad (Tl,V)(Sr,Ba)2Ca2Cu3Oy Superconducting Tapes”, Supercond. Sci. Technol. 8, 174 – 176 (1995).

1994 19. D. K. Petrov, Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, J. H. Wang, and M. J. Naughton, “Break Junction

Tunneling in High Temperature Superconductors”, Appl. Supercond. 2, 729 – 734 (1994). 18. D. J. Miller, J. G. Hu, Z. F. Ren, and J. H. Wang, “Microstructural Development and

Critical Currents in Long-Length (Tl,Bi)-(Sr,Ba)-Ca-Cu-O Wires”, J. Electronic Mater. 23, 1151 – 1158 (1994).

17. R. N. Bhattacharya, A. Duda, D. S. Ginley, J. A. DeLuca, Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, and J. H. Wang, “Superconducting Thallium Oxide Films via an Electro-Deposited Precursor”, Physica C 229, 145 – 151 (1994).

16. Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, and J. H. Wang, “Superconducting Epitaxial (TlBi)Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9-Film with High Critical Current in Magnetic Field”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 65, 237 – 239 (1994).

15. Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, D. J. Miller, and K. C. Goretta, “Relationship between Grain Connectivity, Alignment, and Critical Current Density in High-Temperature Superconducting Bulk Materials”, Physica C 229, 137 – 144 (1994).

1993 14. Z. F. Ren and J. H. Wang, “Enhanced Formation of 1223 Phase by Partial Replacement of

Bi for Tl in In Situ Synthesized Silver-Sheathed Superconducting Tape of Tl1-xBixSr2-

yBayCa2Cu3O9-”, Physica C 216, 199 – 204 (1993). 13. Z. F. Ren and J. H. Wang, “Superior Flux-Pinning in In Situ Synthesized Silver-Sheathed

Superconducting Tape of Tl0.5Pb0.5Ba0.4Sr1.6Ca0.8Y0.2Cu3Oy”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 62, 3025 – 3027 (1993).

1992 12. Z. F. Ren and J. H. Wang, “Uniform and Flexible 24-Meter Superconducting Tape of

Silver-Sheathed Tl0.5Pb0.5Ba0.4Sr1.6Ca2Cu3O8.2”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 61, 1715 – 1717 (1992). 11. M. Qi, Z. F. Ren, Y. Gao, P. Lee, Y. L. Soo, and J. H. Wang, “The Influence of Hydrogen

Reduction on Single Crystals of Bi2Sr2CaCu2Oy”, Physica C 192, 55 – 59 (1992).

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1991 10. Z. F. Ren, M. Qi, and J. H. Wang, “Enhancement of Critical Current Density in Tl-Ba-Ca-

Cu-O Type Superconductors by the Addition of SnO2”, Physica C 184, 24 – 28 (1991). 9. Z. F. Ren and J. H. Wang, “Effect of Compressive Reorientation on the Tc and Jc of the

Superconducting Composite AgxBi1.7Pb0.3Sr2Ca2Cu3O10”, J. Mater. Sci. Lett. 10, 1139 – 1141 (1991).

8. Z. F. Ren, M. J. Naughton, P. Lee, and J. H. Wang, “Growth of Superconducting Single Crystals of TlmBa2Can-1CunOy in a Convenient Way”, J. Crystal Growth 112, 587 – 590 (1991).

1990 7. Z. F. Ren, Y. F. Chen, Y. D. Jiang, and W. Y. Guan, “Single Crystal Growth and

Characterization in Ca-Doped Y-Ba-Cu-O System”, J. Mater. Sci. Lett. 9, 738 – 740 (1990).

6. Z. F. Ren, J. G. Wen, Y. D. Jiang, and W. Y. Guan, “Growth and Characterization of 2201 Single Crystals in Bi-based System”, J. Crystal Growth 102, 349 – 353 (1990).

1989 5. Z. F. Ren, Xiuli Yan, Y. D. Jiang, and W. Y. Guan, “Effects of Growth Conditions on the

Size of Superconducting Crystals in Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O System”, Chinese Phys. Lett. 6, 333 – 334 (1989).

4. J. G. Wen, Y. Liu, Z. F. Ren, Y. F. Yan, Y. Q. Zhou, and K. K. Fung, “A Structure Study of Undoped and Doped Bi2Sr2CuO6 Phase by Transmission Electron Microscopy”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 55, 2775 – 2777 (1989).

3. Z. F. Ren, Xiuli Yan, Y. D. Jiang, and W. Y. Guan, “The Best Composition for Growing Large Single Crystals in Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O System”, Rengong Jingti 18, 97 – 101 (1989).

1988 2. Z. F. Ren, Xiuli Yan, Y. D. Jiang, and W. Y. Guan, “Growth of Superconducting Single

Crystals of Composition Bi:Sr:Ca:Cu=2:2:1:2 in the Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O System”, J. Crystal Growth, 92, 677 – 681 (1988).

1. Z. F. Ren and C. F. Zhang, “Transformation of Crystal Morphology of Eutectic Composite In Situ”, Jinshu Xuebao 24, B299 – B301 (1988).

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Committee, Wuxi, China Date: Oct. 17, 2009 Title: Commercialization of Nano Materials 65. Suzhou University, Suzhou, China Date: Oct. 14, 2009 Title: Nanomaterials for Energy Applications 64. South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China Date: Oct. 10, 2009 Title: Nanomaterials for Energy Applications 63. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China Date: Oct. 9, 2009 Title: Nanomaterials for Energy Applications 62. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China Date: Oct. 9, 2009 Title: Nanomaterials for Energy Applications

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61. Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, China Date: Oct. 8, 2009 Title: Nanomaterials for Energy Applications 60. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Date: Oct. 7, 2009 Title: Nanomaterials for Energy Applications 59. Trinasolar, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China, China Date: May 31, 2009 Title: Nanomaterials for Energy Applications 58. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Date: May 21, 2009 Title: Nanomaterials Manufacturing for Mechanical and Energy Applications 57. Univeristy of Massachusetts at Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA Date: March 12, 2009 Title: How Do Physics and Nanotechnology Advance the Research on Renewable Energy? 56. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA Date: January 13, 2009 Title: How Do Physics and Nanotechnology Advance the Research on Renewable Energy? 55. General Motor Corporation, Warren, Michigan, USA Date: June 10, 2008 Title: Nanocomposite Approach Applied to Thermoelectric Materials 54. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China Date: April 21, 2008 Title: Efficient Energy Transformation by Nano Approach 53. Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, China Date: April 18, 2008 Title: Nanotechnology Approach for Renewable Energy 52. Department of Physiscs, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China Date: April 14, 2008 Title: Efficient Energy Transformation by Nano Approach 51. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China Date: April 18, 2007 Title: How does basic nano science/technology research lead to commercialization? 50. University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA, USA Date: October 14, 2006 Title: Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties in Nanocomposites from Nanocrystals 49. Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA Date: September 19, 2006 Title: Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Physics, and Applications 48. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China Date: April 28, 2006 Title: Nano Materials Synthesis, Physics, and Applications 47. Xihua University, Chengdu, China Date: April 27, 2006 Title: Nano Materials Synthesis, Physics, and Applications 46. South-China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

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Date: April 24, 2006 Title: Nano Materials Synthesis, Physics, and Applications 45. Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China Date: April 24, 2006 Title: Nano Materials Synthesis, Physics, and Applications 44. Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China Date: April 20, 2006

Title: Structure and Property Studies on Carbon Nanotubes inside a High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope

43. Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Date: April 18, 2006 Title: Nano Materials Synthesis, Physics, and Applications 42. Department of Physics, Beijing University, Beijing, China Date: April 17, 2006 Title: Nano Materials Synthesis, Physics, and Applications 41. Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China Date: April 18, 2005 Title: Nano Materials and Physics 40. Department of Physics/Biology, Chestnut Hill, MA Date: April 12, 2005 Title: Macromolecule delivery in vitro utilizing carbon nanotubes 39. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University, Muncie, IN Date: April 7, 2005 Title: Nano Materials and Physics 38. Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA Date: Dec. 9, 2004 Title: Nano Materials, Physics, and Devices 37. Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Date: Dec. 9, 2004 Title: Nano Materials, Physics, and Devices 36. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston,

MA Date: Nov. 22, 2004 Title: Nano Materials, Physics, and Devices 35. Center for Astrophysics and Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Date: October 8, 2003 Title: Photonic Band Gaps in a Period Array of Carbon Nanotubes and ZnO Nanowires 34. Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio Date: October 2, 2003 Title: Carbon Nanotubes and ZnO Nanowires 33. Air Force Wright Patterson Research Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio Date: October 1, 2003 Title: Carbon Nanotubes and ZnO Nanowires 32. Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China Date: August 1, 2003 Title: Carbon Nanotubes and ZnO Nanowires

