Congratulations to Lenan Zhang, Yang Zhong, and their collaborators in China, including a DRL alumnus, Zhenyuan Xu, for their recent work on Extreme salt-resisting multistage solar distillation with thermohaline convection, which was featured on MIT News. This work...
Congratulations to Gustav Graeber, Carlos Díaz-Marin, Leon Gaugler, Yang Zhong, Bachir El Fil, and Xinyue Liu for their recent work on Extreme Water Uptake of Hygroscopic Hydrogels through Maximized Swelling-Induced Salt Loading, which was featured on MIT News! We...
Congratulations to Geoffrey Vaartstra for successfully defending his PhD on Kinetics of Heat and Mass Transfer Near the Liquid-Vapor Interface! In his thesis, Geoff examined the fundamental, kinetic limit of heat/mass transfer by evaporation and condensation. He...
Congratulations to Carlos Díaz-Marín for being selected as a Martin Sustainability Fellow! With the support of a Martin Fellowship, Carlos is working on the rational design of novel polymer-salt composites capable of capturing large amount of water from the air. In...
Congratulations to Xinyue Liu, Lenan Zhang, Bachir El Fil, Carlos D. Díaz-Marín, Yang Zhong, Xiangyu Li, and their collabtrator Shaoting Lin in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University for their recent work on Unusual Temperature Dependence...
Congratulations to Yang Zhong, Hyeongyun Cha, and Carlos Díaz for their award-winning performance at the 2023 Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (MERE)! 1st Place Best Overall: Yang Zhong 1st Place Best Poster: Hyeongyun Cha Honorable Mention Best Poster:...