Our Mission
Welcome to the Device Research Lab (DRL) under the direction of Dr. Evelyn N. Wang in the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT. The DRL aims to address energy and water challenges facing our world. We probe fundamental heat and mass transport processes, leverage novel materials engineering, and build high-performance prototypes and devices to realize impactful technologies. Specifically, our research areas comprises phase-change, solar, thermal, and water.
News
Congratulations to Nenad, Dan, Ryan for a new paper published in APL
Their work on getting power from jumping droplets during condensation was featured on the MIT homepage. Read the paper here and news article here.
Congratulations to Dan Hanks and ICEcool team for a best paper award and Kevin Bagnall and co-authors for a best poster award at ITherm 2014
Congratulations to Dan Hanks and ICEcool team for a best paper award and Kevin Bagnall and co-authors for a best poster award at ITherm 2014!
Congratulations to Andrej and Tom on successfully defending their PhDs
Congratulations to Andrej and Tom on successfully defending their PhDs!
Upcoming: GRC on Micro and Nanoscale Phase Change Heat Transfer on Structured Surfaces
Micro and Nanoscale Phase Change Heat Transfer Role of Surface Structures -- http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=16878 --January 11-16, 2015 Hotel Galvez Galveston, TX --Chair: Yoav Peles --Vice...
DRL Winter Lab Outing
DRL Winter Lab Outing!
Andrej and David’s work featured on U.S. DOE Science Homepage
Andrej and David's work on solar thermovoltaics was featured on the homepage of U.S. DOE Science (link).