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31. IEEE Boston Section Lecture Series, MITRE Corp, Bedford, MA Date: May 1, 2003 Title: Carbon Nanotubes and ZnO Nanowires 30. Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,

Ohio Date: April 18, 2003 Title: Carbon Nanotubes and ZnO Nanowires 29. Department of Chemistry, City University of New York at Queens, NY Date: March 26, 2003

Title: Growth, Characterization, and Applications of Carbon Nanotubes and ZnO Nanowires

28. Division of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Date: March 20, 2003 Title: Carbon Nanotubes and ZnO Nanowires 27. Dept. of Mech. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Date: January 9, 2003

Title: Growth, Characterization, and Applications of Carbon Nanotubes and ZnO Nanowires

26. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA Date: August 8, 2002 Title: Growth and Characterizations of Well-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes 25. Department of Physics and AMPAC, University of Central Florida, FL Date: May 9, 2002 Topic: Growth, Characterization, and Applications of Periodical Carbon Nanotube Arrays 24. Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA Date: April 11, 2002 Topic: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 23. US. Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

Date: January 30, 2002 Topic: Growth and Modification of Carbon Nanotubes 22. Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA Date: September 19, 2001 Topic: Technology and Applications of Carbon Nanotubes 21. Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Date: April 16, 2001

Topic: Fabrication, Structural Characterization, and Physical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes

20. Department of Chemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL Date: November 10, 2000 Topic: Growth, Characterization, and Applications of Carbon Nanotubes

19. Department of Physics, Beijing University, Beijing, China Date: Aug. 4, 2000 Topic: Growth of Well-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

18. US. Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD Date: July 20, 2000 Topic: Growth of Well-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

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17. The Rowland Institute for Science, Cambridge, MA Date: May 31, 2000 Topic: Growth of Well-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes 16. Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA Date: Jan. 29, 1999 Topic: Large arrays of well-aligned carbon nanotubes and high temperature

superconductors 15. Department of Physics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Date: Jan. 19, 1999 Topic: Synthesis of large arrays of well-aligned carbon nanotubes 14. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN Date: Jan. 8, 1999 Topic: Synthesis of large arrays of well-aligned carbon nanotubes 13. Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ Date: Dec. 14, 1998 Topic: Synthesis of large arrays of well-aligned carbon nanotubes and high temperature

superconductors 12. Department of Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL Date: Dec. 4, 1998 Topic: Synthesis of large arrays of well-aligned carbon nanotubes and tunable high temperature superconductors 11. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO Date: Oct. 30, 1998 Topic: Fundamental studies and applications of thallium-based high-Tc superconductors. 10. Department of Physics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Date: Oct. 1, 1998 Topic: Synthesis and physics of thallium-based superconductors and carbon nanotubes 9. Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Date: July 28, 1998 Topic: Research activities in the Materials Synthesis Laboratory of the Departments of Physics and Chemistry of SUNY at Buffalo. 8. Department of Physics, Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada Date: Oct. 30, 1997 Topic: Synthesis and properties of epitaxial superconducting thin films Tl2Ba2CuO6+ A model system for high Tc superconductivity. 7. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland Date: June 2, 1997 Topic: Synthesis and characterization of Tl-2201 and (Tl,Bi)-1223 superconducting films for fundamental research and applications 6. IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Date: May 30, 1997 Topic: Synthesis and characterization of Tl-2201 and (Tl,Bi)-1223 superconducting films for fundamental research and applications 5. Interdisciplinary Research Center at the University of Cambridge, UK Date: May 29, 1997

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Topic: Thin films of Tl2Ba2CuO6+ (Tl-2201) for fundamental research and applications 4. Department of Physics, SUNY-Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Date: April 8, 1997 Topic: Synthesis and properties of epitaxial superconducting thin films Tl2Ba2CuO6+ A model system for high Tc superconductivity. 3. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL Date: Jan. 16, 1995 Topic: Synthesis and characterization of (Tl,Bi)-1223 tapes and films with high critical current density 2. New York State Institute on Superconductivity, Buffalo, NY Date: June 10, 1994 Topic: Improvement of critical current density in thallium-based superconducting tapes and films 1. Department of Physics, SUNY-Buffalo, NY Date: May 4, 1993 Topic: Minimization of Tl-related toxicity by in situ synthesis and enhanced formation of 1223 phase by partial replacement of Bi for Tl in Tl-based silver sheathed superconducting tapes.

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BOOK CHAPTERS 10. Baoqing Zeng and Zhifeng Ren, Book Chapter 17 entitled “ZnO Nanowires and Si

Nanowires” in Part III “Field Emission from Related Nanomaterials” in the book “Carbon Nanotubes and Related Field Emitters – Fundamentals and Applications” edited by Yahachi Saito, published by Wiley-VCH, 2010, p. 231 – 258.

9. Wengzhong Wang and Z. F. Ren, chapter 7 entitled “Advances in Solution-Based Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes” in the book entitled “Chemistry of Carbon Nanotubes” edited by V. A. Basiuk and E. V. Basiuk, published in 2008 by American Scientific Publishers, p 143 – 157.

8. Dabashish Banerjee, Jingyu Lao, and Z. F. Ren, Book Chapter entitled “Design of nanostructured materials” in the book entitled “Nanonengineering of Structural, Functional, and Smart Materials”, editted by Mark J. Schulz, Ajit D. Kelar, and Mannur J. Sundaresan, published in 2006 by CRC Taulor & Francis Group, p 15 – 56.

7. J. Y. Lao, J. H. Wang, D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, and Z. F. Ren, Book Chapter entitled “Ex-Situ Processing of Tl-Containing Films”, (p275 – 316) Chapter 17 of “Second-Generation HTS Conductors”, edited by Amit Goyal, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2004.

6. Y. H. Lin, W. Yantasee, F. Lu, J. Wang, M. Musameh, Y. Tu, and Z. F. Ren, “Biosensors Based on Carbon Nanotubes”, Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, edited by J. A. Schwarz, C. Contescu, K. Putye, pp. 361-374. Marcel Dekker, New York (2004).

5. Z. P. Huang, Y. Tu, D. L. Carnahan, and Z. F. Ren, “Field Emission of Carbon Nanotubes”, Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, edited by H. S. Nalwa, vl 3, , 401 – 416 (2004).

4. Z. F. Ren and J. H. Wang, Book Chapter entitled “Preparation of Superconductive Ceramics”, Pages 258 – 315, Chapter 17.3.10, Volume 18, “Inorganic Reactions and Methods”, edited by J. J. Zuckerman and Jim D. Atwood, published by Wiley-VCH, (1999).

3. Z. F. Ren, J. Y. Lao, W. Li, D. Z. Wang, J. H. Wang, C. C. Tsuei, J. R. Kirtley, D. K. Christen, and D, van der Marel, Book Chapter entitled "Physics and Applications of Thallium-based Superconductors", review article in "RECENT RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT IN APPLIED PHYSICS" 2, 291-325 (1999).

2. A. Hoffman, I. K. Schuller, Z. F. Ren, J. Y. Lao, J. H. Wang, D. Girata, W. Lopera, and P. Prieto, Book Chapter entitled “Persistent Photoconductivity in High-Tc Superconductors” in “Application of Spectroscopy to Superconducting Materials”, ACS Symp. Series 730, page 216 – 229 (1999).

1. Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, and J. H. Wang, Book Chapter entitled “Laser Ablation of (Tl,Bi)Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9- Thin Films”, Chapter X6.3.4, HANDBOOK OF THIN FILM PROCESS TECHNOLOGY, edited by D. A. Glocker and S. I. Shah, published by Institute of Physics Publishing (1995).

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PUBLICATIONS IN PROCEEDINGS 35. Z. F. Ren, Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, W. Z. Li, J. G. Wen, S. X. Yang, Y. Tu, J. H. Chen,

“An insight into carbon nanotube production”, SAMPE Journal 37, 64-67 (2001). 34. J. H. Chen, Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, J. G. Wen, and Z. F. Ren, “Exploratory Research on

Carbon Nanotube Arrays as Nanoelectrodes for Use in Electrochemistry”, Electrochemical Society Proceedings, Vol. 2001-11, 362-365 (2001).

33. Z. F. Ren, Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, W. Z. Li, J. G. Wen, S. X. Yang, Y. Tu, J. H. Chen, “Progress on production of carbon nanotubes”, Int. SAMPE Tech. Conf. 32, 200-204 (2000).

