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Welcome to the Device Research Lab (DRL) under the direction of Dr. Evelyn N. Wang in the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT. The DRL aims to address energy and water challenges facing our world. We probe fundamental heat and mass transport processes, leverage novel materials engineering, and build high-performance prototypes and devices to realize impactful technologies. Specifically, our research areas comprises phase-change, solar, thermal, and water.
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Solar
Thermal
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News
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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.
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Yangying, Dion and Rong’s work featured on the front cover of Advanced Materials
Read the paper here and news article here.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…