Basic Information

 

Suxin Qian, Ph.D.

Professor

Department of Refrigeration and Cryogenic Engineering

School of Power and Energy Engineering

Professional Experiences

2023 ~          Professor                  Xi'an Jiaotong University

2018 ~ 2023 Associate Professor  Xi'an Jiaotong University

2016 ~ 2018 Assistant Professor   Xi'an Jiaotong University

2019 ~          Junior Member         Internation Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) Commission B1

Contact

No. 28, Xianning West Road 

Xi’an Jiaotong University
Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710049, P.R.China
Email: qiansuxin@xjtu.edu.cn

Department Office: East 3rd Building, Room 246

Education

2011 ~ 2015              Ph.D.     University of Maryland, College Park  

2007 ~ 2011              B.S.       Tsinghua University, Beijing      

          

Research Areas

Novel solid-state cooling technologies: elastocaloric; magnetocaloric

Simulation technologies for vapor compression refrigeration and heat pump systems

Efficiency improvement for refrigeration, air-conditioning, and heat pump equipment

Honors

2022

Second Prize, Shandong Science and Technology Award

2021

Second Prize, Science and Technology Medal of Tsingtao

2020

Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program, China Association for Science and Technology

2015

Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, University of Maryland

Selected Publications

S. Qian#*, Ichiro Takeuchi*. Sizing up caloric devices. Science. 2024, 385: 493-494.

S. Yao#, P. Dang#, Y. Li, Y. Wang, X. Zhang, Y. Liu, S. Qian*, D. Xue*, Y. He*. Efficient roller-driven elastocaloric refrigerator. Nature Communications. 2024, 15: 7203.

S. Qian#*, Ichiro Takeuchi*. Scaling laws of elastocaloric regenerators. Shape Memory and Superelasticity. 2024. 10: 162-176.

S. Zhang#, Y. Fu#, X. Nie, C. Li, Y. Zhou, Y. Wang, J. Yi, W. Xia, Y. Song, Q. Li, C. Xiong*, S. Qian*, Q. Yang*, Q Wang*. Shearo-caloric effect enhances elastocaloric responses in polymer composites for solid-state cooling. Nature Communications. 2024, 15: 6567.

S. Qian#, D. Catalini, J. Muehlbauer, B. Liu, H. Mevada, H. Hou, et al. High-performance multimode elastocaloric cooling system. Science. 2023, 380: 722-727.

S. Qian*. Thermodynamics of elastocaloric cooling and heat pump cycles. Applied Thermal Engineering. 2023, 219: 119540.

Y. Chen#, Y. Wang, W. Sun, S. Qian*, J. Liu*. A compact elastocaloric refrigerator. The Innovation. 2022, 3, 100205.

H. Hou#, S. Qian#, I. Takeuchi*. Materials, physics, and systems for multicaloric cooling. Nature Reviews Materials. 2022, 7: 633-652.

S. Qian#*, Y. Wang, L. Yuan, J. Yu. A heat driven elastocaloric cooling system. Energy. 2019, 182:881-899.

S. Qian#, D. Nasuta, A. Rhoads, Y. Wang, Y. Geng, Y. Hwang*, R. Radermacher, I. Takeuchi. Not-in-kind cooling technologies: a quantitative comparison of refrigerants and system performance. International Journal of Refrigeration. 2016, 62: 177-192.