Congratulations to Arny Leroy and Geoffrey Vaartstra for winning awards

Congratulations to Arny Leroy for winning the MIT MechE Wunsch Foundation Silent Hoist and Crane Award for outstanding graduate research on subambient passive cooling enabled by polyethene aerogels, and Geoffrey Vaartstra for winning a MIT MechE Covid-19 Hero award...

Congratulations to the MIT newlyweds, Yajing Zhao and Shichao Yue!

Congratulations to Yajing Zhao and her new husband Shichao Yue! Professor Evelyn Wang served as the officiant for their wedding both online and...

Congratulations to Chad Wilson, Carlos Díaz-Marín and Cody Jacobucci for successfully completing their master’s degrees

Congratulations to Chad Wilson, Carlos Díaz-Marín and Cody Jacobucci for successfully completing their master’s degrees at DRL!Chad Wilson: Design, Modelling and Characterization of a Multiscale Heat Exchanger for High-Temperature, High-Pressure...

Congratulations to Jay Sircar for successfully defending his PhD

Congratulations to Jay Sircar for successfully defending his PhD on Surface structure enhanced microchannel flow boiling of low surface tension fluids.During his PhD, Jay investigated the thermohydraulic changes from surface microstructures during intrachip flow...

Congratulations to Lenan Zhang, Zhenyuan Xu, Lin Zhao, Bikram Bhatia, Yang Zhong, and Shuai Gong for a new review paper published in Energy & Environmental Science

Their work summarizes recent advances in passive thermally-localized solar desalination. By analyzing the potential of improving energy efficiency and reliability, this work provides a roadmap for high-performance and commercially feasible solar desalination...