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Polyethylene aerogel enables all-day subambient radiative cooling
Congratulations to Arny Leroy, Bikram Bhatia, Colin Kelsall, Lin Zhao, Lenan Zhang as well as their collaborators in Chile for their recent work on radiative cooling using polyethylene aerogel which...
Congratulations to David Bierman for winning the DOE Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) Ten at Ten Awards
Congratulations to David Bierman for winning the DOE Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) Ten at Ten Awards. To mark the ten-year anniversary of the EFRC program, the DOE Office of Basic Energy...
Congratulations to DRL Alumni to Join Academia and Industry this Year!
Congratulations to DRL alumni to join academia and industry this year! Find out more about our recent alumni: Jeremy Cho, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Las Vegas...
Congratulations to Lin Zhao for successfully defending his PhD
Congratulations to Lin Zhao for successfully defending his PhD on transparent silica aerogels for solar thermal energy applications. During his PhD, Lin established and validated a modeling...
Transparent silica aerogel enables heating beyong 200 °C with unconcentrated sunlight
Congratulations to Lin Zhao and his collaborators for their recent work on solar receivers using optically transparent and thermally insulative silica areogels. In their work, they demonstrated...
Experiments reveal the physics of evaporation
Congratulations to Dr. Zhengmao Lu and his collaborator Prof. Ikuya Kinefuchi for their recent work featured on MIT News. In this work, the authors demonstrate that changes in pressure, more so than...