Device Research Laboratory

07/03/2017: Listen to the new awesome song "Stop the Phonons"!

Listen to Stop the Phonons, an excellent original song by Elise Strobach, Daniel Preston, Jean Sack, Joseph Sandt, David Bierman and Evelyn Wang about stopping phonons in thermoelectric generators!
The song was written and recorded as part of the Intersection of Sound and Science Podcast Contest from the Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES).
Please vote for it in the Deptarment of Energy people's choice podcast contest.
Congratulations to all the creators!

06/09/2017: Congratulations to our recent graduates Dr. Heena Mutha, Dr. Yangying Zhu, Dr. Daniel Preston, Dr. Kevin Bagnall and Dr. Jeremy Cho!

Congratulations to all our recent graduates!

06/02/2017: Congratulations to David Bierman for successfully defending his PhD

Congratulations to David Bierman for successfully defending his PhD on Full Spectrum Utilization for High-Efficiency Solar Energy Conversion.

05/11/2017: Congratulations to Dan Preston for successfully defending his PhD

Congratulations to Dan Preston for successfully defending his PhD on Enhanced Condensation Heat Transfer for Water and Low Surface Tension Fluids. Read more about Dan and his research on his website.

05/10/2017: Congratulations to Heena Mutha on successfully defending her PhD

Congratulations to Heena Mutha on successfully defending her PhD on the Characterization and Performance of Vertically-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes in Capacitive Deionization Systems.

05/08/2017: Congratulations to Kevin Bagnall on successfully defending his PhD

Congratulations to Kevin Bagnall on successfully defending his PhD on Multiphysics Characterization of GaN HEMTs via Micro-Raman Spectroscopy. Read more about Kevin and his research on his website.

05/05/2017: Congratulations to Yangying Zhu on successfully defending her PhD

Congratulations to Yangying Zhu on successfully defending her PhD on Micro and Nanostructures for Two-phase Fluid and Thermal Transport. Read more about Yangying and her research on her website.

4/13/2017: Work on Water harvesting from air with metal-organic frameworks published in Science

Congratulations to Hyunho, Sungwoo, Sameer, Shankarand Ari for their new publication in Science: "Water harvesting from air with metal-organic frameworks powered by natural sunlight".

The paper reports the design and demonstration of a device based on porous metal-organic framework-801 [Zr ₆O ₄(OH) ₄(fumarate) ₆] that captures water from the atmosphere at ambient conditions using low-grade heat from natural sunlight below one sun (1 kW per square meter). This device is capable of harvesting 2.8 liters of water per kilogram of MOF daily at relative humidity levels as low as 20%, and requires no additional input of energy.

3/2/2017: STPV work selected as 1 of 10 breakthrough technologies in 2017 by Technology Review

Congratulations to David Bierman and Andrej Lenert! MIT Technology Review has selected their solar thermophotovoltaic (STPV) work as 1 of 10 breakthrough technologies in 2017. This technology has the potential to be roughly twice as efficient as conventional photovoltaics while also providing electricity when the sun is out by combining it to thermal storage. Read more at: MIT Newsand Solar Thermophotovoltaic

02/13/2017: Heeena's work on characterizing nanostructures featured on nanotechweb

Nanotech.org featured Heena's work on characterizing nanostructures non-destructively using impedance spectroscopy. This work has been published in Nanotechnology.

01/05/2017: STPV named one of the Biggest Clean Energy Advances in 2016

Congratulations to David Bierman and Andrej Lenert! MIT Technology Review has named STPV one of the "Biggest Clean Energy Advances in 2016". Earlier in 2016, a demonstration of enhanced STPV device performance through the suppression of 80% of unconvertible photons by pairing a one-dimensional photonic crystal selective emitter with a tandem plasma-interference optical filter was published in Nature Energy. A solar-to-electrical conversion rate of 6.8%, exceeding the performance of the photovoltaic cell alone was measured. Read more at: MIT Newsand Solar Thermophotovoltaic

