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Selected Publications:

• M. Zeng^†, Y. Du^†, Qiang Jiang^†, N. Kempf, Chen Wei, M. Bimrose, A. N. M. Tanvir, J. Chen, D. Kirsch, J. B. Martin, B. C. Wyatt, T. Hayashi, M. Saeidi-Javash, H. Sakaue, B. Anasori, Lihua Jin, M. D. McMurtrey, and Y. Zhang*, High-throughput Printing of Combinatorial Materials from Aerosols, Nature, 2023.

• Y Liao, S Gallegos-Martínez, X Kuang, Y Du, YS Zhang, Y. Zhang*, Hybrid bioprinting of hierarchical vascular networks at capillary-scale resolution, Nature Chemical Engineering, 2026.

• K Song, J Zhou, C Wei, A Ponnuchamy, MO Bappy, Y Liao, Q Jiang, Y Du, C J Evans, B Wyatt, T O'Sullivan, R K Roeder, B Anasori, A J Hoffman, L Jin, X Duan, Y. Zhang*, A Printed Microscopic Universal Gradient Interface for Super Stretchable Strain-Insensitive Bioelectronics, Advanced Materials, 2025.

• Y Du, J Reitemeier, Q Jiang, MO Bappy, PW Bohn*, and Y. Zhang*, Hybrid Printing of Fully Integrated Microfluidic Devices for Biosensing, Small, 2024.

• A. N. M. Tanvir, M. O. Bappy, M. Zeng, W. Shang, K. Wang, K. Song, Y. Liu, E. Isotta, M. G. Kanatzidis, G. J. Snyder, A. W. Dowling, T. Luo, Y. Zhang*, High-performance Thermoelectric Composites via Scalable and Low-cost Ink Processing, Energy & Environmental Science, 2024.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Publications:

• S. Li^†, K. Song^†, Y. Liao, Y. Zhang*, S. Yang,* Aerosol-based Combinatorial Printing of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Tunable and Pixelated Structural Colors, Matter, 2026.

• MO Bappy, ANM Tanvir, K Song, Q Jiang, Y Du, Y Zhang*, Aerosol Jet Printing and Photonic Flash Sintering of a Flexible Multimodal Sensor for Concurrent Temperature and Strain Sensing, ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2025.

• MO Bappy, K Song, Y Zhang*, Recent Advances in Printed Devices for Next-generation Sensing, APL Electronic Devices, 2025.

• K. Song, A. N. M. Tanvir, Y. Zhang*, New Directions for Thermoelectrics: A Roadmap from High-Throughput Materials Discovery to Advanced Device Manufacturing, Small Science, 2025.

• Y. Du, J. Yang, K. Song, Q. Jiang, Y. Zhu, D. B. Go*, Y. Zhang*, Autonomous Aerosol and Plasma Co-Jet Printing of Metallic Devices at Ambient Temperature, Small, 2025.

• N Wei, Q Jiang, Y Zhang, M Zeng, Drying-oriented Resolution Optimization for Multi-material Additive Manufacturing: A Case Study on Coffee-ring Effect, Additive Manufacturing, 2025.

• Q. Jiang, S. Atampugre, Y. Du, L. Yang, J. L. Schaefer*, Y. Zhang*, Combinatorial Printing of Functionally Graded Solid-State Electrolyte for High-Voltage Lithium Metal Batteries, ACS Materials Letters, 2024.

• M. O. Bappy, Q. Jiang, S. Atampugre, Y. Zhang*, Aerosol Jet Printing of High-Temperature Multimodal Sensors for Strain and Temperature Sensing, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2024.

• Y Du, M Jiang, Y. Zhang*, Autonomous Output‐Oriented Aerosol Jet Printing Enabled by Hybrid Machine Learning, Advanced Materials Technologies, 2024

• K. Song, G. Xu, A. N. M. Tanvir, K Wang, M. O. Bappy, H. Yang, L. Zhou, W. Shang, A. W. Dowling, T. Luo, Y. Zhang*, Machine Learning-assisted 3D Printing of Thermoelectric Materials of Ultrahigh Performances at Room Temperature, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2024.

