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...

Bubble Growth and Departure Modes on Wettable/non-wettable Porous Foams in Alkaline Water Splitting

Congratulations to Ryuichi Iwata, Lenan Zhang, Kyle Wilke, Shuai Gong, and their collaborators in professor Betar Gallant’s group for their recent work on the bubble dynamics in gas-evolving reactions, which was featured on MIT News! In this work, we report the bubble...

Simple, solar-powered water desalination featured as Top MIT research stories of 2020 and covered by Scientific American

Congratulations to Zhenyuan Xu, Lenan Zhang, Lin Zhao, Bikram Bhatia, Kyle Wilke, Youngsup Song and their collaborators in China for their work on ultrahigh-efficiency solar-powered water desalination featured as Top MIT research stories of 2020 on MIT News and...

Nucleation Site Distribution Probed by Phase-Enhanced Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy

Congratulations to Lenan Zhang, Ryuichi Iwata, Lin Zhao, Shuai Gong, Zhengmao Lu, Zhenyuan Xu, Yang Zhong, Jinlong Zhu, Samuel Cruz, Kyle Wilke, and Professor Ping Cheng at Shanghai Jiao Tong University for their recent work of Nucleation Site Distribution Probed by...

A Passive High-Temperature High-Pressure Solar Steam Generator for Medical Sterilization

Congratulations to Lin Zhao, Bikram Bhatia, Lenan Zhang, Elise Strobach, Arny Leroy, Sungwoo Yang as well as their collaborators for their recent work on A Passive High-Temperature High-Pressure Solar Steam Generator for Medical Sterilization, which was featured on...