01/05/2017: Work on electrowetting-on-dielectric MEMS stage published in APL

A MEMS vertical translation, or focusing, stage that uses electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) as the actuating mechanism was developed. EWOD has the potential to eliminate solid-solid contact by actuating through deformation of liquid droplets placed between the stage and base to achieve stage displacement. Our EWOD stage is capable of linear spatial manipulation with resolution of 10 μm over a maximum range of 130 μm and angular deflection of approximately ±1°, comparable to piezoelectric actuators. We also developed a model that suggests a higher intrinsic contact angle on the EWOD surface can further improve the translational range, which was validated experimentally by comparing different surface coatings. The capability to operate the stage without solid-solid contact offers potential improvements for applications in micro-optics, actuators, and other MEMS devices. The work was featured on The Engineeras well as on MIT News. Read more

12/22/2016: Congratulations for the new publication on "A thermophysical battery for storage-based climate control"

Congratulations for the new publication "A thermophysical battery for storage-based climate control" published in Applied Energy. The concept of a thermophysical battery is demonstrated, which operates by storing thermal energy and subsequently releasing it to provide heating and cooling on demand. Taking advantage of the adsorption-desorption and evaporation-condensation mechanisms, the thermophysical battery can be a high-power density and rechargeable energy storage system. We investigated the thermophysical battery in detail to identify critical parameters governing its overall performance. A detailed computational analysis was used to predict its cyclic performance when exposed to different operating conditions and thermodynamic cycles. In addition, an experimental test bed was constructed using a contemporary adsorptive material, NaX-zeolite, to demonstrate this concept and deliver average heating and cooling powers of 900 W and 650 W, respectively. Read more

12/21/2016: Happy Holidays And Happy New Year!

The DRL wishes you a happy holiday and a happy New Year!

12/12/2016: The DRL wins MIT Green Labs Innovation Award

With the seed fundingreceived in April from MIT Green Labs, the DRL implemented a lab-wide wireless power monitoring network to log energy consumption in real time. Led by Dan Prestonof the DRL in collaboration with Ariel Andersfrom CSAIL, this effort has identified areas where energy can be saved in the lab and resulted in a Platinum certification by My Green Lab organization, the highest level of certification available. The DRL will use the 5k Innovation Award to found the MIT Lab Energy Assessment Center, through which any lab on campus will be able to request an energy assessment report provided by a team of students with a mobile energy logging network based on the pilot system in the DRL.

12/06/2016: Congratulations to Jeremy, Dan and Yangying for a new paper published in Nature Reviews Materials

Their work presents an overview of the surface, thermal and material science to illustrate how new materials and designs can improve boiling and condensation. Read the paper here!

12/01/2016: Congratulations to Jeremy Cho on successfully defending his PhD

Congratulations to Jeremy Cho on successfully defending his PhD on Physicochemical Mechanics of Surfactant Enhanced Boiling Heat Transfer.

07/14/2016: Congratulations to Solomon Adera for winning the Best Poster Award at the ASME/ICNMM 2016 conference

Congratulations to Solomon Adera for winning the Best Poster Award at the ASME/ICNMM 2016 conference for his presentation entitled " Experimental characterization and modeling of capillary-pumped thin-film evaporation from micropillar wicks". The HT/FE/ICNMM conference was held in Washington DC (July 10-14, 2016).

06/12/2016: Device Research Lab attends International Workshop on New Understanding in Nanoscale/Microscale Phase Change

Past and present members of the DRL convened at this workshop in Trondheim, Norway to discuss their most recent work with the phase change heat transfer community in a forum organized by Professor Satish Kandlikar and hosted by Professors Maria Fernandino and Carlos Dorao at NTNU. Pictured from left: Shalabh Maroo, Ryan Enright, Nenad Miljkovic, TJ Zhang, and Daniel Preston.

