TIANLI FENG portrait
  • Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
801-213-6596

Publications

  • H. Zhou & S. Zhou, Z. Hua, K. Bawane, T. Feng (2023). Extreme sensitivity of higher-order interatomic force constants and thermal conductivity to the energy surface roughness of exchange-correlation functionals. Appl. Phys. Lett. Vol. 123, 192201. Published, 11/06/2023.
    https://pubs.aip.org/aip/apl/article/123/19/192201...
  • T. Feng & H. Zhou, Z. Cheng, L. Larkin, M. Neupane (2023). A Critical Review of Thermal Boundary Conductance across Wide and Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductor Interfaces. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Vol. 15, 29655. Published, 06/16/2023.
    https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.3c02507
  • J. Tiwari & T. Feng (2023). Intrinsic thermal conductivity of ZrC from low to ultra-high temperatures: A critical revisit. Phys. Rev. Materials. Vol. 7, 065001. Published, 06/14/2023.
    https://journals.aps.org/prmaterials/abstract/10.1...
  • Y. Lou & X. Li, Z. Shi, H. Zhou, T. Feng, B. Xu (2023). General Syntheses of High-Performance Thermoelectric Nanostructured Solids without Post-Synthetic Ligand Stripping. Nano Lett. Vol. 23, 5317. Published, 05/22/2023.
    https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.nanolett...
  • Y. Zhang & W. M. Postiglione, R. Xie, C. Zhang, H. Zhou, V. Chaturvedi, K. Heltemes, H. Zhou, T. Feng, C. Leighton, and X. Wang (2023). Wide-range continuous tuning of the thermal conductivity of La0.5Sr0.5CoO3-d films via room-temperature ion-gel gating. Nat. Comm. Vol. 14, 2626. Published, 05/06/2023.
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38312-z
  • H. Zhou & T. Feng (2023). Theoretical upper limits of the thermal conductivity of Si3N4. Appl. Phys. Lett. Vol. 122, 182203. Published, 05/03/2023.
    https://pubs.aip.org/aip/apl/article/122/18/182203...
  • Z. Shen & S Shrestha, D. Howard, T. Feng, D. Hun, B. She (2023). Machine learning–assisted prediction of heat fluxes through thermally anisotropic building envelopes. Building and Environment. Vol. 234, 110157. Published, 04/15/2023.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/...
  • S. S. Shrestha & J. Tiwari, A. Rai, D. E. Hun, D. Howard, A. O. Desjarlais, M. Francoeur, T. Feng (2023). Solid and Gas Thermal Conductivity Models Improvement and Validation in Various Porous Insulation Materials. Int. J. Therm. Sci. Vol. 187, 108164. Published, 01/21/2023.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/...
  • Z. Cheng & J. Liang, K. Kawamura, H. Zhou, H. Asamura, H. Uratani, J. Tiwari, S. Graham, Y. Ohno, Y. Nagai, T. Feng, N. Shigekawa, D. G. Cahill (2022). High Thermal Conductivity in Wafer-Scale Cubic Silicon Carbide Crystals. Nat. Comm. Vol. 13, 7201. Published, 11/23/2022.
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34943-w
  • X. Li & Y. Lou, K. Jin, L. Fu, P. Xu, Z. Shi, T. Feng, B. Xu (2022). Realizing zT > 2 in environment-friendly monoclinic Cu2S – tetragonal Cu1.96S nano phase junctions. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Vol. 61, e202212885. Published, 09/19/2022.
    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.2...
  • R. Xie, J. Tiwari & T. Feng (2022). Impacts of various interfacial nanostructures on spectral phonon thermal boundary conductance. Journal of Applied Physics. Vol. 132, 115108. Published, 09/19/2022.
    https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jap/article/132/11/115108...
  • Kangpeng Jin, Janak Tiwari, Tianli Feng, Yue Lou & Biao Xu (2022). Realizing high thermoelectric performance in eco-friendly Bi2S3 with nanopores and Cl-doping through shape-controlled nano precursors. Nano Energy. Vol. 100, 107478. Published, 09/01/2022.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/...
  • W. Zhang & Y. Lou, H. Dong, F. Wu, J. Tiwari, Z. Shi, T. Feng, S. T. Pantelides, B. Xu (2022). Phase-engineered high-entropy metastable FCC Cu2−yAgy(InxSn1−x)Se2S nanomaterials with high thermoelectric performance. Chemical Science. Vol. 13, 10461. Published, 08/24/2022.
    https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/202...
  • X. Yang & J. Tiwari, T. Feng (2022). Reduced anharmonic phonon scattering cross-section slows the decrease of thermal conductivity with temperature. Materials Today Physics. Vol. 24, 100689. Published, 05/2022.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/...
  • Q. Guo & T. Feng, M.J. Lance, K.A. Unocic, S.T. Pantelides, E. Lara-Curzio (2022). Evolution of the structure and chemical composition of the interface between multi-component silicate glasses and yttria-stabilized zirconia after 40,000-hour exposure in air at 800°C. J. Eur. Ceram. Soc. Vol. 42, 1576. Published, 04/2022.
  • Yingying Zhang & M. Eslamisaray, T. Feng, U. Kortshagen, X. Wang (2022). Observation of suppressed diffuson and propagon thermal conductivity of hydrogenated amorphous silicon films . Nanoscale Advances. Vol. 4, 87. Published, 04/2022.
    https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/202...
  • Xiaolong Yang & Tianli Feng, Ju Li, and Xiulin Ruan (2022). Evidence of fifth- and higher-order phonon scattering entropy of zone-center optical phonons. PHYSICAL REVIEW B. Vol. 105, 115205. Published, 03/2022.
    https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/Phys...
  • Z. Zhu & J. Tiwari, T. Feng, Z. Shi, Y. Lou, B. Xu (2022). High thermoelectric properties with low thermal conductivity due to the porous structure induced by the dendritic branching in n-type PbS. Nano Research. Vol. 15, 4739. Published, 02/2022.
    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12274-0...
  • Z. Han & X. Yang, S. E. Sullivan, T. Feng, L. Shi, W. Li, X. Ruan (2022). Raman Linewidth Contributions from Four-Phonon and Electron-Phonon Interactions in Graphene. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. Vol. 128, 045901. Published, 01/25/2022.
    https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/Phys...
  • Zherui Han & Xiaolong Yang, Wu Li, Tianli Feng, Xiulin Ruan (2022). FourPhonon: An extension module to ShengBTE for computing four-phonon scattering rates and thermal conductivity. Computer Physics Communications. Vol. 270, 108179. Published, 01/01/2022.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/...
  • Jiaxuan Xu & Yue Hu, Xiulin Ruan, Xinyu Wang, Tianli Feng, and Hua Bao (2021). Nonequilibrium phonon transport induced by finite sizes: Effect of phonon-phonon coupling. PHYSICAL REVIEW B. Vol. 104, 104310. Published, 09/23/2021.
    https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/Phys...