• J Huang, RB Ambade, J Lombardo, B Brooks, A Poosapati, P Banerjee, M Saeidi-Javash, Y Zhang, D. Madan, Energy density enhancement of scalable thermoelectric devices using a low thermal budget method with film thickness variation, Applied Materials Today, 2024

• W Shang, M Zeng, ANM Tanvir, K Wang, A. W. Dowling, T. Luo*, and Y. Zhang*, Hybrid Data‐driven Discovery of High‐performance Silver Selenide‐based Thermoelectric Composites, Advanced Materials, 2023

• A Abdelhafiz, ANM Tanvir, M Zeng, B Wang, Z Ren, A Harutyunyan, Y Zhang*, J Li*, Pulsed Light Synthesis of High Entropy Nanocatalysts with Enhanced Catalytic Activity and Prolonged Stability for Oxygen Evolution Reaction, Advanced Science, 2023

• K Wang, M Zeng, J Wang, W Shang, Y Zhang, T Luo, AW Dowling, When physics-informed data analytics outperforms black-box machine learning: A case study in thickness control for additive manufacturing, Digital Chemical Engineering, 2023.

• M. Saeidi-Javash, K. Wang, M. Zeng, T. Luo, A. W. Dowling, and Y. Zhang*, Machine Learning-Assisted Ultrafast Flash Sintering of High-Performance and Flexible Silver-Selenide Thermoelectric Devices, Energy & Environmental Science, 2022.

• M Zeng, D Zavanelli, J Chen, M Saeidi-Javash, Y Du, S LeBlanc, G J Snyder, and Y Zhang*, Printing Thermoelectric Inks toward Next-generation Energy and Thermal Devices, Chemical Society Reviews, 2022

• N Kempf, M Saeidi-Javash, H Xu, S Cheng, M Dubey, Y Wu, J Daw, J Li, Y Zhang*, Thermoelectric Power Generation in the Core of a Nuclear Reactor, Energy Conversion and Management, 2022

• Qiye Zheng, Divya Chalise, Mingxin Jia, Yuqiang Zeng, Minxiang Zeng, Mortaza Saeidi-Javash, Ali NM Tanvir, Gottlieb Uahengo Jr, Sumanjeet Kaur, Javier E Garay, Tengfei Luo, Yanliang Zhang, Ravi S Prasher, Chris Dames*, Structured Illumination with Thermal Imaging (SI-TI): A Dynamically Reconfigurable Metrology for Parallelized Thermal Transport Characterization, Applied Physics Reviews, 2022.

• N Kempf, Y Zhang*, Aerosol Jet Printed 3 omega Sensors for Thermal Conductivity Measurement, Review of Scientific Instruments, 2021.

• Y Du, R Wang, M Zeng, S Xu, M Saeidi-Javash, W Wu*, Y Zhang*, Hybrid Printing of Wearable Piezoelectric Sensors, Nano Energy, 2021.

• M Zeng, H Xie, M Saeidi-Javash, ANM Tanvir, Y Du, J Chen, Mercouri G Kanatzidis, Y Zhang*, Scalable Nanomanufacturing of Chalcogenide Inks: a Case Study on Thermoelectric V–VI nanoplates, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021.

• P Banerjee, J Huang, RB Ambade, E Jang, M Saeidi-Javash, Y Zhang, Deepa Madan*, Effect of Particle-Size Distribution and Pressure-Induced Densification on the Microstructure and Properties of Printable Thermoelectric Composites and High Energy Density … Nano Energy, 2021.

• N Kempf, Y Zhang*, A Robust High Sensitivity Scanning Thermal Probe for Simultaneous Microscale Thermal and Thermoelectric Property Mapping, Applied Physics Letters 119 (11), 113902, 2021.

• N Turan, M Saeidi-Javash, J Chen, M Zeng, Y Zhang, DB Go, Atmospheric Pressure and Ambient Temperature Plasma Jet Sintering of Aerosol Jet Printed Silver Nanoparticles, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021.

• Mortaza Saeidi-Javash, Yipu Du, Minxiang Zeng, Brian C Wyatt, Bowen Zhang, Nicholas Kempf, Babak Anasori, Yanliang Zhang, All-Printed MXene–Graphene Nanosheet-Based Bimodal Sensors for Simultaneous Strain and Temperature Sensing, ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2021

• Courtney Hollar, Zhaoyang Lin, Madhusudan Kongara, Tony Varghese, Chinnathambi Karthik, Jesse Schimpf, Josh Eixenberger, Paul H Davis, Yaqiao Wu, Xiangfeng Duan, Yanliang Zhang, David Estrada*, High‐Performance Flexible Bismuth Telluride Thin Film from Solution Processed Colloidal Nanoplates, Advanced Materials Technologies, 2020

