研究工作在Nature Communications、Science Advances、Physical Review Letters、Physical Review B、Nano Letters、Journal of American Chemical Society、Advanced Materials、Energy Environmental Science、Advanced Energy Materials、Chemistry of Materials、Journal of Materials Chemistry、Acta Materialia、Applied Physics Letters 等國內外重要期刊上系統發表學術論文200 余篇,獲授權發明專利50余件。獲國家自然科學二等獎、國家技術發明二等獎、教育部技術發明一等獎等獎勵。指導的學生有3 人獲國際熱電學會授予的Goldsmid Award,該獎在全世界范圍內每年只授予一名博士,指導的博士生有2 人獲全國百篇優秀博士論文提名、4 人獲湖北省優秀博士學位論文。2015 年當選美國物理學會會士(APS Fellow)。
代表性論文如下:
1. Rigui Deng, Xianli Su, Shiqiang Hao, Zheng Zheng, Min Zhang, Hongyao Xie, Wei Liu, Yonggao Yan, Chris Wolverton, Ctirad Uher, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis and Xinfeng Tang. High thermoelectric performance in Bi0.46Sb1.54Te3 nanostructured with ZnTe. Energy & Environmental Science, 11(2018), 1520-1535.
2. Zheng Zheng, Xianli Su, Rigui Deng, Constantinos Stoumpos, Hongyao Xie, Wei Liu, Yonggao Yan, Shiqiang Hao, Ctirad Uher, Chris Wolverton, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis and Xinfeng Tang. Rhombohedral to Cubic Conversion of GeTe via MnTe Alloying Leads to Ultralow Thermal Conductivity, Electronic Band Convergence, and High Thermoelectric Performance, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140.7(2018), 2673-2686.
3. Rigui Deng, Xianli Su, Zheng Zheng, Wei Liu, Yonggao Yan, Qingjie Zhang, Vinayak P Dravid, Ctirad Uher, Mercouri G Kanatzidis, Xinfeng Tang, Thermal conductivity in Bi0. 5Sb1. 5Te3+ x and the role of dense dislocation s at grain boundaries, Science Advances, 2018, 4(6), eaar5606.
4. Yonghui You, Xianli Su, Shiqiang Hao, Wei Liu, Yonggao Yan, Tingting Zhang, Min Zhang, Chris Wolverton, Mercouri G Kanatzidis, Xinfeng Tang, Ni and Se co-doping increases the power factor and thermoelectric performance of CoSbS, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2018, 6, 15123-15131.
5. Gang Zheng, Xianli Su, Hongyao Xie, Yuejiao Shu, Tao Liang, Xiaoyu She, Wei Liu, Yonggao Yan, Qingjie Zhang, Ctirad Uher, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis and Xinfeng Tang. High thermoelectric performance of p-BiSbTe compounds prepared by ultra-fast thermally induced reaction, Energy & Environmental Science, 10(2017), 2638-2652.
6. Tao Liang, Xianli Su, Yonggao Yan, Gang Zheng, Xiaoyu She, Yonghui You, Ctirad Uher, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis and Xinfeng Tang. Panoscopic approach for high-performance Te-doped skutterudite, NPG Asia Materials, 9(2017), e352.
7. Xianli Su, Ping Wei, Han Li, Wei Liu, Yonggao Yan, Peng Li, Chuqi Su, Changjun Xie, Wenyu Zhao, Pengcheng Zhai, Qingjie Zhang, Xinfeng Tang and Ctirad Uher. Multi-Scale Microstructural Thermoelectric Materials:Transport Behavior, Non-Equilibrium Preparation, and Applications, Advanced Materials, 29.20(2017), 1602013.
8. Hongyao Xie, Xianli Su, Yonggao Yan, Wei Liu, Liangjun Chen, Jiefei Fu, Jihui Yang, Ctirad Uher andXinfeng Tang. Thermoelectric performance of CuFeS2+2x composites prepared by rapid thermal explosion, NPG Asia Materials, 9(2017), e390.
9. Wei Liu, Kang Yin, Qingjie Zhang, Ctirad Uhe, and Xinfeng Tang. Eco-friendly high-performance silicide thermoelectric materials, National Science Review, 4(2017), 611-626.