Presentations

  • “Spectral Phonon Transport Across Interfaces: The Effects of Interfacial Engineering”, Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2023. Other, Presented, 04/18/2023.
  • “First principles prediction of thermal conductivity at ultrahigh temperatures”, Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2023. Other, Presented, 04/18/2023.
  • Tianli Feng, “Accurate first-principles prediction of thermal and mechanical properties of ultra-high temperature ceramics”, 47th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA, Jan. 2023. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 01/23/2023.
  • First Principles Prediction of Thermal Conductivity at Ultra-High Temperatures, IMECE, Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 2022. Other, Presented, 11/02/2022.
  • “Spectral Phonon Transport Across Interfaces: The Effects of Interfacial Engineering”, IMECE, Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 2022. Other, Presented, 11/02/2022.
  • Tianli Feng, “Pushing the Frontiers of Thermal Transport Predictions”, University of California, Riverside, ECE Colloquium, Oct. 2022. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/10/2022.
  • First principles prediction of thermal conductivity of ZrC and HfC at ultra- high temperatures. Other, Presented, 06/2022.
  • First principles prediction of thermal conductivity of UO2 over a wide temperature range. Other, Presented, 05/2022.
  • Four-Phonon Scattering - A Critical Process Ignored for Half Century. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/2022.
  • Progress in Four-Phonon Scattering Calculations. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 12/2021.
  • Four-Phonon Scattering - A Critical Process Determining Thermal and Radiative Properties. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/2021.
  • Quantum prediction of ultra-low thermal conductivity in lithium intercalation materials. Other, Presented, 11/2021.

Research Groups

  • Tanvirul Abedien, Graduate Student. Mechanical Engineering. 08/16/2023 - present.
  • Adam Clark, Visiting Student. Mechanical Engineering. 06/12/2023 - 08/12/2023.
  • Audrey Bradley, Visiting Student. Mechanical Engineering. 06/12/2023 - 08/12/2023.
  • Bryce Rundell, Undergraduate Student. Mechanical Engineering. 05/15/2023 - 12/31/2023.
  • Wyatt Jones, Undergraduate Student. Mechanical Engineering. 05/15/2023 - 12/31/2023.
  • Yara Ahmed, Undergraduate Student. Mechanical Engineering. 05/15/2023 - 12/31/2023.
  • Jacob Crossley, Graduate Student. Mechanical Engineering. 05/01/2023 - present.
  • Khalid Adnan, Graduate Student. Mechanical Engineering. 01/01/2023 - present.
  • Hao Zhou, Graduate Student. Mechanical Engineering. 08/16/2022 - present.

Research Equipment and Testing Expertise

  • Laser flash apparatus.
  • Speed mixer.

Software Titles

  • FourPhonon. An extension module to ShengBTE for computing four-phonon scattering rates and thermal conductivity. https://github.com/FourPhonon/FourPhonon. Release Date: 10/01/2021. Inventors: Zherui Han zrhan@purdue.edu Xiaolong Yang xiaolongyang1990@gmail.com Wu Li wu.li.phys2011@gmail.com Tianli Feng Tianli.Feng2011@gmail.com Xiulin Ruan ruan@purdue.edu.