Bio

Welcome to Functional Thermal Lab at School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Peking University!

We are a research lab dedicated to the fundamental understanding of thermal energy carrier transport through micro/nanostructures and its application for a sustainable future. Our work combines theory and simulation with experiments to solve practical problems.

Our research focuses on the following topics：

Publications

* Corresponding Author

2025

1. Lin Yang, Peng Peng, Nathaniel Weger, Sean Mills, Clément Messeri, Akanksha K. Menon, Steven Zeltmann et al. "Self-Heating Conductive Ceramic Composites for High Temperature Thermal Energy Storage." ACS Energy Letters 10 (2025): 1002-1012.

2. Yu Zhang, Kun Qian, and Lin Yang*. Designing thermal rectifier using compositionally graded alloys. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 239 (2025): 126571.