My name is Wenjie Li and I am currently an associate of Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Pennsylvania State University. I am a researcher with an interdisciplinary background of both material science in ceramic/metal-alloy/semiconductor and device engineering in energy harvesting field, specifically for thermoelectric, high entropy alloy, thermomagnetic, shape memory alloy, and perovskite oxide/oxynitride materials. I received the Ph.D. degree in Department of Materials Science and Engineering from Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany in 2015, and then worked in Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems at Virginia Tech as a postdoctoral fellow from 2016 to 2018. My research interests include thermoelectric materials (oxides and alloys) and devices/modules, high entropy refractory alloys, functional materials for energy harvesting applications, and ceramics/alloy processing.
- W. Li,* B. Poudel, R. Kishore, N. Liu, A. Nozariasbmarz, Y. Zhang, S. Priya,* “Towards High Conversion Efficiency of Thermoelectric Modules Through Synergistical Optimization of Layered Materials”, Adv. Mater.,, 35, 2210407 (2023) (Penn State News)
- H. Zhu,†,* W. Li,†,* A. Nozariasbmarz, H. Kang, N. Liu, Y. Zhang, H. Zhao, B. Poudel, S. Priya, “Half-Heusler Alloys as Emerging High Power Density Thermoelectric Cooling Materials", Nat. Comm., accepted (2023)
- W. Li,* G. Goyal, D. Stokes, L. Raman, S. Ghosh, S. Sharma, A. Nozariasbmarz, N. Liu, S. Singh, Y. Zhang, B. Poudel,* S. Priya,* “High-Performance Skutterudite/Half-Heusler Cascaded Thermoelectric Module Using the Transient Liquid Phase Sintering Joining Technique”, ACS Appl. Mater. Inter., 15, 2961-2970 (2023)
- Y. Zhang, Z. Li, S. Singh, A. Nozariasbmarz, W. Li, A. Genc, Y. Xia, L. Zheng, G. Goyal, N. Liu, M. Sanghadasa, A. Cabot, C. Wolverton, B. Poudel, S. Priya, “Defect Engineering Stabilized AgSbTe2 with High Thermoelectric Performance”, Adv. Mater., 35, 2208994 (2022)
- L. Zheng, A. Nozariasbmarz, Y. Hou, J. Yoon, W. Li, Y. Zhang, H. Wu, D. Yang, T. Ye, M. Sanghadasa, B. Poudel, S. Priya, “A universal all-solid synthesis for high throughput production of halide perovskite”, Nat. Comm., 13, 1-13 (2022)
- W. Li,*† A. Nozariasbmarz,† R. Kishore, H. Kang, C. Dettor, H. Zhu, B. Poudel, S. Priya,* “Conformal High-Power-Density Half-Heusler Thermoelectric Modules: A Pathway toward Practical Power Generators”, ACS Appl. Mater. Inter., 13, 53935-53944 (2021) (Cover article, Penn State News, Science Daily, AZOcleantech, Wonderful Engineering, AAAS/EurekAlert, etc. )
- A. Debnath, A. Krajewski, H. Sun, S. Lin, M. Ahn, W. Li, S. Priya, J. Singh, S. Shang, A. Beese, Z. Liu, W. Reinhart. “Generative Deep Learning as a Tool for Inverse Design of High Entropy Refractory Alloys”, J Mater Inf, 1:3 (2021)
- W. Li,* B. Poudel, A. Nozariasbmarz, R. Sriramdas, H. Zhu, H. Kang, S. Priya,* “Bismuth Telluride/Half-Heusler Segmented Thermoelectric Unicouple Modules Provide 12% Conversion Efficiency”, Adv. Energy. Mater., 10, 2001924 (2020)
- H. Kang, B. Poudel, W. Li, H. Lee, U. Saparamadu, A. Nozariasbmarz, M. Kang, A. Gupta, J. Heremans, S. Priya, “Decoupled Phononic-electronic Transport in Multi-phase N-type Half-Heusler Nanocomposites Enabling Efficient High Temperature Power Generation”, Mater. Today, 36, 63-72 (2020)
- W. Li,* J. Wang, Y. Xie, J.Gray, J. Heremans, H. Kang, B. Poudel, S. Huxtable, S. Priya,* "Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance of Yb-single-filled Skutterudite by Ultra-low Thermal Conductivity", Chem. Mater., 31, 862-872 (2019)
- Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award (2023)
- Marie-Curie fellowship of European Commission (2011-2015)
- Highest honor of Ph.D. dissertation, TU Darmstadt (2015)
- Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research for Ph.D., TU Darmstadt (2015)