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.Article linkPaper linkVideo of boiling set to Ode to...

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...

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...

Yangying, Dion and Rong’s work featured on the front cover of Advanced Materials

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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 Raj and Ryan Enright, and graduate student Solomon Adera. Read the paper here and news...