06/03/2016: Congratulations to Yangying and Solomon for winning Outstanding and Best Poster Awards at ITHERM 2016 Conference

Congratulations to Yangying Zhu for winning Outstanding Poster Award for her presentation on “Model Optimization of Dry-out Heat Flux from Micropillar Wick Structures”and to Solomon Adera for winning the Best Poster Award for his presentation on “Hotspot Thermal Management via Thin-Film Evaporation”. Yangying and Solomon presented their work during the ITHERM 2016Conference in Las Vegas, USA that took place from May 31 - June 3 2016

05/29/2016: Congratulations to Solomon Adera on successfully defending his PhD

Congratulations to Solomon Adera on successfully defending his PhD on Thin-film evaporation from well-defined silicon micropillar wicks for high-heat-flux thermal management.

05/24/2016: David’s work on solar thermophotovoltaic devices featured in MIT News

Demonstration of enhanced STPV device performance through the suppression of 80% of unconvertible photons by pairing a one-dimensional photonic crystal selective emitter with a tandem plasma-interference optical filter. A solar-to-electrical conversion rate of 6.8%, exceeding the performance of the photovoltaic cell alone was measured.
MIT News article link
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05/06/2016: Congratulations to Daniel Hanks on successfully defending his PhD

Congratulations to Daniel Hanks on successfully defending his PhD on Evaporation from Nanoporous Membranes for High Heat Flux Thermal Management.
Evaporation from Nanoporous Membranes

4/22/16: Congratulations to the DRL for winning MIT Green Labs Seed Funding

After undergoing waste and energy audits and pitching ideas to promote environmentally conscious research practices, the Device Research Laboratory won 1,000 dollars in seed funds to make the lab greener by reducing energy and water consumption, reducing chemical waste, and recycling materials!
MIT Greenlabs Website
MIT News Article

1/15/2016: Andrej featured in Forbes 30 under 30

Congratulations to Andrej for being featured in Forbes 30 under 30 list!
MIT News article
The Michigan Daily article
Forbes list

10/27/15: Jeremy's work on controllable boiling featured on MIT News

Boiling controlled both spatially and temporally via surfactants and electric fields. Heat transfer can be adjusted tenfold.
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Video of boiling set to Ode to Joy

8/10/15: Dan's Science as Art Entry Featured in MRS Bulletin

Dan's submission to MRS Science as Art was chosen for the MRS Bulletin's "Look Again" section. See the image here.

5/29/15: Dan and Nenad's work on graphene condenser coatings featured in MIT news

Graphene condenser coatings are shown to enhance condensation heat transfer by 4 times while exhibiting robust performance. Read the article here.

3/10/15: Nenad, Dan and Ryan's work on harvesting energy from jumping droplets featured in Frontiers in Energy Research

Devices utilizing superhydrophobic surfaces and water in the air could power small, remote devices. Read the article here.

10/13/14: Yangying, Dion and Rong's work featured on the front cover of Advanced Materials

Read the paper here and news article here.

10/06/14: DRL researchers have developed a new way of creating surfaces on which droplets of any desired shape can spontaneously form.

The work is described in the journal Nature Communications by associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, former postdocs Rishi Raj and Ryan Enright, and graduate student Solomon Adera. Read the paper here and news article here.

8/27/14: Farewell to Dr. Andrej Lenert and Dr. Thomas Humplik

Andrej has taken a postdoctoral position at University of Michigan. Tom has taken a postdoctoral position at Sandia National Labs in New Mexico.

8/6/14: Congratulations to Yangying, Dion, and Rong for a new published in Advanced Materials.

Their work on creating magnetically tunable microstructures to manipulate fluids and light is featured on the MIT homepage. Read the paper here and news article here.

7/16/14: Congratulations to Nenad, Dan, Ryan for a new paper published in APL

Their work on getting power from jumping droplets during condensation was featured on the MIT homepage. Read the paper here and news article here.

