Education Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic University, 2011 M.S., Southeast University, China, 2008 B.S., Southeast University, China, 2005 Biography Yanliang Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. He received Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2011, and spent over one year in industry prior to his academic positions. Dr. Zhang’s research work has been published on numerous scientific journals of high impact, including Nature Materials, Science Advances, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, Scientific Reports, Energy Conversion and Management, Applied Physics Letters, etc.

Scalable Nanomanufacturing This research thrusts focus on Scalable Nanomanufacturing methods to fabricate and assemble nanoscale materials into various forms, with an emphasis on materials for energy conversion and storage, and sensing. Additive Manufacturing The goal of this research thrust is to develop an additive manufacturing method to process nanocrystals from nanoscale to mesoscale, together with a hierarchical approach to engineer surfaces and interfaces in the printing process. Metrology and Instrumentation we focus on new thermal based metrology that can map local thermal and thermoelectric properties with nanoscale to microscale spatial resolution. Sustainable Energy and Sensor Systems This research thrusts aims to translate the basic science discoveries into new and impactful technologies to increase energy efficiency, reduce emission and improve our living standard.

M. Zeng, Y. Du, Q. Jiang, N. Kempf, C. Wei, M. Bimrose, J. Chen, D. Kirsch, J. B. Martin, B. C. Wyatt, T. Hayashi, M. Saeidi-Javash, H. Sakaue, B. Anasori, L. Jin, M. D. McMurtrey, and Y. Zhang* High-throughput printing of combinatorial materials from aerosols, Nature, in press, 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 9 (2), 021411, 2022 N Kempf, Y Zhang, Aerosol jet printed 3 omega sensors for thermal conductivity measurement, Review of Scientific Instruments 92 (10), 105008, 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, 1905796, 2019. M. Zeng, Y. Zhang, Colloidal Nanoparticle Inks for Printing Functional Devices: Emerging Trends and Future Prospects, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 7, 23301 - 23336, 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, 1901788, 2019. M. Saeidijavash, W. Kuang, C. Dun, and Y. Zhang, Three-Dimensional Conformal Printing and Photonic Sintering of High-Performance Flexible Thermoelectric Films Using 2D Nanoplates, Advanced Functional Materials, 1901930, 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, 9, 095041, 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, 1 (11), 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 Hf0.25Zr0.75NiSn0.99Sb0.01", 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.