32. J. H. Chen, W. Z. Li, Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, J. G. Wen, and Z. F. Ren, “Electrochemistry of carbon nanotubes and their potential application in supercapacitors,” Proc. - Electrochem. Soc. (Fullerenes 2000--Volume 10: Chemistry and Physics of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanomaterials), 406-410 (2000).

31. H. L. Schreuder-Gibson, K. Senecal, M. Sennett, L. Samuelson, Z. Huang, J. G. Wen, W. Li, Y. Ti, D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, Z. F. Ren, C. Sung, "Characteristics of Electrospun Fibers Containing Carbon Nanotubes," in Fullerenes 2000 - Volume 10, Chemistry and Physics of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanomaterials, The Electrochemical Society, pp. 210 - 221 (2000).

30. Z. F. Ren, Z. P. Huang, J. W. Xu, D. Z. Wang, J. H. Wang, L. Calvet, J. Chen, J. F. Klemic, and M. A. Reed, “Large Arrays of Well-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes”, AIP Conference Proc. 486 (Electronic Properties of Novel Materials—Science and Technology of Molecular Nanostructures), 263 - 267 (1999).

29. M. S. Dresselhaus, G, Chen, M. Y. Tang, Ronggui Yang, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, J. P. Fleurial, and P. Gogna, “New Directions for Nanoscale Thermoelectric Materials Research”, MRS 2005 Fall meeting.

28. J. Rybczynski, Z. F. Ren, S. H. Jo, D. Banerjee, S. Chen, D. Z. Wang, J. Y. Huang, "Nanomaterials fabrication and physics", Optics East, October 23-26, 2005, Boston, MA, USA.

27. J. Rybczynski, Y. Wang, D. Banerjee, Z. F. Ren, "Large-Scale Periodic Patterns and Their Applications for Growing Aligned Nanotube and Nanowire Arrays", Optics East, October 23-26, 2005, Boston, MA, USA.

26. B. Poudel, W. Z. Wang, C. Dames, J. Y. Huang, S. Kunwar, D. Z. Wang, D. Banerjee, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Synthesis, Characterization and Thermal Stability of Highly Crystallized Titania Nanotubes”, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 836, L1.8.1-L1.8.6 (2005).

25. J. Y. Lao, J. Y. Huang, D. Banerjee, S. H. Jo, D. Z. Wang, J. G. Wen, D. Steeves, B. Kimball, W. Porter, R. A. Farrer, T. Baldacchini, J. T. Fourkas, Z. F. Ren, “Novel ZnO Nanostructures”, SPIE Proceedings, Aug. 3-8, 2003, San Diego, CA.

24. Michael Sennett, Elizabeth Welsh, J. B. Wright, W. Z. Li, J. G. Wen, Z. F. Ren, “Dispersion and Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes in Polycarbonate”, MRS Proceedings, 2001 Fall.

23. E.T. Thostenson, W. Z. Li, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, and T-W. Chou, in Proceedings of the 16th Annual Technical Conference of the American Society for Composites. 2001, 73.

22. W. Z. Li, D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, J. G. Wen, J. H. Chen and Z. F. Ren, in Proceedings of the 16th Annual Technical Conference of the American Society for Composites. 2001, 172.

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21. Z. P. Huang, J. Moser, M. Sennett, H. Gibson, M.J. Naughton, J. G. Wen, and Z. F. Ren, "Fabrication of Freestanding Carbon Nanotube Arrays in Large Scale", MRS Proceedings Vol. 633, A13.22 (2001).

20. Raghu N. Bhattacharya, S. L. Yan, Zhongwen Xing, Yiyuan Xie, Judy Z. Wu, Matt Feldmann, Jun Chen, Qihua Xiong, Z. F. Ren, and Richard D. Blaugher, “Superconducting Thallium Oxide and Mercury Oxide Films”, MRS Proceedings Vol. 659, II11.2.1-6 (2001).

19. Z. F. Ren, W. Z. Li, Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, J. H. Chen, Y. Tu, S. X. Yang, and J. G. Wen, “Progress on Production of Carbon Nanotubes”, Proceedings of The Society for Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering (SAMPE), Boston, MA, November 5 – 9, 2000.

18. M. Paranthaman, D. F. Lee, R. Feenstra, A. Goyal, D. T. Verebelyi, D. K. Christen, E. D. Specht, F. A. List, P. M. Martin, D. M. Kroeger, Z. F. Ren, W. Li, D. Z. Wang, J. Y. Lao, and J. H. Wang, “Optimization of Buffer Layers on Rolled-Ni Substrates for High Current YBCO and Tl,Bi-1223 Coated Conductors Using Ex-Situ Precursor Approaches”, IEEE Transaction on Appl. Supercon. 9, 2268 – 2271 (1999).

17. R. N. Bhattacharya, P. A. Parilla, R. D. Blaugher, Z. F. Ren, W. Li, J. H. Wang, Y. T. Wang, and A. M. Hermann, “Superconducting thallium oxide films from electrodeposited precursors”, ASC meeting, Palm Bay Beach, CA, 1998.

16. A. A. Tsvetkov, D. van der Marel, D. Dulic, H. J. Molegraaf, N. N. Kolesnikov, B. Willemsen, Z. F. Ren, and J. H. Wang, “Interlayer tunnelling mechanism: experimental test of single layer compounds”, Invited Paper at the SPIE Meeting, Superconducting Superlattices II: Native and Artificial, San Diego, USA, 19-24 July 1998.

15. R. N. Bhattacharya, P. A. Parilla, R. D. Blaugher, Z. F. Ren, W. Li, J. H. Wang, Y. T. Wang, A. M. Hermann, M. Paranthaman, A. Goyal, D. T. Verebelyi, and D. K. Christen, “Superconducting Thallium Oxide Films from Electrodeposited Precursors”, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity 9, 1681 (1999).

14. C. C. Tsuei, J. R. Kirtley, J. Z. Sun, A. Gupta, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, K. A. Moler, and C. C. Chi, “Half-Integer Flux Quantum Effect and Pairing Symmetry in Cuprate Superconductors”, Proc. of the 10TH ANNIVERSARY HTS WORKSHOP ON PHYSICS, MATERIALS & APPLICATIONS, 248 (1996), edited by B. Batlogg, C. W. Chu, W. K. Chu, D. U. Gubser, and K.A. Muller, (World Scientific).

13. Z. F Ren, C. A. Wang, and J. H. Wang, “Growth of Superconducting Epitaxial Tl2Ba2CuO6+ Thin Films with Tetragonal Lattice and Continuously Adjustable Critical Temperature”, Proc. of the 10TH ANNIVERSARY HTS WORKSHOP ON PHYSICS, MATERIALS & APPLICATIONS, 199 (1996), edited by B. Batlogg, C.W. Chu, W.K. Chu, D.U. Gubser, and K.A. Muller, (World Scientific).

12. D. K. Christen, E. D. Specht, A. Goyal, Q. He, M. Paranthaman, C. E. Klabunde, R. Feenstra, F. A. List, D. M. Kroeger, J. E. Tkaczyk, J. A. DeLuca, Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, and J. H. Wang, “Local Texture, Current Flow, and Superconductive Transport Properties of Tl-1223 Deposits on Practical Substrates”, Proc. of the 10TH ANNIVERSARY HTS WORKSHOP ON PHYSICS, MATERIALS & APPLICATIONS, 193 (1996), edited by B. Batlogg, C.W. Chu, W.K. Chu, D.U. Gubser, and K.A. Muller, (World Scientific).

11. D. K. Christen, Q. He, M. Paranthaman, C. E. Klabunde, E. D. Specht, R. Feenstra, A. Goyal, F. A. List, D. M. Kroeger, J. E. Tkaczyk, J. A. DeLuca, Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, and J. H. Wang, “Transport properties of Tl-1223 deposits for possible conductor applications”,

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10. I. S. Ghosh, L. F. Cohen, J. V. Thomas, J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, R. Somekh, M. Lenkens, S. Hensen, G. Muller, D. Jedamzik, Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, J. H. Wang, J. C. Gallop, and A. D. Caplin, “Correlations between rf- and dc-magnetic field induced microwave losses and dc-screening current density J in HTS thin films”, Institute of Physics Conference Series 148, 1083 (1995).

9. Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, J. H. Wang, and D. J. Miller, “Laser ablation parameters for the growth of superconducting epitaxial Tl0.78Bi0.22Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9- films”, Proc. of the 1995 International Workshop on Superconductivity CO-Sponsored by ISTEC and MRS, 408 (1995).

