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 Lenan Zhang for winning the Best Student Presentation Award at the MRS 2021 Fall meeting for his presentation Enhanced Evaporation via Nanoengineered Materials for Solar Thermal Sterilization and Desalination!Read more about his work on solar...
Congratulations to the AeroShield Materials team (left) led by DRL alumni Elise Strobach and Kyle Wilke and others for winning the American-Made Solar Prize!AeroShield Materials developed a flat-plate solar-thermal energy collector system that operates at more than...
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 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...