Tengfei Luo

Dorini Family Professor for Energy Studies

Dorini Family Professor for Energy Studies
Office
371 Fitzpatrick Hall of Engineering
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone
574-631-9683
Email
tluo@nd.edu

Website

Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University
B.S., Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Research

Prof. Luo's current interest in energy research ranges from the thermal management of energy devices, such as photovoltaics and thermoelectrics, to improving the energy conversion efficiency achievable by understanding the fundamental carrier physics.

Research Interests

Desalination, Energy Conversion, Energy Efficiency and Consumption, Heat Transfer, Nanoscale, Phonon, Solar Photovoltaics, Storage of Energy, Thermal Transport, Thermoelectrics, Water Treatment, Smart Distribution and Storage, Transformative Solar

Relevant Energy Publications

  1. Zhang, Qiushi, Rui Pang, Tengfei Luo, and Michel A. Van Hove. "Controlling the Rotational Barrier of Single Porphyrin Rotors on Surfaces." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 124, no. 6 (2020): 953-960.
  2. Wei, Xingfei, Ruimin Ma, and Tengfei Luo. "Thermal Conductivity of Polyelectrolytes with Different Counterions." The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 124, no. 8 (2020): 4483-4488.
  3. Lee, Eungkyu, Dezhao Huang, and Tengfei Luo. "Ballistic supercavitating nanoparticles driven by single Gaussian beam optical pushing and pulling forces." Nature communications 11, no. 1 (2020): 1-8.
  4. Xu, Chenxuan, Zheng Bo, Shiwen Wu, Zhenhai Wen, Junxiang Chen, Tengfei Luo, Eungkyu Lee et al. "Vertical graphene nano-antennas for solar-to-hydrogen energy conversion." Solar Energy 208 (2020): 379-387.
  5. Liu, Zeyu, Meng Jiang, and Tengfei Luo. "Leverage electron properties to predict phonon properties via transfer learning for semiconductors." Science advances 6, no. 45 (2020): eabd1356.