8. D. K. Christen, Q. He, M. Paranthaman, C. E. Klabunde, R. Feenstra, A. Goyal, F. A. List, D. M. Kroeger, J. E. Tkaczyk, J. A. DeLuca, Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, and J. H. Wang, “Superconducting transport properties of Tl-1223 deposits on polycrystalline substrates”, Proc. of the 1995 International Workshop on Superconductivity CO-Sponsored by ISTEC and MRS, 383 (1995).

7. Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, J. H. Wang, D. J. Miller, and K. C. Goretta, “Improvement of critical current density in thallium-based (TlBi)Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9- superconductors”, NASA Conference Publication 3290, Proc. of the Fourth International Conference and Exhibition: World Congress on Superconductivity, Volume II 661 (1994).

6. Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, J. H. Wang, and D. J. Miller, “Improvement of grain connectivity in thallium-based long superconducting tapes and films”, Proc. HTS Wire Development Workshop, (1994).

5. D. J. Miller, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, P. Halder, J. A. DeLuca, E. Tkaczyk, U. Balachandran, M. T. Lanagan, K. C. Goretta, and K. E. Gray, “The influence of phase development on critical currents in powder-in-tube wires”, Proc. of HTS Wire Development Workshop, (1994).

4. J. H. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Optimal intergranular contact in flexible thallium-containing superconducting tapes”, AIP Conference Proceedings 273, 519 (1993).

3. J. H. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Dependence of critical current density on granular arrangement in ceramic superconductors”, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 275, 663 (1992).

2. J. H. Wang, M. Qi, and Z. F. Ren, “Increasing the critical current density in the thallium-containing superconductors by tin oxide and compressive deformation”, AIP Conference Proceedings 251, 357 (1992).

1. J. G. Wen, C.Y. Yan, Y. Liu, Z. F. Ren, Y.F. Yan, and K.K. Fung, “Transmission-electron microscopy study of Bi-based superconducting phases”, Proc. of Beijing International Conference on HTS, 423 (1990).

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CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS (Conferences, Symposia, and Workshops) 2009 139. G. Joshi, H. Lee, A. Minnich, X. Wang, G. Zhu, Y. Lan, D. Wang, M. Tang, M. S.

Dresselhaus, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, " SGER/Collaborative Research in Low-Cost Manufacturing of High Performance Thermoelectric Nanocomposites", NSF CMMI Research and Innovation Conference, June 22-25, 2009, Hawaii, USA.

138. Gaohua Zhu, Hohyun Lee, Yucheng Lan, Xiaowei Wang, Giri Joshi, Dezhi Wang, Jian Yang, Daryoosh Vashee, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Gang Chen and Z. F. Ren, "Thermoelectric Figure-of-merit of Nanostructured Silicon with a Low Concentration of Germanium", APS March Meeting, March 16-20, Pittsburgh, 2009.

137. Bo Yu, Hui Wang, Bed Poudel, Kenneth McEaney, Gang Chen, and Z. F. Ren, "Thermoelectric Figure-of-merit in Bulk p-type PbTe", APS March Meeting, March 16-20, 2009, Pittsburgh, USA.

136. Xiao Yan, Qing Hao, Hui Wang, Jian Yang, Yucheng Lan, Dezhi Wang, Gang Chen, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, and Z. F. Ren, "Thermoelectric Properties of p-type Skutterudites", APS March meeting, March 16-20, 2009, Pittsburgh, USA.

135. Trilochan Paudel, Yan Tao Gao, Yucheng Lan, Gregory McMahon, Krzysztof Kempa, Michael Naughton, and Z. F. Ren, "Improved Synthesis of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays for Optical Applications", APS March meeting, March 16–20, 2009, Pittsburgh, USA.

134. Giri Joshi, H. Lee, X. Wang, G. Zhu, Y. Lan, D. Wang, B. Poudel, M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, "Thermoelectric properties of nanostructured p-type SiGe alloys", APS March meeting, March 16-20, 2009, Pittsburgh, USA.

133. Jian Yang, Hui Wang, Yucheng Lan, Xiao Yan, Bo Yu, Xiaowei Wang, Gaohua Zhu, Dezhi Wang, Qing Hao, Qinyu He, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Gang Chen, and Z. F. Ren, "Thermoelectric Properties of Nanostructured n-type YbxCo4Sb12 bulk", APS March Meeting, March 16-20, 2009, Pittsburgh, USA.

2008 132. Bed Poudel, Qing Hao, Yi Ma, Austin Minnich, Yucheng Lan, Bo Yu, Xiao Yan, Dezhi

Wang, Daryoosh Vashaee, Xiaoyuan Chen, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, “High Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys”, APS March meeting, March 10 – 14, 2008, New Orleans, USA.

131. Bo Yu, Yi Ma, Jian Yang, Bed Poudel, Yucheng Lan, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, Qing Hao, G. Chen, “Maximizing thermoelectric figure-of-merit at high temperature in p-type Bi-Sb-Te system”, APS March meeting, March 10 – 14, New Orleans, 2008, USA.

130. Gaohua Zhu, Hohyun Lee, Xiaowei Wang, Yucheng Lan, Dezhi Wang, Mildred Dresselhaus, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, “Thermoelectric properties of n-type nano bulk Si”, APS March meeting, March 10 – 14, New Orleans, 2008, USA.

129. Giri Joshi, Hohyun Lee, Xiaowei Wang, Gaohua Zhu, Yucheng Lan, Dezhi Wang, Bed Poudel, Gang Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “High dimensionless figure-of-merit in nanostructured p-type bulk SiGe alloys”, APS March meeting, March 10 – 14, 2008, New Orleans, USA.

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128. Jian Yang, Xiao Yan, Yi Ma, Bed Poudel, Yucheng Lan, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, Q. Hao, G. Chen, “Thermoelectric Properties Studies on n-type Bi2Te3-xSex”, APS March meeting, March 10 – 14, 2008, New Orleans, USA.

127. Trilochan Paudel, Jakub Rybczynski, and Zhifeng Ren, “Growth of Periodic Arrays of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube on Glass”, APS March meeting, March 10 – 14, 2008, New Orleans, USA.

126. Xiao Yan, Jian Yang, Yi Ma, Bed Poudel, Yucheng Lan, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, Q. Hao, G. Chen, “Enhancing figure-of-merit of n-type Bi2Te3-xSex”, APS March meeting, March 10 – 14, 2008, New Orleans, USA.

125. Xiaowei Wang, Hohyun Lee, Gaohua Zhu, Yucheng Lan, Dezhi Wang, Mildred Dresselhaus, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, “Nanotructured high thermoelectric figure-of-merit in n-type bulk SiGe alloys”, APS March meeting, March 10 – 14, 2008, New Orleans, USA.

124. Yi Ma, Bo Yu, Bed Poudel, Yucheng Lan, Jian Yang, Z. F. Ren, Qing Hao, G. Chen, “The Effect of Bi/Sb ratio on Maximum ZT in Nanostructured p-type BixSb2-xTe3 Alloys”, APS March meeting, March 10 – 14, 2008, New Orleans, USA.

123. Qinyu He, Xiaowei Wang, Jian Yang, Yucheng Lan, Xiao Yan, Bo Yu, Yi Ma, Bed Poudel, Giri Joshi, Dezhi Wang, and Zhifeng Ren, “Nanostructured thermoelectric skutterudite Co1-

xNixSb3 alloys”, APS March meeting, March 10 – 14, 2008, New Orleans, USA. 122. Bed Poudel, Qing Hao, Yi Ma, Yucheng Lan, Austin Minnich, Bo Yu, Xiao Yan, Dezhi

Wang, Andrew Muto, Daryoosh Vashaee, Xiaoyuan Chen, Junming Liu, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, “High Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys”, The 6th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena - Science and Engineering, July 13-16, 2008, Radisson Hotel, Boston, MA, USA.

2007 121. Z. F. Ren, Xiaowei Wang, Gaohua Zhu, Giri Josh, D. Z. Wang, B. Poudel, Gang Chen, M.

Dresselhaus, H. Lee, Q. Hao, M. Y. Tang, J. P. Fleurial, and P. Gogna, “High figure-of-merit achieved in nanostructured thermoelectric SiGe alloys”, ASME Nano Energy Conference, September 5 – 7, 2007, Santa Clara, CA, USA.

2006 120. Baoqing Zeng, Guangyong Xiong, Shuo Chen, Wenzhong Wang, D. Z. Wang and Z. F.

Ren, “Enhancement of Field Emission of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes by Thermal Oxidation”, MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, Nov. 28 - Dec. 1, 2006.

