Micro-/Nano-scale Heat Transfer · Thermal Management · Multi-scale Simulation of Thermal Transport and Materials Processing · Energy Conversion and Nanotechnology · Phonon Transport and Anharmonicity · Design of Advanced Thermal Functional Materials · Phonon Spin Coupling in Magnetic Materials

• Excellent doctoral dissertation of Northeastern University

• 2015/10-2017/10: State Scholarship Fund for Students, China Scholarship Council (CSC)

• 2012-2013: Merit student of Northeastern University

1. Student member of Materials Research Society (MRS)
2. Membership (61298121) of American Physical Society (APS)

(Co^#-)First-author & Corresponding author^*

1. Huimin Wang, E Zhou, Fuqing Duan, Donghai Wei, Xiong Zheng, Chao Tang, Tao Ouyang*, Yagang Yao*, Guangzhao Qin*, Jianxin Zhong, Unique Arrangement of Atoms Leads to Low Thermal Conductivity: A Comparative Study of Monolayer Mg₂C, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 12, 10353-10358 (2021).
2. Huimin Wang, Linfeng Yu, Jinyuan Xu, Donghai Wei, Guangzhao Qin^*, Yagang Yao^*, and Ming Hu^*, Intrinsically low lattice thermal conductivity of monolayer hexagonal aluminum nitride (h-AlN) from first-principles: A comparative study with graphene, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 162, 106772 (2021).
3. Huimin Wang^†, Donghai Wei^†, Junfei Duan, Zhenzhen Qin, Guangzhao Qin^*, Yagang Yao^*, and Ming Hu^*, The exceptionally high thermal conductivity after ‘alloying’ two-dimensional Gallium Nitride (GaN) and Aluminum Nitride (AlN), Nanotechnology 32, 135401 (2021).
4. Guangzhao Qin^*†, Huimin Wang^†, Lichuan Zhang, Zhenzhen Qin^*, and Ming Hu^*, Giant effect of spin-lattice coupling on the thermal transport in two-dimensional ferromagnetic CrI₃, J. Mater. Chem. C 8, 3520 (2020).
5. Huimin Wang^†, Guangzhao Qin^†, Jiayue Yang, Zhenzhen Qin, Yagang Yao, Qiang Wang^*, and Ming Hu^*, First-principles study of electronic, optical and thermal transport properties of group III–VI monolayer MX (M= Ga, In; X = S, Se), J. Appl. Phys. 125, 245104 (2019).
6. Huimin Wang^†, Guangzhao Qin^†, Zhenzhen Qin, Guojian Li, Qiang Wang^*, and Ming Hu^*, Lone-pair electrons do not necessarily lead to low lattice thermal conductivity: an exception of two-dimensional penta-CN₂, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9, 2474-2483 (2018).
7. Huimin Wang, Guangzhao Qin, Guojian Li, Qiang Wang^*, and Ming Hu^*, Unconventional thermal transport enhancement with large atom mass: A comparative study of two-dimensional transition dichalcogenides, 2D materials 5, 015022 (2018).
8. Huimin Wang, Guangzhao Qin, Guojian Li, Qiang Wang^*, and Ming Hu^*, Low thermal conductivity of monolayer ZnO and its anomalous temperature dependence, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 19, 12882 (2017).

