Congratulations to Samuel Cruz for successfully defending his PhD on capillary-driven condensation for heat transfer enhancement in steam power plants. Sam’s thesis proposes a way to model, fabricate, optimize, demonstrate the proof-of-concept,...
Congratulations to Young Ko for being selected as a finalist on his idea Hybrid Cooling Wrap in DHS’s Cooling Solutions Challenge! Young’s interest lies in heat transfer, fluid mechanics and energy systems, especially for applications pertaining to energy...
Congratulations to Emily Lin for being selected for the NSF Graduate Fellows! At DRL, Emily’s current research focuses on the micro-combustor and desorption characterization of the atmospheric water...
Congratulations to Lenan Zhang, Xiangyu Li, Yang Zhong, Arny Leroy, Zhenyuan Xu, and Lin Zhao for their recent solar evaporation being featured in a Nature Communications Editors’ highlights of “Materials science and chemistry” and...
Congratulations to Lenan Zhang, Xiangyu Li, Yang Zhong, Arny Leroy, Zhenyuan Xu, and Lin Zhao for their recent work on Highly efficient and salt rejecting solar evaporation via a wick-free confined water layer! In this work, we demonstrate highly efficient and salt...
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...