119. (INVITED) C. Dames, Shuo Chen, C. T. Harries, J. Y. Huang, Z. F. Ren, M. S. Dresselhaus, and Gang Chen, “A modified high-resolution TEM for thermoelectric properties measurements of nanowires and nanotubes”, SPIE Optics East, October 1 – 4, 2006, Boston, MA, USA.

118. W. Z. Wang, X. Yan, Y. Ma, L. Chen, B. Poudel, and Z. F. Ren , "Synthesis and thermoelectric properties of Sb2Te3 hexagonal nanoplates", International Conference on Energy Nanotechnology, MIT, June 25 – 28, 2006.

117. D. Z. Wang, Bed Poudel, S. Chen, Wenzhong Wang, Jian Yang, J. Y. Huang, Z. F. Ren, M. Tang, H. Lee, Gang Chen, Mildred Dresselhaus, Pawan Gogna, J. P. Fleurial, and Bradley

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Klotz, “Characterization and Thermoelectric Properties of Si-Ge Nanocomposite”, International Conference on Energy Nanotechnology, MIT, June 25 - 28, 2006.

116. Y. Ma, Bed Poudel, W. Z. Wang, L. L. Chen, X. Yan, Z. F. Ren, Q. Hao, G. Chen, "Bi2Te3/Bi2Se3 Nanocomposites for Thermoelectric Applications", International Conference on Energy Nanotechnology, MIT, June 25 - 28, 2006.

115. B. Poudel, D .Z. Wang, L. L. Chen, W. Z. Wang, B. Yu, Y. Ma, and Z. F. Ren, Q.Hao, H. Lee, G. Chen, and M. S. Dresselhaus, "Pb-based Nanocomposite materials for Thermoelectric Application", International Conference on Energy Nanotechnology, MIT, June 25 - 28, 2006.

114. J. Rybczynski, K. Kempa, Y. Wang, Z. F. Ren, Z. P. Huang, D. Cai, B. Kimball, J. Carlson, and G. Benham, "Antenna effects in arrays of aligned carbon nanotubes", APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 13 - 17, 2006.

113. K. Kempa, J. Rybczynski, Y. Wang, Z. P. Huang, D. Cai, D. Carnahan, R. Jarzebinska, M. Giersig, and Z. F. Ren, "Aligned carbon nanotubes as nanocoax cables for subwavelength light transmission", APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 13 - 17, 2006.

112. B. Poudel, D. Z. Wang, L. L. Chen, W. Z. Wang, Y. Ma, Z. F. Ren, Q. Hao, H. Lee, G. Chen, and M. S. Dresselhaus, “Pb-based Nanomaterials for Thermoelectric Application”, APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 13 - 17, 2006.

111. Y. Wang, K. Kempa, and Z. F. Ren, “Optical antenna arrays of carbon nanotubes and their fabrication on polyimide and transparent conducting oxides for direct device integration”, APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 13 - 17, 2006.

110. Guangyong Xiong, Shuo Chen, Baoqing Zeng, Wenzhong Wang, D. Z. Wang and Z. F. Ren, "Growth of Pure and Long Silicon Nanowires on Table Salt Support", APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 13 - 17, 2006.

109. Baoqing Zeng, Guangyong Xiong, Shuo Chen, S. H. Jo, Wenzhong Wang, D. Z. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Field Emission of Silicon Nanowires”, APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 13 - 17, 2006.

108. Y. Ma, Bed Poudel, W. Z. Wang, L. L. Chen, X. Yan, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, Q. Hao, H. Lee, and G. Chen, "Synthesis, Characterization and Consolidation of Bi2Te3/Bi2Se3 Nanoparticles for Thermoelectric Applications", APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 13 - 17, 2006.

107. Z. F. Ren, Wenzhong Wang, Keda Wang, and Daxing Han, “Near-infrared photoluminescence of germanium nanocrystals synthesized in inverse micelle’, APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 13 - 17, 2006.

106. Shuo Chen, J. Y. Huang, S. H. Jo, Z. Q. Wang, D. X. Han, G. Chen, M. Dresselhaus and Z. F. Ren, " Electrical conducting and breakdown behaviors of multiwall carbon nanotubes under different contact modes", APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 13 - 17, 2006.

2005 105. Dezhi Wang, Wenzhong Wang, Shuo Chen, Zhifeng Ren, Hohyun Lee, Gang Chen, Ming

Tang, Mildred Dresselhaus, Pawan Gogna, Jean-Pierre Fleurial, and Bradley Klotz, “Fabrication and Characterization of Si-Ge nanocomposite for thermoelectric applications”, MRS Fall Meeting, Nov. 28-Dec.2, 2005, Boston, MA, USA.

104. G. Y. Xiong, D. Z. Wang, and Z. F Ren, "Aligned Millimeter-long Carbon Nanotube Arrays Grown on Single Crystal Magnesia", MRS Fall Meeting, Nov. 28- Dec. 2, 2005, Boston, MA, USA.

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103. S. Chen, J. Y. Huang, S. H. Jo, Z. Q. Wang, K. Kempa, G. Chen, M. S. Dresselhaus, and Z. F. Ren, "High-bias induced structure and electronic property changes in carbon nanotubes", MRS Fall Meeting, Nov. 28 – Dec. 2, 2005, Boston, MA, USA.

102. B. Poudel, Y. Ma, W. Z. Wang, L. L. Chen, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, Q. Hao, H. Lee, G. Chen, and M. S. Dresselhaus, “Bi-based nano-materials for thermoelectric application”, MRS fall meeting, Nov. 28- Dec. 02, 2005, Boston, MA, USA.

101. B. Poudel, D. Z. Wang, L. L. Chen, W. Z. Wang, Y. Ma, Z. F. Ren, Q. Hao, H. Lee, G. Chen, and M. S. Dresselhaus, “Pb-based nano-materials for thermoelectric application”, MRS fall meeting, Nov. 28- Dec. 02, 2005, Boston, MA, USA.

100. (INVITED) Y. Wang, K. Kempa, B. Kimball, and Z. F. Ren,“Optical antenna arrays of carbon nanotubes and their fabrication on polyimide and transparent conducting oxides for direct device integration”, SPIE Conference-Nanostructure Integration Techniques for Manufacturable Devices, Circuits, and Systems: Interfaces, Interconnects, and Nanosystems, Boston, Oct. 23-26, 2005, Boston, MA, USA.

99. J. Rybczynski, Z.F. Ren, S.H. Jo, D. Banerjee, S. Chen, D.Z. Wang, and J.Y. Huang, "Nanomaterials fabrication and physics", Optics East, October 23-26, 2005, Boston, MA, USA.

98. J. Rybczynski, Y. Wang, D. Banerjee, and Z.F. Ren, "Large-Scale Periodic Patterns and Their Applications for Growing Aligned Nanotube and Nanowire Arrays", Optics East, October 23-26, 2005, Boston, MA, USA.

97. J. Rybczynski, D. Banerjee, A. Kosiorek, M. Giersig, and Z.F. Ren, "Formation of Super Arrays of Periodic Nanoparticles and Aligned ZnO Nanorods - Simulation and Experiments", APS March Meeting, March 21-24, 2005, LA, CA, USA.

96. Z. F. Ren, Y. Wang, K. Kempa, T. Kempa, J. Rybczynski, A. Herczynski, B. Kimball, and J. B. Carlson, “Arrays of Aligned Carbon Nnaotubes Act as Nano-Antennae to Receive and Transmit Light”, APS March Meeting, March 21-24, 2005, LA, CA, USA.

2004 95. (INVITED) J.Y. Huang, K.Kempa, S.H. Jo, S. Chen, and Z.F. Ren, “Fractal effect induced

giant field enhancement in carbon nanotubes grown on carbon cloth”, NIRT structure of nanocrystals workshop, Tempe, AZ, Dec. 5-8, 2004.

94. J.Y. Huang, S.H. Jo, D.Z. Wang, W.Z.Li, K. Kempa, and Z.F. Ren, “Field emission of carbon nanotubes grown on carbon cloth”, Nanotube 04, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, July 18-23, 2004.

93. Jianyu Huang, Shuo Chen, and Zhifeng Ren, “Formation and manipulation of a gold nanowire and a gold nanocrystal by using a STM probe inside a HRTEM” MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, Nov. 29-Dec. 3, 2004.

92. Jianyu Huang, Shuo Chen, S.H. Jo, and Z.F. Ren, “Field emission and conductivity of individual carbon nanotube measured by a STM probe inside a TEM”, MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, Nov. 29-Dec. 3, 2004.

