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Yue Wu
Assistant Professor—Physical Chemistry(Courtesy)
Email: yuewu@purdue.edu
Phone: 765-494-6028
Office: FRNY 1148
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Prof. Wu’s research focuses on the investigation of broadly-defined nanostructured materials for their potential applications for energy conversion and storage, including photovoltaic solar cells, thermoelectrics, and batteries. Prof. Wu has extensive experience in nanomaterials synthesis, assembly, characterization, and device fabrication. Since year 2000, he has published 38 peer-reviewed articles in nanotechnology and renewable energy research with a personal H-index of 20 and the publications have been cited ~3900 times.
Particularly, his group has developed the chemical synthetic methods to grow molecular-scale chalcogenide thermoelectric nanostructures for waste heat recovery. His group also performed detailed characterizations on the electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and surface passivation for semiconductor nanostructures. His research has been featured in Chemical and Engineering News, MRS Bulletin, Nature magazine, Materials Today magazine, Technology Review, National Public Radio (NPR), National Science Foundation (NSF), etc.
Education
B.S., University of Science and Technology of China, 2001; Ph.D., M.A., Harvard University, 2006Recognitions
- One of the only two invited speakers from United States (totally ten worldwide) for Japan Nano 2013 sponsored by Japan National Institute of Materials Sciences and Japan Ministry of Education, 2013
- Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2010, 2011, 2012
- DuPont Young Professor Award, 2010
- Purdue Nominee for the Packard Foundation Fellowship, 2010
- Miller Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2006-2009
- Gordon Research Conference “Electronic Materials, Chemistry of” Silver Student Poster Award, 2005
- Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Gold Award, 2005
- Nanotechnology Venture Competition Award (both individual award and team award as team leader),
Selected Publications
- Liang, Daxin; Yang, Haoran, Finefrock, Scott W.; Wu, Yue*, Flexible Nanocrystal-coated glass fibers for high-performance thermoelectric energy harvesting (highlighted by Chemical & Engineering News and National Public Radio.). Nano Letters 2012 , 12, 2140.
- Yang, Haoran; Jauregui, Luis A.; Zhang, Genqiang; Chen, Yong P.; Wu, Yue*, Nontoxic and Abundant Copper Zinc Tin Sulfide Nanocrystals for Potential High-Temperature Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting. Nano Letters 2012 , 12, 540.
- Cao, Helin; Venkatasubramanian, Rama; Liu, Chang; Pierce, Jonathan; Yang, Haoran; Hasan, M. Zahid; Wu, Yue; Chen, Yong P., Topological insulator Bi2Te3 films synthesized by metal organic chemical vapor deposition. Applied Physics Letters 2012 , 101, 162104.