2024

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Awards

• Nan Xue　40th International Conference on Thermoelectrics (ICT2024)
  The ICT2024 Outstanding Poster Prize
  “First-Principles Study for High Thermoelectric Performance Iron-based Half Heusler Compounds with Thermodynamic and Mechanical Stability”

Papers

• “Dislocation Introduction via Domain Engineering in Mg₂Sn Single Crystal to Improve its Thermoelectric Properties“
  Zhicheng Huang, Kei Hayashi, Wataru Saito, Hezhang Li, Jun Pei, Jinfeng Dong, Toshiaki Chiba, Xue Nan, Bo-Ping Zhang, Jing-Feng Li, Yuzuru Miyazaki
  Small Methods 2500385 (2025).
• “Insights into enhanced thermoelectric performance of the n-type Mg₃Sb₂-based materials by amphoteric Al doping“
  Qiang Zhang, Huijun Li, Nagendra S. Chauhan, Lifei Wang, Wenhao Fan, Shaoping Chen, Jianfeng Fan, Yuzuru Miyazaki
  Materials Today Energy 44(4), 101656 (2024).
• “Ultralow thermal conductivity and high ZT of Cu₂Se-based thermoelectric materials mediated by TiO_2-n nanoclusters“
  Jincheng Yu, Xiaodong Liu, Haihua Hu, Yilin Jiang, Hua-Lu Zhuang, Hezhang Li, Bin Su, Jing-Wei Li, Zhanran Han, Zhengqin Wang, Lu Chen, Kei Hayashi, Yuzuru Miyazaki, B. Layla Mehdi, Jing-Feng Li
  Joule, 8(9), 2652 (2024).
• “ Sr-substitution effects on crystal structure and thermoelectric properties of misfit layered cobaltate, [Ca₂CoO₃]_pCoO₂“
  Yoshimi Shimizu, Kei Hayashi and Yuzuru Miyazaki
  Solid State Science 152, 107536 (2024).

Invited talks

2025 16th International Conference on Materials and Manufacturing Technologies (March 121-23, Sendai)

• “Data-driven approach to find potential Fe-based half-Heusler thermoelectric materials for the near-room-temperature applications”
  Yuzuru Miyazaki (Invited lecture)

New Zealand–Japan Workshop on Emerging Solid-State Technology for Low-Enthalpy Energy Harvesting (November 11-12, Wellington)

• “Defect engineering to enhance thermoelectric performance of Mg₂Sn and Mg₂Ge single crystals”
  Kei Hayashi (Invited lecture)

14th International Conference on Ceramic Materials and Components for Energy and Environmental Systems (CMCEE14) (August 18-22, Budapest)

• “Laqce defect engineering for high-performance Mg₂Sn and Mg₂Ge thermoelectric single crystals”
  Kei Hayashi (Invited lecture)

40th International Conference on Thermoelectrics (June 30- July 4, Krakow)

• “Bond-engineering to Develop High-performance Fe-based Half-Heusler Alloys”
  Yuzuru Miyazaki (Invited lecture)

Europian Materials Research Society 2024 Spring Meeting (May 27-31, Strasbourg)

• “Fe-based Half Heusler Thermoelectric Materials”
  Yuzuru Miyazaki (Invited lecture)

Conferences

40th International Conference on Thermoelectrics (June 30- July 4, Krakow)

• “Enhanced p-type thermoelectric properties of Mg₂Ge single crystals via lattice defect engineering”
  K. Hayashi, H. Tajeuchi, Z. Huang, N. S. Chauhan, Q. Zhang, X. Nan, H. Li, J. Pei, J. Dong, B.-P. Zhang, J.-F. Li, Y. Miyazaki (Oral)
• “Enhancement of Thermoelectric Properties in p-type Iron-based Half-Heusler VFeSb Alloys via Titanium Alloying”
  Z. Huang, K. Hayashi, X. Nan, H. Konishi, Y. Miyazaki (Oral)
• “First-Principles Study for High Thermoelectric Performance Iron-based Half-Heusler Compounds with Thermodynamic and Mechanical Stability”
  X. Nan, Z. Huang, K. Hayashi, H. Konishi, Y. Miyazaki (Poster)