• Gozde Basara, Mortaza Saeidi-Javash, Xiang Ren, Gokhan Bahcecioglu, Brian C Wyatt, Babak Anasori, Yanliang Zhang, Pinar Zorlutuna, Electrically conductive 3D printed Ti3C2Tx MXene-PEG composite constructs for cardiac tissue engineering, Acta Biomaterialia, 2020

• Minxiang Zeng, Wenzheng Kuang, Irfan Khan, Dali Huang, Yipu Du, Mortaza Saeidi‐Javash, Lecheng Zhang, Zhengdong Cheng, Anthony J Hoffman, Yanliang Zhang*, Colloidal Nanosurfactants for 3D Conformal Printing of 2D van der Waals Materials, Advanced Materials, 2020

• Samuel V Pedersen, Joseph R Croteau, Nicholas Kempf, Yanliang Zhang, Darryl P Butt, Brian J Jaques, Novel synthesis and processing effects on the figure of merit for NbCoSn, NbFeSb, and ZrNiSn based half-Heusler thermoelectrics, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 2020

• Enzheng Shi, Shuang Cui, Nicholas Kempf, Qingfeng Xing, Thomas Chasapis, Huazhang Zhu, Zhe Li, Je-Hyeong Bahk, G Jeffrey Snyder, Yanliang Zhang, Renkun Chen, Yue Wu, Origin of inhomogeneity in spark plasma sintered bismuth antimony telluride thermoelectric nanocomposites, Nano Research, 2019

• T. Varghese, C. Dun, N. Kempf, M. Saeidi-Javash, J. Richardson, D. Estrada, Y. Zhang*, Flexible Thermoelectric Devices of Ultrahigh Power Factor by Scalable Printing and Interface Engineering, Advanced Functional Materials, 2019.

• M. Zeng, Y. Zhang*, Colloidal Nanoparticle Inks for Printing Functional Devices: Emerging Trends and Future Prospects, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2019.

• C. Dun, W. Kuang, N. Kempf, M. Saeidi-Javash, D. Singh, and Y. Zhang*, 3D Printing of Solution-Processable 2D Nanoplates and 1D Nanorods for Flexible Thermoelectrics with Ultrahigh Power Factor at Low-Medium Temperatures, Advanced Science, 2019.

• M. Saeidijavash, W. Kuang, C. Dun, and Y. Zhang*, 3D Conformal Printing and Photonic Sintering of High-Performance Flexible Thermoelectric Films Using 2D Nanoplates, Advanced Functional Materials, 2019.

• N. Taylor, W. Kuang, M. Saeidijavash, P. Kandlakunta, Y. Zhang, and L. Cao, Direct Printing of Metal Contacts on 4H-SiC for Radiation Detection, AIP Advances, 2019.

• D. Black, L. Schoensee, J. Richardson, T. Vleisides, N. Kempf, D. Wang, Z. Ren, Y. Zhang*, Power Generation from Nanostructured Half-Heusler Thermoelectrics for Efficient and Robust Energy Harvesting, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2018.

• R. Danaei, T. Varghese, M. Ahmadzadeh, J. McCloy, C. Hollar, MD Saleh, Y. Zhang, Rahul Panat, Ultrafast Fabrication of Flexible Thermoelectric Films by Pulsed Light Sintering of Colloidal Nanoparticles, Advanced Engineering Materials, 1800800, 2018.

• Y. Zhang, Thermoelectric Advances to Capture Waste Heat in Automobiles, ACS Energy Letters, 3, 1523−1524, 2018.

• N. Kempf, C. Karthik, B. J. Jaques, J. Gigax, L. Shao, D. Butt, R. He, D. Wang, Z. Ren, Y. Zhang, Proton irradiation effect on thermoelectric properties of nanostructured n-Type half-Heusler Hf_0.25Zr_0.75NiSn_0.99Sb_0.01, Applied Physics Letters, 112, 243902, 2018.

• C. Han, G. Tan, T. Varghese, M. G. Kanatzidis, Y. Zhang, High-Performance PbTe Thermoelectric Films by Scalable and Low-cost Printing, ACS Energy Letters, 3, 818−822, 2018.

• Z. Lin, C. Hollar, J. S. Kang, A. Yin, Y. Wang, H. Shiu, Y. Huang, Y. Hu, Y. Zhang, X. Duan, A Solution Processable High-Performance Thermoelectric Copper Selenide Thin Film, Advanced Materials, 29, 1606662, 2017.