10. Hongyao Xie, Xianli Su, Gang Zheng, Ting Zhu, Kang Yin, Yonggao Yan,Ctirad Uher, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, and Xinfeng Tang, The Role of Zn in Chalcopyrite CuFeS2: Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties of Cu1–xZnxFeS2 with In Situ Nanoprecipitates, Advanced Energy Materials, 7.3(2017), 1601299.
11. Gang Zheng, Xianli Su, XinranLi, Tao Liang, Hongyao Xie, Xiaoyu She, Yonggao Yan, Ctirad Uher, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Xinfeng Tang. Toward High-Thermoelectric-Performance Large-Size Nanostructured BiSbTe Alloys via Optimization of Sintering-Temperature Distribution, Advanced Energy Mater, 6(2016), 1600595.
12. Dongwang Yang, Xianli Su, Yonggao Yan, Tiezheng Hu, Hongyao Xie, Jian He, Ctirad Uher, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Xinfeng Tang. Manipulating the Combustion Wave during Self-Propagating Synthesis for High Thermoelectric Performance of Layered Oxychalcogenide Bi1-xPbxCuSeO, Chemistry of Materials, 28(2016), 4628-4640.
13. Kang Yin, Xianli Su, Yonggao Yan, Yonghui You, Qiang Zhang, Ctirad Uher, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis,Xinfeng Tang. Optimization of the electronic band structure and the lattice thermal conductivity of solid solutions according to simple calculations: A canonical example of the Mg2Si1–x–yGexSny ternary solid solution. Chemistry of Materials, (15)2016, 5538-5548.
14. Linchun Wu, Xianli Su, Yonggao Yan, Ctirad Uher, Xinfeng Tang, Ultra-Fast One-Step Fabrication of Cu2Se Thermoelectric Legs With Ni–Al Electrodes by Plasma-Activated Reactive Sintering Technique, Advanced Engineering Materials,30(2016), 57-62.
15. Xinfeng Tang, Xianli Su, Qingjie Zhang, Ctirad Uher. SHS-processed thermoelectric materials. InMaterials aspect of thermoelectricity, Uher, C., Ed. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida, U. S., 2016; 541-580.
16. Yun Zheng, Qiang Zhang, Xianli Su, Hongyao Xie, Shengcheng Shu, Tianle Chen, Gangjian Tan, Yonggao Yan, Xinfeng Tang, Ctirad Uher. Mechanically Robust BiSbTe Alloys with Superior Thermoelectric Performance: A Case Study of Stable Hierarchical Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, 2015, 5 (5): 1401391.
18. Gang Zheng, Xianli Su, Tao Liang, Qiangbing Lu, Yonggao Yan, Ctirad Uher, Xinfeng Tang. High thermoelectric performance of mechanically robust n-type Bi2Te3−xSex prepared by combustion synthesis,Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2015, 3 (12): 6603-6613.
19. Xiaoyu She, Xianli Su, Huizhen Du, Tao Liang, Gang Zheng, Yonggao Yan, Rizwan Akram, Ctirad Uher,Xinfeng Tang. High thermoelectric performance of higher manganese silicides prepared by ultra-fast thermal explosion, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2015, 3, 12116-12122.
20. Xianli Su, Fan Fu, Yonggao Yan, Gang Zheng, Tao Liang, Qiang Zhang, Xin Cheng, Dongwang Yang, Hang Chi, Xinfeng Tang, Qingjie Zhang and Ctirad Uher. Self-propagating high-temperature synthesis for compound thermoelectrics and new criterion for combustion processing, Nature Communications,5(2014) , 4908,1-7.
21. Wei Liu, Xiaojian Tan, Kang Yin, Huijun Liu, Xinfeng Tang, Jin Shi, Qingjie Zhang and Ctirad Uher, Convergence of Conduction Bands as a means of Enhancing Thermoelectric Performance of n-type Mg2Si1-xSnx Solid Solutions, Physical Review Letters, 108 (2012) ,166601.
22. Wenjie Xie, Jian He, Hye Jung Kang, Xinfeng Tang, Song Zhu, Mark Laver, Shanyu Wang, John R. D. Copley,Craig M. Brown, Qingjie Zhang, and Terry M. Tritt, Identifying the Specific Nanostructures Responsible for the High Thermoelectric Performance of (Bi,Sb)2Te3 Nanocomposites, Nano Letters, 10(2010) , 3283–3289.