5/30/14: Congratulations to Dan Hanks and ICEcool team for a best paper award and Kevin Bagnall and co-authors for a best poster award at ITherm 2014

5/22/14: Congratulations to Andrej and Tom on successfully defending their PhDs

5/17/14: Upcoming: GRC on Micro and Nanoscale Phase Change Heat Transfer on Structured Surfaces

Micro and Nanoscale Phase Change Heat Transfer Role of Surface Structures

-- http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=16878

--January 11-16, 2015 Hotel Galvez Galveston, TX

--Chair: Yoav Peles

--Vice Chair: Evelyn N. Wang

2/7/14: DRL Winter Lab Outing

1/27/14: Andrej and David's work featured on U.S. DOE Science Homepage

Andrej and David's work on solar thermovoltaics was featured on the homepage of U.S. DOE Science ( link).

1/20/14: Congratulations to Andrej, David, and co-authors for a publication in Nature Nanotechnology

The work shows the potential of harnessing the sun in the form of heat to generate electricity that can be both dispatchable and efficient via solar thermophotovoltaics ( link). The work is also highlighted in MIT Newsand featured on the MIT homepage.

11/21/13: Congratulations to Nenad, Dan, and Ryan for a publication in ACS Nano

This work shows that electric fields can help further enhance jumping droplet heat transfer and offer new avenues for improving the performance of self-cleaning and anti-icing surfaces as well as thermal diodes ( link). The work is also highlighted in MIT News.

11/21/13: Charged Jumping Droplets highlighted in APS

Nenad, Dan, Alex, and Ryan's work on charged jumping droplets was selected as one of the most outstanding entries in the APS imageand videogalleries based on artistic content, originality, and their ability to convey information.

11/5/13: Jumping Charged Droplets featured in NY Times

Research on electrically charged jumping droplets was featured in the New York Times.

11/4/13: DRL work highlighted in Materials Processing Center and MITnews

MPC ( link) and MITnews ( link) highlight research at DRL on ways to control changes in phase of gases and liquids to reduce power consumption in heating and cooling systems.

10/2/13: Jumping Charged Droplets featured on MIT news

Link to MIT news

Also featured as a Research Highlight in Nature.

9/30/13: Congratulations to Solomon, Rishi, and Ryan for a publication in Nature Communications

This work shows that droplets can be non-wetting on superhydrophilic microstructured surfaces when the surfaces are slightly heated above the saturation temperature. This finding has implications for various thermal management applications as well as drag reduction strategies. Link.

9/27/13: Congratulations to Nenad, Dan, and Ryan for a publication in Nature Communications

This work shows that jumping droplets on superhydrophobic nanostructured surfaces can accumulate charge that can be potentially harnessed for enhanced heat transfer, energy harvesting, among others. Link.

9/18/13: Congratulations to soon-to-be Prof. Nenad Miljkovic!

Congratulations to Nenad who will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in Fall 2014.

9/3/13: Advanced Thermal Battery featured in Automotive Engineering

The Advanced Thermal Battery, a thermal energy storage device for climate control of electric cars, was featured in Automotive Engineering International.

8/29/13: DRL Summer Outing

8/1/13: Rishi Raj joining IIT Patna

Congratulations Prof. Rishi Raj who is starting as an Assistant Professor at IIT Patna!

8/1/13: Nenad's Publication in JHT Photogallery

Congratulations Nenad and co-authors for their two heat transfer photogallery pages in the August 2013 issue of Journal of Heat Transfer Link to ASME JHT
Link to ASME JHT

7/10/13: DRL members to give 16 talks at 75th Anniversary Heat Transfer Conference in Minneapolis Minnesota July 15-19.

More details appear in Publications.

6/24/13: Congratulations to PhD Graduates Arthur Kariya, Rong Xiao, Hank Chu, and Nenad Miljkovic!

6/13/13: Congratulations to Rong and co-authors for a publication in Scientific Reports

This work introduces the new of mode of "immersion" condensation, which promises 100% heat transfer enhancements compared to dropwise condensation. Link
Feature on MIT News

6/4/13: Rishi's work on wettability of graphene highlighted in MRS

Rishi's work relating the substrate effect on the wettability of graphene was highlighted on the 2013 Spring MRS Meeting. Link. View full poster here.

5/16/13: Nenad's condensation work featured on cover of MRS bulletin

Nenad's condensation on superhydrophobic surfaces is featured on the cover of MRS bulletin. The review paper can be found here.