• K.R. Talley, S.C. Barron, N. Nguyen, W. Wong-Ng, J. Martin, Y. Zhang, and X. Song, Thermoelectric properties of the LaCoO₃-LaCrO₃ system using a high-throughput combinatorial approach, Solid State Sciences, 64, 7, 2017.

• T. Varghese, C. Hollar, N. Kempf, C. Han, D. Estrada, R. J. Mehta, Y. Zhang*, High-performance and flexible thermoelectric films by screen printing solution-processed nanoplate crystals, Scientific Reports, 6, 33135, 2016.

• Z. Lin, A. Yin, J. Mao, Y. Xia, N. Kempf, Q. He, Y. Wang, C.-Y. Chen, Y. Zhang, V. Ozolins, Z. Ren, Y. Huang, X. Duan, Scalable solution-phase epitaxial growth of symmetry-mismatched heterostructures on two-dimensional crystal soft template. Science Advances, 2, e1600993 2016.

• N. Kempf, Y. Zhang*, Design and optimization of automotive thermoelectric generators for maximum fuel efficiency improvement. Energy Conversion and Management, 121, 224, 2016.

• L. Meda, M. Romzek, Y. Zhang, M. Cleary, Development of a 1kW Exhaust Waste Heat Thermoelectric Generator, SAE International Journal of Commercial Vehicles, 9, 21-30, 2016.

• Y. Zhang*, X. Wang, M. Cleary, L. Schoensee, N. Kempf, High-Performance Nanostructured Thermoelectric Generators for Micro Combined Heat and Power Systems, Applied Thermal Engineering, 96, 83, 2016.

• Y. Zhang*, M. Cleary, X. Wang, N. Kempf, L. Schoensee, J. Yang, G. Joshi, L. Meda, “High-temperature and high-power- density nanostructured thermoelectric generator for automotive waste heat recovery”, Energy Conversion and Management, 105, 946, 2015.

• P. Jood, R. J Mehta, Y. Zhang, T. Borca-Tasciuc, S. Dou, David J. Singh, G. Ramanath, “Heavy element doping for enhancing thermoelectric properties of nanostructured zinc oxide”, RSC Advances, 4, 6363, 2014.

• Y. Zhang, R. J. Mehta, M. Belley, G. Ramanath, T. Borca-Tasciuc, Lattice thermal conductivity diminution and high thermoelectric power factor retention in nanoporous macroassemblies of sulfur-doped bismuth telluride nanocrystals, Applied Physics Letters, 100, 193113, 2012.

• R. J. Mehta, Y. Zhang, C. Karthik, B. Singh, R. W. Siegel, T. Borca-Tasciuc, G. Ramanath, A new class of doped nanobulk high figure of merit thermoelectrics by scalable bottom-up assembly, Nature Materials, 11, 233, 2012.

• R. J. Mehta, Y. Zhang, H. Zhu, D. S. Parker, M. Belley, D. J. Singh, R. Ramprasad, T. Borca-Tasciuc, G. Ramanath, Seebeck and figure of merit enhancement in nanostructured antimony telluride by antisite defect suppression through sulfur doping, Nano Letters, 12, 4523, 2012.

• Y. Zhang, E.E. Castillo, R. J. Mehta, G. Ramanath, T. Borca-Tasciuc, A Noncontact Thermal Microprobe for Local Thermal Conductivity measurement, Review of Scientific Instruments, 82, 024902, 2011.

• P. Jood, R. J Mehta, Y. Zhang, R. W. Siegel, T. Borca-Tasciuc, S. Dou, G. Ramanath, Al-doped zinc oxide nanocomposites with enhanced thermoelectric properties, Nano Letters, 11, 4337, 2011.

• Y. Zhang, C. L. Hapenciuc, E. E. Castillo, R. J. Mehta, C. Karthik, G. Ramanath, T. Borca-Tasciuc, A Microprobe Technique for Simultaneously measuring Thermal Conductivity and Seebeck Coefficient of Thin Films, Applied Physics Letters, 96, 062107, 2010.

• Y. Zhang, Y. Chen, C. Gong, J. Yang, R. Qian, Y. Wang, Optimization of Superlattice Thermoelectric Materials and Microcoolers, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 16, 1113-1119, 2007.