91. X. W. Wang, D. Z. Wang, J. Y. Huang, Z. F. Ren, "Synthesis of Si-Ge alloy nanowires", MRS fall meeting, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2004, Boston, MA.

90. Wenzhong Wang, Jianyu Huang, Dezhi Wang, Shankar Kunwar, Zhifeng Ren, "A Low Temperature Inverse Micelle Solvothermal Approach for Shape- Controlled Synthesis of Ge Nanocrystals”, MRS Fall Meeting, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2004, Boston, MA.

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89. J. Rybczynski, Y. Wang, D. Banerjee, D.Z. Wang, K. Kempa, and Z.F. Ren, "Large-Scale Periodic Nanotubes And Nanowires Arrays - Their Fabrication And Modifications", MRS Fall Meeting, Nov. 29 - Dec 3, 2004, Boston, MA

88. Yi Ma, Jianyu Huang, Dezhi Wang, and Zhifeng Ren,"Carbon-assisted Growth of Germanium Nanowires via Vapor Transport ", MRS Fall Meeting, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2004, Boston, MA.

87. Yang Wang, J. Rybczynski, B. Kimball, W. Porter, D. Z. Wang, K. Kempa, Z. F. Ren, "Antenna Effect and Visible Frequency Spectroscopy of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays", MRS Fall Meeting, Dec. 2, 2004, Boston.

86. S. H. Jo, D. Z. Wang, J. Y. Huang, G. Y. Xiong, W. Z. Li, K. Kempa, and Z. F. Ren, "Carbon nanotubes grown on carbon cloth and their field emission characteristics," MRS Fall Meeting, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2004, Boston, MA.

85. B. Poudel, W. Z. Wang, C. Dames, J. Y. Huang, S. Kunwar, D. Z. Wang, D. Banerjee, Z. F. Ren, and G. Chen, “Synthesis and Temperature Stability of Pure Crystalline Titania Nanotubes”, MRS Fall Meeting, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2004, Boston, MA.

84. Shuo Chen, B. Klotz, M. Koslowske, D. Z. Wang, J. Y. Huang, R. Dowding, and Z. F. Ren, "Property studies of plasma pressure compacted B4C-CNTs nanocomposites", MRS Fall Meeting, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2004, Boston, MA.

83. X. W. Wang, D. Z.Wang, D. Banerjee, J. Y. Huang, Z. F. Ren, "Formation of large quantity single crystal silicon nanowires", APS March meeting, March 22-27, 2004, Montreal, Canada.

82. Yi Ma, Dezhi Wang, Jianyu Huang, and Zhifeng Ren, "Growth and Characterization of Germanium Nanowires on Patterned Si (100) Substrate", APS March Meeting, Mar.20-26, 2004, Montreal, Canada.

81. J. Rybczynski, Y Wang, Z.F. Ren, and K. Kempa, "Self-Assembled Particle Arrays With Long-Range Periodicity for Photonic Crystals", APS March Meeting, March 22-26, 2004 Montreal, Canada.

80. Yang Wang, J. Rybczynski, B. Kimball, W. Porter, D. Z. Wang, K. Kempa, Z. F. Ren, "Antenna Effect of Periodic and Non-periodic Carbon Nanotube Arrays", APS March Meeting, March 25, 2004, Montreal, Canada.

79. Shuo Chen, Dezhi Wang, Jianyu Huang, Zhifeng Ren, "Synthesis and characterizations of uniformly sized boron carbide nanoparticles", APS March Meeting, March 22-26, 2004, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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78. Zhifeng Ren, Dezhi Wang, Jingyu Lao, Wenzhi Li, Kris Kempa, Brian Kimball, Diana Steeves, Michael Sennett, Zhongping Huang, David Carnahan, Jakub Rybczynski, Michael Giersig, Pengfei Wu, D.V.G.L.N. Rao, “2D Photonic Band Gap Crystals Based on Periodic Arrays of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes”, APS March meeting, March 3-7, 2003, Austin, Texas.

77. Wenzhi Li, Jianguo Wen, Kris Kempa, Zhifeng Ren, Michael Giersig, “Novel Carbon Structures: Double-walled, Flattened and Coaxial-cable-like Carbon Nanotubes”, APS March meeting, March 3-7, 2003, Austin, Texas.

76. Yi Tu, Sung-ho Jo, Yuehe Lin, Zhongping Huang, Zhifeng Ren, “Controlling the site density of aligned carbon nanotubes array and its application in field emission and nanoelectrode array”, APS March meeting, March 3-7, 2003, Austin, Texas.

75. Jingyu Lao, Jianguo Wen, Jianyu Huang, Dezhi Wang, Zhifeng Ren, “Hierarchical ZnO nanostructures”, APS March meeting, March 3-7, 2003, Austin, Texas.

2002 74. Z. P. Huang, D. L. Carnahan, J. Rybczynski, M. Giersig, M. Sennett, D. Z. Wang, J. G. Wen,

K. Kempa, Z. F. Ren “Growth of Large Periodic Arrays of Carbon Nanotubes”, MRS Fall Meeting, Dec.2-6, 2002, Boston, MA, USA.

73. J.Y. Lao, J.G. Wen, J.Y. Huang, D.Z. Wang, Z.F. Ren, "Synthesis of oxide nanostructures", MRS Fall Meeting, Dec.2-6, 2002, Boston, MA, USA.

72. W.Z. Li, J.G. Wen, M. Gierseg, K. Kempa, Z.F. Ren, "Preparation and Characterization of Double-wall, Flattened Multiwall and Coaxial-cable-like Carbon Nanotubes", Material Research Society, 2002 fall meeting, December 2-6, Boston, MA.

71. W.Z. Li, J.G. Wen, M. Gierseg, K. Kempa, Z.F. Ren, “Y-junction carbon nanotubes”, Third International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes (NT02), July 6-11, 2002, Boston College, Boston.

70. W.Z. Li, J.G. Wen, Z.F. Ren, “Synthesis and Characterization of Double-walled Carbon Nanotubes”, Third International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes (NT02), July 6-11, 2002, Boston College, Boston.

69. W.Z. Li, J.G. Wen, Z.F. Ren, “Pressure and Temperature Effects on the Growth and Structure of Carbon Nanotubes”, Third International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes (NT02), July 6-11, 2002, Boston College, Boston.

68. W.Z. Li, J.G. Wen, Z.F. Ren, “Carbon Nanotubes Grown on Carbon Fibers”, Third International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes (NT02), July 6-11, 2002, Boston College, Boston.

67. Y. Tu, Sung-Ho Jo, Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, and Z. F. Ren, “Effect of Site Density of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes Array on Electric Field Screening”, MRS 2002 Fall Meeting, Dec. 2 – 6, 2002, Boston MA, USA.

66. Y. Tu, Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, J. G. Wen, and Z. F. Ren, “Growth of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays with Controlled Site Density”, International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes (NT’02), July 6-11, 2002, Boston, MA, USA.

65. Z. F. Ren, W. Z. Li, J. G. Wen, M. Sennett, E. Welsh, J. Wright, “Dispersion and Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes in Polymers”, APS March Meeting, March 18-22, 2002, Indiana Covention Center, Indianapolis, Indiana.

64. W. Z. Li, J. G. Wen, and Z. F. Ren, “Synthesis and structure of straight Y-junctions”, APS March Meeting, March 18-22, 2002, Indiana Covention Center, Indianapolis, Indiana.

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63. J.G. Wen, J.Y. Lao, W.Z. Li, Z.F. Ren, “Modified Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes with Nanolumps for Nanocomposite Reinforcement”, APS March Meeting, March 18-22, 2002, Indiana Covention Center, Indianapolis, Indiana.

2001 62. Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, J. G. Wen, M. Sennetta, H. Gibsona, and Z. F. Ren, "Aligned

Carbon Nanotubes Grown by Nickel, Iron, and Cobalt", MRS 2001 Fall Meeting, Nov. 26-29, 2001, Boston.

61. Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, J. G. Wen, M. Sennetta, H. Gibsona, and Z. F. Ren, "The Effect of Nickel, Iron, and Cobalt on The Morphology and Microstructure of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes", MRS 2001 Fall Meeting, Nov. 26-29, 2001, Boston.

60. W. Z. Li, J. G. Wen, Z. F. Ren, “Growth and structure of straight carbon nanotube Y-junctions”, MRS 2001 Fall Meeting, Nov. 26-29, 2001, Boston.

59. J. G. Wen, Y. Tu, W. Z. Li, J. H. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, "Nanodisk fibers for Electrode with Large Capacitance", MRS Fall meeting, Nov. 26-29, 2001 Boston, MA.