4/29/13: Congratulations to Nenad for successfully defending his thesis

Congratulations to Nenad for successfully defending his thesis on the development and characterization of micro/nanostructured surfaces for enhanced condensation.

4/22/13: DRL work on thermal battery for electric vehicles featured on Technology Review

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4/18/13: Congratulations to Hank and co-authors for their recently published paper in Applied Physics Letters

This work demonstrates the role of hierarchical structures for critical heat flux enhancement in pool boiling. Link

3/27/13: Congratulations to Rong and Shalabh for their recently published paper in Applied Physics Letters

This work demonstrates the use of negative pressures in nanoporous membranes for high flux thin film based thermal management. Link

3/6/13: Congratulations to Rishi and Shalabh for their recently accepted paper in Nano Letters

The work provides important insights to understanding the wettability of graphene, which promises applications in surface coatings, heat transfer, and microfluidics technologies. Link

2/15/13: Congratulations to DRL's 4 Papers Selected for Transducers 2013

Congratulations to Yangying, Rong, Hank, and Youngsuk for leading papers selected to be presented at Transducers 2013 in Barcelona, Spain.

2/15/13: DRL awarded DARPA ICECOOL Fundamentals funding

The DRL has been awarded DARPA ICECOOL Fundamentals funding to lead the development of a microfluidic-based ultra high heat flux thermal management solution. Link

1/4/13: Nenad and co-authors’ work on jumping droplets on MIT webpage today

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/research-update-jumping-droplets-help-heat-transfer-0104.html

1/2/13: Congrats to Hank for successfully defending his PhD thesis

Congrats to Hank for successfully defending his PhD thesis on Micro and Nanostructured Surfaces for Enhanced Phase Change Heat Transfer.

12/1/12: Congratulations to Andrej and Youngsuk for the Review Chapter in Annual Review of Heat Transfer

Congratulations to Andrej and Youngsuk for the Heat Transfer Fluids Review Chapter in the Solar Thermal Challenges Volume, Annual Review of Heat Transfer, 2012. link

11/30/12: Congrats to Rong for successfully defending his PhD thesis

Congrats to Rong for successfully defending his PhD thesis on wetting and phase-change phenomena on micro/nanostructures for enhanced heat transfer.

11/28/12: Congratulations to Nenad and co-authors for a publication in Nano Letters

Congratulations to Nenad and co-authors for their work on Jumping-Droplet-Enhanced Condensation on Scalable Superhydrophobic Nanostructured Surfaces. link

11/13/12: Evelyn Wang receives ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer

Evelyn Wang Receives ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer for the fabrication of patterned micro/nano structure surfaces that provide fundamental and mechanistic insights on micro/nanoscale heat transfer and fluid flow processes on nanostructures, and that have important applications in the cooling of microelectronic chips, solar thermal energy conversion and water desalination techniques. link

10/30/12: Congratulations to Rishi and co-authors for a publication in Langmuir

Congratulations to Rishi and co-authors on A Unified Model for Contact Angle Hysteresis on Heterogeneous and Superhydrophobic Surfaces link

10/29/12: Congratulations to Andrej and Youngsuk for a publication in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Congratulations to Andrej and Youngsuk for their work on Focusing of Phase Change Microparticles for Local Heat Transfer Enhancement in Laminar Flows link

10/1/12: Congratulations to Teresa and the PHUMP team for a publication in IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology

Congratulations to Teresa and the PHUMP team for their work on Design of an Integrated Loop Heat Pipe Air-Cooled Heat Exchanger for High Performance Electronics link

8/20/12: Congratulations to Dr. Arthur Kariya for completing his PhD

10/10/12: Congratulations to Ryan, Nenad, and co-authors for a recent publication in Langmuir

Congratulations to Ryan, Nenad, and co-authors for their recent publication on Condensation on Superhydrophobic Surfaces: The Role of Local Energy Barriers and Structure Length Scale. link

