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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.
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Solar
Thermal
Water
News
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Heena’s work on characterizing nanostructures featured on nanotechweb
Nanotech.org featured Heena’s work on characterizing nanostructures non-destructively using impedance spectroscopy. This work has been published in Nanotechnology.
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Work on electrowetting-on-dielectric MEMS stage published in APL
A MEMS vertical translation, or focusing, stage that uses electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) as the actuating mechanism was developed. EWOD has the…
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STPV named one of the Biggest Clean Energy Advances in 2016
Congratulations to David Bierman and Andrej Lenert! MIT Technology Review has named STPV one of the “Biggest Clean Energy Advances in 2016”. Earlier…
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Congratulations for the new publication on “A thermophysical battery for storage-based climate control”
Congratulations for the new publication “A thermophysical battery for storage-based climate control” published in Applied Energy. The concept of a…
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The DRL wins MIT Green Labs Innovation Award
With the seed funding received in April from MIT Green Labs, the DRL implemented a lab-wide wireless power monitoring network to log energy…
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Congratulations to Jeremy, Dan and Yangying for a new paper published in Nature Reviews Materials
Their work presents an overview of the surface, thermal and material science to illustrate how new materials and designs can…