Co-author

1. Guojian Li, Huimin Wang, Yang Gao, Shiying Liu, Renxiu Tian, and Qiang Wang^*, Control of chemical states on magnetic properties of Co-doped ZnO films prepared by oxidizing evaporated Co-Zn film with different growth modes, Ceram. Int. 44, 7172-7179 (2018).
2. Guojian Li, Huimin Wang, Qiang Wang^*, Yue Zhao, Zhen Wang, Jiaojiao Du, and Yonghui Ma, Structure and properties of Co-doped ZnO films prepared by thermal oxidization under a high magnetic field, Nanoscale Res. Lett. 10, 112 (2015).
3. Guojian Li, Huimin Wang, Yue Zhao, Qiang Wang^*, Kai Wang, and Zhen Wang, Effect of oxidation temperature and high magnetic field on the structure and optical properties of Co-doped ZnO prepared by oxidizing Zn/Co bilayer thin films, Mater. Chem. Phys. 162, 88-93 (2015).
4. Guangzhao Qin, Zhenzhen Qin, Huimin Wang, and Ming Hu^*, Lone-pair electrons induced anomalous enhancement of thermal transport in strained planar two-dimensional materials, Nano Energy 50, 425-430 (2018).
5. Guangzhao Qin, Zhenzhen Qin, Huimin Wang, and Ming Hu^*, On the diversity in the thermal transport properties of graphene: A first-principles-benchmark study testing different exchange-correlation functionals, Comput. Mater. Sci. 151, 153-159 (2018).
6. Guojian Li, Lin Xiao, Shiying Liu, Huimin Wang, Yang Gao, and Qiang Wang^*, Effect of nanowires in microporous structures on the thermoelectric properties of oxidized Sb-doped ZnO film, J. Eur. Ceram. Soc. 38(4), 1608-1613 (2018).
7. Guangzhao Qin, Zhenzhen Qin, Huimin Wang, and Ming Hu^*, Anomalously temperature dependent thermal conductivity of monolayer GaN with large deviation from the traditional 1/T law, Phys. Rev. B 95, 195416 (2017).
8. Guangzhao Qin, Xiaoliang Zhang, Sheng-Ying Yue, Zhenzhen Qin, Huimin Wang, Yang Han, and Ming Hu^*, Resonant bonding driven giant phonon anharmonicity and low thermal conductivity of phosphorene, Phys. Rev. B 94, 165445 (2016).
9. Jiaojiao Du, Guojian Li^*, Qiang Wang, Yonghui Ma, Huimin Wang, and Mengmeng Li, Growth mode evolution and subsequent magnetic properties of Fe films with different grain sizes under a high magnetic field, Acta. Metall. Sin. 51, 799-806 (2015).
10. Yan Deng, Hui-min Wang, Wen-li Pei, Tie Liu^*, Ning-yu Du, and Qiang Wang, Fabrication of Fe_26.8Co₁₁Ni_57.6Si_0.81B_3.79 amorphous alloy used in magneto-acoustic marker by single-roller casting technique, Foundry 64, 1017-1021 (2015).
11. Guojian Li, Jiaojiao Du, Huimin Wang, Qiang Wang^*, Yonghui Ma, and Jicheng He, High magnetic field induced pillar growth and subsequent magnetic properties of the thermal evaporated Co thin films, Mater. Lett. 133, 53-56 (2014).
12. Guojian Li, Zhen Wang, Qiang Wang^*, Huimin Wang, Jiaojiao Du, Yonghui Ma, and Jicheng He, Effects of oxidation times under high magnetic field on the microstructure and optical properties of oxidized Co-doped ZnO films, Acta. Metall. Sin. 50, 1538-1542 (2014).
13. Kai Wang, Guojian Li, Qiang Wang^*, Huimin Wang, Jiaojiao Du, and Jicheng He, Structure evolutions of the clusters during the melting and coalescence processes, CMC-Comput. Mater. Con. 38, 79-89 (2013).
14. Yin Liu, Tie Liu, Qiang Wang^*, Huimin Wang, Li Wang, and Jicheng He, Effect of high magnetic field on crystal orientation, morphology and magnetostriction of TbFe₂ and Tb_0.27Dy_0.73Fe_1.95 alloys during heat treatment process, Acta. Metall. Sin. 49, 1148-1152 (2013).
15. Yong-Ze Cao, Guo-Jian Li, Qiang Wang*, Yong-Hui Ma, Hui-Min Wang, and Ji-Cheng He, Effects of high magnetic field on the microstructure and magnetic properties of Fe₈₀Ni₂₀ thin films with different thickness values, Acta Phys. Sin. 62, 227501 (2013).

Chemical Physics, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter and Applied Surface Science

1. Oral presentation, European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) Spring Meeting 2017-05-22-26 (Strasbourg, France), Low thermal conductivity of 2D-ZnO and its anomalous temperature dependence.
2. Poster, The 6th International Workshop on Materials Analysis and Processing in Magnetic Fields (MAP6) 2014-07-08-10 (Okinawa, Japan), Study on fabrication of amorphous soft magnetic ribbons used in magneto-acoustic marker.

Dec. 2018 - Sept. 2019  Visiting research scholar @ Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, SC USA,