8/16/12: Nenad and Ryan's work selected into JHT 2012 Heat Transfer Photogallery

Congratulations to Nenad and Ryan on their work on Liquid Freezing Dynamics on Hydrophobic and Superhydrophobic Surfaces selected for the 2012 Journal of Heat Transfer Photogallery

7/6/12: Congratulations to Matt, Ryan, and co-authors for their publication in APL

Congratulations to Matt, Ryan, and co-authors for their recent publication in APL on water repellency during droplet impact on superhydrophobic hierarchical structures. http://apl.aip.org/resource/1/applab/v100/i26/p263701_s1

6/26/12: Congratulations to Hank and Ryan for their work featured on the MIT homepage June 26th, 2012

http://web.mit.edu/

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/better-heat-transfer-0626.html

6/11/12: Congratulations to Hank and Ryan for their paper published in APL

Congratulations to Hank and Ryan for their publication in APL on structured surfaces for enhanced pool boiling heat transfer http://link.aip.org/link/?APL/100/241603

4/18/12: Kevin receives NDSEG fellowship

Congratulations to Kevin Bagnall for receiving the prestigious 2012 NDSEG graduate fellowship.

3/27/12: Evelyn Wang receives ONR Young Investigator Award

Evelyn is the recipient of a 2012 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. Research with this award focuses on the development of advanced thin film evaporation and condensation surfaces for thermal management devices.
http://www.onr.navy.mil/
http://www.onr.navy.mil/Science-Technology/Directorates/office-research-discovery-invention/Sponsored-Research/YIP/2012-young-investigator-recipients.aspx

2/23/12: Nenad's work on today's MIT homepage

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3/7/12: Congratulations to Nenad and Ryan for being awarded Best Paper at Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer (MNHMT) Conference 2012

2/23/12: Nenad's work on today's MIT homepage

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2/6/12: Congratulations to Nenad and Ryan for a publication in ACS Nano

Congratulations to Nenad and Ryan for their paper on Effect of Droplet Morphology on Growth Dynamics and Heat Transfer during Condensation on Superhydrophobic Nanostructured Surfaces.
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12/5/11: DRL receives ARPA-E funds to lead development of an advanced thermal battery for electric vehicles

MIT will develop advanced adsorption-based hot and cold batteries for effective climate control of electric vehicles (EVs). These batteries will have high cooling and heating storage and fast charging times. The hot and cold battery completely eliminates the need for a vapor compression cycle. It can handle peak heating and cooling loads and attain continuous operation beyond the initial charged capacity. If successful, the technology can also be broadly applicable to residential and commercial buildings, where there are substantial needs to deliver energy in the form of heating and cooling while displacing electricity consumption during peak demand times.
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11/27/11: Congratulations to Andrej and Anand for a publication in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Congratulations to Anand and Andrej for their published paper on Analytical Model for the Design of Volumetric Solar Flow Receivers.
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10/29/11: Congratulations to Andrej for a publication in Solar Energy

Congratulations to Andrej for his published paper on the optimization of nanofluid volumetric receivers for solar thermal energy conversion.
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10/21/11: Nenad Miljkovic's work on today's spotlight!

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9/24/11: Congratulations to Nenad for a publication in Solar Energy

Congratulations to Nenad for his published paper on the modeling and optimization of hybrid solar thermoelectric systems with thermosyphons
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9/2/11: Our UROP Nicholas Dou highlighted on MIT Energy Initiative website

MIT Energy Initiative home page
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7/25/11: Shalabh Maroo accepts faculty position at Syracuse University

Congratulations to soon-to-be Prof. Shalabh Maroo for his faculty position in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Syracuse University starting Fall 2011.

7/25/11: Rong Xiao's paper just accepted to Langmuir

Congratulations to Rong Xiao for his paper "Microscale Liquid Dynamics and the Effect on Macroscale Propagation in Pillar Arrays"just accepted to Langmuir!

7/22/11: Water Desalination Review Paper Published

Congratulations to Tom and the rest of the desalination team on the review paper "Nanostructured materials for water desalination" published in Nanotechnology.

