Selected review papers

1. Jie Yang, Xi Shen*, Wei Yang*, Jang-Kyo Kim*. Templating strategies for 3D-structured thermally conductive composites: Recent advances and thermal energy applications. Progress in Materials Science, 2023, 133, 101054.

2. Xi Shen, Qingbin Zheng, Jang-Kyo Kim. Rational design of two-dimensional nanofillers for polymer nanocomposites toward multifunctional applications. Progress in Materials Science, 2021, 115, 100708.

3. Qingbin Zheng, Jeng-hun Lee, Xi Shen, Xiaodong Chen, Jang-Kyo Kim*. Graphene-based wearable piezoresistive physical sensors. Materials Today, 2020, 36, 158-179.

Solar-thermal heating and cooling

1. Xiaomeng Zhao, Yunfei Yang, Xuemin Yin, Zhuo Luo, Kit-Ying Chan, Xi Shen*. Size-Insensitive Vapor Diffusion Enabled by Additive Freeze-Printed Aerogels for Scalable Desalination. ACS Energy Letters, 2025, 10(7), 3419–3429.

2. Xiuli Dong, Kit-Ying Chan, Xuemin Yin, Yu Zhang, Xiaomeng Zhao, Yunfei Yang, Zhenyu Wang, Xi Shen*. Anisotropic Hygroscopic Hydrogels with Synergistic Insulation-Radiation-Evaporation for High-Power and Self-Sustained Passive Daytime Cooling. Nano-Micro Letters, 2025, 17, 240.

3. Xiaomeng Zhao, Heng Zhang, Kit-Ying Chan, Xinyue Huang, Yunfei Yang, Xi Shen*. Tree-Inspired Structurally Graded Aerogel with Synergistic Water, Salt, and Thermal Transport for High-Salinity Solar-Powered Evaporation. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16, 222.

4. Kit-Ying Chan, Xi Shen*, Jie Yang, Keng-Te Lin, Harun Venkatesan, Eunyoung Kim, Heng Zhang, Jeng-Hun Lee, Jinhong Yu, Jinglei Yang, Jang-Kyo Kim*. Scalable Anisotropic Cooling Aerogels by Additive Freeze-Casting. Nature Communications, 2022, 13, 5553.

5. Jie Yang, Kit-Ying Chan, Harun Venkatesan, Eunyoung Kim, Miracle Hope Adegun, Jeng-Hun Lee, Xi Shen*, Jang-Kyo Kim*. Superinsulating BNNS/PVA Composite Aerogels with High Solar Reflectance for Energy-Efficient Buildings. Nano-Micro Letters, 2022, 14, 54.

6. Hongming Zhang, Xi Shen*, Eunyoung Kim, Mingyue Wang, Jeng-Hun Lee, Haomin Chen, Guangcheng Zhang, Jang-Kyo Kim*. Integrated water and thermal managements in bioinspired hierarchical MXene aerogels for highly efficient solar-powered water evaporation. Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 32, 2111794.

Thermal management composites

1. Fei Zhang, Yuxuan Sun, Lei Guo, Yinhang Zhang, Dan Liu, Wei Feng*, Xi Shen*, Qingbin Zheng*. Microstructural Welding Engineering of Carbon Nanotube/Polydimethylsiloxane Nanocomposites with Improved Interfacial Thermal Transport. Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, 34(10), 2311906.

2. Xiangliang Zeng, Yu Zhou, Xinnian Xia*, Jianfeng Fan, Shipeng Rao, Linlin Ren, Xi Shen*, Rong Sun, Xiaoliang Zeng*. Elastomer Composites with High Damping and Low Thermal Resistance via Hierarchical Interactions and Regulating Filler. Small, 2023, 20(22), 2306946.

3. Fengmei Guo, Xi Shen*, Jiaming Zhou, Dan Liu, Qingbin Zheng, Jinglei Yang, Baohua Jia, Alan KT Lau, Jang-Kyo Kim*. Highly Thermally Conductive Dielectric Nanocomposites with Synergistic Alignments of Graphene and Boron Nitride Nanosheets. Advanced Functional Materials, 2020, 30, 1910826.

4. Xi Shen, Zhenyu Wang, Ying Wu, Xu Liu, Yan-Bing He, Qingbin Zheng, Quan-Hong Yang, Feiyu Kang and Jang-Kyo Kim. A Three-Dimensional Multilayer Graphene Web for Polymer Nanocomposites with Exceptional Transport Properties and Fracture Resistance. Materials Horizons, 2018, 5, 275-284.

5. Xi Shen, Zhenyu Wang, Ying Wu, Xu Liu, Yan-Bing He and Jang-Kyo Kim. Multilayer Graphene Enables Higher Efficiency in Improving Thermal Conductivities of Graphene/Epoxy Composites, Nano Letters, 2016, 16, 3585-3593.

Nanocomposite sensors

1. Heng Zhang, Haomin Chen, Jeng-Hun Lee, Eunyoung Kim, Kit-Ying Chan, Harun Venkatesan, Xi Shen*, Jinglei Yang*, Jang-Kyo Kim*, Mechanochromic optical/electrical skin for ultrasensitive dual-signal sensing. ACS Nano, 2023, 17(6), 5921–5934.

2. Heng Zhang, Haomin Chen, Jeng-Hun Lee, Eunyoung Kim, Kit-Ying Chan, Harun Venkatesan, Miracle Hope Adegun, Okikiola Ganiu Agbabiaka, Xi Shen*, Qingbin Zheng, Jinglei Yang*, and Jang-Kyo Kim*. Bioinspired chromotropic ionic skin with in-plane strain/temperature/pressure multimodal sensing and ultrahigh stimuli discriminability. Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 32, 2208362.

3. Jeng-Hun Lee, Eunyoung Kim, Heng Zhang, Haomin Chen, Harun Venkatesan, Kit-Ying Chan, Jie Yang, Xi Shen*, Jinglei Yang, Seokwoo Jeon, Jang-Kyo Kim*. Rational Design of All Resistive Multifunctional Sensors with Stimulus Discriminability. Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 32, 2107570.

4. Heng Zhang, Dan Liu, Jeng-Hun Lee, Haomin Chen, Eunyoung Kim, Xi Shen*, Qingbin Zheng*, Jinglei Yang*, Jang-Kyo Kim*. Anisotropic, Wrinkled, and Crack-Bridging Structure for Ultrasensitive, Highly Selective Multidirectional Strain Sensors. Nano-Micro Letters, 2021, 13, 122.

Full list of publications: https://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?user=jcewpCIAAAAJ&hl=en