Faculty Profile
Zhifeng Ren
M. D. Anderson Chair Professor
Department of Physics
Office: 617
Contact: zren@uh.edu - (713) 743-8217
High performance thermoelectric materials and devices
Nanostructure approach to reduce thermal conductivity and to improve thermoelectric properties, waste heat conversion into electricity
Solar photovoltaic energy conversion
Nano approaches for photovoltaic 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
- Nature Materials 10, 532 538 (2011).
- Nautre Nanotechnology. 5, 597 (2010).