6/3/11: SM graduates

Congratulations to Jeremy Cho and Nenad Miljkovic for completing their SM degrees.

4/5/11: Andrej Lenert selected as a Martin Family Society Fellow for Sustainability

Congratulations to Andrej Lenert for being selected as a member of the 2011-2012 Martin Family Society of Fellows for Sustainability

3/16/11: Rong Xiao's late news paper accepted to Transducers 2011

Congratulations to Rong for his late news paper acceptance to Transducers 2011 in Beijing!

2/25/11: Nenad Miljkovic's work selected for ASME Journal of Heat Transfer Photogallery

Congratulations to Nenad and team for their work to be published in the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer Photogallery!

10/27/10: Evelyn Wang receives AFOSR Young Investigator Award

Evelyn is the recipient of a 2011 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award. Research with this award will focus on advanced nanostructures for two-phase fluid and thermal transport.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/young-investigator-wang.html
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123228146

10/4/10: Water Desalination Report Highlights DRL Work on Zeolites

http://waterdesalreport.com/articles/27987

10/1/10: DRL receives high speed confocal imaging system with DURIP Award

DRL receives confocal imaging system to perform ultra-fast three-dimensional transport studies in thermal management applications under the defense university research instrumentation program.
http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13410

9/1/10: Rong and Ryan's paper published in Langmuir

Congratulations to Rong and Ryan on the recent publication in Langmuir on Prediction and Optimization of Liquid Propagation in Micropillar Arrays. Nice job!
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la102645u

7/14/10: DRL receives MIT Energy Initiative seed grant for energy research

http://web.mit.edu/mitei/news/spotlights/seed-grants-5-10.html

6/3/10: Spectrum Highlights DRL Work on Water Desalination

http://spectrum.mit.edu/issue/2010-summer/drinking-seawater/

June 2010: M.S. graduates

Congratulations to Andrej Lenert, Catherine Koveal, and Batya Fellman for completing their M.S. degrees

June 2010: Matt McCarthy receives best paper at ITherm 2010

Congratulations to Matt McCarthy and co-authors for the Best Paper Award at ITherm 2010.

May 2010: Matt McCarthy accepts faculty position at Drexel

Congratulations to soon-to-be Prof. Matt McCarthy for his faculty position in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Drexel University starting Fall 2010.

April 2010: Hank Chu receives Taiwan Education Scholarship

Congratulations to Hank Chu for the Taiwan Education from the Ministry of Education, Republic of China.

3/28/10: Hank Chu's paper published in Nature Materials

Hank Chu and Rong Xiao's work on uni-directional liquid spreading on asymmetric nanostructures was recently published in Nature Materials.
Letter abstract
MIT news article

2/14/10: Hank Chu and Matt McCarthy have oral presentations at Hilton Head 2010

Both Hank Chu and Matt McCarthy received news that they have an oral presentation each at Hilton Head 2010.

9/10/09: Rong Xiao receives Martin Family Society of Fellowship for Sustainability

Congratulations to Rong Xiao for becoming a 2009 Martin Family Society of Fellow for Sustainability

4/10/09: Batya Fellman receives NSF

Batya Fellman is a recipient of the 2009 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.

4/8/09: Rong Xiao's paper accepted

Rong Xiao's recent work on multilayer liquid spreading on superhydrophilic surfaces was accepted for publication in Applied Physics Letters.

4/1/09: Matt McCarthy's work highlighted by ASME

Matt McCarthy's prior work on miniature ball bearing with Prof. Reza Ghodssi is highlighted in the April issue of Mechanical Engineering magazine. http://memagazine.asme.org/Articles/2009/April/Rolling.cfm

Also, Matt's work on nanostructured nickel electrodes for microbattery applications is selected to be part of the Highlights of 2008 for Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering.
http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.highlights2008/0960-1317

2/26/09: Andrej Lenert featured by Energy Initiative

Andrej Lenert (2008 MIT Energy Fellow) is on the MIT Energy Initiative Spotlight.