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Solar-powered desalination recognized as the Best Inventions of 2023 by Time Magazine and featured as Top MIT research stories of 2023
Congratulations to Lenan Zhang, Yang Zhong, and their collaborators in China, including DRL alumnus Zhenyuan Xu, for their work on extreme salt-resisting multistage solar distillation with...
Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water
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...
This salty gel could harvest water from desert air
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...
Congratulations to Geoffrey Vaartstra for successfully defending his PhD!
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...
Congratulations to Carlos Díaz-Marín for being selected as a Martin Sustainability Fellow!
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...
Even as temperatures rise, this hydrogel material keeps absorbing moisture
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...