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Congratulations to Lenan Zhang, Ryuichi Iwata, Zhengmao Lu, Xuanjie Wang, Carlos Díaz-Marín, and Yang Zhong for a new review paper published in Chemical Reviews!
Bubbles play a ubiquitous role in electrochemical gas evolution reactions. However, a mechanistic understanding of how bubbles affect the energy efficiency of electrochemical processes remains...
Congratulations to Yang Zhong for receiving the Activate Fellowship and the Evergreen Graduate Innovation Fellowship to support his entrepreneurial journey!
Congratulations to Yang Zhong for receiving the Activate Fellowship and the Evergreen Graduate Innovation Fellowship to support his entrepreneurial journey! Learn more abou Activate Fellowship.
Congratulations to Yang Zhong, Lenan Zhang, Xiangyu Li, Bachir El Fil, Carlos Díaz-Marín, Adela Li, Xinyue Liu, and Alina LaPotin for a new review paper published in Nature Reviews Materials!
In this Review, we provide a multiscale perspective for SAWH technologies that can fill existing knowledge gaps across multiple length scales. First, we elucidate water sorption mechanisms at the...
Desalination system gains spotlight on CNN for World Water Day
Currently, one of humanity's most pressing challenges is water scarcity, with 2.2 billion people lacking access to safe drinking water. On World Water Day, Lenan Zhang and Yang Zhong engaged in a...
Solar-powered desalination recognized as the Best Inventions of 2023 by Time Magazine and featured as Top MIT research stories of 2023
Congratulations to Lenan Zhang, Yang Zhong, and their collaborators in China, including DRL alumnus Zhenyuan Xu, for their work on extreme salt-resisting multistage solar distillation with...
Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water
Congratulations to Lenan Zhang, Yang Zhong, and their collaborators in China, including a DRL alumnus, Zhenyuan Xu, for their recent work on Extreme salt-resisting multistage solar distillation with...