58. Yi. Tu, Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, Jianguo Wen, J. Moser, M. J. Naughton, Z. F. Ren, “Growth of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes with Controlled Site Density”, MRS Fall meeting, Nov. 26-29, 2001 Boston, MA.

57. W. Z. Li, D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, Z. F. Ren, “Growth of carbon nanotubes on carbon fibers and carbon cloth”, 16th Annual Technical Conference of American Society for Composite Materials, September 10-12, 2001, Virginia Tech.

56. W. Z. Li, J. G. Wen, Y. Tu, D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, J. H. Chen, Z. F. Ren, “Pressure and temperature effects on growth and structure of carbon nanotubes by chemical vapor deposition”, 199th meeting of The electrochemical Society, March 25-30, 2001, Washington, DC.

55. Z. F. Ren, J. H. Chen, Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, and J. G. Wen, “Carbon nanotube microelectrode arrays”, 199th meeting of The electrochemical Society, March 25-30, 2001, Washington, DC.

54. J. G. Wen, W. Z. Li, Z. P. Huang, Y. Tu, D. Z. Wang, J. H. Chen, S. X. Yang, Z. F. Ren, "Microstructural Studies on CVD grown multiwall carbon nanotubes and their breaking behaviors by TEM", 199th meeting of The electrochemical Society, March 25-30, 2001, Washington, DC.

2000 53. J.Y. Lao, D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, Y. Tu, H.L. Wu, J. G. Wen, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, D. K.

Christen, R. N. Bhattacharya, R. D. Blaugher, “SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THALLIUM-BASED 1212 FILMS”, MRS 2000 Fall Meeting, Nov. 27 – Dec. 1, 2000, Boston, MA.

52. R. N. Bhattacharya, R. Blaugher, Y. T. Wang, A. Herman, H.L. Wu, J. Chen, Z. F. Ren, “SUPERCONDUCTING THALLIUM OXIDE FILMS”, MRS 2000 Fall Meeting, Nov. 27 – Dec. 1, 2000, Boston, MA.

51. J. G. Wen, D. Z. Wang, S. H. Yang, H. I. Ha, M. J. Naughton, Z. F. Ren, “STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF DIFFERENTLY DOPED Tl2Ba2CuO FILMS”, MRS 2000 Fall Meeting, Nov. 27 – Dec. 1, 2000, Boston, MA.

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50. D. Z. Wang, H. I. Ha, S. X. Yang, J. G. Wen, J. I. Oh, J. Moser, M. J. Naughton, and Z. F. Ren, “SYNTHESIS OF HEAVILY OVERDOPED Tl2Ba2CuO THIN FILMS WITH VERY LOW Tc”, MRS 2000 Fall Meeting, Nov. 27 – Dec. 1, 2000, Boston, MA.

49. D. Z. Wang, H. I. Ha, S. X. Yang, J. G. Wen, J. I. Oh, J. Moser, M. J. Naughton, Z. F. Ren, M. DeMarco, D. T. Verebelyi, M. Paranthaman, T. Aytug, D. K. Christen, M. Haka, and Steve Toorongian, “SYNTHESES AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SUPERCONDUCTING RuSr2GdCu2O9”, MRS 2000 Fall Meeting, Nov. 27 – Dec. 1, 2000, Boston, MA.

48. J. G. Wen, Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, W. Z. Li and Z. F. Ren, "Growth and alignment mechanism of well-aligned MWNTs synthesized by plasma-enhanced CVD", The first Georgia Tech Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Oct. 16-18, 2000, Atlanta, Georigia USA.

47. (INVITED) H. Schreuder-Gibson, K. Senecal. M. Sennett, Z. P. Huang, J. G. Wen, W. Z. Li, D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, Y. Yu, Z. F. Ren, and C. M. Sung, “Characterization of Electrospun Fibers Containing Carbon Nanotubes”, The 197th Meeting of Electrochemical Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 14 – 18, 2000.

46. J. H. Chen, W. Z. Li, Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, J. G. Wen, and Z. F. Ren, “Electrochemistry of Carbon Nanotubes and Their Potential Applications in Supercapacitors”, The 197th Meeting of Electrochemical Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 14 – 18, 2000.

45. Z. F. Ren, Z. P. Huang, W. Z. Li, D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, and J. G. Wen, “Large Arrays of Well-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes”, NanoSpace 2000 – Advancing the Human Frontier, Jan. 23 – 28, 2000, Houston, TX, USA.

1999 44. D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, Y. Tu, Z. F. Ren, J. I. Oh, Y. Sun, H. I. Ha, M. J. Naughton, J. Y.

Lao, and J. H. Wang, “Reversal of Under-Doped to Over-Doped Tl2Ba2CuO6 Thin Films”, 1999 MRS Fall Meeting, Nov. 29 – Dec. 3, Boston, MA, USA.

43. J. Y. Lao, J. H. Wang, D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, Y. Tu, H. L. Wu, Z. F. Ren, D. T. Verebelyi, M. Paranthaman, T. Aytug, D. K. Christen, “Synthesis and Characterization of Thallium Based 1212 Film with High Transport Critical Current Density”, 1999 MRS Fall Meeting, Nov. 29 – Dec. 3, Boston, MA, USA.

42. D. Z. Wang, S. X. Yang, Y. Tu, Z. F. Ren, J. I. Oh, Y. Sun, H. I. Ha, M. J. Naughton, M. DeMarco, J. Y. Lao, J. H. Wang, D. T. Verebelyi, M. Paranthaman, T. Aytug, D. K. Christen, M. Haka, and S. Toorongian, “Ferromagnetism and High Tc Superconductivity in RuSr2GdCu2O8”, 1999 MRS Fall Meeting, Nov. 29 – Dec. 3, Boston, MA, USA.

41. J. H. Chen, Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, and J. H. Wang, “Electrochemistry of Carbon Nanotubes”, 1999 MRS Fall Meeting, Nov. 29 – Dec. 3, Boston, MA, USA.

40. Z. P. Huang, D. Z. Wang, J. G. Wen, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, L. E. Calvet, J. Chen, J. F. Klemic, M. A. Read, “Controlled Growth of Individual Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes”, 1999 MRS Fall Meeting, Nov. 29 – Dec. 3, Boston, MA, USA.

39. Z. F. Ren, Z. P. Huang, J. W. Xu, D. Z. Wang, J. H. Wang, M. P. Siegal, P. N. Provencio, L. E. Calvet, J. Chen, J. F. Klemic, M. A. Read, "Synthesis of large arrays of well-aligned carbon nanotubes", APS Centennial Meeting, Mar. 20 - 26, 1999, Atlanta, GA, USA.

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38. Z. P. Huang, J. W. Xu, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, “Synthesis and Characterization of Large Arrays of Well-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on Glass, Si and Others”, Symposium on “Nanoscale Science and Technology” held at Buffalo, NY, Oct. 23-24, 1998.

1996 37. Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, J. H. Wang, D. K. Christen, and D. J. Miller, “Growth of

Superconducting Epitaxial Tl2Ba2CuO6+ Thin Films with Tetragonal Lattice and Continuously Adjustable Critical Temperature”, 1996 MRS Spring Meeting, 8 - 12 April 1996, San Francisco, CA

36. Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, and J. H. Wang, “Growth of Superconducting Epitaxial Tl2Ba2CuO6+ Thin Films with Tetragonal Lattice and Continuously Adjustable Critical Temperature”, 10TH ANNIVERSARY HTS WORKSHOP ON PHYSICS, MATERIALS & APPLICATIONS, 12 - 16 March 1996, Houston, Texas

35. (INVITED) D. J. Miller, Y. S. Sung, K. C. Richter, M. T. Lanagan, N. J. Zaluzec, Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, and J. H. Wang, “Phase assemblages and transient phases for growth of the (Tl,Bi)-1223 superconductor”, 1996 TMS Spring Meeting, Anaheim, CA, Feb. 5-8, 1996.

1995 34. (INVITED) C. A. Wang, Z. F. Ren, and J. H. Wang, “Synthesis and characterization of

thallium-based epitaxial films”, International Symposia on Advanced Materials and Technology for the 21st Century (The 117th Meeting of JIM), Dec. 12 - 15, 1995.

33. D. K. Christen, Q. He, M. Paranthaman, C. E. Klabunde, R. Feenstra, A. Goyal, F.A. List, D. M. Kroeger, J. E. Tkaczyk, J. A. DeLuca, Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, and J. H. Wang, “Properties of superconducting Tl-1223 deposits on polycrystalline substrates”, 1995 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, Nov. 27 - Dec. 1, 1995.

