Controlling how “odd couple” surfaces and liquids interact

Congratulations to Kyle L. Wilke, Zhengmao Lu, and Youngsup Song for their recent work on turning traditionally nonwetting surfaces wetting for even ultra-high surface energy liquids which was featured on MIT News. This work presents a surface-engineering approach...

Congratulations to Youngsup Song for successfully defending his PhD

Congratulations to Youngsup Song for successfully defending his PhD on Mechanistic understanding and enhancing pool boiling heat transfer via surface property and structure design.During his PhD study, Youngsup investigated the boiling crisis mechanisms during pool...

Congratulations to Arny Leroy for successfully defending his PhD

Congratulations to Arny Leroy for successfully defending his PhD on Subambient Passive Cooling Enabled by Polyethylene Aerogels.During his PhD, Arny worked on the development, characterization, and optimization of polyethylene aerogels to achieve a low thermal...