32. I. S. Ghosh, L. F. Cohen, J. V. Thomas, J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, R. Somekh, M. Lenkens, S. Hensen, G. Muller, D. Jedamzik, Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, J. H. Wang, J. C. Gallop, and A. D. Caplin, “Correlations between rf- and dc-magnetic field induced microwave losses and dc-screening current density J in HTS thin films”, EUCAS 95, Edingburgh, July 3-6, 1995.

31. Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, J. H. Wang, and D. J. Miller, “Laser ablation parameters for the growth of superconducting epitaxial Tl0.78Bi0.22Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9- films”, 1995 International Workshop on Superconductivity CO-Sponsored by ISTEC and MRS, Maui, HI, June 18-21, 1995.

30. D. K. Christen, Q. He, M. Paranthaman, C. E. Klabunde, R. Feenstra, A. Goyal, F. A. List, D. M. Kroeger, J. E. Tkaczyk, J. A. DeLuca, Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, and J. H. Wang, “Superconducting transport properties of Tl-1223 deposits on polycrystalline substrates”, 1995 International Workshop on Superconductivity CO-Sponsored by ISTEC and MRS, Maui, HI, June 18-21, 1995.

29. C. A. Wang, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, and D. J. Miller, “Synthesis of Epitaxial Tl0.78Bi0.22Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9- thin films on single crystal substrates”, 1995 Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society, San Francisco, April 17-21, 1995.

28. C. A. Wang, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, and D. J. Miller, “Growth of Epitaxial Tl0.78Bi0.22Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9- films”, Workshop on the Tl-Oxide Superconductors”, Breckenridge, CO, April 12-14, 1995.

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27. D. K. Petrov, Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, J. H. Wang, and M. J. Naughton, “Break junction tunneling in high temperature superconductors”, 1995 march Meeting of the American Physical Society, San Jose, CA, Mar. 20-24, 1995.

26. D. J. Miller, J. G. Hu, M. Hagen, M. Lanagan, Z. F. Ren, and J. H. Wang, “Reaction pathways for the formation of Tl-1223”, 124th 1995 TMS Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, Feb. 12-16, 1995.

25. R. D. Blaugher, R. N. Bhattacharya, Z. F. Ren, and J. H. Wang, “Progress on Tl-oxide wire and tape development”, 124th 1995 TMS Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, Feb. 12-16, 1995.

24. Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, J. H. Wang, D. J. Miller, and K. C. Goretta, “Enhancement of Jc by incorporating intermediate annealing in Tl0.78Bi0.22Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9- tapes High-Temperature Superconductivity Wire development Workshop, St. Petersburgh, FL, Jan. 31-Feb.1, 1995.

1994 23. D. J. Miller, R. T. Kampwirth, Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, and J. H. Wang, “Microstructure and

phase development of Tl-1223 tapes and films”, Pacific Coast Regional Meeting, American Ceramic Society, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 19-22, 1994.

22. Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, J. H. Wang, and D. J. Miller, “Effect of silver on (TlBi)Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9- phase development”, 5th Thallium Superconductor Working Group Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, Oct. 19, 1994.

21. D. K. Petrov, Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, J. H. Wang, and M. J. Naughton, “Break junction tunneling in high temperature superconductors”, Seventh Conference on Superconductivity and Applications, Buffalo, NY, Sept. 7-9, 1994.

20. W. Y. Yu, A. Petrou, C. A. Wang, Z. F. Ren, and J. H. Wang, “Raman study of phonons in superconducting epitaxial (TlBi)Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9- films”, Seventh Conference on Superconductivity and Applications, Buffalo, NY, Sept. 7-9, 1994.

19. C. A. Wang, Z. F. Ren, and J. H. Wang, “Synthesis of epitaxial (TlBi)Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9-

thin films at low temperature in pure argon”, Seventh Conference on Superconductivity and Applications, Buffalo, NY, Sept. 7-9, 1994.

18. J. H. Wang, Z. F. Ren, and C. A. Wang, “Growth and characterization of (Tl,Bi)-1223 thin films on flexible substrates”, Seventh Conference on Superconductivity and Applications, Buffalo, NY, Sept. 7-9, 1994.

17. Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, J. H. Wang, and D. J. Miller, “Superconductivity and microstructure of epitaxial (TlBi)Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca2Cu3O9- films”, Seventh Conference on Superconductivity and Applications, Buffalo, NY, Sept. 7-9, 1994.

16. (INVITED) D. J. Miller, J. D. Hettinger, D. G. Steel, J. Hu, K. E. Gray, Z. F. Ren, C. A. Wang, and J. H. Wang, “Phase development and transport behavior of Tl-1223 tapes, films, and Bi-crystals”, Seventh Conference on Superconductivity and Applications, Buffalo, NY, Sept. 7 - 9, 1994.

15. J. G. Hu, D. J. Miller, M. Hagen, M. Lanagan, K. C. Goretta, Z. F. Ren, and J. H. Wang, “Synthesis of plate-like (Tl,Bi)-(Sr,Ba)-Ca-Cu-O 1223 grains and fabrication of Ag-sheathed tapes from the same”, 1994 MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 15, 1994.

14. (INVITED) D. J. Miller, J. G. Hu, Z. F. Ren, Q. Hong, J. H. Wang, M. T. Lanagan, and K. C. Goretta, “Microstructural development and critical currents in long-length Tl-Ba-Ca-Cu-O wires”, 1994 TMS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 22, 1994.

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13. (INVITED) D. J. Miller, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, P. Halder, J. A. DeLuca, E. Tkaczyk, U. Balachandran, M. T. Lanagan, K. C. Goretta, and K. E. Gray, “The influence of phase development on critical currents in powder-in-tube wires”, HTS Wire Development Workshop, St. Petersburgh, FL, Feb. 16-17, 1994.

12. J. H. Wang and Z. F. Ren, “Relative importance of grain connectivity and lattice alignment in thallium-based long superconducting tapes”, Gordon research Conference on superconductivity, Oxnard, CA, Jan. 3, 1994.

1993 11. (INVITED) R. D. Blaugher, R. N. Bhattacharya, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, “Thick-film and

powder-in-tube processing for Tl-oxide wire and tape Materials Week ‘93, Oct. 18 -21, 1993 ASM/TMS Materials Exposition, Pittsburgh, PA.

10. (INVITED) J. H. Wang, Z. F. Ren, and Q. Hong, “Tl-based superconducting tapes NREL Workshop on Tl-based Superconductors”, Golden, CO, Feb. 6, 1993.

1992 9. (INVITED) J. H. Wang and Z. F. Ren, “Optimal intergranular contact in flexible thallium

containing superconducting tapes”, Sixth Annual Conference on Superconductivity and Applications, Buffalo, NY, Sept. 15-17, 1992

8. (INVITED) J. H. Wang and Z. F. Ren, “Dependence of critical current density on granular alignment in ceramic superconductors”, Ben Franklin superconducting Center workshop, Philadelphia, PA, June 1, 1992.

7. (INVITED) J. H. Wang and Z. F. Ren, “Dependence of critical current density on granular arrangement in ceramic superconductors”, MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, May 1, 1992.

6. (INVITED) J. H. Wang and Z. F. Ren, “Materials issues for Tl-oxide superconductors”, Workshop on Superconductivity, Golden, CO, Feb. 7, 1992.

1991 5. J. H. Wang, M. Qi, and Z. F. Ren, “Increasing the critical current density in the thallium-

containing superconductors by tin oxide and compressive deformation”, Fifth Annual Conference on Superconductivity and Applications, Buffalo, NY, Sept. 24-26, 1991.

1989 4. J. G. Wen, C. Y. Yan, Y. Liu, Z. F. Ren, Y. F. Yan, and K. K. Fung, “Transmission-electron-

microscopy study of Bi-based superconducting phases”, 2nd Beijing International Conference on High-Tc Superconductivity, Beijing, Sept. 4-9, 1989.

3. Z. F. Ren, Y. F. Chen, Y. D. Jiang, and W. Y. Guan, “Superconductivity and characterization of the Y-Ba-Ca-Cu-O system”, 2nd Beijing International Conference on High-Tc Superconductivity, Beijing, Sept. 4-9, 1989.

1988 2. Xiuli Yan, Z. F. Ren, Y. D. Jiang, and W. Y. Guan, “Growth of large superconducting single

crystals from Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O system”, International Conference on Crystal Growth, Guelin, Guangxi, Oct., 1988.

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1. Z. F. Ren, Xiuli Yan, Y. D. Jiang, and W. Y. Guan, “Crystallizing behavior of the melt of Bi:Sr:Ca:Cu=2:2:1:2”, International Conference on Crystal Growth, Guelin, Guangxi, Oct., 1988.